My wife and I just got back from a week on St Simon's Island, Ga. While there, I gave my F 75 SE version 2 a daily workout at a couple of downtown parks. Both these parks are small and I have hunted on them numerous times over the last ten years that my wife and I have been going to the Island. And, there is no telling how many other detectors have been swung over it throughout the years.
Anyway, I ended up being pleasantly surprised at my over all results. Although I played around a little with modes FA, BP and DE, I ended up using DE the majority of the time and mainly in 3h and 4h tones, 0 disc. nothing notched and 90 sen., as the norm. Except for two small area's the 75 was chatter free. One spot was near a transformer and the other at the corner of an intersection. Moving a few feet away from these spots and all chatter was gone. There was nothing really to hunt around the transformer, so I didn't do anything to curtail the emi issue there. Cranking the sen. down to 60 allowed me to work the intersection corner.
I started out using the small 5" coil and as fate would have it, never took it off the entire trip. In that so Ga sand/dirt mixture I was digging targets, some coins, as deep as 7 to 9." And the 75 was still banging them pretty good. And that's not depth meter reading depth. The depth meter was reading 10-13" on the deepest targets I dug.
All in all, I ended up digging 4 silver dimes, 1, a 42s Merc. and 3 Rosies and also 1 43P war nickel. Also dug a light weight sterling ring and a 925 silver piece that was most likely on a chain at some time. Also got a 1898 IH cent, 2 Buffalo nickels, a 24 and a 36d, and 10 wheat cents. Oldest of the wheats was a 1919 and then 2 1936's.
Did dig a fair number of tab rings and tails, but usually was fairly certain what they were as most either bounced some or were some numbers off of 30/31. Was pleased with my nickel count, over all. Aside from a couple of deep crushed cans, the spoon was my deepest dug keeper target. It was slightly deeper then the 9" Pro Pin Pointer. The last photo is of some of the curio's and other typical stuff dug besides coins and usual park trash. The first photo is of the old lighthouse I shot off the pier one early morning. Now that I am back in W Tn, I sure would like to see winter end. HH jim tn
Anyway, I ended up being pleasantly surprised at my over all results. Although I played around a little with modes FA, BP and DE, I ended up using DE the majority of the time and mainly in 3h and 4h tones, 0 disc. nothing notched and 90 sen., as the norm. Except for two small area's the 75 was chatter free. One spot was near a transformer and the other at the corner of an intersection. Moving a few feet away from these spots and all chatter was gone. There was nothing really to hunt around the transformer, so I didn't do anything to curtail the emi issue there. Cranking the sen. down to 60 allowed me to work the intersection corner.
I started out using the small 5" coil and as fate would have it, never took it off the entire trip. In that so Ga sand/dirt mixture I was digging targets, some coins, as deep as 7 to 9." And the 75 was still banging them pretty good. And that's not depth meter reading depth. The depth meter was reading 10-13" on the deepest targets I dug.
All in all, I ended up digging 4 silver dimes, 1, a 42s Merc. and 3 Rosies and also 1 43P war nickel. Also dug a light weight sterling ring and a 925 silver piece that was most likely on a chain at some time. Also got a 1898 IH cent, 2 Buffalo nickels, a 24 and a 36d, and 10 wheat cents. Oldest of the wheats was a 1919 and then 2 1936's.
Did dig a fair number of tab rings and tails, but usually was fairly certain what they were as most either bounced some or were some numbers off of 30/31. Was pleased with my nickel count, over all. Aside from a couple of deep crushed cans, the spoon was my deepest dug keeper target. It was slightly deeper then the 9" Pro Pin Pointer. The last photo is of some of the curio's and other typical stuff dug besides coins and usual park trash. The first photo is of the old lighthouse I shot off the pier one early morning. Now that I am back in W Tn, I sure would like to see winter end. HH jim tn
HH jim tn