BootyHunter
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Picked up a Vista X last week, I wanted it to try in some really iron infested places, figuring maybe I would dig some stuff with the analog audio that I may have missed with my "screened machines". Now its hotter than blue blazes right now, and Im mostly a relic and old house site hunter and thats for fall winter and spring. In the summer I stick to water hunting. But I really wanted to try out the Vista so I spent an hour yesterday morning, air temp was 80 at 8am with 90% humidity, so it was pretty miserable in my book. I went to an old school built in the 1930's, thats been closed since the 1970's. Ive hit this place with lots of detectors and some high end detectors at that. Ive found lots of wheats, some 60's and 70's clad, a couple of silver coins, and 1 V nickel that had been worn on a necklace, as it had about 4 links of gold chain still through the hole on it, this was all in the past with other machines. The place had gotten void of signals last times I was there.
So I set off with the X, ground balanced nearly 12o'clock on the dial, gain set pretty high, disc at the preset, alt disc of 37 to try tk break up right around the zinc range. I found a clad quarter, newer state quarter, this place is used by the county to store things and I assumed a county worker dropped it. There is an old sidewalk that leads to the front steps, I concentrated in it and dug alot of nonferrous targets. I had a really good signal, checked it in alt, and about 6" down right beside the sidewalk I got a 195? Wheatie. Good sign, since I have worn that sidealk out with every machine Ive ever taken there. So I think this machine may do exaclty what I got it for, encourage me to dig more targets that I would call junk with vdi numbers. Alot of the signals, most of them actually, were junk, but if I can get a few keepers then its worth it. Now of course I could just dig everything and ignore vdi numbers altogether, and relic hunting I do dig everything above iron. But with this penny, I think the signal was pulled down to iron on other machines due to surrounding bits of iron and the Vista X reported the coin through all of that. Excellent! Oh and I did dig a pencil eraser top, old glass screw in fuse and some other nonferrous targets that I had passed over, yes they are junk, but what if an old flat button or other relic read as junk due to surrounding ground or iron? I think having different detectors and hitting a site with them all has merit, and thats my plan.
So I set off with the X, ground balanced nearly 12o'clock on the dial, gain set pretty high, disc at the preset, alt disc of 37 to try tk break up right around the zinc range. I found a clad quarter, newer state quarter, this place is used by the county to store things and I assumed a county worker dropped it. There is an old sidewalk that leads to the front steps, I concentrated in it and dug alot of nonferrous targets. I had a really good signal, checked it in alt, and about 6" down right beside the sidewalk I got a 195? Wheatie. Good sign, since I have worn that sidealk out with every machine Ive ever taken there. So I think this machine may do exaclty what I got it for, encourage me to dig more targets that I would call junk with vdi numbers. Alot of the signals, most of them actually, were junk, but if I can get a few keepers then its worth it. Now of course I could just dig everything and ignore vdi numbers altogether, and relic hunting I do dig everything above iron. But with this penny, I think the signal was pulled down to iron on other machines due to surrounding bits of iron and the Vista X reported the coin through all of that. Excellent! Oh and I did dig a pencil eraser top, old glass screw in fuse and some other nonferrous targets that I had passed over, yes they are junk, but what if an old flat button or other relic read as junk due to surrounding ground or iron? I think having different detectors and hitting a site with them all has merit, and thats my plan.
