deezdrama
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I got into metal detecting a little bit a couple years ago with a bouty hunter tracker iv. Didnt get a pinpointer, headphones, a proper digging tool or anything and didnt take it real serious. The interest came and went.
My son wanted a detector a couple months ago and started doing hours upon hours of research for the past couple months. Even been listening to detecting podcasts at work.
I settled on Tesoro and picked myself up a Vaquero and my son a Compadre. Got us some headphones, lesche style digging tools, the carrot clone gp-pointers, etc....
Ive spent countless hours watching youtube videos on the Vaquero, countless hours reading articles and guides on it, and even read the "Mastering the tejon and Vaquero" kindle book.
Been out in my backyard a few times. I feel like im setting the groundbalance and sens and threshold fine but cant find much so getting frustrated.
My yard is full of trash, alot of it probably from me lol. My house was built in the 50's so was hoping to find some 90% silver coins. I ran my disc 3/4 of the way up (inbetween tab and max) I seem to be getting alot of sporatic tones that sound good or disappear if I sweep at a different angle so skip those targets. I found a few "good" (good to me but what do i know lol) hits but cant find the target. I spend a huge amount of time pinpointing it just perfect (or so I thought) then dig my plug..... and dig and dig untill I have a 2 foot wide hole because my cheap gp-pointers beep as soon as they are put in a hole so I cant even use them, ill swing my coil back over the hole and the target just seems to move slightly so keep digging the side of my hole away and still cant find the target.
Ive been running handfuls across the coil because like I mentioned...the gp-pointers just beep like crazy if they are pointed at any soil. Im in central Illinois and dont think we have very mineralized soil so I dont know what the deal is. Either my yard is just super trashy or the gp-pointers suck although they seem to work good when air testing.
Anyway.... Ive spent several hours, several times in the backyard and not even pulled a single coin. There has to be some roosevelts or mercs in this yard just not having any luck pulling any targets.
I need to get my pinpointing and target acquiring down before I move to other areas which I dont even know where that will be since parks are off the list here in Illinois.
Just a little frustrated I guess and need to get a garret carrot I guess and learn what the tesoro tone is telling me.
Any pointers or slaps of reality to my expectations are appreciated lol.
My son wanted a detector a couple months ago and started doing hours upon hours of research for the past couple months. Even been listening to detecting podcasts at work.
I settled on Tesoro and picked myself up a Vaquero and my son a Compadre. Got us some headphones, lesche style digging tools, the carrot clone gp-pointers, etc....
Ive spent countless hours watching youtube videos on the Vaquero, countless hours reading articles and guides on it, and even read the "Mastering the tejon and Vaquero" kindle book.
Been out in my backyard a few times. I feel like im setting the groundbalance and sens and threshold fine but cant find much so getting frustrated.
My yard is full of trash, alot of it probably from me lol. My house was built in the 50's so was hoping to find some 90% silver coins. I ran my disc 3/4 of the way up (inbetween tab and max) I seem to be getting alot of sporatic tones that sound good or disappear if I sweep at a different angle so skip those targets. I found a few "good" (good to me but what do i know lol) hits but cant find the target. I spend a huge amount of time pinpointing it just perfect (or so I thought) then dig my plug..... and dig and dig untill I have a 2 foot wide hole because my cheap gp-pointers beep as soon as they are put in a hole so I cant even use them, ill swing my coil back over the hole and the target just seems to move slightly so keep digging the side of my hole away and still cant find the target.
Ive been running handfuls across the coil because like I mentioned...the gp-pointers just beep like crazy if they are pointed at any soil. Im in central Illinois and dont think we have very mineralized soil so I dont know what the deal is. Either my yard is just super trashy or the gp-pointers suck although they seem to work good when air testing.
Anyway.... Ive spent several hours, several times in the backyard and not even pulled a single coin. There has to be some roosevelts or mercs in this yard just not having any luck pulling any targets.
I need to get my pinpointing and target acquiring down before I move to other areas which I dont even know where that will be since parks are off the list here in Illinois.
Just a little frustrated I guess and need to get a garret carrot I guess and learn what the tesoro tone is telling me.
Any pointers or slaps of reality to my expectations are appreciated lol.
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