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9 straight turf hunts with silver!
- Thread starter ziphius
- Start date
Ziphius , Man that's a pretty good start to the season 
you should reach the century mark by September at that rate. My wife Sharon was in the 120's on silver last year and i was in the 80's she had a few sites that she hunted while i was at work, she get's the summer off work [public schools] i wish i was that lucky. good job ziphius nice find's HH.
you should reach the century mark by September at that rate. My wife Sharon was in the 120's on silver last year and i was in the 80's she had a few sites that she hunted while i was at work, she get's the summer off work [public schools] i wish i was that lucky. good job ziphius nice find's HH.
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
I would have to say it is very hard to hunt a relic sight with delta pitch I use two tones and a disc of 5 or one tone and a disc of 6 or multy tone (4) and a disc of 0. I have tried delta pitch and it is too much info for me to deal with I burn out really fast. I have used it at an old school that is really clean and dates back to the late 1800s. I don't cherry pick my targets. I have learned that on the F75 readings of 20 can be some really old brass shells or bullets. So for my hunting I want all of the targets even square head nails. The kind of hunting you do is just for silver and so you may miss large cents or flying eagles and foreign coins. I love siilver but I will always dig clad it pays for my AA and coffee and there are many times that I have needed change to park and bam in my pocket are some ditry coins.
You should do a you tube video so we can all see how you hunt with delta are your areas clean.
You should do a you tube video so we can all see how you hunt with delta are your areas clean.
WTG! 9 straight hunts with silver is very good in this day and age. I am pleased with 3-4 silvers a week. Like Low Boy, I perfer not to cherry pick either. I have found to many good old coins, like IH's, large cents, a three cent piece, neat foreign coins, gold rings and some nice relics, that cherry picking would have missed. None the less, great job on the silver. HH jim tn
Ziphius I have a Minelab Sovereign and love the analog audio on there (silver sounds great),. I assumed the delta pitch for the F70/75 would be a similar sound and I hated it when I tried hunting with it. I'll have to try it again next time I go turf hunting and see if I can get used to it, there's gotta be a good reason they bothered putting it there.
What are you running your threshold at ?
Are you using the stock DD coil or the small DD coil ?
BTW was that you at the last Mt Diablo MD club meeting ?
HH,
Brian
What are you running your threshold at ?
Are you using the stock DD coil or the small DD coil ?
BTW was that you at the last Mt Diablo MD club meeting ?
HH,
Brian
Cal_Cobra said:
Brian, I run my sensitivity at 85 on the F75 in Delta Pitch mode, using the stock coil. After a lot of thought recently and more experience pulling deep silver out of the turf, it occurred to me that if you have a reliable way of gauging depth (either metered or your own ear), then it almost doesn't matter what tone options you invoke. If you merely limit yourself to deep signals, your silver finds will go way up. Again, this only applies to turf areas where there is lots of modern trash overlying the oldies. Wasn't me at the club meeting, I'm in San Diego. Happy Hunting! - Jim
Hey Jim,
Yeah San Diego is a bit far away from the Mt Diablo MD Club meeting, but your always welcome to join us
I'm running the F70 (similar to the F75). There's a park fairly close to me, that while not old (1940's), holds the promise of silver. My first trip there I eeked out some wheats, a half dollar (not silver), the usual clad, and a bunch of other indicators that the place hasn't been cleaned out. A fair amount of trash too of course, but next trip there I'm determined to bring back the silver. I'll focus on deep meter readings next trip and see how that pans out. The wheats I found weren't that deep (~4"), so if anything comes up deeper then 6" there it should be old.
I've been running threshold at -9, what do you have yours set to ?
Thanks,
Brian
Yeah San Diego is a bit far away from the Mt Diablo MD Club meeting, but your always welcome to join us
I'm running the F70 (similar to the F75). There's a park fairly close to me, that while not old (1940's), holds the promise of silver. My first trip there I eeked out some wheats, a half dollar (not silver), the usual clad, and a bunch of other indicators that the place hasn't been cleaned out. A fair amount of trash too of course, but next trip there I'm determined to bring back the silver. I'll focus on deep meter readings next trip and see how that pans out. The wheats I found weren't that deep (~4"), so if anything comes up deeper then 6" there it should be old.
I've been running threshold at -9, what do you have yours set to ?
Thanks,
Brian
Brian,
Sorry, I didn't answer your threshold question the first time around. On the F75, threshold settings only seem to matter in all-metal mode. Threshold changes on the F75 change the pitch of the background hum you hear when hunting in all-metal. I usually run some kind of minus number to get a higher-pitched mosquito hum in my ear. I seem to remember that between minus one and three usually sounds good to my ear.
If you're finding wheat pennies, then there is definitely silver in your park. Sounds like the wheats are fairly shallow (4 in), in which case, the silver should be at about the same strata. You will vastly increase your chances of digging more wheats and silver if you ignore all the shallower signals. Thanks for the invitation up north. - Jim
Sorry, I didn't answer your threshold question the first time around. On the F75, threshold settings only seem to matter in all-metal mode. Threshold changes on the F75 change the pitch of the background hum you hear when hunting in all-metal. I usually run some kind of minus number to get a higher-pitched mosquito hum in my ear. I seem to remember that between minus one and three usually sounds good to my ear.
If you're finding wheat pennies, then there is definitely silver in your park. Sounds like the wheats are fairly shallow (4 in), in which case, the silver should be at about the same strata. You will vastly increase your chances of digging more wheats and silver if you ignore all the shallower signals. Thanks for the invitation up north. - Jim
Jim I think the trick to finding silver in this particular park will be using the small coil to slice through all the trash. There's an area I spotted on the way out of my "scouting" trip that I think holds a good chance of goodies, but will most likely harbor a LOT of trash. It's a long row of picnic tables on a cement down sloping slab on the side of a hill. Probably a good place for coins to run down, but at the same time a good place to flick bottle caps, tabs and other rubbish 
I understand what your saying using threshold in AM mode. I haven't used AM mode yet, but as I understand it in disc mode, running a -9 threshold knocks out those pesky tiny pieces of metal that add chatter.
Well the weekend is almost here, and another hunt is on the horizon
Thanks,
Brian
I understand what your saying using threshold in AM mode. I haven't used AM mode yet, but as I understand it in disc mode, running a -9 threshold knocks out those pesky tiny pieces of metal that add chatter.
Well the weekend is almost here, and another hunt is on the horizon
Thanks,
Brian
Low-Boy/LCPM
Active member
there is no small DD coil
