That depends on a lot of things.
If your soil is good and without insane amounts of iron your Vaq should be great especially with that small coil...if it is a concentric.
With the true 180 ED the Mojave, or the Compadre, is a bit better around intense iron masking.
To be honest the Mojave seems to like pop tops and smashed screw on tops a little more than I like, many sound pretty good and don't seem to disc out but I am still messing with the settings so I will figure it out.
In my case it is my bad dirt doing most if this, it is mineralized and infested with iron and on the Mojave this causes up averaging on all targets that aren't shallow...in regular better dirt I assume this would not be such an issue at all.
The Vaq is deeper than the Mojave but for most normal depths on targets both should do fine.
The Vaq has an option to go to the high tone if yours is not, specifically designed for the more hard of hearing.
Mine was ordered with the high tone but I found I liked the lower tone of my Compadre and Mojave better...however I never changed it because over aluminum listening to that high tone it has a very annoying component in that tone so I kept it that way.
A little more efficient for hunting in the very trashy parks I usually spend my time in.
The Mojave is a bit more sensitive to small gold, tiny silver and maybe thin chains but all of that is below that disc setting you are using.
You are missing a ton of that the way you are doing it but that is just fine if that us the way you want to do this hobby so no advantage getting the Mojave on that subject.
If that 5.75 coil is a DD I can see why you are having trouble with pop tops, if it is indeed a concentric you should be able to disc out most of them a hair before max disc on the Vaq.
If you are the kind of user that sets a disc level and digs everything above that setting that beeps you are going to be digging tons of tab and pop top trash, I won't do that so I found a better way..for me.
If you don't know about this method I would look into it, it works well on the three Tesoros I have used including the Vaq.
You won't avoid all trash, about 15-20% still comes in solid, and there is a possibility of missing a few great things if you don't dig most signals but my track record became so good doing it this way I don't worry about missing a few things here and there...I still seem to find more than my share.
I still dig tabs and even a couple of older pop tops but a whole lot less than I used to when I switched to using this up-down thumbing method.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...r-27-s-method-thumbing-disc-knob-up-down.html
IF you were more of a gold and really tiny silver or chain jewelry hunter a move to a Mojave could be considered a smart one...but you are not that kind of hunter.
For what you are doing and the way you are doing it the Vaq should fill all your needs.
If it were me I would spend that Mojave money on two other things instead.
Get a 5.75 concentric if the one you own is a DD...if it is a concentric you are fine.
There are methods you can use to ID pop tops on the Vaq using a DD coil but they take a little more time than I prefer and I just ended up digging them so if I know I am hunting spots with tons of pop tops using my Vaq I just switched to concentric coils...or used another detector that can handle them better.
$15 plus shipping one way to Tesoro to get the Vaq changed to the high tone option for original owners, add $35 to that if that Vaq is second hand.
For the hard of hearing this might be money well spent either way.
Here is a vid where you can hear the high tone option on the Vaq.
https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=dT0-TRpqaBM
If you do have the concentric coil try that thumbing method...that costs nothing and it might enable you to avoid a whole lot of those tabs and pop tops you appear to be digging now.
