I finally broke down and bought a new hot rod(F75) and in two short hunts, it truly is a high performance detector. Yesterday I broke it in and dug many questionable signals to learn the detector. One of the last targets turned out to be a 1903 Barber dime from nearly 10 inches! It was a quick high tone blip, but it did repeat from other angles. I had to leave because of the heat and biting flies so I went back to the same spot early this am. I did not find much and by 9am, it was getting hot again. I only found four coins and the first one was a 1919 wheat penny from about 8 inches in pretty heavy trash. People started coming around where I was hunting so I moved over to a large grassy slope where I have found older coins in the past. Tomorrow is my birthday and I was hoping for a silver coin to make today a success. I swear I had just thought "silver" when I got a quick blip on a pretty steep hill. From 7 inches comes a 1954 silver roosie. 1954 is the year of my birth. A couple of feet away, I got another deep wheat penny. This detector is hot and considering the short time I have used it, it is easy to use. I have yet to put the small coil on it. If the small coil works as well as the stock coil, this detector might be the perfect rig. It is the most well balanced detector I have ever used and it is the most sensitive detector I have ever used. R.L.