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Jedi Knight training with the F-75

[size=medium]If you are going to hunt deep on just silver or just delta tone then you have to go back and try looking for coins that are not as deep. I have found some of my best coins that are maybe two inches down one being a half dime from 1834. Also if you are only digging high pitch sounds you may miss masked coins that are mixed in with iron or mixed with other coins. I have found a penny reading and dug it to find a few silvers in a bit deeper but my detector picked up the penny and also there was a nail in there. I found a Morgan that way and a few barbers[/size].

[size=medium][/size]Also coins from around the world are not always silver but are lower tones and there are some wonderful coins to find. And of course if I am going to work an area that is giving up silver and older coins I am going back again and again and try mono and disc of 6 multy tone (4) and disc of 0. And my new love of my life 2 tone and a disc of 0-6. You have to hunt and hunt and own the sight with you detector to pull out all the stuff that is hiding and then I use AM. Even if the area is huge if I have the time I am going to dig the earth of the history that is waiting to be found. Now when I say dig I mean filling my holes and respecting the ground I dig. But I have had the luck to hunt one place for a few years and I still find a great find after a long day of hunting. One great find is like one great photo after taking a hundred photos. And one great find even an old button is worth a days digging to me. I find the ground changes throughout the day so in the winter the targets change that is in the Gold Country of Calif. So what ever floats your boat but I always try a different boat before I move on. The F5 being at a lower freq has pulled some stuff the F75 missed so it is a good idea to try a different machine if you have another one y ou trust.
 
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Delta Pitch finds the Silver. It is weird to use. And i learned that it likes to be swung slower. Found a 1951 Silver Quarter and a V.B. Never Rust English Spur with the little buckle still attached. Also dug some Shotgun cases and a few bullets.
 
I agree with a bunch of you that shallow and mid-depth signals can yield good coins. Part of my routine is to sample mid-depth and shallow targets as well, but bypass a majority of them. My notes (yup, I'm a geek) show that at the turf parks I hunt, shallow and mid-depth targets have a very small probability of being an older target. Again, I'm only talking about turf hunting here. All bets are off at field sites, etc., I agree you should dig it all there. But, I can't argue with the high percentage of good targets I've been digging since I've gone to the 1-2 punch of DEEP ONLY and Delta Pitch. Nothing wrong with digging clad coins, but every plug I dig for a 1992 quarter takes time away from finding that next silver coin.

Jim
 
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hi jim!
on the other hand,one could argue that diging shallow"clad" may make your hunt a productive one,IF you don't find anything deep,or silver!..it's all relative in your approach to the hobby!..good luck!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
generally any "hit" over 3" (in my experience),has been 2nd w.w vintage here in new england,however depth CAN and does 'vary' with every site hunted!..and as you have pointed out,finding "clad" can,and does often "save" a hunt when nothing else shows up!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
dahut said:
I haven't really gotten the hang of the dP mode, yet. I tend to hunt trashy areas and, as noted already, the cacophonous din this gives you in the dP mode is distracting. In a clean area like a plowed field, I can see where it has real benefit.
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I tend to justify using DP for the opposite reason: If I'm in a turf area with A LOT of targets and I know (not think) that silver coins have a higher pitch than clad coins in DP, why would I want to use one of those other modes that make silver and clad sound exactly alike? Whatever mode I'm using at that site, I will be hearing the same number of targets. But in DP, silver makes me pause when I hear it. Not so with other tone options.
 
ziphius said:
dahut said:
I haven't really gotten the hang of the dP mode, yet. I tend to hunt trashy areas and, as noted already, the cacophonous din this gives you in the dP mode is distracting. In a clean area like a plowed field, I can see where it has real benefit.
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I tend to justify using DP for the opposite reason: If I'm in a turf area with A LOT of targets and I know (not think) that silver coins have a higher pitch than clad coins in DP, why would I want to use one of those other modes that make silver and clad sound exactly alike? Whatever mode I'm using at that site, I will be hearing the same number of targets. But in DP, silver makes me pause when I hear it. Not so with other tone options.
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How high a pitch difference are we talking here? Is is that much different?
 
A lot of people hate the bell tone on the Ace's, but that is what let me know there was silver in the ground. It didn't matter how much iron was there, it would sound off.

I missed that with the F-70. Maybe I will experiment more with the DP.
 
I liked the Belltone, too. Each unit has it's own responses. It's up to us to learn what they mean.

I'm gonna try the dP mode on the kilos of silver coin I have. :)
 
dahut,

Hard to explain how something sounds in print, but to my ears, the differences are large enough to be distinguishable to my ears. I recommend just taking a clad and silver dime and passing your coil over each several times to train your ear. To me, the clad sounds more like a mechanical tone, while the silver songs more like a birdsong, high, fluty, and warbly. - Jim
 
I have bad ears though. Years of Distortion from subwoofers have ruined my hearing. SERIOUSLY. I can't really distinguish between good and bad tones. They all sound like good tones to me. I guess that is why I dig so much. I am going to keep trying this DP setting. See if I can get used to the flutey songbird sounds. I hope I hear lots of those sounds. Cause I like the silver and the gold.
 
The probelm is the sounds are so fast and such a wide range that you really have to hunt a lot in this mode to really get good at it. I relic hunt and dig most targets..How does it do on nails.
 
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