CliffHanger
New member
A couple of months ago I was in a park I often hunt when I spotted a gentlman who I'd never seen before. He too was detecting. I approached and introduced myself. I told him about the large metal detecting club we have in the area and gave him one of our cards with the website of the club on it. I asked if he'd mind if I detected near him and when either of us finds something the other would check it with his detector to see what the target is identified as. He said "sure."
I was using my Fisher F2 and he was using .. (and I can't remember exactly what).. a detector I think was a Bounty Hunter. I know the word 'Treasure' was on it.
I really like the F2 but it likes screw on bottle caps. It registers them from 'zink' to 'dime' so, I dig a bunch of them. Pry off bottle caps are always in the 'Iron' area and not dug. Foil is foil and nickles will sometimes jump a little higher than 33.
I had an Ace 250 and as far as I am concerned the F2 is on another plane when it comes to detecting. It is extremely fast at target seperation. I have never owned nor seen a better machine in heavy trash than the F2 with the small coil. Copper pennies always ID as dimes.
I want over an area I'd detected many times before with the Ace 250 and a LoboST. I went over a spot and in about a five inch diameter area I got 5 distinctive signals in random order. 3 'zink,' 2 dime. I dragged the coil across the spot from another angle and 3 'zink,' 2 'dime'. Whatever direction I got 3 zink and two dime. Three to four inches down where 3 zink pennies and 2 wheaties. That impressed the H*** out of me! I could have had Zink notched out and still hit the wheaties that close to them.
Okay, back to that gentlman's detector. I think it was at the far right on the face of his detector that said 'Coin.' It didn't sperate them as zink, dime, quarter, etc. it just said 'coin.' But what it did do that my F2 cannot do, was say 'Bottle Cap' and bingo ... it was a bottle cap!
I had to leave and thanked him for his time and told him I hoped to see him at our monthly meeting. He never showed up.
What kind of a detector did he have?
All the best and thanks for your time.
CliffHanger
I was using my Fisher F2 and he was using .. (and I can't remember exactly what).. a detector I think was a Bounty Hunter. I know the word 'Treasure' was on it.
I really like the F2 but it likes screw on bottle caps. It registers them from 'zink' to 'dime' so, I dig a bunch of them. Pry off bottle caps are always in the 'Iron' area and not dug. Foil is foil and nickles will sometimes jump a little higher than 33.
I had an Ace 250 and as far as I am concerned the F2 is on another plane when it comes to detecting. It is extremely fast at target seperation. I have never owned nor seen a better machine in heavy trash than the F2 with the small coil. Copper pennies always ID as dimes.
I want over an area I'd detected many times before with the Ace 250 and a LoboST. I went over a spot and in about a five inch diameter area I got 5 distinctive signals in random order. 3 'zink,' 2 dime. I dragged the coil across the spot from another angle and 3 'zink,' 2 'dime'. Whatever direction I got 3 zink and two dime. Three to four inches down where 3 zink pennies and 2 wheaties. That impressed the H*** out of me! I could have had Zink notched out and still hit the wheaties that close to them.
Okay, back to that gentlman's detector. I think it was at the far right on the face of his detector that said 'Coin.' It didn't sperate them as zink, dime, quarter, etc. it just said 'coin.' But what it did do that my F2 cannot do, was say 'Bottle Cap' and bingo ... it was a bottle cap!
I had to leave and thanked him for his time and told him I hoped to see him at our monthly meeting. He never showed up.
What kind of a detector did he have?
All the best and thanks for your time.
CliffHanger