First, leave everything at home (or the car) except your rig, a thin shaft flat screwdriver, and a very light cotton pouch similar to items shown..[attachment 313202 pouch.jpg].
Wear very light and loose fitting pants, shirt too, no kneepads required, you will be stooping for the most part, like a giraffe taking a drink, nice wide legged stoop with no undue stress on the back, bend at the knees, hips, back all at the same time..elbows braced on the knees, very solid and comfortable, when standing back up, sort of fall back in reverse and let your weight assist as you stand so you are not using your leg or back muscles...(You may occasionally drop down on one knee for deeper targets, but never two)...its all about speed and no fooling around with a handheld or the PP button on your rig either...set up with a mid/low sens and neg thresh, DP tones let you know immediately what the target is, and the modulated audio lets you know immediately how deep!....too much sens makes the signal profile too large...you are after targets from surface to @5" with the majority in the 3" depth range which are perfect!....so set up accordingly!
Your goal is to bust 100 targets per hour, so keep all this in mind, focus on speed alone, if you aint got a good ping in a few sweeps, you are in the wrong place! Find a heavy area of targets and get to work...from target acquisition to pouch should take no more than 15sec tops, with the goal being less than 10, and of course you want stacks and spills and slants to really rack up your numbers in a hurry...all your movements must be very comfortable and fluid and not hurting you anywhere in particular....instead of using the PP, learn how to 'hop coil' over a target..its a real fast tapping motion right on top of the target that shoots the beam straight down instead of a side to side wiggle....ping,ping,ping! stoop and stab!
I swing with the right and stab with the left...I touch the target with the screwdriver, as I am descending, I drop my rig on the deck, and put both hands on the driver, right on top, and left on the shaft.. grip the shaft with my left hand below the handle, rip and ream and wow out a hole large enough for my left pointer finger to go down into, then, I tip the coin with the driver in my right hand, and pinch it between it and my left hand pointer finger, and pull straight up! Zoom! hole no bigger than a robins pecker!
While rising, I pocket the coin with my left hand, pic up my rig with my right, and get straight back at it..its all about time management and fluid motion actually...
Toughest signals are fresh dropped coins in deep grass, you will know when you hear them, so before you stoop to stab, STOMP the area flat!
reacquire the target, then stab it!
I really like speed hunting, these F rigs are perfect for it...the toughest thing you will deal with is unlearning your habits with a PP and a shovel hunting for deep silver and setting up light and going for as many shallow targets as fast as possible...it does pay off when you get into a place that has not been hunted in a while and is just loaded to the gills, and you dont have a very long time to hunt it...just another skillset to this Sport..lots more to it, but these are the basics that will get a guy going...I wish I had somebody that could do a vid...you would not believe how fast you can rack up shallow clad with nothing but a screwdriver! I'll repost my 'Field of Dreams" hunt pics from last Dec...I was at the right place, at the right time, with the right gear, and the right mind! Zeekeys got me into this way of hunting a few years back, still my favorite way to hunt, its fast and fun and does not hurt a guy at all like you would think it would...go light, fast and shallow if the situation merits!
Good thing is I've used these same settings from MI to AL..even went out to SLC Utah and knocked down heavy Mormon clad at one park once, without GBing at all!...shallow clad dont care! I hunted over in Kernersville NC a few years back and racked up massive clad I remember, so your dirt may be of a similar consistency, (clay/chert)...All this 'quick broom fast stab' is a subset skill within the larger family of detecting skills you may find fun and handy when you need to make gas money in short order at a modern park...the F series are the perfect rig for this...just set it up light, they are designed and intended for deeper targets, not piles of crappy old clad!..Oh, carry a backup driver, you will bust one off in your zealousness occasionally...if you bust off your driver, and dont have a backup, you are shut da hell down!.
