My hunting partner and I had our V3's out Monday evening hunting a yard that had a LOT of activity during the battle of Gettysburg. We have pulled countless numbers of relics from this yard and had considered it hunted out having found nothing there the last 3 times with an xlt and an mxt. When we used the V3's we found a few more items, but they were DEEP in bad ground and gave some really rough signals. We pulled 9 more miniballs,two round balls and a flat button out of the bad ground at 12+ inches. That may not sound deep, but in this ground and the fact that many of the bullets were molded from really crappy metal, we thought we were doing well. Anyway, Bill pulled a 1798 large cent out of the ground in addition to his other finds. Now I've only been detecting for a year so I was quite jealous of this sweet find. Tuesday night we decided to hunt a colonial (1750) homesite I have permission to hunt. Spent about 2 hrs around the house knowing there has to be some good stuff in the ground but we got VERY frustrated as every sweep was full of signals that needed to be investigated. For two hours we dug literally a 5 gallon bucket of trash... and only 3 coins...oldest being a 1960 memorial cent. So we gave up and headed to the hay field behind the house happy to find it had far less trash. In less than an hours hunt there Bill found a very old flat button and I found two old brass buckles. Then, as we were walking out, I got a SWEET signal reading a consistent 88/89 and a beautiful analyze screen showing a target at 12 inches. Dug down and pulled out what must have been a virtually non circulated 1831 large cent. I'd post a picture but I have it soaking to try to brighten it up some. The coin showed very little wear for having been in the ground for near 178 yrs. We'll be heading back there tomorrow evening to see what else may lay hidden in that field. 
