First time out with the Racer

[Ytcoinshooter]

My first outing yesterday with the Racer was in some farm fields and an adjacent orchard. I'm located in CT and there are many good places to hunt for coppers, flat buttons and round ball...reals and early silver if it's a really good outing. I spent a little time late Friday afternoon in my test plot after the Racer arrived. I need more time with it in order to post up my opinions based on experience. I'm holding off commenting in detail so far as any kind of evaluation until then...even though there are a couple of things that stick with me regarding its behavior / performance already.
I pulled this matron head from no more than 3". I was in 2 tone, gain 85, ID filter 35. I found switching to all metal helps to ID targets when the gain in discriminate isn't high enough to give me a visual. Didn't need to do that for the copper, I think I recall it rang up 85 or above. I did hunt some in all metal but I think that requires a manual GB to eliminate the snapping and popping in fact I was practicing that in my yard today...back yard. The front is a whole different deal and the Racer was having fits due to RF and EMI. I know how to quiet it and got it calmed a bit while practicing but if my front yard was a hunt site I would have parked the Racer.
The matron cent looks like it might be a '17.

I'll take the Racer out Monday and stop at a couple of different sites. Time will tell if this unit is a keeper for me.
HH - Bruce

 

[bigtim1973]

What a nice find. What machine do you normally swing?

 

[squirrel1]

All I can say is, if you didn't get the small coil with your Racer you will never see just how good it is. If you do have the small coil. Take the detector to the nastiest sites you know of. Switch to 3 tone--gain between 70 and 90 and rock and roll. After 2 or 3 sites that are polluted that you think are hunted out----you hit with Racer and small coil. The decision on how well it performs will be unquestionable.

Nice find on your first outing--Congrats!!!!!!

 

[Maxwedge]

Wow, great first hunt. Keep it up. HH-Mark

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

Hi, I use a V3i and ATPro, taking both with me when I go out turf digging. I got just over 4 years on the V and am a long time user of Whites flagship units. It's common for me to go over sites with both, creeping, repeating and changing coils as conditions dictate. Some really productive sites I may go over with 4 different brands. I'm checking out the Racer to see where it fits in for me, if it does. The video demo of the Culpepper Va. dirt, the Bill Ladd video of the 13 1/2 mine ball in wet salt sand, the quick response and other promoted capabilities prompted me to grab one to see for myself. We get quite a few large cents here where I live, I just hate walking over and missing one! I'm going to get some swing time in on this Makro and report back.
HH - Bruce

What a nice find. What machine do you normally swing?

 

[Ytcoinshooter]

I got little 4.5 x 5" with it. I'll take your advice on ramping it up to get some punch with the little puck. No way would I have bought the racer without it. It all plays into checking the versatility of a good tool.
Thank & HH!

All I can say is, if you didn't get the small coil with your Racer you will never see just how good it is. If you do have the small coil. Take the detector to the nastiest sites you know of. Switch to 3 tone--gain between 70 and 90 and rock and roll. After 2 or 3 sites that are polluted that you think are hunted out----you hit with Racer and small coil. The decision on how well it performs will be unquestionable.

Nice find on your first outing--Congrats!!!!!!

 

[Maxwedge]

yes I am anxious to see more reports as you learn the machine . That 4.5 by 5 coil sounds great on the size. My 5 in. on my GT was what I dug my 2.5 dollar gold coin out of a bed of nails. Still hunting that place, but with Deus now to see if anything is left. HH-Mark

 

[3RINGER]

Very nice save! Gotta love it

 

[Davethejunky]

Wait till you wrap your brain around it, THEN you will get excited. Some doubt what the Racer has done for me but I'm sure they haven't used one or figured out how the settings work. I believe the racer uses the soil as a catalyst to enhance signals. In air tests I thought I knew when coin signals would start dropping in volume, but in the ground I can dig the same targets thinking they were around 4 inches and they turned out to be twice that. Some deep targets produce a very weak signal with no numbers but the Racer tries to grab a squeak in 3 tone. Those are the ones you would want to dig, I have learned to hear those sounds and some times I may have to whip the coil over the target to enhance the sound and/or get a VDI reading that might be close. I have found that, that method works very good with the OOR coil.

Good luck.