Amazing Day-Amazing Depth

[RLOH]

I had a great day yesterday with my standard F75 and as I always say, it helps to be able to put your coil over some deep coins. I had a chance to do just that yesterday and I came away with some new found respect for the F75. I hunted a place that I had pounded with both the Etrac and SE Pro. At the base of a steep hill, I found many wheat pennies and about the 10 silver coins with an Etrac several years back. Yesterday, I braved the steep hill and hunted the steepest slopes, hoping for an old coin or two. I don't know how many more years I can do this hill detecting, but yesterday the ground was dry and I carefully hunted the places where most people don't or won't go. I found two wheat pennies from the 20's, but no silver. An hour of this type of detecting is about all I can do, so when I got to where the hill leveled off, I hap hazardly detected this bottom section. This is the exact same section that I had great success with the Etrac and Explorer. I had just started when I got a wisp of a high signal(I use 3 tones). It was showing 10 inches in pinpoint and I was expecting deep iron, but was surprised to see a coin come to light at about 9 inches. An old wheatie! Wow, now I decided to really concentrate and slow down. Less than a foot away, another bouncing weak high tone. This time it was a silver Washington quarter from an honest 10 inches. These were not "banger" type signals, but definitely a signal that once you realized what it sounded like, you would dig. I made one pass along the bottom of this hill and was astounded to find a total of 10 wheat pennies, one silver war nickel, the silver quarter, and a mercury dime. A couple of the wheat pennies were deeper than my Propointer is long! I did not chase coins around in loose soil at the bottom of the plug so I know this was honest depth. Some of the deepest coins I have ever dug. When I realized what was happening, I started checking some of these deep coins in all metal. All metal seemed to down number the vdi numbers, but they were still above the mid 60's. To be honest, discriminate mode with my setting of sens 80, disc 10, three tones, de mode, had a very weak, but repeatable signal. I was thinking of selling this detector, but that will not happen any time soon.

 

[still looking 52]

Sounds like you had some fun with that f75, this whole year I've found only one silver Washington quarter. Anytime you find wheaties, silver is sitting close by, nice hunt.

 

[jim tn]

Very fine hunting. You are locked in now and more will come. Good job! HH jim tn

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Good hunt and congrats on the silver. I am finding out the same thing on my F75.. 10" wheat pennies are soft but repeatable signals. Picked up a Nel Tornado for the F75 but the season is ending up here so will have to wait until spring to really check it out.

The F75 with DST is definitely a keeper.

Tom

 

[bigtim1973]

I have the se f75. I use default setting while coinshooting. I agree, you get great depth in standard mode. It is a great unit. I believe your gonna keep it too!!

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Mike Hillis]

What a great report, RL.

Congrats on the deep coins and silver!

HH

Mike

 

[Greg (E.Tn)]

RLOH, I have a 5" round DD coil on my F75.

Detecting in a thick, brushy pine woods with it a few weeks ago, I got a signal that was an iron grunt one way, and a high tone in the other (2F).

I knocked about 2" of pine needles off, scanned again, and had to work it, but I got it to hit both ways, so I went ahead and dug it.

After I opened the hole, got down about 10", I found the target to be a small sized Williams Cleaner bullet without the zinc plug attached.

That bullet was at LEAST 10" away from the coil when I first got a signal from it, and probably more than that--and that with the 5" coil.

I know the temptation is always there to switch machines when a new one comes out, and people start crowing about it, but the F75 is hard to beat.

If you do end up switching, you might want to keep the F75, just in case.......