Larry (IL)
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Our club had it's annual spring club fun hunt and all I can say about the V is WOW. This is the first chance I have had for an extended hunt with the V since winter. Sure, I have been out for a few short hunts , but this hunt was Friday night for a couple of hours, all day Saturday and Sunday morning. I was not only impressed with the depth and ease of use, but with every other feature of this new generation metal detector. I am still using a beta version of V so I too have the audio problems that ver.1.1 will take care of, but I also experienced the occasional audio "burst" is the best way I can explain it. It can happen at any time and does not seem to be influenced by any EMI or target in the ground. Maybe ver. 1.1 will fix that too.
For you depth people, again, I am getting at least two more inches deeper with the V than my older DFX and I still don't know what the depth limits are. I have yet to hear a deep "iffy" signal. Everything was a solid tone, good analysis screen and the VDI was jumping around a little bit due to the iron and trash where we were hunting. Hard to believe, but the two deepest coins were memorial cents at 9-10 inches deep.
This was our third year hunting at an older Boy Scout camp as a club and some of use have hunted at this site for many years before that. The clad is off to the left and forgot how many nickles I found, but in addition to the three war nic's, I might have 6 older Jefferson's and one Buffalo too. These are a couple of pictures of just the interesting stuff I found. One hole was a four silver spill, with the Half, SLQ and two dimes, my first four silver hole I remember finding. I got 11 wheats from 1934 to 46 and a nice assortment of Scouting items.
A special guest from the Chicago area (rcasio44) from the MXT forum joined us and we all had a great time. Be sure to go the MXT forum to read about his adventures as well.
I forgot to add the story about the 1916 dime. Seldom do we get to find a 1916 dime, let alone a 1916-D, but I did find a 1916 dime Friday night. It was getting dark and I couldn't see the coin very well but I did pick enough dirt off of the year that I could see the 1916. I thought, OH MY.....
I better quit picking at this coin and soak the dirt off of the back to see if it is a D or not. To make the story shorter, it was not a D but the anticipation was worth the wait.
For you depth people, again, I am getting at least two more inches deeper with the V than my older DFX and I still don't know what the depth limits are. I have yet to hear a deep "iffy" signal. Everything was a solid tone, good analysis screen and the VDI was jumping around a little bit due to the iron and trash where we were hunting. Hard to believe, but the two deepest coins were memorial cents at 9-10 inches deep.
This was our third year hunting at an older Boy Scout camp as a club and some of use have hunted at this site for many years before that. The clad is off to the left and forgot how many nickles I found, but in addition to the three war nic's, I might have 6 older Jefferson's and one Buffalo too. These are a couple of pictures of just the interesting stuff I found. One hole was a four silver spill, with the Half, SLQ and two dimes, my first four silver hole I remember finding. I got 11 wheats from 1934 to 46 and a nice assortment of Scouting items.
A special guest from the Chicago area (rcasio44) from the MXT forum joined us and we all had a great time. Be sure to go the MXT forum to read about his adventures as well.
I forgot to add the story about the 1916 dime. Seldom do we get to find a 1916 dime, let alone a 1916-D, but I did find a 1916 dime Friday night. It was getting dark and I couldn't see the coin very well but I did pick enough dirt off of the year that I could see the 1916. I thought, OH MY.....
I better quit picking at this coin and soak the dirt off of the back to see if it is a D or not. To make the story shorter, it was not a D but the anticipation was worth the wait.
Or is somebody close to you planting the ground
But i do 
to your skills sound like everyone had a great time.Thanks for taking the time to post your finds. Really great finds
I am very proud of Larry. They all did pretty good, even I got silver. Not much, but I didn't hunt long either. 
, but, it just wasn't the V. I think just about everyone did good again this year. It looks like another 100+ oldies year for the club and look how many years that place has been pounded. We will have the official club count at the meeting tomorrow night....