Yesterday was my first day hunting this year. The ground is still wet, packed clay. I couldn't use the Lesche so grabbed the Viking. Even it had a little trouble with the initial U cut, but once the top was lifted, it did a great job beyond the 2" mark. I left the default mode 4. Hearing everything with four tones. Ground Grab gave me a 56 soil. Sensitivity started with a quiet 10, but as I started walking closer to the "baseball field" it started to chatter. Dropped it to 8 and everything was quiet. I had the 11" DD on it.
Since the ground was so unforgiving, I didn't dig every hard hitting signal, especially if it was in the Iron, foil and alum segments. In the hour and a half I was out there, the ratio of treasure to trash was quite satisfying. 13 coins to 4 pieces of trash is good in my book. And the 2 bottle caps were flat and almost the size of a quarter.
A couple of things I discovered.
The LRP on screen depth gauge isn't really that close. At 5 bars (10") my coins would be 7" at best.
The pinpoint is extremely accurate. If you haven't watched detectingMO video on Youtube on how to PP easily with a 11" DD coil, I'd suggest it. He does it in the LRP school hunt video as well.
If the LRP gives a strong target sound (like a quarter), make sure you move 90 degrees and hit it from the different angle. If you get a hard quarter hit one way (side to side) and move to swing it top to bottom and you still get a good quarter sound, 95% chance it's a quarter. Another quick trick is to hold down the mode button and swing the target. This puts the LRP into temporary AM, and the segments and VID still operate. Because you get better depth in AM, iffy targets get IDed better. I watched a couple of targets move from silver all the way down to foil in AM when they are deep and jumpy.
My palm is now sore in one spot from pushing down on the hilt to dig.
Since the ground was so unforgiving, I didn't dig every hard hitting signal, especially if it was in the Iron, foil and alum segments. In the hour and a half I was out there, the ratio of treasure to trash was quite satisfying. 13 coins to 4 pieces of trash is good in my book. And the 2 bottle caps were flat and almost the size of a quarter.
A couple of things I discovered.
The LRP on screen depth gauge isn't really that close. At 5 bars (10") my coins would be 7" at best.
The pinpoint is extremely accurate. If you haven't watched detectingMO video on Youtube on how to PP easily with a 11" DD coil, I'd suggest it. He does it in the LRP school hunt video as well.
If the LRP gives a strong target sound (like a quarter), make sure you move 90 degrees and hit it from the different angle. If you get a hard quarter hit one way (side to side) and move to swing it top to bottom and you still get a good quarter sound, 95% chance it's a quarter. Another quick trick is to hold down the mode button and swing the target. This puts the LRP into temporary AM, and the segments and VID still operate. Because you get better depth in AM, iffy targets get IDed better. I watched a couple of targets move from silver all the way down to foil in AM when they are deep and jumpy.
My palm is now sore in one spot from pushing down on the hilt to dig.
