Sundays Hunt

[Sven]

Sundays hunt with the Vista X. Not much to show as I didn't make any finds other than two pennies at one school yard filled with canslaw at 4-5". Almost like a layer of it and other trash at that depth level. Another school yard, which I do on a regular basis to test detectors. Found a bunch of coins in the 5-7" range. Not one was newer than 2000 most in the 70-80's range. Even the Toonies 1995, 1999, had to scrape the center corrosion off them. Super easy to tell trash from coins 95% of the time now. Pretty neat.

 

[RG-DeepTech]

Nice hunt, Sven

 

[Des D]

Hi Sven,

Always nice to get a ton of coins etc to help evaluate a new machine.

My reason in asking the following is: I was searching a favorite few acres where anything from equestrian events to trade stands amusement arcades fun fairs etc happen all summer long. I was using a Deus Lite w/WS-4 headphones set up in P3
It just loves foil of all description and can 'sound off' on the L swings close to wooden picnic tables with those large round bolts in them.

What's the "Vista X", like on Foil targets and can you get "closer" to metal be it the aforementioned 'wood benches', or say for example reinforcing along a beach wall etc.
Does that 'squared' shaped coil have 'dull' spots?

Des D

 

[Sven]

The way I have my disc controls set up, I really don't dig as much foil anymore, sometimes a small wad ball of it. I determined when I get a high tone and when pull back across it with the coil for pinpointing. A coin size type target (pull tabs can fool you) with fade out to silence. Foil , canslaw and other trash seem not to fade out cleanly. They will give an off target signal just before the fades out. Funny thing, sometimes I get a signal that doesn't fade out to silence and I dig the target and it turns out to be a Canadian clad nickel. Can't put my finger on it, what makes me stop to dig that signal.

I didn't notice much difference regarding getting how close I can get to metal poles, benches etc. compared to other detectors with DD coil. Will check that next time out.
Did find any dull spots on the coil. I routinely use the coils edges for pinpointing or checking a pile of dirt dug out of the holes.