F75 tip for bad ground...

[jbow]

I hunt some places with bad ground, high iron and lot's of small trash. I find that it disc it falses a lot and it is hard to tell the falses from a slight hit on a true signal. Try this. Switch to all metal, lower the threshold to -9, set the sens as high as possible, and ground balance every five or ten feet. You will still hear all the falses but they keep the same tone, all the targets, or at least most of them, will be higher tone. Check the TID every time you get a signal other than the little burps of threshold noise. Most of them will show a number below 10. If they jump up and hit 25 or higher and they are 4 inches deep or more, dig them. I find many good targets, in bad ground, will with this setting jump around between a low number, below 10, to a higher number, up around where the TID should be for the target. Make sure to check the depth, if it is 2" and it's jumping around like that, it is trash. In the bad ground and high trash you can use this same setting and go slow, watching the TID, only stop and check the numbers that jump up above 24.

This is much easier than using any disc setting in this type of situation because the good signals will have a noticably better tone than all the falses from the ground. In disc all the falses chirp like a good tone and it's hard to sort them out.

My Fe reading today was .3 every time I checked it. I still dug three square nails, one at 7", two were curved. That was all the trash I dug though...

HH,

Julien

 

[relic dog]

I
Hunted some bad ground today, hunted pretty much same settings as you, only left threshold alone.
This area has been hit alot by me and other hunters,still pulled out 15 bullets and one eagle button.
All targets were extremely deep, 8 inches and deeper. Numbers were real jumpy, and i had alot of
chatter, but i'm used to the chatter after using 1266 for many years. Getting to the point, this F75
will get the job done once you get use to it, and set it up for the condition at hand.

Relic Dog

 

[jbow]

you just have to be willing to deal with the way it acts and learn it. It does make a lot of racket but the voice of the find is in there!

I used it this PM at a place that has been "hunted out" and found a 1909 IH in great shape, a 1927 Buffalo nickle, two Jeffersons, a wheatie, a bronze memorial, and a S&W .38 special. It is my second IH, I am happy!

J