need some help

[wvrelichunter]

hello everyone.i have been using a m6 past few years and i like it.but ive been thinking about moving up to a spectra.im wondering how much better is a spectra is to a m6.
i do alot of relichunting here in wv which is hard to find but found some good relics.i just wondering how good is a spectra is when relic hunting.thanks for listening i can use
all the help i can get. thnks wvrelichunter

 

[Larry (IL)]

Hard question to answer, the M6 is a pretty good relic hunter. If you primarily hunt relics in WV you might want to consider a TDI instead of the V3i. The V3i is a great detector but maybe not the best for WV hunting. I'm assuming that your ground is pretty mineralized.........

 

[Rob (IL)]

Here is how one guy uses the V3i for relics.

Red Dirt Culpepper VA
I took it to some of the hottest red dirt in the United States.....Culpepper, VA. This was for Civil War relics.
In your Audio menu put it in All Metal Mode and then increase your All Metal sensitivity. Now you basically run it like any other machine...run it as hot as you can without it falsing. The next big setting change is run SINGLE FREQUENCY. In my particular case I found the 7.5 kHz to work best. Run Manual GB and update it when the detector starts getting false signals. I found by putting the recovery delay at 40 that it made the recovery time much like a F75...REAL fast. And it gave distinct and fast double blips on nails. I actually dug my deepest relics ever with the V3i in red soil...dug Minie balls breaking into the 15" mark with the stock D2 coil and above settings.[attachment 225298 Untitled-1.jpg]

 

[wvrelichunter]

how good is vx3

 

[Rob (IL)]

If the V3i won't do it, the VX3 won't either. It's the bad hunting conditions that gives the V3i the advantage over the VX3. The better the soil, the less advantage the V3i has.