may come home to fisher please tell me the +- of the new fishers

[wltdwiz]

im thinking hard about trying the new fishers
ive been using other units for quite a wile but i used to do fantastic with the 1200 series
please give me some honest advice on the first Texas fishers good or bad news.
i nugget hunt & coin & jewelery hunt on freshwater beaches
im interested in info on the f75 or the f2
p.s anyone know what frequency the f2 runs at?
thanks
walt

 

[jim tn]

Walt, there has been a ton of stuff posted on the new Fisher F series detectors so go back to some of the threads for the past few months. I have the F75 and have been hunting with it now for a little over a year. Since I am able to hunt daily, and do, I have well over 1000 hours in with it and for coins and jewelry land hunting, there is nothing better available, in mho, at this point in time. It will id multiple targets in trash, is extremely sensitive to small targets, has the fastest recovery rate of any detector made, will go as deep as any and deeper then most, it is very light weight, has more then enough programs to cover any hunting situation and is very easy to use and set up. My F75 has been entirely trouble free for me since day one and I have made more good coin and jewelry recoveries with it over the past year then over the previous three or four years combined. Most of the sites I hunt are trashy and have been hunted hard for decades. The F75 in my book is a flat out stellar performer. Good luck with your decision. HH jim tn

 

[wltdwiz]

thanks jim
thats what i needed to hear

 

[Scully]

n/t

 

[bjsone]

Walt,
I own the F2 and have order in for F70. I love the Fisher 1200 (1260 unit delivered over 50,000 coins) series too and did not take lightly the BH connect. However, the purchase of an F2 has changed my mind. Fast response, outstanding depth in both coils and very good target separation. See my writeup on the F2, and here is a picture of finds made on a junk laden foundry lot in Tarpon Springs, FL. Larry (bjsone)
http://MetalDetectorForCoinCollecting.com/free-report

 

[jmaryt]

happy to hear that jim!..continued good success with it!..i am lookin; into it now that they "appear" to have the problems straightened out!
i want to go into the old parks again and "pick"'em!..sounds like the f-75 will do that!.. thanks for the "honest" comments!..ya can't beat field experience,and i want to know it all!..negative,and positive!

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[Sunny Jim]

Hi Walt.
I am a new poster but am strong on The F75. I also have an MXT. They are similar and different. I am convinced the F75 will target small gold flakes at an impressive depth with the small coil. ID beginning readings of 14 for one native alloy. The all metal mode is my favorite and I preferr to use little or no discrimination.
Sunny Jim

 

[wltdwiz]

thanks jim
i hope to go nugget hunting with 1 real soon
ive found quite a few nuggets with other another brand dieing to test the f75.
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[Sunny Jim]

Cool,
FYI those samples are big compared to the test pieces I chose and tested with the small coil. I was wondering if there was a cross-over point the F75 had with the Gold Bug II, based on a GBII report. My conclusion is the F75 will hit as small a sample as I am willing to dig for at an impressive depth in All Metal,+2 GB. My soil: mid 80's. The bigger ones will take care of themselves. One more thing I just remembered is doing a test on a hot rock. I seem to remember in Pin Point the rock disappeared. Could be for this particular type of HR, but I think you can do the test with a chunk of molly or graphite.

All- metal is spectacular. Stat is like pin point. Both DEEEP. I have been told to often GB when in Stat. Same for any mode HH. I think one of my tests was different sized lead fishing weights, up to 1OZ. Try it.
Expect to be impressed. That is where I began discriminating @ 6. Granted, I am looking for the whisper and moving in for the ID.
If you have a faint signal and nothing is found in a few inches, expect a nice reward for a deep dig.
Numbers: 6, 12, 14 and trending up from different approaches of the coil. Good numbers: in the 20's like a nickle. ( nickle acts like a 1/4 oz nugget at 5 grams) Look at the FeO meter and confidence to sort out iron. These numbers are iron grunts in 3H. Super big nuggets= bigger numbers and will repeat fairly close numbers.

SJ

 

[wltdwiz]

thanks jim & everyone else for the responses
i took the plunge & got me a f75 & my initial response is WOW this is gonna be a hell of a detector.
it was ez to fire up & use right out of the box..
& i can see right now ive been walking over goodies with my other units
cant wait to get into the more advanced fine tuneing..

the only complaint i can come up with is im gonna need a deeper digger
thanks again for your help
walt