Cortes VDI numbers

[ks digr]

Could somebody please give me a idea of what numbers to look for on the cortes?I know the iron and the good coins,but what about everything else.ex. minnie balls,other civil war relics,larger jewerly etc.etc.....thank you very much in advance.......kd

 

[jabbo]

Just got a new Cortes, used it two times. You will have to make notes of ID numbers for specific relics as you find them. Mini balls of one size whould ID about the same every time if they are at the same depth. Ladies rings in the ground can ID between 9 - 29 and be in the FOIL OR IRON group. I buried a ladies gold ring at 3" and the ID number swung from 9 - 16 in the FOIL OR IRON group, same as some tinfoil pieces. So we have to dig foil, cause could be a ring.

 

[Ivan]

Dig Foil targets at #6 to #24, until you are blue in the face!!! That is where all the valuable small ladies diamond rings will be found. 70 % of all the rings I've found; are in the foil to nickel zone. In picnic areas I click on my "Wide notch" and concentrate on Foil and nickel readings only. You will just be wasting your time trying to sort out square tabs from round tabs vs. larger rings and digging mostly modern coins. I look out of the foil/nickel zone when I'm in less trashy areas. You would be completely blown away at how many rings my system has produced for me over the years.....and it's those little rings that have the most valuable diamonds/gems in them.

 

[Monte]

the anticipated good targets can read 'off' from what you might anticipate based upon their depth, position, nearby masking targets, and various ground factors.

In an IDEAL environment, such as all targets laying relatively 'flat' to the coil and located in the top 4" of about 12" deep woodchips, the TID will be very accurate. naturally, the term "accurate" leaves a bit for the imagination because you're not talking known target sizes and metal alloy, such as US coins. Instead you mention large gold jewelry and "relics," of which there are many different 'values.'

This is one reason why I have favored Tesoro's non-metered models to their TID offerings. If you are ONLY coin hunting and ONLY want to recover targets that give a consistent TID and numeric read-out, and are ONLY what we would consider shallow, the Cort

 

[ks digr]

Thanks alot guys for all your help.....hh kd