went out today to a site on my list

[dlh]

I went to a site today I have wanted to get to since I got Vaquero. It is an old stone foundation about 100 yds back into the woods. Getting back to it was not much fun due to the many sticker bushes, etc. Once I got there I had a hard time trying to GB and finding a silent spot to do so was almost impossible. Once I got it gb as best I could it seemed I was hitting a target every 2 feet. I mean old oil caps, bicycle fender, hinges and nails. One small nail was deeper then my Lesche blade. I stayed about an hour. I knew this house was on maps from 1865 and to me it just looked good. It was a mill workers stone house with a 4 bay basement. So, to make it worse 50% of time I put shovel in the ground I would hit stone. Well, to make a long story short, one reason I metal detect is to find relics in the area I live in and the Vaquero can surely find the metal. Now just need to find the kind I am looking for. Some silver wouldn't be bad either. That site hasnt seen the last of me yet. I know it holds something good.
BTW....anybody ever have the problem of not being able to ground balance well?

Thanks for letting me ramble
Denis

 

[tvr]

Two thoughts on difficult to ground balance:
-If the whole area has a lot of nails and scrap; maybe the house burned down, it may be difficult to get a clean enough area to ground balance. Ground balance a little ways away before you get right to the site.
-If the stones in the ground are highly mineralized, (like granite) it may touchy to ground balance to that environment. the soil between the rocks will be different than where you are over a rock.

Looking forward to hearing of what you uncover when you get into the site more.
tvr

 

[pkrska]

Concerning the ground balance, if the MD was an AUTO GB, would it still have the same problems in that kind of area? (If the stones in the ground are highly mineralized, (like granite) it may touchy to ground balance to that environment. the soil between the rocks will be different than where you are over a rock.)

I would think it would be silent.

Thus if it were silent in Auto GB, there must be a way to GB the manual GB or is the computerized Auto GB superior to any human manual dexterity?

I've read many whom had a steep learning curve trying to GB the Vaquero. Is there a video on it?

 

[thump7]

There is a video on you tube for groundbalancing the vaq, made by 53silver. From my experience and what I've heard, the vaq is one of the easiest detectors to GBalance. Trying to descrbe groundbalancing in typed words is 10 times more difficult than it actually is to do it.

BTW, I have been to sites that were 'picked' over by people digging the easy big and obvious targets. The V is a whole new animal, great things come in small packages. I find often it is the tiny signals that get me the deep goodies. Digging the smooth, round signals help too.

 

[JimCVA]

you just may have to clean some of the junk out to find the good stuff. You don't have to hunt so close to the foundtion move out 50' to 100' from the foundtion JimCVA

 

[Canewrap]

I know what you mean. How do you ground balance when there is so much trash, you can't find a metal free area? I've hunted areas that were so bad I had to use all metal to clear out a small area, just so I could ground balance.