F 75 LTD swing speed question Please ????

[grumpy]

Evening folks; I have a question on the New F 75 LTD I have. I have used it a bit and it really is a great machine after several years on the minelab train. What I am curious about is the swing speed. I realize you can just fly along and I have and it works great but ; Can you go slow too without any poor effects on your hunting???? I guess what I wonder about is when it is clean ground I buzz along and get targets real nicely but when it is trashy with my hearing I need to slow down and listen to the sounds like the Sov GT which is slow or nothing. I cant tell from try ing it that it is causing any problem but wanted feedback. What I like to do in trash when I hit a target is swing delibertly about the coil width back and forth and see what all is coming up on the meter and if it is a good repeatable sound?
Thanks for any info
Grumpy

 

[jim tn]

Good morning Grumpy,

I am almost reluctant to respond to your post for fear it will be taken the wrong way, but oh h**l, here goes.

In the bp mode and when hunting in trash, I have found I have been able to slow my swing speed down a good bit. I have been using the small 5" coil a lot and by being able to slow down seems to help me really zero in on some of the so called "handicapped" targets. Being able to slow down seems to work for me in my small corner of Tn. ground. Results may vary in other parts of the state or other states as a whole. HH jim tn

 

[grumpy]

Thanks Jim;'
That is what I am finding in colorado here. We have high high mineral and lots of trash. Also found on two test yesterday where I got like 32 / 71 for example when I was going slow evidently the twin numbers are both good I always found a item for the fit on the h igher number. Sometimes I found the lower number item too but not always could be because once I found the coin I quit in most of the holes and checked again but it did go to just a single number that was right for the trash left. Helped me answer the bounce number deal. Gotta admit tho with years on Minelab the Fisher 75 Ltd is putting all to shame for I have not yet hunted any place that I had not combed good with a minelab before. Found 10 quaters y esterday in a place I covered goooood with dif minelabs an area about 15 by 15 ft.
Good luck and again thanks; If you worrie like me sometimes us PM I dont mind Jim
Thanks
Grumpy

 

[jim tn]

I have found the same thing quite often Grumpy, when there seems to be multi and or bouncy numbers. Some times in the same clod it is just a rust spot along with a good target. Although I am in the habit of making a swing back over the clod and hole, once I recover the good taret and don't get another good hit with re-checking, I don't look any further for what may have caused the funky reading in the first place. HH jim tn

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I agree that using BP mode with a slow swing speed will pick the goodies out, especially in trashy areas.

What I find is that with BP mode you can really swing as fast as you want, but you end up slowing your swing speed down because you cannot process the targets as fast as the LTD can, especially in trash. Yesterday I was working a spot I've worked hard, and though I had got it all, but I was still finding keepers going really slow in BP mode. I pulled two wheats out of a hole right next to a LARGE rusty nail, I couldn't believe it.

HH,
Brian

 

[boxofchocolates]

I have wobbled it back and forth over a target and it s like it just keeps going deeper with better id on a good hit....and I will swing it back and forth a couple of feet to hear the tone in the same target area....I try all kinds of things with this detector its got some surprises......glad your finding the goodies......hh......Dan

 

[tvr]

Last hunt I switched to DE and played some. I have been running almost exclusively in BP mode. Found that I had to keep sweep speed up to get good ID numbers in DE mode. In BP I can slow down and get repeatable ID numbers. Slowing down helps me separate targets better.

I will need to spend more time in the cache mode too. I've tried it briefly. Cache mode likes slower sweep too; but where it was real trashy I was having trouble getting stable ID numbers in cache mode.
tvr