F75 and gold nuggets.

[Ron (CA)]

Has anyone used the F75 for nugget hunting? I would assume that the small 6" coil would be the coil of choice.

just curious if the F75 is a viable option for nugget/relic hunting in the Gold Country. Would be nice to only haul one machine with two coils to relic or nugget shoot.

Just curious

Thanks

Ron (CA)

 

[SRLance]

Ron - I am using the F75 to hunt nuggets. I have been keeping quite on this. But it is time I say in respect to the engineers and to Fisher Labs that this is the best VLF gold machine I have used! I usually hunt in either all metal or in the JE mode with little or no discrimination. I do not get out too much, but am looking forward to a trip pretty soon. I think a next step for Fisher would be to come out with a large coil either for detecting fields for coins or in the mother lode larger areas for the that piece of specimen gold. Lance in Santa Rosa, CA

 

[Ron (CA)]

Lance,

I appreciate the response. I just traded for a F75 (2nd go around). Since i have moved back to the Gold Country i thought I might try the F75 for nuggets!. I thought it might be a good combo machine to take into the hills.

If you ever want to train a novice, let me know!!

Ron (CA)

 

[liquid1]

I to will be Hunting some local creeks..JE mode as pumped up as possible, or AM..should be good....I believe Nuggets will read around 11 to 16....A whopper coil would be awesome for mines and open fields..james

 

[Sunny Jim]

Yes it works. I was asked to check targets against a GBII due to the increased sensitivity and could hear targets the GBII could not. And no phones!

The GBII operator was an experienced and proficient detectorist from Arizona. In his hands a GBII was quite the machine.
The small coil combination seems to be perfect for me.



Helped guy with his X70 and we cleaned out the coil cover. Found a flyspeck of gold immediately at a few inches.

I don't want to dig flyspecks all day and there are limits to the size you want to recover.
What I am saying is the X70 can indicate the smallest of gold flake and I was impressed. No comparison at all was made with the F75.
A dealer ran with the X70 and went back to another brand.
The dealer expressed the X70 was THE machine for the job but used another brand for trophies.
Having seen the results firsthand on flake gold I can understand why one would use a machine that would ID Big gold.
You want your digging to be productive and flake gold is not the desired target when lunkers are lurking.

The small coil in another mode could walk a buried pipe two feet off the ground for a total of about 4 feet of detection depth.
I think the small coil looses in coverage due to size but makes up for it by the intense field of detection it makes. Runs very quit amidst 'atmospherics' in northern latitudes.
SJ

 

[Ron (CA)]

I have been doing some testing and was impressed with the signal of small gold but with a disc setting of 5, JE Mode with 2 tone setting. The Small gold dropped into the iron range with a low grunt so I am thinking that AM may be the best way to run it. I am pretty new to the F75 so just learning my way around right now.



Thanks

Ron

 

[Sunny Jim]

Hello Ron,
The mode was AM.

There are some good posts during the spring of this year here that cover most anything you would want to know on settings in Disc. I am of the opinion that the comparison to the GBII may not be fair because his coil was a 10 inch oval. The high frequency machines of Whites and Fisher are still used by commercial miners to evaluate surface deposits in old beds. These machines are still the standard in many locations.They are looking for picker and better sized gold,:gramme-rs.

AZ gold is often small and can be expected as a rule. If you find the small ones the bigger will take care of themselves and will not be missed. The difference in our two machines was apparent when I became more aware of the display and not the sound of the target. The simplicity of the GBII was it's crowning glory and I can see why such a machine is so well favored, of course the F75 has virtues that are in an all together different realm.

Fine gold is not my target for digging but for pay dirt streaks, one wants to detect all to work those fines.

I did like the sound of the sweet woo-woo of the X70 and was really impressed- not knowing the machine, I found a fly speck of gold in less than two minutes. All I wanted to do is see if the coil cover cleaning did the trick. I knew there were sands from clean-up out wash and likely gold there. What I did not expect was the result, but with that came the understanding why that machine was not the darling it was touted as. The fisher man had a plastic cup to sort out small gold over the coil and I understood the recovery needed for the flake would be difficult. Once found, it was placed in black tape for further testing. I threw it on the ground and happily lost it. It was sub-grain in weight. The man with the GBII was well aware he was excluding fine gold and the large coil he used for coverage and depth was the indicator. He faithfully recovered pickers and gramme-rs, small enough to detect and worthy of his time. The same model recovered many ounces up to and exceeding the one ounce mark.

I am so glad the F75 does not have me stopping at every minute particle in the soil. It would drive you nutz in gold country. Gold was in the water, the plants, the soil and maybe even the air.

like the saying goes,..... size matters

SJ