I spent last night reading the manual, doing air test and getting to know how the Vaquero worked. This morning I went to a park that was about 50 years old, I found the park last year on the internet while doing reasearch on places to hunt.
When I am using a new detector for the first time, I allways try to learn what the detector can do, instead of what I can make it do, I also start each hunt by laying a rusty nail and a nickel on the ground to set my detector up so that the nail brakes up, while still sounding off on the nickel. With the Vaquero I was able to lay the rusty nail on top of the nickel and still get a solid hit on the nickel, that was pretty impressive.
Most of my hunting was done in disc mode, with various degrees of super tunnig, I mostly used ALL METAL mode to pinpoint the targets. The results of my hunt were around 200 pennies, 9 quarters, 20 dimes, 6 nickels 1 brass button, 1 gold ring, 1 gold homemade braclet, 1 peter pipper pizza token, and 1 bullet.
I wish I could claim that the reason that I found so many pennies was because I am a great detectionist, but toward the end of my hunt, a man that lives near the park told me that for many years, the park would have a kids fair and each both would have contest, that only cost a penny to play. Most of the pennies were found with in the 2" range, easy pickens, all of the other coins except one was found in the 4" range.
The finds that proved to me that the Vaquero is a serious machine was solid hits on a gold ring at 3", solid hit on the gold braclet at 4", and solid hits on a nickel and a bullet at 6", the nickel and the bullet are located at the bottom left of the picture.
My thoughts on the Vaquero after my first hunt, are that the Vaquero is just what it says it is on the control housing, it is a discriminator, that is what it does best. It is lightweight and sounds off clear and sharp on targets that fall with in it's accept range. The Vaquero likes a slow sweep speed, I found that 3' per second is the sweet spot on my unit, if counting by 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, taking 4 seconds to make a 180 degree sweep and back.
For the park that I hunted today, the all metal mode was best used to establish ground balance and help in pinpointing, maybe in an ares with less undesirable targets, I will try hunting in all metal mode to see how it performs, but for now the disc mode is doing a beautiful job.
colt
When I am using a new detector for the first time, I allways try to learn what the detector can do, instead of what I can make it do, I also start each hunt by laying a rusty nail and a nickel on the ground to set my detector up so that the nail brakes up, while still sounding off on the nickel. With the Vaquero I was able to lay the rusty nail on top of the nickel and still get a solid hit on the nickel, that was pretty impressive.
Most of my hunting was done in disc mode, with various degrees of super tunnig, I mostly used ALL METAL mode to pinpoint the targets. The results of my hunt were around 200 pennies, 9 quarters, 20 dimes, 6 nickels 1 brass button, 1 gold ring, 1 gold homemade braclet, 1 peter pipper pizza token, and 1 bullet.
I wish I could claim that the reason that I found so many pennies was because I am a great detectionist, but toward the end of my hunt, a man that lives near the park told me that for many years, the park would have a kids fair and each both would have contest, that only cost a penny to play. Most of the pennies were found with in the 2" range, easy pickens, all of the other coins except one was found in the 4" range.
The finds that proved to me that the Vaquero is a serious machine was solid hits on a gold ring at 3", solid hit on the gold braclet at 4", and solid hits on a nickel and a bullet at 6", the nickel and the bullet are located at the bottom left of the picture.
My thoughts on the Vaquero after my first hunt, are that the Vaquero is just what it says it is on the control housing, it is a discriminator, that is what it does best. It is lightweight and sounds off clear and sharp on targets that fall with in it's accept range. The Vaquero likes a slow sweep speed, I found that 3' per second is the sweet spot on my unit, if counting by 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, taking 4 seconds to make a 180 degree sweep and back.
For the park that I hunted today, the all metal mode was best used to establish ground balance and help in pinpointing, maybe in an ares with less undesirable targets, I will try hunting in all metal mode to see how it performs, but for now the disc mode is doing a beautiful job.
colt
Very Nice job my friend. You are going to find, as I told you that that Vaquero will grow on you, and will help you learn the language. Sounds to me like you are well on your way! Don't forget to send me those pictures we discussed of you with the machine and some of your finds, so i can post them up on the Find's page of the Treasure Hut website!
It is on it's way to your "grubby little hands" Flint, and I will follow up with the tracking nunmbers for you soon. Enjoy, you are gonna luv it! Thank you for the business!!!