Kapok said:
yowow#1 said:
Maybe i am missing something in your post, but why would you hold down the pin-point button for all metal mode, when the Vaquero has a all metal mode?
I feel like such an idiot. I just now figured out that you can actually turn the dial down into all metal until it clicks and have a threshold tone.
Big time duh. I wish there was a way to delete a post when you say something ridiculously stupid. RTFM, eh?
I still have trouble with the ground balancing thing, though.
No no, not an idiot, this is actually the way I hunt sometimes and actually did this yesterday and found a great coin on a very special but short hunt.
Our club had permission to hunt a very old estate as a one shot deal but only a 2 hour time limit.
This place was loaded with iron, very big and small, and even though at first I was hoping to find some relic to give back to the historical society that tied it to this place there was too much and it took too much time to dig these deep targets up so I switched to a different plan.
I set the disc knob on my Vaq at just below the F in foil, this would allow me to pick up any small pieces of gold or small chains I might run across but still avoid all the really big iron and a lot of the small can slaw and foil that littered this place.
Then I just hunted with my finger pressed on the pinpoint button and listened.
When I heard that great zip-zip sound over a target I let my finger go and if I got no signal I pressed on, if I dig get a signal in disc I thumbed that knob up to see where the disc out point ended up.
Some large rusty iron still went almost to max but usually broke up there, other targets were solid till I did my thing and turned the knob up past the fade out point then back down and then listened to where and how they came in.
If they clicked, sputtered or crackled I know that these were probably trash and let them go, if they came in solid from one direction I would check it from a different angle and to me this was a sign that it could be a good target.
This was a much better and faster way to try to find something great in a short time span.
I reset that knob back to the F in foil after every target when I moved it.
Several Tesoro models have a switch you can hit to instantly turn the unit into all metal without changing the disc settings.
The Vaq isn't one of them but hitting that pinpoint button in disc is effectively the same thing.
Eventually I came across another zip-zip target, turned the disc to max and it was still there and solid, hit it from another angle and it was still solid so I bent down to dig and found my oldest coin...an 1865 2 cent.
This was one of only 2 coins found this day by about 40 hunters in that 2 hour span, the other being a wrecked Large cent with no date.
For me I usually thumb that knob on every target trying to figure it out, sort of a game I have always played with myself to always try to get better, but some just set the disc and dig everything above that.
For those times when you have to draw the line at a certain level in disc but still want to hunt in that usually deeper all metal mode hunting with your thumb on that pinpoint button is an actual good technique to use when hunting with the Vaquero.
