its clear that the Gold is the best detector made for pulling non iron targets out of nail infested sites,, but just think how many good targets are hiding if you would dig the nails, I know those cut nails hid things, I went over a 1879 seated dime that was only 4" deep with every detector i had. and it took a raine storm to wash it out and it had a cut nails 1" from it I wonder if I had the Vista Gold if it would have hit it , It just may have done so . sounds like a really cool spot burned in the Cival war thats intresting , I heard they used 15.000 nails just to build one house back then to badd you could not plow it and try againe