Question about coils for the Vaquero

[Bill_S]

Will the Vaquero false on bottlecaps like some other detectors will do with a DD coil? Got to use one for a hour or so today and was pretty impressed with how smooth it ran. This one had the stock coil and I never dug a single bottlecap that fell into the coins range.

 

[tailofdog]

YOU WILL!!!!

 

[REVIER]

Yea, after hunting with the standard 9" for like 8 months I was just getting to the point of hearing the difference in pop tops vs coins.
Then, I got a good deal on a 12X10 and even though I love hunting with it, most of the pop tops sound like nice, solid coin signals again.

 

[Bill_S]

Thanks for the response. So probably stick with the stock coil in real trashy parks and places like that. May be ok on cleaner ground though.

 

[Blank Planet]

Tesoros like screw caps.

blank planet

 

[sandtrout]

Thanks for the response. So probably stick with the stock coil in real trashy parks and places like that. May be ok on cleaner ground though.

I had a sniper coil for my ACE 250 that I never used. Had considered selling it since it just sat. A year later I was at a park that was so trashy that I couldn't get a clean reading without the coil hitting on 2 or 3 targets clumped together withing the coil area. In desperation I finally attached the sniper coil...made all the difference in the world. I'm also using the Vaquero and am getting ready to order the 5.75 inch coil. If you can still separate the targets with your standard coil then the park AIN'T that trashy! That one park "laughed" at my standard coil.

 

[BarberBill]

Sandtrout is right on. I've had the same experience with a small coil making it possible to be successful in heavy trash that overwhelmed the stock coil.
BB

 

[Bill_S]

Do they make a smaller concentric coil?

 

[TC-NM]

I switch of between the 5.75 widescan or the 5 x 10 elliptical coil for trashy areas (parks) with much success. If I know that I'm going to a less thrashed out area such as old city lots where structures are torn down, then I use my stock 9 x 8 coil. I gain about another inch or so. I do crank up the disc. (trashy areas) just left of 5c just so that I don't lose my chance in getting a ring.

Yes sandtrout, you'll be surprised at how well the 5.75 widescan does. I've had mine for 6 mos.

Ya gotta learn to listen to the tones in what the detector is telling you. There are some Tesoro experts here maybe they will chime in and explain the distinguishing tones of nickel, silver, gold, slaw, PT, and such that your detector is telling you.

Good Luck,

TC-NM

 

[REVIER]

Just to give you an idea of how crazy I am, this is one hunt at an unusually trashy park with my 10X12 dd coil.
Yea I am a dig-it-all kind of guy, but this park was just ridiculous.

 

[Bill_S]

Did you dig any coins......Lol One thing for sure you will get the trash out of the way and find those masked targets.