F70 Guru's

[JB63503]

Hi, I just purchased the F70 and I would be great-full if yall would provide me the numbers on your favorite settings for general purposes hunting..
I already know your first response.. "There is no general purpose hunting,, every dirt / metal / beach / person/ coin / and blade of grass is different etc. etc.etc.. ".
I have read every post on this forum and I realize this is a "loaded" question.....
If you could please just provide me with what your first * GUESS * would be on a fairly clean yard just for experimental purposes..
Again , thanks for your time and input... Sincerely JB

Disc level ?? Auto tune or number ???
speed ??
Sensitivity ??
Thresh ??
# of tunes ??
Notch ??

 

[Leo234]

JB

I have two F-70's, one with the stock coil and the other with the 11" DD coil that comes standard on the F-75. I prefer the 11" coil over the stock coil because the machine tends to run more stable with the larger coil. For general coin hunting I like to run Disc Level = 5 Speed = DE Sensitivity = 75 - 85 Threshold = 0 (-3) if trashy Tones=2F No Notch I have Program 2
set-up in At=Auto Tune Speed = SL Sensitivity = 85 Threshold = -5 (or lower if trashy) You will hear EVERYTHING in Auto-tune mode and remember that the VDI will continue to give you target ID information despite being in all-metal mode. I recommend that you do some air testing to familiarize yourself with the different tones. I prefer 2F because I can identify the difference between a deep target and a shallow one just by listening. I live in West Virginia and the ground in my part of the country usually ground balances around 52 - 58 The F-70 is a very sensitive instrument and once in a while it can be negatively influenced by EMI

Comments are always welcome,

Leo

 

[Cal_Cobra]

For park hunting I like to run the threshold in the negative, and the sens as high as it'll go without the machine going bonkers. I run the disc at 6, nothing notched, and if it'll remain stable, the speed set to SL.

I have program 2 set for AT, SL, Sens 80, and thresh -1. Lately I've been hunting parks in disc mode, and when I get a bouncy signal (the kind that bounce from iron to high #'s) I'll switch from disc to AT, and more often then not AT will tell the real story indicating that the bouncy signal is rusty iron (in AT the TID#'s stick in the iron range, and typically right around the same #).