still looking 52 said:
Got to love that find! That's a once in a lifetime find right there. Sounds like you and that F70 we're humming together when you found those coins. How deep were the two quarters stuck together?
He had help...from an idiot.
We are locked into a life and death battle that started a few months ago that will last all year...or until he he is frozen out or snowed under.
The Great War Between the States of 2017...who can find the most silver wins nothing but bragging rights, which is a lot.
His beautiful Ohio soil against my rotten Alabama dirt.
He has the better conditions and some old sites but I have a few old places too and more knowledge about F70 settings.
I started this contest to push him ever forward because I am mentoring him and to push myself too, plus it is fun.
I should be kicking his butt however I keep helping him out with tips and new settings to try.
I don't know why I do these things, sometimes I can't help myself.
He found these three using some new settings I suggest he try and in this old small park he has hunted many times before he comes up with this spill.
Current silver stats as of today Ohio 19...Alabama 12.
"Sigh".
These settings I used here and they worked well and I think I posted them around here recently, in Ohio dirt I guess they work pretty good too.
He seemed to have gotten the correct depth reading and pretty accurate VDI considering there were three of these things in the hole.
I call this the Three S Method...Silver Shooting Settings.
Disc up to 65 max...not only can you cut down on the noise using the sense and thresh but the higher you go in disc seems to mitigate that too.
Gain as high up as you can get it for the noise level you can deal with.
Thresh way up there too into the positive, on an F75 you can't do this so don't worry about it.
You can notch in one thing if you want which doesn't affect the chatter too much, but only one...I usually go for nickels because of nickels and hopefully gold.
Listen for the solid sounding tones and watch the screen.
He probably used monotone because this is the quietest and stable of all the tone choices in disc and he has been using that for awhile for regular hunting because I usually do.
Using these settings I can push the gain up to 95-99 and the thresh to +9 at most of my sites and my rig stays surprisingly quiet but at those same sites with lower disc not so much.
Multi tones might work but a lot more falsing is possible vs. monotone.
I tried DP and these settings the other day and it still seems to work but it might be a bit more jumpy and a little more high tone falsing but I don't have to watch the screen all the time and just listen and it still seems to work well however I can deal with a ton of jumping and still pick out the better signals with experience, monotone is the best choice for most for more silent searching.
I also notched in iron on my last hunt only because I could tell if I was swinging over high falsing iron a bit quicker because I have so much of that here but it really isn't necessary.
This should find you silver rings and decent sized silver pendants and other silver jewelry, copper cents including wheaties, all dimes and above and hopefully the silver coins if they are there at pretty great depths too if needed.
If you are looking for Indians just notch in zinc instead of nickels.
Seems to work for him too or at least it did on this spill...darn it.
