First time out with V3i update 16 bullets 2.5 hrs

[jtalley007]

Finally got around to taking a photo of my first finds after getting my V3 updated.
The detector performed great, got to get back into really learning this detector since it has almost unlimited potential.
I have been detecting since 1973 on and off and used almost every brand and model and I like this detector.
That being said I am really an amateur on setting it up and all the adjustments that can be done.
So far what I have gravitated to is the hi pro, boost on, this was with 10"DD coil which I find works great.
The deepest bullet I got from these and many were at that depth was 10" in the ground with 2" of leaves.
If you notice many are flattened and some of them were on the side or pointing up or down leaving a small surface area to find that is why I believe many of these are still in the
here after over 30 years of people detecting here.
In the past with the V3 and maybe the vision when I first got it I got some bullets measured 14" and one 1"x2" shell fragment at 16" measured.
This ground is very sandy and low minerals with some EMI in the area that is annoying but tolerable. I think the deeper stuff I got in the past was with the 950 loop but I usually
only found about 10 bullets in the same time frame so got deeper with the 950 but covered less ground especially at depth so that is why the difference after many trips here.

I tried to take a video of an 8" bullet the sound and how it was reading and it is on my old phone so if I can figure out how to get it off and post or upload it I hope I can share it

but until then hope the pictures will do. There is not much brass here since it is in between the Confederate and Union Lines and mostly shot with occasional dropped bullet (1) on this trip, one percussion cap but I was ignoring some of the really low number like 1 on the target ID since you get tired sometimes of digging the tiny bird shot etc.
I hope this works since I have never tried posting a photo here before, Thanks for looking, Jerry

 

[MANDAD76]

Sounds like you're all over it......nice finds and good hunt! gl and hh

 

[Larry (IL)]

A bullet find every ten minutes is fantastic, you have a great place to hunt.

 

[jtalley007]

This is one of those places that was hunted hard years ago when they machines were not really deep. Then in the mid 80's when the DMC nautilus, teknetics mark one, and White's eagles came out and it was hunted hard again.

Actually, I am amazed of how many targets I am getting even though the V3 is a great detector I just can't believe it. I did not have an eagle back then but I did have the Nautilus and the Mark One and they were deep machines.

The only thing I can think of is I believe it was cut over and grew up really thick which may have saved some targets for today.

The other reason may have been the lack of brass finds so people probably gravitated to the confederate trenches about 75 yards away where there was a prospect of getting a button?

This stands to reason because we used to be able to go in there and dig 15-25 bullets and behind the trench and in the rifle pits in front we would find dropped 2 ringers and enfields along with the 3- ringers.

Now even with the best detector you will be lucky to dig a bullet anymore. I have not been able to get in there much with the V3 because of EMI so bad I can't crank it up like I need to so I can get the few deep targets that may remain.


Part or most of it they also recently made into a County Park so that killed my other testing grounds so where I got these bullets is one of the last places I have to test new machines.

Need to go back now with the 950 and see if that gives me and inch or two more depth and give a report on how that turns out.

Thanks for all the tips and posts on this forum, keep up the posting and great finds

 

[Rob (IL)]

Keep having fun, that's what it is about.

 

[Boonyman]

Nice Finds !!! You seem to be doing very well with the V.