minnieball redux

[homebre]

I followed Gunnar's advice and dug a 81/2 " to 9" hole in the sod plus red clay I have in my field. It has been to hot and humid to actually go hunting! I but a minnie ball in the hole,, covered it with the clay and plug and tested all three coils:
53/4 concentric, 10x12 SEF double D and the 8x9 stock. I tried supertuning and standard DISC just above iron or even below iron. In DISC mode none of the coils could detect the bullet whether supertuned or not. I also played with ground balance, but that just increased falsing. In all metal the 2 larger coils could just barely detect the bullet, but if I have to use all metal, I will be digging junk all day. Thus, at lease at this depth and soil conditions (it had rained last night), I could not detect a minnie ball with the VAQ unless I used all metal. I also did an air test at DISC one notch above iron and I lost about 2 to 3 inches in depth.
Comments are welcome.

Andy from Hillsborough

 

[kaolinwasher]

andy i want 100 pound of that dirt for testing , you have some badd ground, Can you also try some other detectors on the bullet you know the Vaq has an ED 120 so you always have disc on it and in ground that badd you will lose depth, now you need to find the machine that will hit that bullet in disc, my thoughts mage a Tejan, or a bliss tool I would be impressed if any machine could hit that baby in disc set at Iron because the ground must be just full of Iron oxide can you show us a picture of the dirt ? and take a cup of the dirt and put it in a bowl and add water until it is a slurry and move a magnet thru it i want to see what sticks to it , that sounds like Cullpepper soil

 

[amberjack]

probably would struggle to find that in black soil with no minerals i.e. iron, so a tough test for any VLF is red dirt, be nice if you had access to a PI to see how that does in the red dirt, might dig some iron but you will find the lead too.

anyone using a VLF finding deep 9" targets in that red stuff you know of?

AJ