spellman
Member
Well I've had my vaquero for about 6 months now. When I got this machine I knew that it was something special. I started out with it and just dug everything at or above nickel, and boy did i dig alot of trash. I bought the 10x12 dd and the 5.75 dd coil for it cause I knew this detector was now family and not going anywhere.
The 10x12 coil turned into my main coil cause it pinpoints great off the tip and covers alot of ground, it also does well in trash. The problem i had for along time was i dug alot of trash cause I didn't understand what the sounds were telling me. Then i went through a spell where i would only dig when the target was very repeatable and pin pointed easy, this worked good for me but the deep targets wouldn't come. But i wouldn't give up on this machine, I was determined to learn it. Just this week it all started making sense, mind you 6 months time probably an average of 10 to 20 hours a week. Also i didn't want to get in the habit of turning the discrimination up to tell me what was in the ground cause i have a machine that gives me an idea with vdi and i choose not to dig to much so on the vaquero I set the discrimination at foil or nickel and then don't touch it again during the hunt. I dig alot of trash because I don't touch my discrimination nob but thats the point, i also dig alot of good stuff. Well now the sounds mean something to me and this machine has come alive, wow has it ever. I can call out bottle cap, tab, zink penny, and quarter based on sounds alone, I'm not always right but i am more than im wrong. Bottle caps are east they start out loud and obnoxious and taper off they also become clipped when they get close to the coil tip while pinpointing. Tabs are smooth loud and have a slight break up when doing the tesoro shake. Zink sounds like a bottle cap but the sound tapers up to obnoxious. Quarters, shallow copper pennies and shallow dimes are loud and smooth sounding the sound tapers up then back down. Deeper targets are still smooth but really quick signals like a dit, dit, dit. When you slow way down over a target this is when the machine talks. Today I hunted with the discrimination set to silent all metal and thought i was going to dig alot of trash but it didnt happen. I dug lots of tabs down to 12 inches but i like do dig tabs cause you never know, and the depth was astonishing, ive never dug tabs that deep. I dug lots of deep clad. 2 rings one junk one 10k band. 2 old brooches. I did some tests on the 10k ring wich discriminated out between nickel and tab, mans ring 2.3 grams. But what i found is i got 4 to 6 more inches on this ring when running no discrimination vs setting it at foil where i usually run my machine, would I have found the ring set at foil, yes but with my machine set to silent all metal i was hitting this ring with a dig able signal at a foot deep, running the 10x12 tesoro widescan coil, wow this machine is amazing. My g2 wouldn't even hit that ring that deep, I checked when I got home. So let this be a lesson give the machine time and don't give up on it too soon cause you need to understand what its tell you in order to see its true potential. Im just starting to understand it and still have alot to learn, but it keeps getting better.
The 10x12 coil turned into my main coil cause it pinpoints great off the tip and covers alot of ground, it also does well in trash. The problem i had for along time was i dug alot of trash cause I didn't understand what the sounds were telling me. Then i went through a spell where i would only dig when the target was very repeatable and pin pointed easy, this worked good for me but the deep targets wouldn't come. But i wouldn't give up on this machine, I was determined to learn it. Just this week it all started making sense, mind you 6 months time probably an average of 10 to 20 hours a week. Also i didn't want to get in the habit of turning the discrimination up to tell me what was in the ground cause i have a machine that gives me an idea with vdi and i choose not to dig to much so on the vaquero I set the discrimination at foil or nickel and then don't touch it again during the hunt. I dig alot of trash because I don't touch my discrimination nob but thats the point, i also dig alot of good stuff. Well now the sounds mean something to me and this machine has come alive, wow has it ever. I can call out bottle cap, tab, zink penny, and quarter based on sounds alone, I'm not always right but i am more than im wrong. Bottle caps are east they start out loud and obnoxious and taper off they also become clipped when they get close to the coil tip while pinpointing. Tabs are smooth loud and have a slight break up when doing the tesoro shake. Zink sounds like a bottle cap but the sound tapers up to obnoxious. Quarters, shallow copper pennies and shallow dimes are loud and smooth sounding the sound tapers up then back down. Deeper targets are still smooth but really quick signals like a dit, dit, dit. When you slow way down over a target this is when the machine talks. Today I hunted with the discrimination set to silent all metal and thought i was going to dig alot of trash but it didnt happen. I dug lots of tabs down to 12 inches but i like do dig tabs cause you never know, and the depth was astonishing, ive never dug tabs that deep. I dug lots of deep clad. 2 rings one junk one 10k band. 2 old brooches. I did some tests on the 10k ring wich discriminated out between nickel and tab, mans ring 2.3 grams. But what i found is i got 4 to 6 more inches on this ring when running no discrimination vs setting it at foil where i usually run my machine, would I have found the ring set at foil, yes but with my machine set to silent all metal i was hitting this ring with a dig able signal at a foot deep, running the 10x12 tesoro widescan coil, wow this machine is amazing. My g2 wouldn't even hit that ring that deep, I checked when I got home. So let this be a lesson give the machine time and don't give up on it too soon cause you need to understand what its tell you in order to see its true potential. Im just starting to understand it and still have alot to learn, but it keeps getting better.
