The good news is after the snow melts the soil should be nice and soft.
I'd like to make a few suggestions to help you, (save time / learning curve and find better targets and relics) only because I'm assuming your sites are old (like mine) and I wish I would have done this mods from the very start......... start out in the program called "Deus Fast", I think it's program #3, make two changes, change the frequency to 8 kHz and change the tones to "full tones" - dig EVERYTHING with a high sounding tone or VDI over 40, any target with the slightest high tone to it, it may only be heard for a fraction of a second but normally at old sites it's a coin or good relic. It's going to be a lot of tones in your head at first, but after digging a few targets, the tones (many many tones) in your headphones will all start to come together and make sense. Once you go over your site change the frequency to 12 or 18 and go over it again, stuff will still pop out of the ground. I stil go to sites I've been to 5 times and still pluck good relics by changing settings. Also do not be afraid to change the reactivity setting to 4 or 5 if there's a lot of nails, if you hear a tiny high tone, you can usually wiggle the coil a half inch and isolate it, I found 4 flat buttons and an 1803, 4 or 5 large cent in a bed of nails and big square nuts where a building once was using these high reactivity settings. You will dig your share of junk at first but that's kinda the trade off with the incredible separation speed of this machine.
I do not hunt public parks or many sites with modern trash (aluminum / pull tabs / foil) - you will need different settings for these areas, but whatever you do, do not run 18 kHz in sites with modern trash, you will go nuts digging trash.
Good luck!
