Not everyone clicks with every brand, what works for one doesn't necessarily work for another...or needs too.
Then there is the fun factor, some just enjoy being out there no matter what they find and others must produce or get frustrated to the max.
In my case I am the kind that love the experience but a few years ago I came across a site that did frustrate me and also many others.
A site with a knocked down farm house with iron so thick at so many levels and types it was a nightmare.
Large tools and other farm junk like wagon parts, screws bolts and nuts and bits and pieces that came from that house plus rusty wire from large to tiny and nails of all sizes...oh gawd so many nails.
There was never a hole I ever opened here that didn't have at least 2 and up to 6 or more bits of masking junk in it.
I, along with many others, suspected there were some great targets hiding here but for years many tried and could not make any headway including myself with several detectors, coils and hours spent trying.
I know for sure several members of my club hunted this site with top end FBS Minelabs and White's units with decades of experience, hunted it once only because the frustration factor drove them all to greener pastures.
The only quality thing I heard anyone dig out of this iron mine was one lonely silver dime and the math didn't add up for the time and work involved to find so little.
I am stubborn so after I got an F70 and spent a few months getting used to it I decided to wade back into this site and see what I could do with my new tool and all these settings at my disposal.
It took several hours and hunts to make any progress, at first I dug so much iron with nothing much else but eventually I started to dig a few targets that weren't iron and on every one I noticed some behavior that seemed to repeat somewhat when I swung over non ferrous items no matter how much iron was in that hole with it.
I experimented with different settings and using these new observations about target behavior I eventually I found I was digging less and less iron and more and more targets that were not iron.
Soon enough the really good stuff started to show up...when I dug my first silver dime that was a banner day and all the frustration melted away and all the time spent spinning my wheels while learning became a distant memory.
Over time I got to the point where I could recognize and dig better non ferrous targets at will, I only dug iron if I wanted too.
I learned two completely different ways to do this in heavy iron infested sites, one using disc and one using all metal...and I could do it with several completely different types and sizes of coils.
As time went on I tried these settings in other trash and heavy iron infested sites I had hunted in the past and was successful at finding more great things that I couldn't before so this was no fluke.
I had learned ways to use this Fisher to do jaw dropping things in very difficult iron infested sites and those lessons will be with me forever more.
The top end Fishers have a remarkable ability to hunt in iron and be amazingly successful but it is not always in your face obvious and just something you need to learn to do in my experience.
As in life, time spent learning anything can have positive results forever.
Below is a family pic of most of the totally masked and hidden targets I eventually found in that one iron mine farmhouse site.
We were all correct...there was a bunch of fantastic things hiding there including a bucket list walker half.
It just took a stubborn guy that had the patience to learn how to find them and a great tool with the ability to accomplish it.