Mud
Wear very light and loose fitting pants, shirt too, no kneepads required, you will be stooping for the most part, like a giraffe taking a drink, nice wide legged stoop with no undue stress on the back, bend at the knees, hips, back all at the same time..elbows braced on the knees, very solid and comfortable, when standing back up, sort of fall back in reverse and let your weight assist as you stand so you are not using your leg or back muscles...(You may occasionally drop down on one knee for deeper targets, but never two)...its all about speed and no fooling around with a handheld or the PP button on your rig either...set up with a mid/low sens and neg thresh, DP tones let you know immediately what the target is, and the modulated audio lets you know immediately how deep!....too much sens makes the signal profile too large...you are after targets from surface to @5" with the majority in the 3" depth range which are perfect!....so set up accordingly!
Your goal is to bust 100 targets per hour, so keep all this in mind, focus on speed alone, if you aint got a good ping in a few sweeps, you are in the wrong place! Find a heavy area of targets and get to work...from target acquisition to pouch should take no more than 15sec tops, with the goal being less than 10, and of course you want stacks and spills and slants to really rack up your numbers in a hurry...all your movements must be very comfortable and fluid and not hurting you anywhere in particular....instead of using the PP, learn how to 'hop coil' over a target..its a real fast tapping motion right on top of the target that shoots the beam straight down instead of a side to side wiggle....ping,ping,ping! stoop and stab!
I swing with the right and stab with the left...I touch the target with the screwdriver, as I am descending, I drop my rig on the deck, and put both hands on the driver, right on top, and left on the shaft.. grip the shaft with my left hand below the handle, rip and ream and wow out a hole large enough for my left pointer finger to go down into, then, I tip the coin with the driver in my right hand, and pinch it between it and my left hand pointer finger, and pull straight up! Zoom! hole no bigger than a robins pecker!
While rising, I pocket the coin with my left hand, pic up my rig with my right, and get straight back at it..its all about time management and fluid motion actually...Toughest signals are fresh dropped coins in deep grass, you will know when you hear them, so before you stoop to stab, STOMP the area flat!
reacquire the target, then stab it!I really like speed hunting, these F rigs are perfect for it...the toughest thing you will deal with is unlearning your habits with a PP and a shovel hunting for deep silver and setting up light and going for as many shallow targets as fast as possible...it does pay off when you get into a place that has not been hunted in a while and is just loaded to the gills, and you dont have a very long time to hunt it...just another skillset to this Sport..lots more to it, but these are the basics that will get a guy going...I wish I had somebody that could do a vid...you would not believe how fast you can rack up shallow clad with nothing but a screwdriver! I'll repost my 'Field of Dreams" hunt pics from last Dec...I was at the right place, at the right time, with the right gear, and the right mind!
Zeekeys got me into this way of hunting a few years back, still my favorite way to hunt, its fast and fun and does not hurt a guy at all like you would think it would...go light, fast and shallow if the situation merits! Good thing is I've used these same settings from MI to AL..even went out to SLC Utah and knocked down heavy Mormon clad at one park once, without GBing at all!...shallow clad dont care! I hunted over in Kernersville NC a few years back and racked up massive clad I remember, so your dirt may be of a similar consistency, (clay/chert)...All this 'quick broom fast stab' is a subset skill within the larger family of detecting skills you may find fun and handy when you need to make gas money in short order at a modern park...the F series are the perfect rig for this...just set it up light, they are designed and intended for deeper targets, not piles of crappy old clad!..Oh, carry a backup driver, you will bust one off in your zealousness occasionally...if you bust off your driver, and dont have a backup, you are shut da hell down!.
Mud
Most house sites I visit around here have never been touched with a detector, and are usually FULL of pennies, but you have to cleanse the area sometimes to get to where the older coins are...this isn't news for most folks but I will never forget the days of a long straight-slot screwdriver, the 1265-X, and dad driving us to places around where we used to live. He'd have his screwdriver too, and a couple back-ups in the truck, and he did rather well with a White's 5900 that my uncle provided one Christmas for him. 
I think I will need to find a more private place to work on that.