Tony N (Michigan) said:
Hi folks,
Got a question:
When your numbers are jumping all over the place when you've detected a deep coin, how does one even know it's a coin on the F75?
For instance, on YouTube a guy was demonstrating the F75 on his coin garden. There was a quarter at 10 inches, a dime at 8 inches and so on. He'd wave the
coil back and forth over the deep quarter and the detector would beep but the numbers were all over the place. If this scenario was, say, in a park, how would
you know if you had a quarter at 10 inches? How would you know to dig? Just curious. I don't have the F75 but have been looking at it quite a lot. I don't know
anyone nearby that owns one.
Using the F2 I developed some hard and fast rules about digging jumpy signals.
Eventually I got to the point that if it didn't jump more than 3 numbers I would dig it, that is a solid signal to me.
All the rest I would leave in the dirt and consider it trash because the many thousands of jumpy targets I did dig up to when I decided to do it this way usually were trash and junk.
If I missed something good here and there so be it...I still dug more treasure than I thought possible after switching to these digging rules of mine and I had more fun hunting plus could do it longer because I wasn't tiring myself out so much.
When I got the F70 I attempted to do the same but there was so much more power things were way juniper than that F2 on most targets, even the shallower ones.
In time I got better at zeroing in on my targets, the numbers jumped way less but still rarely got to a 2-3 number jump unless the target was super shallow so I just amended my digging rules a bit and increased that number range up to about 5 or so and that worked pretty good.
I also learned other things along the way like turning and scanning from another angle to see if those numbers changed and other trash like behavior.
Shallow or deep in good soil if I dug targets in that still small number range they were usually good ones even deep.
Trash next to good targets can screw with you and still give you a big jump but I also listened closely to the tones and adding that together with the screen behavior I got ever better pulling out good targets in a sea of trash.
On my 4th hunt before I really had a handle on anything I found a good ring that way, jumpy numbers because this ring was a nickel signal but lower numbers into small foil and a much bigger jump than I wanted but I kept seeing 31-33 numbers flash by and the tone I heard was quick but nice and solid and high in 4H tones.
I had to dig it because all the indicators that I knew added up despite my lack of knowledge at that time.
On the Fishers some depend on the screen a lot, a huge amount of owners just go by the tones but I learned ways to utilize both to my great satisfaction.
When I was still in good soil I learned to find great treasure in an insane amount of iron.
Tons of jumping, way more than this 5 numbers and up averaging too because of all that iron but eventually I learned new behaviors and indicators and was able to target the good non ferrous targets, repeatable behavior that might look like a jumping mess of nonsense but had patterns you can notice if you observe closely.
Then when I moved to the SE. and my crazy soil with a huge amount of trash and iron same thing, nothing is stable and most everything is a huge jumpy mess but after months I noticed more repeating patterns in that confusing jumping behavior and got deeper and deeper and pretty successful at targeting the better but very masked targets.
Still learning though, I have adapted well but I can get way better than I am now I believe.
Some hunters want tools that lock in on a target and just give you one great solid tone or number at all depths.
If there is such a thing it still has to deal with site and soil conditions plus trash and iron so nothing is going to be perfect at this absolutely everywhere.
When it comes to Fishers this lock in on solid indicators is not going to be the rule but more like the exception a lot of the time and you can see this in that vid.
Doesn't matter, we owners still seem to be able to deal with it all and learn what's good and what's not even with this skittish behavior whether it is by using the screen, tones or both.
If we couldn't these things would never have been sold in the numbers they have been over the years and there wouldn't be so many of us rabid fans that sing their praises and thank the deities for the day these tools came into our lives as I do.
There are patterns and a method to that madness you saw, it might help if you are a little crazy to start with but for those that are open to it hunting with these things are easily learned.
