My Buddy Steve and I went out for an afternoon hunt today. We have never hunted this school before so we asked the grounds keeper if she minded with we hunted it. I had my heart set on the football sidelines but she said it and the grass around the building were off limited to us. But we could hunt behind the bleachers, the soccer and parade fields.
I really wanted to hunt some wide open areas with the F75 for coins and jewelry. This was the opportunity to do it and see how it would preform around all the electrical gadgets. The soccer and parade fields were 3 times the size of the football field and really dry. I knew probing any finds out was going to take a lot longer then normal.
I set the F75 up in DE Mode, Disc to zinc, sens-55 and tone on Delta pitch. This is the first time with Delta pitch and I have to say I like it. In fact I never changed it all afternoon. I decided I was going to set up the F75 to one setting and use it that way and learn the machines habits.
I used fast grab quite a bit and found the ground in these 4-5 acres changed from 69-86. 79-82 seemed to be the norm but when the machine started chattering I hit the fast grab and it settled it down most of the time. I also turned the machine off a few times, started back up in the factory setting and set back up. This seemed to settle the machine down a lot when FG didn't work.
I was quite happy with its performance today. It's really proving to be a great coin/clad machine. Most of the coins I got today were 2-4" down and still took awhile to probe out. At least half of the coins were 4-8" down and was real work probing out. They all rang solid, gave fairly consistent IDs and the deeper they were the more accurate the depth meter was.
I did finally get a first with the F75. Down about 8" I found a 1977 Kennedy half dollar. It hit as solid as on the surface and ID at 89 both ways. Even at 55 sensitivity almost all the coins hit pretty solid other then a few dimes I probed out sideways against rocks.
I also dug out 33P, 2N, 11D and 6 quarters. I think I actually only dug 11 pieces of trash with 6 of them being steel bottle caps and 4 being PT. The nickel notch in works great when disc out up to zinc. 53 coins in 3-1/2 hours in the hard ground was a great day for me. The temps were is the 80s and the F75 kept me hopping all afternoon.
I really wanted to hunt some wide open areas with the F75 for coins and jewelry. This was the opportunity to do it and see how it would preform around all the electrical gadgets. The soccer and parade fields were 3 times the size of the football field and really dry. I knew probing any finds out was going to take a lot longer then normal.
I set the F75 up in DE Mode, Disc to zinc, sens-55 and tone on Delta pitch. This is the first time with Delta pitch and I have to say I like it. In fact I never changed it all afternoon. I decided I was going to set up the F75 to one setting and use it that way and learn the machines habits.
I used fast grab quite a bit and found the ground in these 4-5 acres changed from 69-86. 79-82 seemed to be the norm but when the machine started chattering I hit the fast grab and it settled it down most of the time. I also turned the machine off a few times, started back up in the factory setting and set back up. This seemed to settle the machine down a lot when FG didn't work.
I was quite happy with its performance today. It's really proving to be a great coin/clad machine. Most of the coins I got today were 2-4" down and still took awhile to probe out. At least half of the coins were 4-8" down and was real work probing out. They all rang solid, gave fairly consistent IDs and the deeper they were the more accurate the depth meter was.
I did finally get a first with the F75. Down about 8" I found a 1977 Kennedy half dollar. It hit as solid as on the surface and ID at 89 both ways. Even at 55 sensitivity almost all the coins hit pretty solid other then a few dimes I probed out sideways against rocks.
I also dug out 33P, 2N, 11D and 6 quarters. I think I actually only dug 11 pieces of trash with 6 of them being steel bottle caps and 4 being PT. The nickel notch in works great when disc out up to zinc. 53 coins in 3-1/2 hours in the hard ground was a great day for me. The temps were is the 80s and the F75 kept me hopping all afternoon.
