F-70 & competition hunts

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Has anybody used the 70 & it's stock concentric coil in a competition hunt?---If so, how did it work out?

 

[BJ in Okla.]

Here is a copy & paste of a post that Rick made....
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Thanks for the opinions, I used them both at the hunt
Posted by: Rick(ND) [ Send a Message ]
Date: August 17, 2008 03:38AM Registered: 3 years ago
Posts: 2,282

I used the F-5 for the dollar hunt which is all new dollars and half dollars and this detector run so quiet I wondered if it was working. It did OK and was easy to swing the coil and had to ground balance a few time to make sure it was balanced. I even had the disc up up to zinc pennies and the gain maxed plus the threshold max too and still run so smooth. I wound up with 22 $1 coins and 12 of the 50 cent pieces.I also ran the 2 tones.

Now the second hunt was all silver with dimes quarters and halves and decided to use the F-70 as I seem to be able to hear the targets better on the test i did before the hunt. The F-70 I found I can use the 3 tones and can hear the high pitch better on the F-70 over the F-5 so I used the 3 tones on the F-70. Now I didn't run the sensitivity max on it and would get a few false signals that were one way, so it was not as smooth as the F-5. Over all it still was smooth ruinning with a few false signals and both seem to work good around other detectors in the hunt unless our coils were within 6 inches of one another then we would get a good signal. This hunt I got 25 silver dimes, 4 silver quarters and one silver half dollar.
If i would have to chose one over the others then the F-70 would be the one I would chose myself.


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BJ in Okla.-----Thanks for the info.---Have used the Tesoro Vaquero w/9X8 coil in quite a few competition hunts and was just wondering how the F70 w/stock coil would do.

 

[Steve from Ohio]

I have not used one in competition, but I would think that because it is so fast, it would probably do very well.

I have noticed that the F-70 can swing MUCH faster than my Minelab Explorer and cover much more ground in less time.

 

[Frank in NH]

I used my F70 yesterday in a competion mini hunt in the sand at a freshwater beach. I used the 3"X 6"coil, quarters and dimes plus tokens were buried, alot of coins buried on edge and some coins buried down to 6". Did very well and pinpointing was great with small coil. Did not worry about using the small coil as the F70 hunts fast. Great detector like it better then the F75 i traded.