what kind of depth are you getting F5 and F70 in ohio and at lake erie beaches thanks

[ohio fred]

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[Steve from Ohio]

I've been around the Cleveland area and have been hitting coins at 12 to a max at 14 inches. Depends on where you are at. Seems Cleveland has it all. Trashy sites, clean areas, rocks, highly mineralized and sand. I have been in areas that I could only get down to about 6 inches.

If you are doing the beaches from Lorain east to Cleveland, be prepared for a lot of sinkers, hooks, clads, and trash. Seems that people of Ohio really like to dump their trash on the beaches.
But you may get lucky and find a ring or two. I haven't had much luck at eastern lake Erie beaches. But I have heard that others had found some nice things but they are few and far between.

The beaches up near Sandusky have more upscale visitors and would offer a better chance to find gold and silver. Plus I would recommend doing a little bit of research into historical records to find the beaches that were popular in the 1800's to early 1900's.

 

[ohio fred]

Thanks the beaches in lake county are high in mineral and ore from the boats leaving Fairport harbor.Iam looking for a new detector and reading how everyone is doing.Use ace 250 mxt and idx,hard time at beach with them still find stuff but nothing great.The soil here is hard and a lot of minerals .Thanks for information.Looking at f5 or f70

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I've been around the Cleveland area and have been hitting coins at 12 to a max at 14 inches.

Steve are you using the F70 or the F5 ?

 

[Steve from Ohio]

I'm using the F-70. So far, I've had it for two weeks and really enjoy using it. It does take a little time to get used to the sounds deeper coins make and I have started to figure out what sounds mean what. I also love the lightness of the F-5 and the F-70.

I had doubts about the F-70 at first but a friend has one and we put it up against a new E-trac. The F-70 was faster and just about as deep as the E-trac. I would guess that the E-trac does have some advantages in certain instances that the F-70 would have trouble with like salt water beaches and really high mineral content ground. I also found the ID on the F-70 was just a little shaky whereas the E-trac had more info to base a dig or not dig decision on.

So I am going to get the E-trac and keep the F-70. Both are great machines.

The F-5 is also a great machine for the price and I have tried it in the field. The F-5 may or may not be quite as deep as the F-70 and for the money you just can't go wrong. I really like the F-5's layout and screen. I also like the manual ground balance. I also like the pots for adjustments of gain, threshold, ground balance and discrimination. Much quicker than moving through numbers with a touch pad.

The F-5 would be my choice as a backup to my F-70 or F-75. I like the 7.5 KZ frequency as a good bet to hit areas that may give the F-70 series trouble.