I have now used the Vx9 for four hunts and about 10 hours. The first three hunts produced 45 coins with 3 being wheat pennies and 1 silver war nickel. Nothing more than 6 inches deep, but finding these coins gave me hope for the Vortex. The fourth hunt took me to one of the trashiest places I hunt. I was in zero mode and the noise was never ending. This detector does not get fooled by some pull tabs like some of the other newer detectors I have used so I was digging hardly any trash. I was able to pick out the high tones amongst the trash with most being older memorial pennies. I did end up with two wheat pennies. This is exactly like I hunt with my Legend and the Vortex proved it could keep up with the Legend in this scenario.
It was a beautiful spring day and I felt that I had another hour or so left in my old body so I stopped at my favorite spot ever. I have found hundreds of silver coins in this spot, but lately a wheat penny is hard to come by. I hunted a hill overlooking a ball field and for some reason this hill is loaded with rusty nails. Silver and older coins are extremely deep on this hill and I don't find many these days. Within 10 feet of turning the Vortex on, I found a 7 inch deep memorial penny. Pretty impressive I thought! Minutes later, a clad dime at about the same depth. I was shocked that I had missed these in the numerous previous hunts. Things were about to get much better. I got a erratic 83 signal that sounded scratchy and I found out what was causing the "scratchy signal". It was a three inch rusty nail about 6 inches deep. I was sure there was something else in the hole and about two inches deeper was an old wheat penny. Nothing more in that hole but when I rescanned six inches away , I got another 83 chirp. From 9 inches comes another old wheat penny. From that point on, I felt like that hill was going to come to life. Six more wheat pennies and two silver dimes and all were DEEP(8 plus inches) For the record, about ten of my plugs were not coins but rusty nails. I hunt with the iron boundry on a low setting so this did not surprise me.
With any detector I use, I am always trying to figure out what it's depth limits are and what those signals sound like. These deep coins were not perfect signals, but once you dig a couple of deep coins, they give you the clues you need. I used zero mode, multi-frequency, iron boundry low, bottlecap low, and recovery speed low, and hunt slowly and methodically. Many people don't like this type of detecting, but if you exhibit some patience it will work. I am on version 2.07 and will upgrade in the next couple of days, but winter is returning in my neck of the woods so I have to wait to try it out.
It was a beautiful spring day and I felt that I had another hour or so left in my old body so I stopped at my favorite spot ever. I have found hundreds of silver coins in this spot, but lately a wheat penny is hard to come by. I hunted a hill overlooking a ball field and for some reason this hill is loaded with rusty nails. Silver and older coins are extremely deep on this hill and I don't find many these days. Within 10 feet of turning the Vortex on, I found a 7 inch deep memorial penny. Pretty impressive I thought! Minutes later, a clad dime at about the same depth. I was shocked that I had missed these in the numerous previous hunts. Things were about to get much better. I got a erratic 83 signal that sounded scratchy and I found out what was causing the "scratchy signal". It was a three inch rusty nail about 6 inches deep. I was sure there was something else in the hole and about two inches deeper was an old wheat penny. Nothing more in that hole but when I rescanned six inches away , I got another 83 chirp. From 9 inches comes another old wheat penny. From that point on, I felt like that hill was going to come to life. Six more wheat pennies and two silver dimes and all were DEEP(8 plus inches) For the record, about ten of my plugs were not coins but rusty nails. I hunt with the iron boundry on a low setting so this did not surprise me.
With any detector I use, I am always trying to figure out what it's depth limits are and what those signals sound like. These deep coins were not perfect signals, but once you dig a couple of deep coins, they give you the clues you need. I used zero mode, multi-frequency, iron boundry low, bottlecap low, and recovery speed low, and hunt slowly and methodically. Many people don't like this type of detecting, but if you exhibit some patience it will work. I am on version 2.07 and will upgrade in the next couple of days, but winter is returning in my neck of the woods so I have to wait to try it out.