I have a couple of more hunts at my pounded spots with the VX9 version 2.07 and I am getting a feel for it's capabilities. I cannot stress enough on how hard my hunting spots have been "pounded". On top of heavy pressure, coins are deep. It is rare to find a silver coin less than 8 inches deep, so I need a deep detector. On top of the coins being deep, the modern trash is staggering. Pull tabs of all sorts, beaver tails, lawn mower struck aluminum, and etc.
The Vortex handles this modern trash very good and I rarely dig any. I am finding coins deep, and I mean as deep as the FBS and Turkish detectors. One of the first coins I found with Vortex was a deep nickel in my yard. It was a perfect 52 and that gave me hope that it would be equal to my Legend. In reality, 52 signals are proving to be trash and to be honest, other than the war nickels I found, I am digging very few nickels. If you are hunting a pounded public place, you are going to find just about as many nickels as other coins and that is just not happening to me. The Legend id "deadly" nickels. I have read a couple of other reports on these Vortex traits.
If you had read my first report, I gave a short version of how I hunt. Slow recovery with little iron filtering. It is my opinion, that setting up any detector to hunt slow and little disc will give the detector the best depth. Again, only my opinion. With the Vx9, I am digging more than my fair share of deep rusty junk. I am experienced enough to figure this kind of signal out, but I am still learning this detector. I find the three bar graph to sort of smear on these signals, but darn they sound good on a one way sweep. I turn 90 degrees and the signal is junk. It is hard to pass on a low 80's signal that sounds perfect, but hits only one way. To be fair, I have found a handful of coins in the same plug with the rusty junk, but I am wearing myself out digging these signals. Now for the good, the graph does help sort out this junk. It does smear and I just have to learn to trust what it is telling me. Again, I am new to this detector and probably have 30 hours or so on it. I believe Garrett used some White's technology on the the 3 bar graph. I have had several XLT's and DFX's and they used the "signagraph" [hope I spelled the right} One thing for sure that it does not smear on a 4-6 inch deep coin and really locks on with numbers and tones.
I will eventually get comfortable with this detector and in my opinion has loads of promise. I do like it and am getting confident to take it before I grab my other detectors. Will be doing the latest update this next week.
The Vortex handles this modern trash very good and I rarely dig any. I am finding coins deep, and I mean as deep as the FBS and Turkish detectors. One of the first coins I found with Vortex was a deep nickel in my yard. It was a perfect 52 and that gave me hope that it would be equal to my Legend. In reality, 52 signals are proving to be trash and to be honest, other than the war nickels I found, I am digging very few nickels. If you are hunting a pounded public place, you are going to find just about as many nickels as other coins and that is just not happening to me. The Legend id "deadly" nickels. I have read a couple of other reports on these Vortex traits.
If you had read my first report, I gave a short version of how I hunt. Slow recovery with little iron filtering. It is my opinion, that setting up any detector to hunt slow and little disc will give the detector the best depth. Again, only my opinion. With the Vx9, I am digging more than my fair share of deep rusty junk. I am experienced enough to figure this kind of signal out, but I am still learning this detector. I find the three bar graph to sort of smear on these signals, but darn they sound good on a one way sweep. I turn 90 degrees and the signal is junk. It is hard to pass on a low 80's signal that sounds perfect, but hits only one way. To be fair, I have found a handful of coins in the same plug with the rusty junk, but I am wearing myself out digging these signals. Now for the good, the graph does help sort out this junk. It does smear and I just have to learn to trust what it is telling me. Again, I am new to this detector and probably have 30 hours or so on it. I believe Garrett used some White's technology on the the 3 bar graph. I have had several XLT's and DFX's and they used the "signagraph" [hope I spelled the right} One thing for sure that it does not smear on a 4-6 inch deep coin and really locks on with numbers and tones.
I will eventually get comfortable with this detector and in my opinion has loads of promise. I do like it and am getting confident to take it before I grab my other detectors. Will be doing the latest update this next week.
