Anyone try the F75 on nugget shooting yet?

[Idaho-Marke]

The good comments about the F75 have about convinced me I want this machine.

Just need some feedback on nugget shooting? Anybody air tested nuggets?

It should do good due to the freq., but anyone actually used it for nugget shooting yet?

Hope to hear from you.

 

[Mr.Bill]

This is going to be a little tough to say because I have a vested interest in the F75.

It is going to do quite well. I took in trade toward a F75 a nugget PI machine, and the prev. owner told me the F75 is out hunting it, and all his other nugget units. It really handles the hot tough ground well, and that's the secrete. It ID's super in all metal, and in discriminate.

Now is it better than vanilla ice cream, naw

 

[Mark in NC]

n/t

 

[Idaho-Marke]

n/t

 

[Mr.Bill]

I had posted the nugget results before, but I forgot we moved the forum off the main Fisher page.

With a 5 grain pea shaped nugget, the range is about 6" under good conditions. Using a 3 grain pea shaped nugget, about 4".

This was in all metal mode sens. at #90

In discriminate, Mode JE, no disc. sens. #90 5 grain at about 4" & 3 grain at about 3".

I certainly don't have the nasty ground to bury it in, but that's it in mild ground.

 

[Idaho-Marke]

n/t

 

[Mike Bearden]

I knew I has seen that before but couldn't for the life of me remember where and by who.
Those kind of numbers are kinda surprising really, that's right up there with a Eureka Gold machine. Not bad, not bad at all
Now my next question would be how well it handled those nuggets along side a common office staple with enough disc to disc out the staple and see if it still hits the gold

Mike

 

[Mr.Bill]

Hi Mike

I tried it next to a small nail with disc. on. The response was quite fast, and it picked up on the gold nugget.

The question is how will it do in the gold fields where the mineralization is high.

I have a customer that traded in his nugget PI for a F75 to use for nugget hunting in Ca. Nv. Az., and is really happy with the F75's performance. The performance of the F75 in Va. at the Brandy Station area a few weeks ago was quite exceptional. I believe that users are going to be quite happy with the nugget hunting part of the F75.

 

[Mike Bearden]

We're finding nuggets about the size of a grain of rice for the most part, just tiny stuff, small pickers and flakes really.
I tested a few machines against the staple in a clean area out in the woods with no known RF interference and got surprised.
The Eureka hit the gold alone but would NOT disc out the staple within an inch proximity in all 3 frequencies.
The Gold Bug 2 gave the same results but at lesser depths but sounded great on just the gold.
The X-Terra 70 gave positive hits on the gold in prospecting mode and in all metal mode with minimum disk notched in. The depth was respectable too. 4 - 6" depending on what angle you approached the target.
The MXT found the gold but the sound was very questionable and the meter only read 22 at it's highest point, sounded very weak.

The GMT "old version" did a fair job on the nugget and staple combo but depth was minimal, 2-3".

Minelab 3500 .... now were talking about a gold machine, it would blow your ears off on this nugget and staple combo.
I watched a guy pick through a pile of dirt with his 3500 and get more gold than 5 other guys that were using high bankers.

So ... if the F75 is as good as you say ... I'm tickled



Mike