Steve from Ohio
New member
OK..I'm sure everyone is sick and tired of hearing from me about how much I like the F-70. Me liking the F-70 was not always the case.
Yeah....I hated it at first. I was running it way too hot and it was driving me crazy. Numbers jumping all over the place and chirping and noises like I never heard before. Almost sent it back to Fisher because I thought it was not working right.
Could not figure out what the heck I was doing wrong....until I was told the read the $#%@ manual. OK....I listened. Thanks to all who said to read the instructions.
Went out for just a few hours today at a local school ground. The school is not that old...built around 1969 so I was not expecting anything of value except clads. I'm using the standard F-70 coil. Hope to get the F-75 DD coil soon along with the small 6 incher.
Well, I no sooner got out into the grassy area of the ball diamond / soccer field when the F-70 hit a target that was reading 80. Now 80 to me does not necessarily mean a quarter at least to my thinking on the F-70 from past experiences. So I pinpointed and it said that it was 12 inches down. So far, every time I hit 80 or above with the F-70, and it read that deep, it was usually a very deep piece of aluminum or a pipe of some type. But I have learned to dig the higher numbers just in case. If you don't dig, you will regret it !
At around 11 inches, the Vibraprobe 570 was buzzing like a bee. Something was very close. I was past the topsoil and into the clay so I dug very carefully down another inch and at the bottom I saw a silver object. At first I thought it was a chain but soon realized it was a ring. A very nice silver ring. It is in the foreground (the one that kind of looks like rope) It is kind of heavy and is sterling silver.
I was really surprised that the F-70 hit that ring so darned deep. Incredible. The ground was pretty good with little trash so I set the sensitivity at 80 and the threshold was at 0. Discrimination was at 0. Speed was at default and I was using 4H for tones. The ground was moist.
I was kind of amazed how well the F-70 read that ring. But the F-70 was not done finding some really cool stuff today.
About a half hour later, I found another silver ring, the half a heart ring. I found that at 6 inches. I then started to detect again and in about 10 minutes, I found my second Gold Polish Falcon pendant that I have ever found. That was found at 8 inches down. It read as a quarter at 82.
Several dollars worth of clads later I found a gold wedding band at 6 inches. Then about an hour and 20 minutes later finding a lot more clads, another gold ring at 7 and a half inches.
Overall it was the best day of metal detecting I have had in many years. In about 4 hours of easy swinging of the 2 lb. 15 ounce F-70, 2 silver rings, 2 gold, a gold Polish Falcon and $9.34 worth of clads. And the weather was incredible. What a day !
Yeah....I hated it at first. I was running it way too hot and it was driving me crazy. Numbers jumping all over the place and chirping and noises like I never heard before. Almost sent it back to Fisher because I thought it was not working right.
Could not figure out what the heck I was doing wrong....until I was told the read the $#%@ manual. OK....I listened. Thanks to all who said to read the instructions.
Went out for just a few hours today at a local school ground. The school is not that old...built around 1969 so I was not expecting anything of value except clads. I'm using the standard F-70 coil. Hope to get the F-75 DD coil soon along with the small 6 incher.
Well, I no sooner got out into the grassy area of the ball diamond / soccer field when the F-70 hit a target that was reading 80. Now 80 to me does not necessarily mean a quarter at least to my thinking on the F-70 from past experiences. So I pinpointed and it said that it was 12 inches down. So far, every time I hit 80 or above with the F-70, and it read that deep, it was usually a very deep piece of aluminum or a pipe of some type. But I have learned to dig the higher numbers just in case. If you don't dig, you will regret it !
At around 11 inches, the Vibraprobe 570 was buzzing like a bee. Something was very close. I was past the topsoil and into the clay so I dug very carefully down another inch and at the bottom I saw a silver object. At first I thought it was a chain but soon realized it was a ring. A very nice silver ring. It is in the foreground (the one that kind of looks like rope) It is kind of heavy and is sterling silver.
I was really surprised that the F-70 hit that ring so darned deep. Incredible. The ground was pretty good with little trash so I set the sensitivity at 80 and the threshold was at 0. Discrimination was at 0. Speed was at default and I was using 4H for tones. The ground was moist.
I was kind of amazed how well the F-70 read that ring. But the F-70 was not done finding some really cool stuff today.
About a half hour later, I found another silver ring, the half a heart ring. I found that at 6 inches. I then started to detect again and in about 10 minutes, I found my second Gold Polish Falcon pendant that I have ever found. That was found at 8 inches down. It read as a quarter at 82.
Several dollars worth of clads later I found a gold wedding band at 6 inches. Then about an hour and 20 minutes later finding a lot more clads, another gold ring at 7 and a half inches.
Overall it was the best day of metal detecting I have had in many years. In about 4 hours of easy swinging of the 2 lb. 15 ounce F-70, 2 silver rings, 2 gold, a gold Polish Falcon and $9.34 worth of clads. And the weather was incredible. What a day !