More Civil War bullets using the F 75 in All Metal mode

[jimmyk]

HI, all:

Went back to my "hunted out" camp with my trusty F 75 and continued to hunt, listening for the sweet, deep mellow bullet tones. Everything within the circle of bullets was dug from one hole. The three bullets together in the center are melted together. A nice firepit recovery.

Here's a couple of observations on this kind of hunting.

The ground balance is important. I Fast Grab often. You are listening to the extreme limits of the detection depth on some of these recoveries. Many times when I get a signal I Fast Grab right next to it to get the best possible reading. Sometimes the signal gets worse. Indicates a deep nail or iron trash. If the signal improves and becomes even more defined, it's almost always a good target. I always check the signal East to West and then rotate around 90 degrees to try it North and South. Many nice sounding signals will get bad when you rotate. Usually means a nail. Any double blip deep signal is always a nail. The all metal VDI reading is more accurate, as opposed to discrimination mode, but it can read incorrectly, as well. Several of the bullets I dug today the VDI read as iron, but the signal sounded too good to pass up. More often than not, on really deep signals there will be no VDI numbers at all. That's my favorite ones to dig. They sound so good and are deep.

Thanks for looking and keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[damiano]

Great finds
Can you tell me what settings you preffered ??
Thks for advice

 

[ziphius]

Nice report from the field jimmyk! I like using all metal when I'm hunting open fields.

Jim

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Great report, and nice finds

What are you deepest fringe finds ?

I've tried AM mode on the F70, it's a lot of information to process (mentally) while glued to the TID screen.

hh,
Brian

 

[jimmyk]

Deepest bullet was a .36 cal. teardrop at nine inches. Gave a good signal, even at that depth. The F 70 with a 11" DD coil should pretty much match the depth of the F 75.

keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[jimmyk]

The only setting in all metal I adjusted was the sensitivity, which I was able to run at 90. I really like the all meal in field hunting where there is moderate trash. Otherwise I'd use the Discrimination setting at 0 disc. (which gives the best depth), 2 tones, DE mode, sensitivity 85-90.

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[Daniel Tn]

Have you by chance seen my YouTube video on this very thing? That's the best way I've found to hunt around here and it done quite well up in VA this past weekend as well. I took my basic settings for around here and used them up there. One thing I did learn about the hot VA iron soil though...was that it didn't give the "bounce" like I talk about in the video. Nearly all the bullets and buttons I dug, read fully as iron and almost always were the VDIs of 13 or 14. I discovered a trick in pinpointing that I could tell a good target from a bad one....even with the VDI number reading the same. Once I figured that out, my finds started increasing. No way to explain it here I'll just have to video it in action and show it that way because it all has to do with a specific sound the machine does.

 

[RelicDigger1]

I think I saw that video, daniel. You're talking abut hunting in AM and using the # to ID your target? Very informative video.

Richard