Little outing with the Vaquero today

[Pointman]

I was out of real leads to detect, so I went back to a sidewalk that i had detected 2 years ago. I remember not finding anything 2 years ago, although there should be something there, because the entire city is old and the sidewalk has 150 year old trees growing into it literally. I had sort of permission at an foreclosed house, but I didn't go on the yard because it is for sale and I didn't want to be walked on by a realtor, so I detected the sidewalk and found two wheats. The silver ring was found the first 20 minutes on the sidewalk.

I've been using the Vaquero more than any detector lately. It has been producing some really deep coins, although I've been finding a lot of bottle caps, because there is a lot of trash where I detect and those bottle caps sound great under the coil. I am not sure what he metal hinged piece is.

 

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[Fletch88]

Nice finds Pointman! I haven't had a chance to do a real hunt with the 11x8 Vaquero but did a 30 min spin thru my 1.5 acre backyard and was surprised at what I found. I dug a copper penny at the depth of my pinpointer that I know I have been over before. Guess I could have just missed it in the swinging technique but I sure knew it was a copper/dime/or quarter since it was a nice soft repeatable all the way thru thumb roll. I called 3 square tabs and 3-4 zinc pennies before I dug them all while in pitch black darkness. There disc circuitry really is spot on.

 

[Pointman]

Nice finds Pointman! I haven't had a chance to do a real hunt with the 11x8 Vaquero but did a 30 min spin thru my 1.5 acre backyard and was surprised at what I found. I dug a copper penny at the depth of my pinpointer that I know I have been over before. Guess I could have just missed it in the swinging technique but I sure knew it was a copper/dime/or quarter since it was a nice soft repeatable all the way thru thumb roll. I called 3 square tabs and 3-4 zinc pennies before I dug them all while in pitch black darkness. There disc circuitry really is spot on.

You start learning where the sweet spots are on the discrimination knob and you won't forget. I had a Vaquero 2 years ago and remembered where everything hit and I tested my latested one and it was the same. I'm not sure if I've found a machine that works as well where if you have the discrimination set up properly it will only hit solidly on good targets (although some trash comes through). What i mean there isn't guess work that if it doesn't hit well or in all directions that it is trash everytime. I mean even really deep coins will still be consistent in 2 directions. On my CTX if you don't dig some one way only signals you will miss coins.

 

[tabman]

Working those grassy areas next to sidewalks is rewarding. Nice going on your finds.

tabman