After owing just about all detectors out there, I can honestly say that there were only a few that I "clicked" with and feel confident using. Enter the F5. I bought this detector thinking it would be my tot lot clad stabber. After a few outings, it proved to be much more than that. I am always trying to get the most out of any detector I use and after a set of batteries in the F5, I found the settings that woke up this detector. Other than the settings, the 11 in biaxial coil seemed to get this detector much deeper. My settings: sens 85, disc 10, threshold 0(this seems to be a key setting), three tones. My ground balance where I had a great day yesterday was 76.
Yesterday I detected a school built in 1952 and I have not found a silver coin there in over two years. Ten years ago I dug one of the deepest coins I ever found with an original Explorer XS. It was a large cent from nearly 14 inches. Three years ago I found a shield nickel ten feet from the front door. Last fall I found a small section where I found a handful of wheat pennies with my F75. I had gridded about half of this area at that time. I decided to take the remaining 50 foot by 20 foot area and hunt it with my F5. Within five minutes I got that distinct faint high whine that many times is a deep coin. It was a mercury dime from about 7 inches. The next pass I come up with a wheat penny from a similar depth. Now I decide to rehunt the entire area so I started where I was last fall. First pass I find another mercury dime. I ended up with one more mercury dime making it three mercs! I was using some old wooden light poles as guides to I had about 6 feet from the pole to the road that I had not detected. During the second pass, I got an almost undistinguishable signal. I hit some tree roots at about 7 inches and was getting a slight chirp out of my Propointer. I finnally got under the roots and pulled out the dirt with my fingers only to see silver. This time it was a Barber dime. When I was coming back to this spot on my return pass, I got bouncing high tone to mid tone with numbers 30 to 70. For some reason deep nickels will do this with the F5 and also the couple of Coinstrikes that I owned. From 8 inches I see a nickel shaped disc and was hoping for a Buffalo. Not a Buffalo, but a 1888 V nickel. All this happedn in 35 minutes or so. I have not had a time like this in many years. By the way, I have detected this spot many times over the years and have found a couple of mercs and wheats, but I have never gridded it and hunted it hard and thorough.I was on cloud nine and decided to keep detecting at another spot in front of this school. I saw a bike rack that I have never detected so I wondered over to it. First pass, I had gone only two or three feet and I get a solid 93-94 that was shallow. It pinpointed 5 inches and I had a feeling that with those numbers it would be silver. I dug a four inch deep plug and there shining brightly in the very center of the hole is a silver Washington quarter. Just about all of my spots are drying up with so many people entering the hobby, I doubt that I will have a day like this again. Back when I started using better detectors I had many days with three or four silvers, with 8 being my best day. I will savor the day I had yesterday.
Yesterday I detected a school built in 1952 and I have not found a silver coin there in over two years. Ten years ago I dug one of the deepest coins I ever found with an original Explorer XS. It was a large cent from nearly 14 inches. Three years ago I found a shield nickel ten feet from the front door. Last fall I found a small section where I found a handful of wheat pennies with my F75. I had gridded about half of this area at that time. I decided to take the remaining 50 foot by 20 foot area and hunt it with my F5. Within five minutes I got that distinct faint high whine that many times is a deep coin. It was a mercury dime from about 7 inches. The next pass I come up with a wheat penny from a similar depth. Now I decide to rehunt the entire area so I started where I was last fall. First pass I find another mercury dime. I ended up with one more mercury dime making it three mercs! I was using some old wooden light poles as guides to I had about 6 feet from the pole to the road that I had not detected. During the second pass, I got an almost undistinguishable signal. I hit some tree roots at about 7 inches and was getting a slight chirp out of my Propointer. I finnally got under the roots and pulled out the dirt with my fingers only to see silver. This time it was a Barber dime. When I was coming back to this spot on my return pass, I got bouncing high tone to mid tone with numbers 30 to 70. For some reason deep nickels will do this with the F5 and also the couple of Coinstrikes that I owned. From 8 inches I see a nickel shaped disc and was hoping for a Buffalo. Not a Buffalo, but a 1888 V nickel. All this happedn in 35 minutes or so. I have not had a time like this in many years. By the way, I have detected this spot many times over the years and have found a couple of mercs and wheats, but I have never gridded it and hunted it hard and thorough.I was on cloud nine and decided to keep detecting at another spot in front of this school. I saw a bike rack that I have never detected so I wondered over to it. First pass, I had gone only two or three feet and I get a solid 93-94 that was shallow. It pinpointed 5 inches and I had a feeling that with those numbers it would be silver. I dug a four inch deep plug and there shining brightly in the very center of the hole is a silver Washington quarter. Just about all of my spots are drying up with so many people entering the hobby, I doubt that I will have a day like this again. Back when I started using better detectors I had many days with three or four silvers, with 8 being my best day. I will savor the day I had yesterday.
