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Want to start park hunting with my Vaquero to find gold jewelry

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DigDugNY

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I normally don't park hunt, I detect a lot of older homesites and on occasion a tot lot near my house. For bigger parks and such should I not have to worry about the Vaquero missing gold jewelry, especially rings? I have both the stock and 5.75 concentric so i will use both. Does depth of a ring make a difference on how the Vaquero will pick it up compared to detectors that are more dedicated to park hunting. I'm just curious as to that and if I should limit sensitivity or if that doesn't matter any tips are appreciated.
 
I don't think you're going to have to worry about depth - in fact, you will probably do better on gold due to the higher frequency of the Vaquero. You might dig a bit more iron, though.

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Topdecker said:
I don't think you're going to have to worry about depth - in fact, you will probably do better on gold due to the higher frequency of the Vaquero. You might dig a bit more iron, though.

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Thanks for the response. I've just read different things and wanted to get some opinions. I won't mind digging more iron and stuff, I do it enough already, lol. There's a park that was built in the 70s by my dads house and I used to detect it with other detectors, but haven't yet with the Vaquero. I don't think many people have detected it from what I've gotten down there before buy there's a ball field and a pavilion and stuff so once spring comes along I might have to get back down there and look for the gold
 
If you are hunting near that pavilion or any other trashy area, use that sniper coil for sure.
I have found gold around these things, silver too, but also lots of trash which could mask the good stuff so I usually dig that too.
If there is a basketball court at this park hunt the area all around it very slow and carefully.
4 gold rings and some really nice silver necklaces are some of my finds at this type of area.
I love basketball courts!
 
REVIER said:
If you are hunting near that pavilion or any other trashy area, use that sniper coil for sure.
I have found gold around these things, silver too, but also lots of trash which could mask the good stuff so I usually dig that too.
If there is a basketball court at this park hunt the area all around it very slow and carefully.
4 gold rings and some really nice silver necklaces are some of my finds at this type of area.
I love basketball courts!
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Thanks for the tips. I'm sure the 5.75 coil will be my go to in these areas. Unfortunately there is no basketball courts, but it has the old ball field, the pavilion, picnic grove areas, and there's a spot where a playground was but it got taken down...so I'll have plenty to detect. I know you have to swing kinda slow with the Vaquero so I will be sure to take my time in these areas
 
You sound kind of confident.Did your detector get tuned up?You got a coil in mind?I would not run supertune in the park.That way you can hit the pinpoint button and listen to targets good in all metal.This can give you good depth info and sizing info. :-V
 
SpiritRelic said:
You sound kind of confident.Did your detector get tuned up?You got a coil in mind?I would not run supertune in the park.That way you can hit the pinpoint button and listen to targets good in all metal.This can give you good depth info and sizing info. :-V
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I haven't gotten it back yet, but both my stock coil and 5.75 concentric needed to be retuned. I'm sure it's performance will be even better than it originally was for me. I'm not going to get a different coil at the moment, I will stick with my 5.75 concentric. And I probably won't supertune unless I'm feeling like digging everything that day, lol
 
The pinpoint button is USELESS! If it was non-motion it would be OK. As motion pinpointing you should be able to do the SAME THING in normal search mode. If you cant, then I feel sorry for you. As for supertuning, if you arent supertuning it's your loss.
 
If you're after gold rings, you'll do a lot better by just digging the small targets that have holes in them.:)

tabman
 
Was wondering how long you had this Vaquero And why should some one have to send a new Machine in if not very old to have coils retuned to me that dont make a lot of sense I would think a stock coil less than two yrs old "for Say" should not have to be retuned to the control head I have had detectors for over 6 yrs before having anything done to them So here we go again I hear so many reports on people buying the Vaquero and having to send it in to be retuned What Gives ! Slowley changing my mind about trading for one and buying another older tesoro that works !!!!!!!!
 
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Ok here's what went on with mine. I've had it for over two years. I've had the stock coil this whole time obviously and i got the 5.75 concentric coil shortly afterwards. The stock coil is tuned to the detector when it is shipped and then any other coil you get after that shouldn't have to be tuned to it. When I sent my detector back it was for other reasons, but when I called the factory I was told that both of my coils needed to be retuned. This is not a common occurrence and I was told if anything at all, only one of the coils should of been out of tune. The thing is that they can't guarantee every coil will stay in tune because the way they make the coils and how the epoxy dries and everything. My situation was just unlucky and is not something that happens a lot and shouldn't be seen as a reason to not get one. I still found a lot of good things before I sent my detector back so it might not even be a big deal, idk.

Bleaver, just to make sure you know the answer, once you get the detector with the stock coil, you shouldn't have to have any other coils tuned to it. I just got unlucky
 
Barry, the V works just fine. You will like it. Seriously.




BarryL said:
Was wondering how long you had this Vaquero And why should some one have to send a new Machine in if not very old to have coils retuned to me that dont make a lot of sense I would think a stock coil less than two yrs old "for Say" should not have to be retuned to the control head I have had detectors for over 6 yrs before having anything done to them So here we go again I hear so many reports on people buying the Vaquero and having to send it in to be retuned What Gives ! Slowley changing my mind about trading for one and buying another older tesoro that works !!!!!!!!
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Dig the tabs and the nickels to find that gold! Make sure to overlap your strokes real good with the concentric coils, I've read about people who go back and overlap better and slow down and find stuff they have missed previously. REVIER has alot of experience in finding that jewelry!
 
BillF said:
Barry, the V works just fine. You will like it. Seriously.




BarryL said:
Was wondering how long you had this Vaquero And why should some one have to send a new Machine in if not very old to have coils retuned to me that dont make a lot of sense I would think a stock coil less than two yrs old "for Say" should not have to be retuned to the control head I have had detectors for over 6 yrs before having anything done to them So here we go again I hear so many reports on people buying the Vaquero and having to send it in to be retuned What Gives ! Slowley changing my mind about trading for one and buying another older tesoro that works !!!!!!!!
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It's more than likely that a few of the machines accidentally left the factory without enough (or too many?) windings on the coil and needed to be "retuned" or "rewound" to the factory specs. The problem may have not been noticed until much later. I don't think they are suggesting that it 'went out of tune' but was not wound to spec in the first place.
 
Exactly...the Vaquero is a great detector and I really hope I will start finding some
Gold
 
The vco motion can help a lot.Since the V does not have the best modulated signal,using the vco motion all metal pinpoint button can really help in depth and sizing.You have to use every bit of information you can get jewelry hunting.With this v tuned up bobby you should do good.Supertune it and go out back.This rumor of Tesoro calling it quits has me upset. :nopity:
 
Or if you really need to use the pinpoint, you can supertune then thumb the thresh back down to a low enough level to hit the pinpoint button. with the 5,75 DD coil no pinpoint button is needed.
 
I knw for afact that my coils needed to retuned once because zZI usually keep my detectorin the car. In the summer that means they are sitting in an oven that can get to 140+.
Epoxy at those temps can move and cause the windings to shift.
 
The way I hunt now i really don't need to use the pinpoint button. I can pinpoint pretty easily just going over the target. My big thing is making sure I have the ground balance right. A lot of times I don't recheck an area to make sure the ground hasn't changed.
 
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