longcut
Sr. Member
- Oct 16, 2012
- 311
- 328
- Detector(s) used
- X Terra 505 and Vaquero
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So , I have given the Vaquero a hard test the last couple months ..... Started out hunting a freshwater swim beach here, that has been in use since the late 40s .... Not sure how much clad I dug , but somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 bucks.. 1 1952 quarter, 2 small silver rings and one junk ring , pair of sunglasses .... a few pull tabs off and on when I was trying for gold rings .......tons of bottle caps until I was able to notice a little difference in the sound vs a coin ,,,, still dug some , but not as bad as when I started off..... After several hrs. on the machine , I was able to completely pass over zincolns, I liked that a lot !!!!!!
I dug quite a few wheats and a lot of coppers , quarters and dimes ......
We hunted a football field ,( no longer in use) several times and I found quite a bit of clad there too ....No silver and no jewelry , but not many bottle caps either !!! LOL .....
Civil War relic hunting is kicking in here, now that the harvest is in full swing .... To me , this is where the Vaquero shines .........So far , I've found 4 or 5 Confederate Enfield bullets , a 2ring bullet made in the Marshall,Texas arsenal and a round ball made in the Augusta arsenal ...... also the trigger guard off a Confederate Enfield rifle... went back today looking for more parts to the gun , but no deal ...... In this same soybean field , I found a really old and pretty diamond shaped sterling pen and today I found a sterling silver spoon and a toasted V nickel...... spoon was stamped W & H , a British silversmith that started business in 1835 and is still going today .... I figure this spoon is from the early 1900s......
I have the 8x11 DD coil ......run disc just before Nickel and then thumb the knob .... Depth is really good in my soil .... running super tuned according to the manual ..... Last two hunts I tried a little negative ground balance and almost wide open sensitivity,,,, seems to work , found an Enfield and two pieces of silver ,,, pen and spoon and the V nickel.....
I like it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dug quite a few wheats and a lot of coppers , quarters and dimes ......
We hunted a football field ,( no longer in use) several times and I found quite a bit of clad there too ....No silver and no jewelry , but not many bottle caps either !!! LOL .....
Civil War relic hunting is kicking in here, now that the harvest is in full swing .... To me , this is where the Vaquero shines .........So far , I've found 4 or 5 Confederate Enfield bullets , a 2ring bullet made in the Marshall,Texas arsenal and a round ball made in the Augusta arsenal ...... also the trigger guard off a Confederate Enfield rifle... went back today looking for more parts to the gun , but no deal ...... In this same soybean field , I found a really old and pretty diamond shaped sterling pen and today I found a sterling silver spoon and a toasted V nickel...... spoon was stamped W & H , a British silversmith that started business in 1835 and is still going today .... I figure this spoon is from the early 1900s......
I have the 8x11 DD coil ......run disc just before Nickel and then thumb the knob .... Depth is really good in my soil .... running super tuned according to the manual ..... Last two hunts I tried a little negative ground balance and almost wide open sensitivity,,,, seems to work , found an Enfield and two pieces of silver ,,, pen and spoon and the V nickel.....
I like it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!