I went to two old houses that I wanted to hit for years. Only got aluminum at 4 to 5 inches. Milk bottle caps.. All the modern coins were down at 5 inches, dimes up as high as four. Remember Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does?" My settings were Sensitivity 5, Threshold, E in Tesoro. Settings for ground balance, and not upped for hunting.. So, went out this AM and buried a clad dime at 5.5 inches, same settings.... Rubbing the coil on the ground ,I got a signal, not great, only marginal directly under the sweet spot. A LITTLE to either side, and no signal. Thought, this sucks...Set the threshold on max, and sensitivity as high as it would go without chatter, then a half hair back.. A whole new game, another, easy, 4 to 5 inches above ground and getting a signal.. Inch or so above the ground, the cone much bigger, signal much stronger.It was stupidity on my part...I was splitting and stacking wood prior to hunting. Tired No excuse, because I've done this before....There are times when I pack the Vaquero next to the Silver, I think it complains about having to put up with me. Anyway, before the rains come, a large lawn to mow, then I'll go out and turn the Vaquero loose on full power. I am going to put a sign on my collection bag, CSS !...Check settings Stupid !
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Vaquero coin depth...KICK ME ! again
- Thread starter KVM2
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Rick in Pa
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Don't feel too bad. I hunted an area over 30 minutes with the batteries out of the machine. It was an area I hunted a lot, so I knew the targets are few since I cleaned most of the junk out. I use headphones and normally turn on before putting my headphones on my head. Startup beep hurts my ears. Consider it a learning experience.
Its just another day at the office!
At least you weren't fighting your Etrac for 45 min, in TTF and with a small coil so you wont miss anything, stopping to clean the coil cover thinking it was too dirty and the cause of the nonstop phantom signals that wouldn't pinpoint. . .
when it was just the sunray probe intermittently hitting your jacket pocket after forgetting to flip the probe switch back. . .
I heard that happened a few times to this guy I know. . .
I think he even shut the machine on and off a few times and redid the ground balance a couple times too,
or so I heard. . .
Then there was that time I heard about that he drove a half and hour to a new site with everything but his headphones . . .
I have no firsthand knowledge of such things though. . . :-0
At least you weren't fighting your Etrac for 45 min, in TTF and with a small coil so you wont miss anything, stopping to clean the coil cover thinking it was too dirty and the cause of the nonstop phantom signals that wouldn't pinpoint. . .
when it was just the sunray probe intermittently hitting your jacket pocket after forgetting to flip the probe switch back. . .
I heard that happened a few times to this guy I know. . .
I think he even shut the machine on and off a few times and redid the ground balance a couple times too,
or so I heard. . .
Then there was that time I heard about that he drove a half and hour to a new site with everything but his headphones . . .
I have no firsthand knowledge of such things though. . . :-0