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F-75 gets a few goodies

Rick(ND)

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I haven't been using it much and think it was back in May the last time I took it out as i don't get out much and when I do been grabbing the Explorer SE, but decided I had a spot to try it with the small coil. This spot is a street construction where they are tearing up the side walk and boulevards. We were there a week ago with our Explorers only to find out that one of the homeowners said there has been 5 detectors working this in the last week. They must have disc out the zinc pennies as we got over 25 IH and 20 older Wheaties and other goodies and the only big silver was got by my wife and that was a 1943 walker half in a dirt pile. Now we decided to drive the 120 miles back and try it again this past weekend and I decided to try the F-75 and the small coil to see what it could do. I ran the disc at 10, sensitivity at 60 with the 2 tones and Jewelry and dug the high tones that were repeatable. I worked along where the sidewalk used to be as I know we had been all over it before and thought maybe we missed something this little coil will see. I was right as the first signal after I dug a little trash trying to get used to the detector was reading at 59-60 mostly so I expected a IH penny and dug out a plug and used my UniProbe and see it was in the ground yet, so dug out another clump of dirt and seen it was in that clump of dirt and used my UniProbe and found the area and broke it open and was surprised to see silver as it was a 1893 Canadian Fish Scale that was very nice shape and must have been lost when new. I worked the rest of that side of the street before the rain came and found my normal rusty nails that just sounded too good to pass up plus got a nice 1884 IH and a nice 1904 V nickle and what looks like a gold ring with a clear stone in it, but dont sparkle like a diamond would, but look nice and clear and the band is not marked as it is so thin. I was down around 6 inches and came out of the ground looking like new and ID at 45.
I met the guys up there and they all had Explorers and in a hour I had found as much good finds as they had in the 5 hours they were there. I like the little coil on the F-75 and it seems to have the depth of a bigger coil and this is not the first time this little coil has done wonders for me. I just got to make more time to use it and get to know it better. One thing I will say is I like the multi tones on my Minelabs GT and Explorer SE Pro, but with the F-75 I find that the 2 tones seem to work much better as some targets using the 3 or 4 tones would jump between tones and give many high tone one way sweep of the coil, but the 2 tones and getting a high tone and it repeats I will look them on the meter for ID and dig.
One more thing I have notice with the F-75 and wonder if anyone else has seen it and that is deeper nickles will read as 59-60 where a IH would read, happened on the last 2 V nickles I have dug and one buffalo too.
 
it will not happen.I have noticed with the F75..it hits so much stuff so fast that a target can read funny..I try and isolate my finds in pinpoint. Sometimes that brings up the suggested number, and sometimes it doesn't. I have had dimes read 46-47 but when pinpointed and recheck they hit 59..so who knows..
I am not complaining much though..I have found more Silver with the F75, and Indian Heads , than with any other detector I have used.. I also find the F75 Id's better in disc. mode than All metal...Like I said it picks up so many things in the ground..so quickly I think that affects the ID. If you find a solution please advise..It would be greatly appreciated.
 
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