Hey folks,
I posted a pic and more of the story in the Relic forum.
I was able to get out for a fairly long hunt yesterday with my F75. It was in fairly good ground..... ground balanced all day in the low 60's. I hunted with Sensitivity set at 90 (probably could have gone higher). Disc set at 1 and tones at 2F. The only time I ever noticed any EMI was when I layed my detector aside to retrieve a target, and at times it would chatter a bit. Of course I was interested in digging and giving the detector a good test, but I was really more interested in my boss having a good time and finding stuff with the Shadow X-5 I let him borrow. It was his first detecting trip ever, and I think he's hooked ! The pine timber we hunted in had been farmed in the past..... terrace rows wound through the area to help with the erosion back in the 30's and 40's. There was definitely a Yankee camp that had been there. But, the farming had really scattered stuff out. We dug some bullets as shallow as an inch or two, but I know I recovered three that were between 8 and 10 inches deep. Melted lead was scattered all over the place...... evidence of fire pits that had been scattered by plowing. Including the round balls (2- .36 caliber) I think we found 17 dropped bullets..... and a pocketful of melted lead apiece. With the F75, I could have dug much more of the melted lead..... but was more or less in cherry-picking mode. Hope to get to go back and hunt more of the area with him. He was already talking about the next time!
Oh yeah, before posting: We had to hunt close together, he didn't have a shovel, and I got to "test" his targets as well before digging. The .58 three-ringers were all hitting around 58 on the TID...... some were "bouncy" ..... hitting from upper 40's to low 60's. Would the way they were positioned in the ground have this effect? But all of them would hit the 58 on the TID at one swing of the coil or another and most just flat out locked in at 57/58...... and I swear, it seemed the .54's were hitting at about that on the TID. I even called a couple of .58's and .54's before we dug them! LOL Some of the deeper bullets would not ID real well, but that sweet "round" tone led me to dig them anyway.
All in all, I'm very satisfied with the performance of the F75
I posted a pic and more of the story in the Relic forum.
I was able to get out for a fairly long hunt yesterday with my F75. It was in fairly good ground..... ground balanced all day in the low 60's. I hunted with Sensitivity set at 90 (probably could have gone higher). Disc set at 1 and tones at 2F. The only time I ever noticed any EMI was when I layed my detector aside to retrieve a target, and at times it would chatter a bit. Of course I was interested in digging and giving the detector a good test, but I was really more interested in my boss having a good time and finding stuff with the Shadow X-5 I let him borrow. It was his first detecting trip ever, and I think he's hooked ! The pine timber we hunted in had been farmed in the past..... terrace rows wound through the area to help with the erosion back in the 30's and 40's. There was definitely a Yankee camp that had been there. But, the farming had really scattered stuff out. We dug some bullets as shallow as an inch or two, but I know I recovered three that were between 8 and 10 inches deep. Melted lead was scattered all over the place...... evidence of fire pits that had been scattered by plowing. Including the round balls (2- .36 caliber) I think we found 17 dropped bullets..... and a pocketful of melted lead apiece. With the F75, I could have dug much more of the melted lead..... but was more or less in cherry-picking mode. Hope to get to go back and hunt more of the area with him. He was already talking about the next time!
Oh yeah, before posting: We had to hunt close together, he didn't have a shovel, and I got to "test" his targets as well before digging. The .58 three-ringers were all hitting around 58 on the TID...... some were "bouncy" ..... hitting from upper 40's to low 60's. Would the way they were positioned in the ground have this effect? But all of them would hit the 58 on the TID at one swing of the coil or another and most just flat out locked in at 57/58...... and I swear, it seemed the .54's were hitting at about that on the TID. I even called a couple of .58's and .54's before we dug them! LOL Some of the deeper bullets would not ID real well, but that sweet "round" tone led me to dig them anyway.
All in all, I'm very satisfied with the performance of the F75