Three dishes served up by the V3

[Aurium]

Well it's been awhile since I posted finds, so I thought I'd post three dishes worth of finds. These all came from a series of short trips as I've been exploring some new locations. One thing that has really impressed me is a lot more nickles than I've ever found before (10 of them in the last two hunts), also I didn't have all my wheaties shown but there is about 10 of them from the 20's up through the 50's. (alas still no silver yet..but I'm still having fun!!) One of the dishes has all my trash that I kept to throw out later.. but it does illustrate this hobbies benefit in cleaning up the parks a little. The second dish are some relics I found, old shotgun shells, old rimfire cartridge (.22 calibre, and a .25 that as far as I can tell dates from about 1900 or so) And theres even a buckshot pellet. Most of the stuff was found with the 5.3 coil, which is rapidly becoming my absolute favorite coil to hunt with, I tend to hunt in coin/jewelry with some slight mod's to the discrimination, and RX settings. The clad dish, is about $11 worth of change. The V3 is a great toy

 

[TheMarshall]

Well done, Aurium !....(That rhymes well.)

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Most of the stuff was found with the 5.3 coil, which is rapidly becoming my absolute favorite coil to hunt with ,/ Unquote


It only goes to prove the point I was making in the copied post from a couple of weeks ago......Little coils can be a lot of fun to use, easy and productive.

Re: First outing of the year,with new 5.3 coil. - 16 days ago
Well done Buch. I have preached the gospel about the benefits of using the 'smaller' coils on the V3, but you are one of the rare ones that obviously has seen the light. Every park hunter in the USA or anywhere for that matter should learn the lesson. [size=x-large]Dump your big coils in favour of the smaller coils, like Shooter etc. Sorts out the good stuff from adjacent trash. Pin-points like sniper rifle [/size]
by TheMarshall - White's Spectra V3 / Vision Forum

 

[Aurium]

Thanks Marshall, I appreciate the feedback and affirmation.

So after I posted this morning I went out for a couple hours this afternoon to a new spot that I had on my list of places to try.

Again with the 5.3 coil, and I decided to try deep silver, with Tone ID off, and with 3 freq turned on. (just for grins) I liked the deep silver
program a lot better with Tone ID off, oh and I set the recovery to about 50 (for grins) (experimenting with it) I got lucky and managed to find
my 2nd 50 cent piece in a week. It was actually stacked with a token on top of it about 3 inches down, and read 72 on the VDI. I thought
I was digging a dime, and was very surprised to find the 50 cent piece, and the token stacked together.

Heres another plate served up by the V3 this afternoon.

You're right on with the rifle scoped pinpoint on the 5.3, it's so accurate I'm always amazed at how little effort I have to put into digging the target.
I've been using my little bullseye pinpointer a lot more too, and despite it's limited depth it's a real time saver. I've been tuning the bullseye till it vibrates w/out a target present then just back it off till it stops vibrating, then test it against my wedding ring..(detects it at about 1.5 inches from it)

 

[butch]

Hey,look like you were super busy. That is a nice haul ! I'm currently working a new area and finding some interesting bits{pics on earlier post},I was using the super 12 for the first run,I am hoping to get back there this weekend with the 5.5 coil.

 

[Aurium]

Thanks Butch.. good luck on your new spot..I think with a smaller coil your are going to find more and be able to pick the lil targets out from the trashy bits.

I really can't sing the praises of that lil 5.3 coil enough, when I first started using it my thought was.. "How do you cover any ground with this thing?" then after reading a series of posts on here, the low and slow approach made a lot more sense. The goal being to methodically pick your way through the territory, and focus on SLOW, this gives the coil/machine enough time to recover in tight trashy areas. I've found a lot of targets within inches of each other that I would have blown by with the bigger coil. This little coil is ultra sensitive. I had really debated buying a 12 inch coil versus the little 5.3, and with the experiences I've had so far the 5.3 coil is the best way by far to go if you're a park hunter/ coin shooter. I've been using it in some brushy, forested areas too with targets few and far between, tried the D2 but it got hung up a lot more on brush.. switched to the 5.3 and it made the hunt a lot more pleasurable instead of fighting the snaggy bits. Oh and as for depth.. I hit a tot lot with lots and lots of bark fill and was picking coins from 8-9 inches with no problem at all.