I've been using my new V3 the last few times out. I must say I really like this detector and can't wait to learn it completely. I had taken it to some places that I had considered hunted out with my XLT only to find more and deeper targets. This was accomplished with what was pretty much the factory relic program. First hunt yielded a 3 ringer at slightly over a foot that I've been over dozens of times with the xlt. That hunt got cut short because I hadn't charged the battery and left the spare at home. That won't happen again! One hunt rewarded me with a small grommet at an easy 8", a gardner and a ringtail sharps. Yesterday I picked up a very small flat cuff button at about 8-9" loud and clear plus another ringtail. Those ringtails were very very bad signals that I know full well would not have been picked up by the XLT. The three frequencies made the difference between dig/don't dig. Two of them said junk, the third said bullet. Dug it up and there it was. The button was so small and deep it would not have made a whisper with the XLT. Took it out again today for an hour or two. This time I used the mixed mode (factory default with relic mode) which I had originally disabled. I did not like the mixed mode on the xlt as it was too noisy for my liking, never being able to get it to stabilize. With the V3 it runs smooth...and deep. I picked up a small pistol ball, a small round ball and a tiny sliver of lead, thinner than a dime. The round ball was actually laying on top of the ground and the pistol ball and sliver were at about 8-10". I'm guessing the combination of poor metal quality combined with extremely poor ground cause bad readings on all three. They bounced around from a high iron reading up into a tinfoil reading. Even when out of the ground, the three of them gave bad readings...just like the ones yesterday. I know full well the XLT would have not picked them up at that depth in that ground.
I have a zinc penny in my yard buried at 9.5" measured. It has only been there a month so the freshly buried object rule probably still applies. The XLT on a good day would barely pick it up, even adjusted to the max with sensitivity, gain, recovery speed, etc etc. When it did pick it up, it would always ID it at +95 and that was only with a ridiculously fast swing speed. The V3 picks it up with a slightly hotter than factory program. It jumps around a little with the ID but reads well within the parameters of what I would dig. On mixed mode the V3 picks it up excellently and provides a much more stable ID.
I have a zinc penny in my yard buried at 9.5" measured. It has only been there a month so the freshly buried object rule probably still applies. The XLT on a good day would barely pick it up, even adjusted to the max with sensitivity, gain, recovery speed, etc etc. When it did pick it up, it would always ID it at +95 and that was only with a ridiculously fast swing speed. The V3 picks it up with a slightly hotter than factory program. It jumps around a little with the ID but reads well within the parameters of what I would dig. On mixed mode the V3 picks it up excellently and provides a much more stable ID.
