First Silver with the Vision!

[alric]

A friend and I went to an old "hunted out" school this afternoon. The ground there is very trashy. Not many people hunt there anymore because of this. I followed the edge of the main sidewalk going up to the front doors... when from amongst all of the discriminated signals and trash, I got a solid repeating target reading 87-90 on the VDI. It was 7-8 inches down. I switched to analyze mode and swept the target again. It read large coin size... 8 inches deep. My friend offered to sweep the target with his Explorer II, using the 15X12 SEF coil. His machine read the target, but it was so faint he would have normally walked past it. The signal looked good enough to dig on his machine after sweeping it multiple times.

I retrieved the target from 7-8 inches... 1943 silver quarter.

Being a former DFX user and currently using the Explorer II myself, I was surprised that the Vision's response to the quarter was stronger and more consistent the my friend's Explorer, especially due to the fact that he was hunting with the larger coil.


Settings:

Default coin program
Bottle cap reject = 15
Gain = 8
Sensitivity = 90

 

[tab-nabit]

So far I tried the coin and the coin & jewelery mode.
Won't be long and I'll want to try the high trash setting.

 

[Larry (IL)]

Congratulations Wes. If you like the Coin program wait till you get to the Hi-Pro Program. That is the one I use and Wow.

Good luck.

 

[Idaho-Marke]

One of the big drawbacks (in my mind) with the F-75 is bottlecaps. You think you've got a quarter and it turns into a bottlecap.

In your experience, are you digging many bottle caps or can you tell what they are?

Thx.

HH

 

[CROCK of COINS]

When I was on the beach, I scooped 5 or 6 beer bottle tops. The Vision displayed a red horse shoe icon along with bottle top icon. The sound was like a quarter on some swings. I scooped just to see what was what. In dirt/grass I think I would have passed these targets up and moved on to better targets.
That is why I like to learn a new machine on a beach.

Jerry

 

[Brett]

When I first got out with mine, I started digging bottlecaps in the park all over the place. They were rusty ones that VDI'd like a quarter. Then I started turning up my Bottlecap Reject, but only made it as high as 2. It was breaking up pretty decent just at a setting of two, but I still ended up digging one later. I did not try to run BCR up to 15... now I'm curious, because obviously a quarter was dug at 8" with BCR set pretty high. Good info!

 

[Monte]

not only would all the Vision settings have to be compared with all the Explorer settings, but the 12X15 SEF just isn't that good in trashy sites, giving it a disadvantage. You did say it was well hunted and had a good amount of modern trash.

I have found the 10" D2 coil to be a very nice performer on an M6 and MXT so I knew it was bound to be the stock coil on the new release, and glad they did. I think some of the Vision's good field performance should share the credit with the 10" DD coil. Just my thoughts.

I don't have a Vision, yet, but have used one a couple of times. It's impressive in several ways. I know one thing for sure an that's the headphones are great! I hope they do some sort of 'revision' so that a new MXT or M6 class unit will also include circuitry for them.

Monte

 

[alric]

BC=15 seems to work well. Even the tricky signals (VDI as a coin) have enough break up in the audio so that I know they are not good targets. I still occasionally second guess the machine and dig them any way. I have heard that such a high BC setting might discriminate deep coins, so I am experimenting with BC=10 some too.

 

[Carl-NC]

...pay attention to the Analyze & Pinpoint screens, BC's tend to hit hardest at 22.5k whereas silver is best at 2.5k.

- Carl

 

[Idaho-Marke]

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