2 Ring day with the F-70 along with.........

[Steve from Ohio]

Was out today with the F-70 at a 30 year old local school / ball diamonds / soccer fields for about 3 and a half hours.

The F-70 was set at 0 discrimination, 80 sensitivity, slow speed, 0 threshold, 4H tones, iron and foil notched. The dirt bar read 1 bar and the ground condition read at 65. Almost no chattering due to EMI even at those high settings.

The F-70 was running smooth. A very easy area to hunt.

Found 33 quarters at depths from on top of ground to my deepest at 9 inches.

Found 4 Nickles, the deepest at 2 inches.

Found 34 dimes at varying depths. The deepest dime was a tad over 10 inches down. Quite happy with that !

18 pennies...no wheaties. Most at 1 inch but a few between 4 and 6 inches.

1 Canadian loony dollar that was at 5 and a half inches.

2 Sacajawea US dollars......both at 3 inches.

1 sterling silver ring.......found at 10 inches........the F-70 is a silver hound.........my fourth silver ring and all are found below 8 inches.

1 gold ring.......found that at 3 inches.

And an accidental white gold chain. It was not picked up by the F-70 at all. Seems chains are not able to be read by almost any detector including the F-70. Found it at 1 inch right next to a quarter.

Sorry to hear about some of the problems that some folks are having with their F-70's. Fisher will make it good. Give it time. The F-70 is one kick a** machine once you get it to run right and learn how to use it. I really love mine and am planning on getting a 6 inch coil along with the DD F-75 coil.

 

[jim tn]

Nice hunt, and glad to hear your F 70 is doing the job. I have the 75, but want the 70, too. Have kind of been hanging back waiting for all the kinks to get ironed out before I make the plunge. Again, wonderful outing. HH jim tn

 

[Cal_Cobra]

The F-70 was set at 0 discrimination...

Looks like you had a great hunt, congrats !!

With disco set to zero, how many pull tabs did you dig ?

HH,
Brian

 

[Steve from Ohio]

It seems that everywhere you go there are pull tabs!

I dug a few, but for the most part I can figure out if they are a tab or a nickle by listening to the sound the F-70 makes.

The tabs usually hit around a nickle so if I really want to not dig any at all, I just don't dig 30 to 35's.
If I am looking for nickles, I listen to the F-70. I usually run 0 disc and 80 to 90 sensitivity depending on the conditions. I also run 0 to 4 on the threshold. I run 3h on the tones. I run with speed at slow. The F-70 can get really chatty but I can hear just about everything that is going on and pick out the good targets from all the noise. If too much noise, I lower the threshold first before I lower the sensitivity. The F-70 is really a different machine than most I have used in the past. I like to run it hot and found by testing that when the F-70 is making lots of noises, it is at its deepest ability. My air ad ground tests have shown that. I know to some it drives them crazy. I adjusted to the presence of the noise and it made a huge difference in me being able to find deep stuff with the F-70.

I tried a test with a solid 81 target which to me indicates a quarter. The depth was indicated at 4 inches. I took a wooden ruler and measured the height that I could raise the coil above the target. I was able to go 11 inches above the target before it faded out. It was solid up to that point. It was a quarter and it was at 4 inches when I dug it.

It will hit a tab hard but if I take the edge of the coil and use it around the object, if it hums just a little, then I kind of know it is a tab. The numbers will jump a little also. On a nickle, it will be hard 32 with no hum at all.

I have gotten pretty good at figuring out what is in the ground by listening although I will admit, I sometimes get fooled.

I would put my pull tab digging at one or two an hour on average in a very trashy park setting. Not too bad.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Pull tabs inluding those that read dead nickle do mimic gold rings and to get it all one would have to dig all...remember he was hunting with 4 tones and has a accurate meter and using his ears to hear subtle differences in audio( audio variances) he cut down the odds and certainly had a great day. As far as gold chains unless they are rolled up in a ball just not going to get them due to their makeup. We all know PI units will pick them up and the best unit I ever saw for getting them was older tesoros but thats another story from my shallow water hunting days and not applicable to land hunting for the most part..

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[Cal_Cobra]

It seems that everywhere you go there are pull tabs!

I dug a few, but for the most part I can figure out if they are a tab or a nickle by listening to the sound the F-70 makes.

The tabs usually hit around a nickle so if I really want to not dig any at all, I just don't dig 30 to 35's.
If I am looking for nickles, I listen to the F-70. I usually run 0 disc and 80 to 90 sensitivity depending on the conditions. I also run 0 to 4 on the threshold. I run 3h on the tones. I run with speed at slow. The F-70 can get really chatty but I can hear just about everything that is going on and pick out the good targets from all the noise. If too much noise, I lower the threshold first before I lower the sensitivity. The F-70 is really a different machine than most I have used in the past. I like to run it hot and found by testing that when the F-70 is making lots of noises, it is at its deepest ability. My air ad ground tests have shown that. I know to some it drives them crazy. I adjusted to the presence of the noise and it made a huge difference in me being able to find deep stuff with the F-70.

I tried a test with a solid 81 target which to me indicates a quarter. The depth was indicated at 4 inches. I took a wooden ruler and measured the height that I could raise the coil above the target. I was able to go 11 inches above the target before it faded out. It was solid up to that point. It was a quarter and it was at 4 inches when I dug it.

It will hit a tab hard but if I take the edge of the coil and use it around the object, if it hums just a little, then I kind of know it is a tab. The numbers will jump a little also. On a nickle, it will be hard 32 with no hum at all.

I have gotten pretty good at figuring out what is in the ground by listening although I will admit, I sometimes get fooled.

I would put my pull tab digging at one or two an hour on average in a very trashy park setting. Not too bad.

Thanks for the info Steve. I just pulled the trigger on the F70 & a Sunray probe, so I'm looking forward to testing it out. I was curious about the pull tabs, as I know that's where a lot of rings hide out (I found my first 14K ring at the beach in wet sand with my F5 and it hit hard, harder then a normal pull tab, but did ring in as a pull tab). I wonder how your pull tab test would work with a ring ?

There's a heavily used soccer park I've be dying to hunt as I know it should produce some rings and goodies. I hit it a while back for an hour or two with my F4 and I'm pretty sure it's not been hunting from what I was finding, but I couldn't hit the field I wanted as it was in use (seems to be the main field that's used the most). When I get the F70 in hand, it'll be one of the first places I try the F70 out...hopefully I can hit it when that field isn't in use and find all the rings waiting for me

Thanks,
Brian