Sven
Well-known member
It was our clubs spring club hunt at the lakeside beach today. Club member only hunt. An area was sectioned off to be the hunt field on the sandy beach.
We had 20 members attending with all sorts of machines. There were three 15 minute
hunts, all were seeded with silver dimes, Canadian $1 and $2 coins
along with some prize tokens. Entry fee was $20, which had to be the $1 and $2 coins. They were all planted in the hunt field.
Decided to try the Vista Gold. For the most part hunted in all metal mode since the coins were thrown into the ground, they usually land on edge.
Ca clad reads into the low iron range if on edge. So if your using disc just above iron, you'll be missing those coins the first few minutes until everyone tramples them down flat.
I did not get any interference from any other detector, it ran smooth as glass. It did very well out there for the amount of targets buried. Could probably have done much better
if it had a concentric coil, would have made pinpointing much easier. Then maybe not any better than a DD coil, as the 6x8 coil has a larger detction area and could cover more ground faster.
I ended up with
$18.00 in clad coins
15 silver dimes
1 prize token for a Tim Horton's Gift Card ($10)
It was fun and the finds paid for my lunch.
We had 20 members attending with all sorts of machines. There were three 15 minute
hunts, all were seeded with silver dimes, Canadian $1 and $2 coins
along with some prize tokens. Entry fee was $20, which had to be the $1 and $2 coins. They were all planted in the hunt field.
Decided to try the Vista Gold. For the most part hunted in all metal mode since the coins were thrown into the ground, they usually land on edge.
Ca clad reads into the low iron range if on edge. So if your using disc just above iron, you'll be missing those coins the first few minutes until everyone tramples them down flat.
I did not get any interference from any other detector, it ran smooth as glass. It did very well out there for the amount of targets buried. Could probably have done much better
if it had a concentric coil, would have made pinpointing much easier. Then maybe not any better than a DD coil, as the 6x8 coil has a larger detction area and could cover more ground faster.
I ended up with
$18.00 in clad coins
15 silver dimes
1 prize token for a Tim Horton's Gift Card ($10)
It was fun and the finds paid for my lunch.
