vaquero and fresh water hunting

[boborlando]

any suggestions on using this machine in fresh water lakes also what size coil would work best for coins and jewelery. any suggestions would be appreciated

 

[amcjavelin]

use all metal and 5'75 coil, but i warn you the vaq in all metal will find the tiny BB sized stuff

 

[wicks]

Be careful! Just a little water and your sending it back! Your expense. Yes its tough when that piece of lead keeps going through the sifter!

 

[thump7]

I find that the stock coil works good for mostly everything, changing to a bigger coil reduces the chance of finding small gold and going to a smaller coil takes more sweeps to make time with less depth. IMO. My fresh water experiences involved a fair amount of iron targets (hairpins and bottle caps), I hunted in all-metal and checked target in disc mode. All-metal tells me if I'm getting close to a target before the coil is even over it as well as target size and depth, when checking in disc all I want to know is ferrous or not, as smaller gold can I.D. right beside foil. I wish the Vaq could cleanly disc out bottle caps. Good luck.

 

[amcjavelin]

i beleive is in fresh water, all metal, unless your swimming in trash all metal to find the nice fine gold chains and ear rings and the bigger coil is going to be a little more of a pain to sweep in the water too, just my opinion thats all

 

[thump7]

i believe is in fresh water, all metal, unless your swimming in trash all metal to find the nice fine gold chains and ear rings and the bigger coil is going to be a little more of a pain to sweep in the water too, just my opinion that's all

Excellent point, If I remember right chains and tiny gold earring backs hardly crackle in disc mode with disc way down.