+53+54 Vdi and silver dimes

[Pat in On]

Hi all

Just wondering when you get a marginal hit on silver dimes what are the vdi #

 

[nw1886]

I have noticed the marginal hits with high spikes. Those blips have really helped with 5.3 use especially. In my local "clean ground" if the good VDI's are running in the 30 percentile range,for deeper targets.... and no adjacent iron, it's a slam dunk to be a coin in that family of VDI's. If it is in nasty ground, has the 30 percentile good spikes (and a couple -90's) the targets tend to be heavily oxidized nickels and early small cents. Quarters in those same conditions are @ low cent with high quarter spikes. Dimes...like you, have been spiking into low to mid copper.

My problem has been that I haven't been getting to do any "virgin" ground and all these finds have been rather isolated. But this pattern is consistant. Lately I have just delegated the V to jewelry and clad. (Until I can make the time to find some good coin sites.) Each time I change my type of hunting,do the associated learning for the change...I get excited about this machine all over again!!!

 

[Larry (IL)]

This is why I got into the habit of digging anything that sounds good many years ago. The exception is if I'm mostly sure the target is trash or a zincolin and I'm not in the mood to dig them. A lot of nice finds were/are in "no man's VDI land". Old thin dimes, early IH's, jewelry, pocket watches, coin spills and the like. There are too many variables to rely on the VDI. It is just a tool to help deside to dig or not.

 

[jer4004]

I had the same thing happen this weekend. Had a really bouncy vdi but good solid repeatable tone with flashes of single bar with a +76 vdi mixed in intermittently it was a well worn merc dime at about 5 or 6". There was also a little bit of threshold nulling in the hole after the dime was out so there was probable some iron down there to?

 

[tab-nabit]

I always go audio first (good headphones a must) and all other indicators are secondary. Use the VDI in combination with all other indicators, not alone.

 

[Jason in TN]

I had
quarters at the beach read in the low 20s at near a foot deep. TX boost on gain 15 sens in the high 80s.

Jason

 

[BHNugget]

Larry,perchdoctor and I went up to the site where I found my V nickel.We were just talking about the same thing.The ground in places is so hard I have to chip at it with my Lesche.Tonight I had a bouncing hit from the high 40s all the way up to 82,but it was a consistant bounce.Four inches of chipping away brought a 1926 wheat out of the ground.Its amazing how much effect difficult ground can have on VDI readings.

 

[Larry (IL)]

It is hard for me to imagine the ground being that hard. We are pretty lucky here in the Mid-West with black fertile soil with plenty of moisture this year. Good luck to you and Jeff.

 

[BHNugget]

Overall our ground is pretty good,its just this construction site we're dealing with.Heavy equipment rolling over the ground everyday with no rain lately make it tough to hunt.

 

[captainron]

One of the mercs I dug recently was in that 52 or so VDI and a bit of bouncing around. Glad I dug it. The funny thing was there was no junk in close proximity of the dime. Was a surprise to see the silver. Another vote for digging all signals that "sound" good.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Pat in On]

This site has been a big help in learning the V3 thanks for all your responses. I think I am going to try turning correlate on the next time I hit a marginal signal and see if the ID comes in different ?. I wonder why it is only used in Hi-Trash ?.

Again thanks

HH Pat

 

[ak_1234]

This site has been a big help in learning the V3 thanks for all your responses. I think I am going to try turning correlate on the next time I hit a marginal signal and see if the ID comes in different ?. I wonder why it is only used in Hi-Trash ?.

Again thanks

HH Pat

If you don't need to use correlate, then you can get deeper targets. It is intended to remove iron targets since they quite often don't come in at the same phase across the frequencies, and the electrical interference can have that same "quality". But if you don't have electrical interference, or lots of iron trash, best data will get you the deeper targets.

 

[Pat in On]

Thanks for the info ak_1234 its always great to hear from you !!.

Also to Elton the deep silver dimes that I have found have not been on edge so far ( 6 to 8 inches) but I have found a good few edge on coins.

HH Pat