Well, now that I've seen the manual for the F-70 I'm thinking

[Mike Hillis]

of selling my F-75 to pick up a F-70 and another CoinStrike.

I miss my CoinStrike and it's round target lock, and the new F-70's discrimination threshold target sizing feature would let me use the tone modes I'm not able to use today on the F-75 due to the small signal falsing, plus I'd get to keep a VCO hunt mode (1F tone mode). Can't really see where I'd go wrong doing this considering how and why and where I hunt.

Looking forward to hearing more reports to help me make up my mind.

HH

Mike

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

I too have been going through all sorts of mental calculations and speculations trying to figure what the stable will be looking like in the near future. I'm thinking the biggest thing is to see what the new concentric handles like on the F-70 and maybe even more importantly, when run on the F-75. Will we find the 70 is so different from the 75 or is it mostly the coil? I've gotten a kick out of your C$ "history" (selling your C$'s and then getting another one after you get to missing it) over the last several years. I tried to part with mine that I had from early on and I lasted a whole 4 days before I had another one. So I'm wondering is the F-70 (and/or the 75) with the CC gonna finally make the C$ expendable? Let's see, tracking, averaging, backlight, 4 programs, ... hmmmm. Sorta makes ya sweat don't it?

 

[Pap]

n/t

 

[Mike Hillis]

Dang C$

I remember how my first turf hunt with the CoinStrike ended. I was standing in a light rain waving the thing around in the air wondering where that 51 and 73 number was coming from, what it meant, and trying to figure out what was causing it while hoping lightning wouldn't strike a crazy person. People were driving by starring at a obviously mad man standing in the rain waving some weird looking electronic devise around in the air muttering to himself. If they honked, my timberwolf's muffled it. Just previously to that I had just tried to detect on some ground that my detector said was a solid sheet of iron. People close to me may have heard some muttering about finding a tree.... I remember hunting in all metal and it sounded just like the light sabre did in Star Wars when I moved it around. You know that hum sound? Seriously. It hummed around the edges. I thought that was just the coolest thing. My deepest dime in some of my worst ground was found with the C$. Other targets I passed over as trash with other machines, the C$ would lock on and round tokens and rings would be the result. I'm not getting that with any other machine.

Funny, you'd think I'd pine over the DFX or the Explorer, or even Xterra 70, but nope, the CoinStrike keeps calling me back.



Mike

 

[Mike Hillis]

$650 is going around pretty much everywhere, Pap.

Mike

 

[Jackpine Savage]

I never saw any advantage with the CZ's in my ground over single frequency machines depth wise. The characteristics of the 10.5" coil were the only reason for me having a CZ and of course its only useful for certain types of hunting. If this new concentric has at least the depth and sensitivity of a CZ on coins in mild ground plus decent see-through then its a win win.

Tom

 

[Pap]

n/t

 

[oneton]

The coin$trike is one hot machine in the right hands,and a killer in trash.

 

[Mike Hillis]

n/t

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

Congrats!!

 

[oneton]

They say you don't miss something until its gone.I'm not going to miss mine,cause i'm not going to sell it. ONE HOT MACHINE.

 

[UK Brian]

I don't think your going to be able to use the new F75 S.E.F (Double D/concentric combination) coil on the F70.

 

[liquid1]

UK brian what coil is this..????

 

[Bill Ladd]

with the 5" coil attched & I pull it out specifically for iron hunting. The unique way that iron is a (-) number I can often hunt in iron & just watch for plus signs that pop in. I did there, & more often than not there's a little coin or button hiding out amid the square nails.
I did a video of this recently pulling out a barber dime......I will upload it to this forum soon...
HH,
Bill

 

[UK Brian]

There's a picture of the Detech S.E.F. coil type on Gary's web site. http://www.garysdetecting.co.uk/
as he says they look rather similar to the Nexus coils. The idea is that they are supposed to provide the best of both worlds of Double D and concentric.
They seem in very short supply in the U.K. The only place that seems to have the F75 version is France.
One warning...supplies of the Minelab versions sold out in the U.K. in no time which suggests they are a good coil but...I've seen a few sold in the last few weeks and getting information of how well they handle contaminated sites is like getting blood out of a stone. The smallest 12" x 10" is heavy, so the 15 x 12, 18 x 12, 21 x17 are going to be far worse.