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The Vision LOVES nickles

jimmyk

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Hi, all:

Hit an athletic field in my town that is next to a hundred year old school. The field used to be the Senior High School football field. Now it's used for our town soccor program. I've gridded it off and hunted it twice with other detectors. The last time was with an F 75, which many believe (me included) is a good nickle machine. I'm finding my "Vision" (I have one of the original units) likes nickles even more. I rehunted a strip the width of a football field by about 30 yards. Covered it thoroughly and found twelve coins. Six pennies and six nickles. One was a buffalo head nickle. The nickles were all dug between two and five inches. Also found a silver rind laying on top of the ground. I also dug a brass base from a shotgun shell at a measure seven inches. My deepest "good" target, to date. I'm getting more confident that this machine can reach the older deep coins. I was using the Coin mode with TX boost running, with RX gain set at 6. All metal and Disc. set at 85. Still haven't got any deep silver yet, but feel it's only a matter of time.

Thanks for looking and keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri
 
It IS a nickel magnet. I've found many nickels where in the past with my DFX I would just find one here and there. The silver will come!
 
I agree the V is a nickel magnet, especially compared to other high end White's detectors. I remember just recently going out with my XLT and my buddy with his DFX and we'd be lucky to get 1 or 2...now that's changed. What is great about the V is it is an "every coin magnet" meaning we didn't lose the "quarter magnet" abilities of the XLT/DFX...we simply gained the nickel to complete the coin spectrum.
 
I have noted many reports on the V3 nickel range ability.

Very good information for European detectorists.

Hammered coins shows often up in the nickel range or below, very good read this.

Steve H said early on that he rated the V3 better then the MXT for small nuggets so this isnt surprising just a confirmation of what he and others have noted.

What is very interesting is that we can maybe use all 3 freqs and still have better sens towards hammered and maybe also better depth on higher conductors like deep silver objects and bigger artefacts.

good read...
 
Sounds logical to me bfodnes! Keep us posted on how the unit performs across the pond.
 
I have little time with the V3 and came from a DFX, and the other day I was doing my typical park hunt, and I was digging Nickels one after another, I was thinking it was a fluk .... but apparently not.
 
Agree that the V3 is a nickel magnet compared to my old XLT. So far since getting the V3 I have found 79 nickels, including 2 war nickels. By the way, they don't always lock in at 18-21 vdi. I have learned to suspect a nickel when I get a signal that hits at 19 or so but might dance all the way down to 11 or up to 25. Pull tabs still occasionally confuse me.

Anyway, folks from previous times might have taken most of the silver, but I'll bet there are lots of old shield, V, and buffalo nickels that they didn't find.

Let's go get 'em!

Mike
 
Looks like it loves them.
I am contemplating on giving the v3 a shot but can't cough up the $$ just yet.
I like to lurk here though.
 
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