I went detecting with a couple of detecting buddies yesterday with my 11-14 upgraded F75 LTD2/DST.
I set it up to detect in 2-tone, and yep it has the "mama" pinpoint bug. The pinpoint is (to me) useless with this audio feedback, so it's going back. I'll check the AM depth to compare notes with posts here to validate if the AM mode has the depth issue. I'll also make note of the 9.0 and 9.1 disc depth before sending it in to make sure it's as good or better when it returns. Currently the disc depth is excellent, and aside from the mama 2-tone pinpoint bug, I've been pretty happy with it in disc mode, depth is excellent, it's far more quite then before, very stable, and even the TID seems more locked onto targets then before the upgrade where it tended to be fairly bouncy.
I decided to wonder over into a field that hasn't really give much up in the past. First find was what looks like an old 1800's binocular eye piece? The a few minutes later I got a wheatie. Didn't think much about it, a wheatie is a new coin for this site. Then a few feet away from the wheatie I got an odd signal. Dug it and got another wheatie. Stuck the pin-pointer back in the hole, and it was singing and dancing! Started pulling wheat after wheat, then an indian, hit some nickels, a buffalo and two V nickels, couple more wheaties and another indian. Rescanned the hold with the detector and it was quite. Thought OK, that's cool, my first old coin spill, but thought it was odd that there wasn't a single silver coin. I decided to grid the area around the coin spill, and about ten feet away I got a 1917S Merc. Continued my grid pattern, and five feet away from that I got a 94 on my F75. It was one of those too good to be true signals, and I was thinking, OK given the coin spill, maybe it's a half. I carefully dug it and out popped a BIG DISC! It was coated in dirt so I couldn't see the front, flipped it over and couldn't see the back either, so I did the unthinkable, put it into my mouth smiling smiley I've done this with half dollars before, but this was larger, when I took it out, I could now see that I had dug my first Morgan silver dollar, an 1878S!
I called my friend over who was swinging a CTX3030 with a 17" coil to see the Morgan, and he helped scan the area to make sure I didn't miss anything, and he didn't get a single signal. Now the site we were detecting predates the Morgan by about one hundred years, but I was pretty stoked with the find smiling smiley
Here's the coins freshly dug, just rinsed the silver off under the faucet with a toothbrush:
Here they are all cleaned up, I like how some of the coins have kept their original color where they were sandwiched together:
Here's the relics. The oval piece next to the buttons was pretty deep and I originally thought it was a piece of junk. But when I got it cleaned up, I believe it's a 1700's Spanish Saint Christopher medallion with a sideways clasp. Bummer it's in such poor condition.
Happy hunting,
Brian
I set it up to detect in 2-tone, and yep it has the "mama" pinpoint bug. The pinpoint is (to me) useless with this audio feedback, so it's going back. I'll check the AM depth to compare notes with posts here to validate if the AM mode has the depth issue. I'll also make note of the 9.0 and 9.1 disc depth before sending it in to make sure it's as good or better when it returns. Currently the disc depth is excellent, and aside from the mama 2-tone pinpoint bug, I've been pretty happy with it in disc mode, depth is excellent, it's far more quite then before, very stable, and even the TID seems more locked onto targets then before the upgrade where it tended to be fairly bouncy.
I decided to wonder over into a field that hasn't really give much up in the past. First find was what looks like an old 1800's binocular eye piece? The a few minutes later I got a wheatie. Didn't think much about it, a wheatie is a new coin for this site. Then a few feet away from the wheatie I got an odd signal. Dug it and got another wheatie. Stuck the pin-pointer back in the hole, and it was singing and dancing! Started pulling wheat after wheat, then an indian, hit some nickels, a buffalo and two V nickels, couple more wheaties and another indian. Rescanned the hold with the detector and it was quite. Thought OK, that's cool, my first old coin spill, but thought it was odd that there wasn't a single silver coin. I decided to grid the area around the coin spill, and about ten feet away I got a 1917S Merc. Continued my grid pattern, and five feet away from that I got a 94 on my F75. It was one of those too good to be true signals, and I was thinking, OK given the coin spill, maybe it's a half. I carefully dug it and out popped a BIG DISC! It was coated in dirt so I couldn't see the front, flipped it over and couldn't see the back either, so I did the unthinkable, put it into my mouth smiling smiley I've done this with half dollars before, but this was larger, when I took it out, I could now see that I had dug my first Morgan silver dollar, an 1878S!
I called my friend over who was swinging a CTX3030 with a 17" coil to see the Morgan, and he helped scan the area to make sure I didn't miss anything, and he didn't get a single signal. Now the site we were detecting predates the Morgan by about one hundred years, but I was pretty stoked with the find smiling smiley
Here's the coins freshly dug, just rinsed the silver off under the faucet with a toothbrush:
Here they are all cleaned up, I like how some of the coins have kept their original color where they were sandwiched together:
Here's the relics. The oval piece next to the buttons was pretty deep and I originally thought it was a piece of junk. But when I got it cleaned up, I believe it's a 1700's Spanish Saint Christopher medallion with a sideways clasp. Bummer it's in such poor condition.
Happy hunting,
Brian
HH jim tn
Nice to see you got that out of the way this early in the year!
