Braved the heat today, got a "39 merc.

[mrtim]

Drove to a town about 20 miles north and hit the park. It appeared somebody had beat me to it but had left plenty of unfilled holes. I did my best to refill all the ones I found so it won't cost me my detecting privileges there. Took the family and my Wife and Kids played all day.

Got 41 memorial cents, 9 nickels, 25 dimes, 10 quarters and one 1939 Mercury Dime. Also got a Canadian cent that was cut in half. Dug the usual junk that goes along with the hobby. Got a little sick a couple times and had to take a break. I get dehydrated very easily since I no longer have my Colon

Anyway, had a great day. My new V3i got her first taste of silver and I got another Merc for my collection.

 

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[flyinryan2]

Congrats on the merc. Good job on filling in the holes by a lazy detectorist. All it takes is one guy to ruin it for everybody.

 

[Giant056]

Great score on the merc there Tim the more you use that V3i the more you'll like it better, when I first bought mine I thought the MXT was just as good if not better but once I installed a good program into it for my area, the V3i had the MXT hands down all the way around, it's a much better discriminator than the MXT.

 

[mrtim]

I really like the V3i, this is my second one. I got in a spot after Dad died and lost interest in detecting. He was my hunting buddy for many years so it just wasn't the same for me so I sold my V3 (after getting the "i" upgrade done to it). I got the bug again and looked at everything out there but I was certain I just would not be happy unless I got another V3i.
They do make a lot of chatter if you don't get your settings right but thats all part of the learning process. It goes deep and it has me wishing my Lesche was a little longer. I dug almost 9 inches yesterday for a dime and the Lesche handle was a little wide for the hole. The area was obviously filled in at one time since it's rare in this area to have a clad dime that deep.