New guy w/Cibola...I'm hooked!

[VBDave]

Hello all,
I'm brand new to detecting and have been hunting schools and parks with my new Cibola for about 3 weeks. Found a gold high school ring the 1st day (and got it back to the owner) and about $40 in clad so far. I found this forum and have been lurking for about a week. Your advice has made a major improvement in my progress with the Cibola; especially the advice to remove the disc knob, recalibrate it to the actual air test levels and dig any target above iron.

I did so and re hunted the grass volleyball court where I found the 1st ring. The 2nd target I dug was a 10K lady's topaz set with 2 small diamonds on each side that fit my wife perfectly! I also took 13 nickels in about 10 minutes. My local mentor sez that if I'm digging nickels then I'm doing it right.

Since I live here at the beach, I also bought a Sand Shark, but I'm having so much fun with the Cibola that I haven't taken the Shark out of the box yet!

This new found hobby is rapidly turning into a passion that I don't think I'll outgrow. Driving around is not about getting someplace anymore; it's about looking for newly cleared land and other likely hunting spots, and thinking about where folks might drop stuff.

The whole experience of detecting is the perfect relief valve for the high pressure career from which I'm about to retire. I can't say enough good things about my Cibola, either. Although I've by no means mastered it, I'm alot more effective with it than I thought I'd be at this point. I look forward to participating in this obviously friendly forum and learning all I can!

 

[Wayne/TX]

Well done,VBDave! You've lucked into the greatest hobby of all time
and you've also found one of the best detectors in the world to conduct it with! Have you acquired a 5.75 "cherry picker" coil for it
yet? It will enable you to search dense trashy sites like some parks
and school areas etc., to better find the goodies in between the scrap
p-tabs,b-caps,foil,iron bits, etc... Needless to say, the great
Cibola will serve you well for a long time! That Sand Shark, being a
pulse unit, will also astound you on the beaches with it's depth
capabilities. The Cibola also should work well in the dry sand and
even the wet too, with a few adjustments for the capacitance effect of
wet sand(decrease sensitivity & increase disc. slightly). Naturally,
keep the circuit box dry. But then that's why you have the Sand Shark
too, right? Yep, you definitely have the Bull by the Horns, I'd say !!

You're fast becoming a pro too, with your ring finds(congrats on
finding the owner, btw!) and "site sleuthing" !!

Continued good luck and welcome to the hobby(perhaps even a future avocation!?) !!
..W

 

[tab-nabit]

Good to read your post - the dirt poking bug got the best of ya. hehe
As Wayne replied, that 575 coil is the way to go for the trash areas.
Sounds like you started very well machine wise and in your finds. HH