Ed Steinhoff
Active member
Went to two small grade school tot lots on sat. primarily to test some low settings on the f-70. What followed was totally amazing! My settings were speed DE, disc 5, sens 40, tones DP, thres -2, GB 78. I tried thres -1 at first but it was just to noisy! dropping to -2 quieted things right down.
In 5 hrs and 45 mins. of hunting time I found 308 coins, 4 junk necklace pendents, 3 junk rings, a 21" brass chain, and THREE GOLD RINGS!!
The total amount of coins is a personal first, besting my previous record of 234 coins in 7.5 hrs. The three gold rings are a first in finding that many in one day and a first 14k finds as all three are 14k!
At the lower disc setting rather than say the factory setting of 16 which gets iron and foil, coupled with the DP tones, you get a much wider separation of tones. Bits of wire, paper clips, AA batteries etc fall way down into low grunt sounds so you learn real fast not to dig those ( time saver ) can slaw, pull tabs and metal junk move to the 38 to 45 range, nickels are still 31/32, zinc Penny's 62, dimes and copper Penny's 75, quarters 85, and the Kennedy half banged steady at 91. Now the chain was at 24, the small gold ring at 22, the larger gold ring was 24/27 and the white gold about the same. One junk copper/silver plated ring was steady at 55. The key to all this was that the gold was a steady repeatable signal as was all the coins no matter if they were flat or on edge. So those factors gave great confidence to the dig/no dig question and greatly increased speed. The trash side of my pouch was much lighter than normal, also a time saver. Keep in mind that I was not going for speed. I was hunting normally without realizing that the machine was making find and recovery much faster!
Also found were a door key, letter jacket football pin, a Colo. one cent tax token circa 1935 to 1937, a puff the magic dragon token, an associates financial token, and a plastic cockroach!
The facts: 21" brass chain, 13 grams, small child's 14k gold ring-2 grams, white gold ladies wedding band 14k 3.7 grams,yellow gold ring with topaz setting, 4 grams. one silver pendent stamped .925-1.1 grams.
151 Penny's, assorted zinc and copper ( one 1954 wheat ), 25 nickels, 65 dimes, 66 quarters, 1 Kennedy half = 308 coins totaling $25.76 and as of this morning (Sun) my legs are shot!
So there is the bar Mud and Reiver, your posts prom-ted me to try the lower settings, so show me what you got! lol.
I posted this last night and tried to shrink and post the pictures but something didn't work right as nothing showed up on the forum but it must have went to Mud and John as a personal message because I had a very gracious personal message back from them this morn. Thank you gentlemen for your kind words. Maybe I will get this right this time including pictures. ( another personal first)
By the way, don't worry about losing depth at the lower sens setting as I dug dimes at 8 to 9 inches and two quarters over 10 inches deep.
HH Ed in co.
In 5 hrs and 45 mins. of hunting time I found 308 coins, 4 junk necklace pendents, 3 junk rings, a 21" brass chain, and THREE GOLD RINGS!!
The total amount of coins is a personal first, besting my previous record of 234 coins in 7.5 hrs. The three gold rings are a first in finding that many in one day and a first 14k finds as all three are 14k!
At the lower disc setting rather than say the factory setting of 16 which gets iron and foil, coupled with the DP tones, you get a much wider separation of tones. Bits of wire, paper clips, AA batteries etc fall way down into low grunt sounds so you learn real fast not to dig those ( time saver ) can slaw, pull tabs and metal junk move to the 38 to 45 range, nickels are still 31/32, zinc Penny's 62, dimes and copper Penny's 75, quarters 85, and the Kennedy half banged steady at 91. Now the chain was at 24, the small gold ring at 22, the larger gold ring was 24/27 and the white gold about the same. One junk copper/silver plated ring was steady at 55. The key to all this was that the gold was a steady repeatable signal as was all the coins no matter if they were flat or on edge. So those factors gave great confidence to the dig/no dig question and greatly increased speed. The trash side of my pouch was much lighter than normal, also a time saver. Keep in mind that I was not going for speed. I was hunting normally without realizing that the machine was making find and recovery much faster!
Also found were a door key, letter jacket football pin, a Colo. one cent tax token circa 1935 to 1937, a puff the magic dragon token, an associates financial token, and a plastic cockroach!
The facts: 21" brass chain, 13 grams, small child's 14k gold ring-2 grams, white gold ladies wedding band 14k 3.7 grams,yellow gold ring with topaz setting, 4 grams. one silver pendent stamped .925-1.1 grams.
151 Penny's, assorted zinc and copper ( one 1954 wheat ), 25 nickels, 65 dimes, 66 quarters, 1 Kennedy half = 308 coins totaling $25.76 and as of this morning (Sun) my legs are shot!
So there is the bar Mud and Reiver, your posts prom-ted me to try the lower settings, so show me what you got! lol.
I posted this last night and tried to shrink and post the pictures but something didn't work right as nothing showed up on the forum but it must have went to Mud and John as a personal message because I had a very gracious personal message back from them this morn. Thank you gentlemen for your kind words. Maybe I will get this right this time including pictures. ( another personal first)
By the way, don't worry about losing depth at the lower sens setting as I dug dimes at 8 to 9 inches and two quarters over 10 inches deep.
HH Ed in co.
Took your time and wiped them clean! Thats hard to do with that many targets...to work it right and not get all excited and snipe high tones...I was up very early today, 3:30 am ish, and saw your post and nearly busted a spring! 
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