F 75 All Metal Mode is Awesome in Worked Out Civil War Camp

[jimmyk]

Hi, all:

I've hunted a West Central Missouri civil war Winter camp for the past three years and have done quite well with several machines. It was considered "worked out" three years ago. Of late, finds weree becoming very scarce. The camp is easy to grid off. It's on a slight slope and ranges from 75 yards wide to 300 yards long. It's pasture land with no tress or obstructions.Every year I grid it off and hunt it. Last year I used the F 75 with O disc. sens. 85. 2 tones. Finds have dropped off significantly. Late last Fall I decided to start hunting in All Metal mode and listen for deep bullet signals. Winter hit and until this week I wasn't able to return. The weather has turned off nice, so this week I was able to hunt the camp again for the first time this year. Conditions were perfect. Moisture in the ground and with cattle in the field, the grass was very short. Like hunting my living room carpet. I hunted the camp the last two days with amazing results. The largest bullet was one .44 cal. colt pistol bullet. The rest were about .36 cal. or smaller. No larger bullets. All were from six to nine inches deep. Found 42 bullets in two days. The sens. was 85. Most of the bullet sounds showed no reading on the screen. They just sounded good. The signals were mellow and even from all directions. If the signal was clipped or a little ragged, it was iron. The camp is generally not too trashy, so this mode of hunting is productive. Obviously, a trashy area would prohibit hunting strictly in all metal. But when conditions allow, this is the mode to get the best depth out of your F 75. At least in my gound. GB ranged from 58 to 62.

Thanks for looking, and keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[jim tn]

Very nice bunch of bullet finds Jimmy. I've had my 75 now for 23 months and the thing still continues to amaze me. Nice hunting! HH jim tn

PS Your ground is very near what mine is down here.

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[BEAR]

This is what I dug today in about 30 min. hunt. They were all deep. Bear

 

[Jeb NWR]

I`ve used the F75 since it first came out . I have hunted in probably most combinations you can with the F75 and i too primarily use All Metal all of the time.
NASA tom gave some wonderful instructions not so long ago on hunting in "Maximum overdrive performance".
I`ve tried emulating this and find that its an excellent way of detecting IF and thats the big IF , IF you can detect this method on your ground. If your ground is pretty Mineralized you will struggle to detect like Tom instructs you to in the Max overdrive Performance.......................................

NASA- Toms Maxed out overdrive performance method.............

When absolute maximum overdriven performance is desired:

1) Starting point = Factory Preset and Ground Balance.

2) Hold coil parallel to ground.... and at a height (approx) 8" above the ground. Do not tilt the coil upward. Increase Sens to '99' and verify detector is audibly stable. This is the FIRST step. (((Shut down your intents if you cannot ascertain stability with Sens on '99'))).

3) Next....... IF no EMI is encountered with '99' Sens........ THEN you may start to bring Disc down. Start with Disc '6'.

4) IF the detector is still EMI stable.... see what happens to EMI stability.... by lowering Disc BELOW '5'. '5' is not the magic number.... but '4' is. Going to a Disc setting of '4' is where sensitivity receives yet another boost. (((And USUALLY............... when you are at a Disc of '4' ... and ESPECIALLY lower... is where multi tone option is virtually required))). Set Disc on '4' and verify detector remains audibly stable.

5) Now, Drop Disc to '3'... then '2'... then '1'... then ultimately '0'

 

[Bill Ladd]

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[antsy]

Congrats on the finds. HH

antsy