relic questions

[vacoinaddict]

in va, so a friend took me out to a 1800-1850s homesite. no one has lived in it for 50 years.

i had the v3i in coin mode. the soil was very red. i couldnt put my rxgain above 4 amd it would start falsing. there was zero emi anywhere.
the house had no electrical. was all the iron readings because of the red dirt, was there actually iron everywhere or was it super red irony dirt?

every swing u could see the iron registering. it wouldnt sound or display but you could see the red bars flickering and the depth changing. i would constantly get
92-95 hits almost every swing.

i ended up getting these two horse buckles it looks like and a top of a locket. they all registered 60-80. and jumpy

my question is i guess a place like this i should be in relic mode. ive never hunted for relics.

in relic mode what numbers should i be looking for

buttons?
buckels?
belt buckles?
any kind of relic?

im thinking i should have blocked out 90-95 not register. would have saved me alot of grief and time in coin mode

 

[Rob (IL)]

Red Dirt Culpepper VA
I took the V3i to some of the hottest red dirt in the United States.....Culpeper, 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.

In the relic program it gives you relic icons.

 

[ArnieTX]

There is also a scale on top of the control box that breaks down the VDI numbers

 

[glasartisan]

Now in that relic mode and or all metal you were running, can you hunt by different tones or is that a mono tone program? I have never used this detector. Thanks, Steve

 

[yowow#1]

Red Dirt Culpepper VA
I took the V3i to some of the hottest red dirt in the United States.....Culpeper, 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.

In the relic program it gives you relic icons.

Excellence at its best, nice Rob