Jim and Chris met up with me to share in the fun.
We went back to a location that has been producing some really nice silver coins, bunches of wheat back pennies and a few silver rings. This is my first time out in the field using the new 8 inch super coil for the Vaquero. When I first got there I set the ground balance to be just a tad negative before switching over to the discriminate mode. I set the discrimination at the line just below the nickel setting. I'm finding that I like the threshold to be set to where there's just a slight hum in the all metal mode before switching over to the discriminate mode. With a good set of headphones I don't have any problem hearing deep signals in the discriminate mode with that setup. If you set the threshold too high you lose the audio modulation that helps you to determine the depth of the target. Surprisingly, I was able to run the sensitivity to the max with this new coil without any or very little chatter. When Chris came by I threw a zinc penny on the ground, unhooked the headphones and starting swinging and raising the coil off the ground over the coin. I asked him to estimate how far the coil was off ground while still being able to hear a clean clear signal. He estimated 14 to 16 inches.
This is one hot coil.
When I got up to the super busy intersection to work the sidewalk area, I decided to crank the discrimination up all the way so it would discriminate out aluminum screw caps. It was really trashy and I felt uncomfortable doing a lot of digging at that busy intersection. I normally set the discrimination low and dig most anything that beeps. At any rate, I got this sweet clear tight sounding signal. I dug down about 4 to 5 inches and found a 1942 Mercury dime at the bottom of the plug.
When I left Jim had already found a silver quarter and ring. He gobbles up silver coins like a vacuum machine. You don't want to hunt behind him.:sad:
tabman
We went back to a location that has been producing some really nice silver coins, bunches of wheat back pennies and a few silver rings. This is my first time out in the field using the new 8 inch super coil for the Vaquero. When I first got there I set the ground balance to be just a tad negative before switching over to the discriminate mode. I set the discrimination at the line just below the nickel setting. I'm finding that I like the threshold to be set to where there's just a slight hum in the all metal mode before switching over to the discriminate mode. With a good set of headphones I don't have any problem hearing deep signals in the discriminate mode with that setup. If you set the threshold too high you lose the audio modulation that helps you to determine the depth of the target. Surprisingly, I was able to run the sensitivity to the max with this new coil without any or very little chatter. When Chris came by I threw a zinc penny on the ground, unhooked the headphones and starting swinging and raising the coil off the ground over the coin. I asked him to estimate how far the coil was off ground while still being able to hear a clean clear signal. He estimated 14 to 16 inches.
This is one hot coil.
When I got up to the super busy intersection to work the sidewalk area, I decided to crank the discrimination up all the way so it would discriminate out aluminum screw caps. It was really trashy and I felt uncomfortable doing a lot of digging at that busy intersection. I normally set the discrimination low and dig most anything that beeps. At any rate, I got this sweet clear tight sounding signal. I dug down about 4 to 5 inches and found a 1942 Mercury dime at the bottom of the plug.
When I left Jim had already found a silver quarter and ring. He gobbles up silver coins like a vacuum machine. You don't want to hunt behind him.:sad:
tabman
