Fresh water lake and river beaches,Vaquero

[Bowie]

Have any of you Vaquero users been to lake or river beaches with your machine??? How well did it work?? What coil did you use?? Im stuck, I have really wanted to try this machine but for some reason the Whites M6 keeps popping into my head. I mainly coinshoot but who knows I may want to relic hunt a bit and I thought maybe the Vaquero would be better for that. But as I said I manily coinshoot and I have some old swimming holes located and I have read the M6 really does well on beaches.
Thanks
Bowie

 

[Macaco]

Since the Vaquero and Cibola have the same basic electronics you should have the same result with a Vaquero.

Using the standard 8x9 coil I can run the Cibola pretty much wide open on wet and dry sand. One freshwater beach I went to had some black sand and I had to back off on the threshold a little but the machine ran smooth with sensitivity all the way up.

A couple times I have waded out into shallow water with it and, surprisingly, it seemed to run smoother with the coil submerged in water. I can't explain that.

One nice thing is that I find really tiny stuff with the Cibola. Itty bitty pieces of foil and copper give a strong signal. I bring a plastic cup when I hunt so I can scoop up the tiny stuff that goes through my sand scoop and run the cup over the coil, empty out some sand and repeat until I have the target.

Most people would think that's annoying but I know I have a good chance of picking up small earrings and chains because of the sensitivity. My Excalibur won't sound off at all on the small targets I find with the Cibola.

I think the Vaquero would be an excellent, fresh water beach machine.

 

[Canadian Cossack]

I've been using my vaquero relic and coin hunting along river banks and lake shores all summer and it works fine, including in and around shallow fresh water shorlines. I've used both the stock and the 5.75 coil in fresh water environments.

I tried my vaquero on salt water sandy/rocky shorelines and it had a tough time. People had posted various techniques where you turn the sensitivity down and turn up the discimination etc. to enable it to hunt a wet salt water beach, but I found it too frustrating for my liking.

As long as it's a fresh water environment, my experience is that the vaquero will do fine.

 

[Jeremiah]

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