Vaquero & Bottlecaps

[Smudge]

I was just curious how you Vaqueor users deal with bottlecaps.

Do you identify them by tone or do you have to turn up your discrimination, and if so, how far?

I am only speaking of bottlecaps in general. There are always a few that will get through no matter what you do.

 

[dlh]

I would be interested in the answer also.
I was out in the woods today and came a crossed a solid hit. I dug and saw what I thought was older coin. It was a totally flattened dirt covered bottle cap!!! Grrrrr

Denis

 

[POLEWAGGER]

The really rusty ones will fake my disc all the way.
I've just started being able to hear some of the differences in how coins, aluminum and ferrous metals of about the same size and mass sound when listening in AM.
Use your AM tone on all your hits. Sweep fast, slow, near, far. You can hear much more info in AM. (my opinion anyway)

 

[thump7]

I know the secret to never digging any more bottlecaps with tesoro machines. But I'm not telling, who else will dig the trash for me? There is a way.

Someone else might give it up. Some of the tricks I have learned have taken a long time, this is one I won't be giving up too easily.

 

[pkrska]

I know the secret to never digging any more bottlecaps with tesoro machines. But I'm not telling, who else will dig the trash for me? There is a way.

Someone else might give it up. Some of the tricks I have learned have taken a long time, this is one I won't be giving up too easily.

Ah come on. Give it up man. The suspense is killing me.

 

[Ism]

The answer is in another post on the same topic...I won't tell either.

 

[REVIER]

With a concentric coil, most will disc out just below max on the disc knob, and the tone is not quite as round and sharp and fully formed as coins...most of them, anyway.
They will sometimes break up using the Tesoro Shake, technique.

With a DD, they all sound like nice, beautiful,quarter tones.

 

[:Left4Dead]

I still think people always will have issues with bottle caps, they can just sound to good to pass up somtimes.

 

[Smudge]

Thats the truth! Some are getting pretty good at identifying them though.

 

[dlh]

With a concentric coil, most will disc out just below max on the disc knob, and the tone is not quite as round and sharp and fully formed as coins...most of them, anyway.
They will sometimes break up using the Tesoro Shake, technique.

With a DD, they all sound like nice, beautiful,quarter tones.

I placed quarter and a flattened bottle cap on the ground and tried different scenarios and found the same discrimination pattern. I also noticed I could raise the coil a little higher on the cap than the quarter in AM. When I switched to the lowest frequency I thought the bottle cap broke up more.....maybe I was just dreaming on that one.

Denis