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When I got my F70 I used mostly 4H tones at first because it was similar to my F2.
Over time I tried the others and I now use all metal a lot, definitely to check targets I am curious about, but I hunt in that mode too in till I get mentally fatigued.
In disc I use 3H and 4H when sweeping parks for coins and jewelry from time to time but I have gotten fond of 1Fand 2F too.
Less EMI chatter and falsing on the lower tone choices for some reason, and I like the modulation on those that can tell me about the more shallow targets I pass over.
As far as speed I seem to use SL most of the time, DE is definitely faster so if you use SL for awhile and switch back to DE and the difference is very noticeable, but I go very slow nowadays looking for heavily masked targets in my very difficult mineralized soil filled with iron and trash garbage and also infused with an unusual amounts of tiny iron, also.
I find SL gives me the most accurate and clearest signals especially on the deeper ones and here really deep means the 5-8" depth area in this devil dirt.
Using 1 tone for the last several hunts I found this gives me a fantastic and pretty complete picture of what is happening under the coil.
It is about the same with the next two lower tone choices and I am pretty good and comfortable at using the others but monotone for me is the least mentally fatigueing of all I have tried so far because it is missing that modulation...or so I assume.
I usually set disc at 1, some use 0 but on mine this turns my Fisher into a noisy beast that is no fun to hunt with and skews the tones to a point I do not enjoy it at all.
Amazing that this one number makes so much difference but I can tell you I will never hunt in disc at 0 and I would rather just switch to all metal instead.
The depth I get at 1 disc, most of the other higher numbers that I can tell too, seems to get me deep enough to find the good stuff so I am happy with that.
Recently on my last few hunts I have been using monotone and have experimented moving the disc up and down between 1 and 23 and found it all works well.
On the low disc numbers I get such a clear picture of everything, and I mean everything happening below me, if I go slow enough I can notice the fleeting good numbers by watching the screen and listening for the solid tones among the millions of iron targets I seem to get with almost every inch of few inches I move the coil.
When I get a signal that is not iron, not a false high signal that all this iron seems to throw off but doesn't repeat, I stop and examine these signals closer and have done well.
Lately I have been picking out many coins in areas heavily hunted before by others and also by me.
When I turn the disc up to 4 or 6 to cut out some of the iron I still am picking up good indications of better targets, I turned the disc up to 15 yesterday to knock out all the iron and picked up a nice IH that was very shallow but still masked pretty good...I managed to get the big DD coil to stabilize to numbers in the mid 50's and even though I expected can slaw it was solid enough and I was rewarded for my efforts with my oldest coin of 2016 so far.
Earlier in the day with my disc on 23 I hit a 1919 wheat much deeper at about 5-6" which around here would be more like 10-12" in regular good soil.
A few days ago I was down in disc 1 and came across this small St. Christopher medal marked Japan on the back that was at least 6" deep, maybe closer to 7", and it came in as a noticeable solid tone even though I was on my way to another part of this park so was walking pretty fast but swinging as I went.
This one stopped me in my tracks and I was surprised by the depth at the time.
So many tone options on these high end Fishers, I am doing my best to try them all, get good at them all, but I do have my favorites.
Nice to be able to switch among them because I believe some work better than others under some situations so it is nice to have all these choices available.
When I start getting bored with monotone maybe I will start working on DP tones next but right now 1 tone is doing the job and then some.
Over time I tried the others and I now use all metal a lot, definitely to check targets I am curious about, but I hunt in that mode too in till I get mentally fatigued.
In disc I use 3H and 4H when sweeping parks for coins and jewelry from time to time but I have gotten fond of 1Fand 2F too.
Less EMI chatter and falsing on the lower tone choices for some reason, and I like the modulation on those that can tell me about the more shallow targets I pass over.
As far as speed I seem to use SL most of the time, DE is definitely faster so if you use SL for awhile and switch back to DE and the difference is very noticeable, but I go very slow nowadays looking for heavily masked targets in my very difficult mineralized soil filled with iron and trash garbage and also infused with an unusual amounts of tiny iron, also.
I find SL gives me the most accurate and clearest signals especially on the deeper ones and here really deep means the 5-8" depth area in this devil dirt.
Using 1 tone for the last several hunts I found this gives me a fantastic and pretty complete picture of what is happening under the coil.
It is about the same with the next two lower tone choices and I am pretty good and comfortable at using the others but monotone for me is the least mentally fatigueing of all I have tried so far because it is missing that modulation...or so I assume.
I usually set disc at 1, some use 0 but on mine this turns my Fisher into a noisy beast that is no fun to hunt with and skews the tones to a point I do not enjoy it at all.
Amazing that this one number makes so much difference but I can tell you I will never hunt in disc at 0 and I would rather just switch to all metal instead.
The depth I get at 1 disc, most of the other higher numbers that I can tell too, seems to get me deep enough to find the good stuff so I am happy with that.
Recently on my last few hunts I have been using monotone and have experimented moving the disc up and down between 1 and 23 and found it all works well.
On the low disc numbers I get such a clear picture of everything, and I mean everything happening below me, if I go slow enough I can notice the fleeting good numbers by watching the screen and listening for the solid tones among the millions of iron targets I seem to get with almost every inch of few inches I move the coil.
When I get a signal that is not iron, not a false high signal that all this iron seems to throw off but doesn't repeat, I stop and examine these signals closer and have done well.
Lately I have been picking out many coins in areas heavily hunted before by others and also by me.
When I turn the disc up to 4 or 6 to cut out some of the iron I still am picking up good indications of better targets, I turned the disc up to 15 yesterday to knock out all the iron and picked up a nice IH that was very shallow but still masked pretty good...I managed to get the big DD coil to stabilize to numbers in the mid 50's and even though I expected can slaw it was solid enough and I was rewarded for my efforts with my oldest coin of 2016 so far.
Earlier in the day with my disc on 23 I hit a 1919 wheat much deeper at about 5-6" which around here would be more like 10-12" in regular good soil.
A few days ago I was down in disc 1 and came across this small St. Christopher medal marked Japan on the back that was at least 6" deep, maybe closer to 7", and it came in as a noticeable solid tone even though I was on my way to another part of this park so was walking pretty fast but swinging as I went.
This one stopped me in my tracks and I was surprised by the depth at the time.
So many tone options on these high end Fishers, I am doing my best to try them all, get good at them all, but I do have my favorites.
Nice to be able to switch among them because I believe some work better than others under some situations so it is nice to have all these choices available.
When I start getting bored with monotone maybe I will start working on DP tones next but right now 1 tone is doing the job and then some.
