Low-Boy/LCPM
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Took the F75 out to a very old school in Sutter Creek that I have hunted before with the compass. I found a 1923 nickle with the gold scanner pro last year and the year before an Indian head penny 1899. With the T2 I found clad this past winter. So enter the arena with the F75 and I find this nice Barber Dime. The target was iffy but an 89 kept popping up and I had to slow down to really find it. It was about 8 inches deep in soft ground.I was in 3H mood and sens at about 65 the disc was at about 5 and I was in the demo mood the first preset.
It was a tough find very tough...if I was in very trashy ground I would have missed it. The machine is almost too fast it will skip over a target that is deep and mixed with bad soil so you do have to slow down and go over those high tones.
I would have missed it with 2 tones because the dime did not give off a clear enough higher tone. It was mixed in with the iron tone. I think these machines are so sensitive that you still get a bit of the minerals in the soil even if you find clean ground. Maybe in Calif manual ground bal like the compass is the way to really get the machine running very tight. Maybe balance it a bit on the + side?
It was a tough find very tough...if I was in very trashy ground I would have missed it. The machine is almost too fast it will skip over a target that is deep and mixed with bad soil so you do have to slow down and go over those high tones.
I would have missed it with 2 tones because the dime did not give off a clear enough higher tone. It was mixed in with the iron tone. I think these machines are so sensitive that you still get a bit of the minerals in the soil even if you find clean ground. Maybe in Calif manual ground bal like the compass is the way to really get the machine running very tight. Maybe balance it a bit on the + side?