Hi All - Just got my F75

[marcomo]

Hi Low-Boy,

Yup, got the V3 and then picked up the F75.

You know, it is different strokes for different folks. My uses are extremely specific. The V3 I will use pretty much exclusively with my Bigfoot coil to sweep sportfields for jewelry. It is as much about the Bigfoot as the detector itself. I may do a little coin detecting with it but that is pretty much last on my list of detecting interests these days.

The F75 I'm primarily interested in for prospecting. Maybe some all metal tot-lot use. I do a lot of "beep-dig" detecting. The static all metal mode is quite impressive. But I doubt I'll be doing much coin detecting with the F75.

I live in Anchorage, Alaska. The town was founded in 1915. There simply is not much in the way of old coins to be found here and the oldest portion of town is paved over. 1930's are about as good as it gets. 1920's would be a superb find. The ground here is not deep, so most places are basically hunted out. I'd really be into turf hunting if I lived someplace where 1800 coins could be found. But that is not the case here, and so coin detecting, although I enjoy it, is just not that important to me. In fact I often consider coins to be trash targets. When I am chasing jewelry I like notching out everything from zinc penny on up to just below quarters. Which by the way can't be done with the F75, much to my surprise. Why limit the notch capability?

Anyway, that is why I tend to bow out of the turf wars. It is not my area of interest. The only thing that perked up my coin hunting interest was when I started using PI units to pull up old coins no VLF can touch. That was fun and I'll no doubt go do it again.

Steve Herschbach

You don't get the old coins up there, but the tradeoff is you get gold!

Seems to me I remember somebody saying where the river is winding, big nuggets they're finding...

Hope you're finding some too.