Cibola question?

[Mike T]

I have started detecting after a 10 year lapse, and I bought a cibola for its lite-weight and fast target response. I live in the willamete valley in Oregon, and alot of the minerals from the surrounding mountains have washed down. Great for veggies bad for detecting. should I have spent the extra $ and bought a Vaquero or am I going to have trouble with detecting in the valley?
I've been out once for 1/2 hour in state capital park, a place stripped down like a turkey carcass, and found a buffalo nickel right away, a few dimes pennies all clad, at decent depths, not great. no quarters, but we've had 6 detector companies within a 30 mile radius (Whites,Discovery,Teknetics, bounty hunter, Fisher) all started here in oregonand I'm sure the local parks have long been stripped of silver.
Also whats with the pinpoint? do you sweep fast or slow? I just can't seem to grasp what its trying to tell me.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a numeric digital readout where the speaker is? perfect detector!

 

[RobRcer]

Not sure about the Vaquero, but with pinpoint, use it kinda slow. I dont know alot though, i use it mainly in dry sand on beaches, it dont like the black sand though. Just my 2 cents. HH

 

[jeff@middlesex]

It takes a bit to get used to. One thing I have noticed the closer the target is to the surface the higher the pitch of the pinpoint audio.

 

[lms7652]

I rarely used the pinpoint button on the cibola I had. I could get right on target by going back and forth and then left and right.

If you do use the pinpoint button I found that if you try to find the target by going back and forth and left and right and then while over the center of the target press and hold the pinpoint button. This seems to make the target area real small and you can barely move the coil back and forth and you could get it right on that way too.

I know most say to move the coil off to the side and then push the pinpoint button but to me pushing the pinpoint button while directly over the target seems to work a lot better.

 

[Scully]

It allows you to really narrow down the target location.

Personally, I think Tesoro machines pinpoint well enough that you dont even need an all metal pinpoint. But a lot of guys like that feature so Tesoro puts it on their machines.