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F 75 LTD2 with 5" coil is a deadly combination. :fisher:

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jim tn

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Decided to give the ole Military housing site a shot this morning. Hadn't been out there for a while and occasionally after a prolonged absence it welcomes me back with something good. And this morning, it did!

The grass on the spot was a little long, but they had mowed the curb strips and a 5' swath from the sidewalks in. Which, is a path, so to speak, right up to the houses old foundations. Having hit the curb strips numerous times over the years I opted to concentrate on the 2 feet or so closest to the foundations figuring when the inside of the sidewalks were being hunted our coils may not have covered the ground closest to the foundations all that good. And as fate would have it, that was the case. With, but one exception.

Upon starting my hunting about 7a it wasn't to long before I had a couple of Memorial cents and 2 wheats in my pouch, so thought I might be onto something. As is the case anymore on this spot good targets were few and covering some distance of ground I would move my vehicle down the street to another shady spot. About 9:30 and my 3rd move I ground balanced and began with few swings beside my car along the curb strip. Very quickly I got a whimper that repeated and from about 7" recovered the 61d Franklin half. Located it first off with the pin pointer and it was straight up and down. A few minutes later swinging closes to a foundation got another faint whimper that was kind of scratchy and that turned out to be the 36 Merc. also about 7". Snagged one more wheat cent and a little after 10 called it a wrap.

Hunted mostly in DE mode, although, did run in the JE mode some and recovered 2 or 3 Memorials and a clad dime, with sen. of 90, 0 disc. notch 1 and 3h tones. HH jim tn
 
Deadly combination is exactly right! That old military site just keeps on paying dividends, that half standing on it's edge was a great find Jim, nice work there.
 
Nice bud. Right on, sidestep all the way down the concrete and hunt the stuff right at the edge of the concrete and those on edge targets. The F75 is great at that. That 5" and the little elliptical coil are killers ain't they. :thumbup: :clapping: Yeah buddy. Good going my friend. HH Jerry aka Tinfoil
 
Look at that Franklin! Jealous Jealous Jealous :jump:

What a happy dance day!

HH
Mike
 
n/t
 
Awesome hunt Jim! Very hard to find Ben Franklin these days. This deserves a cold one:cheers:
 
Okay Jim nice find, I am putting my 5" back on the stick.

I was thinking that working it along the sidewalks is where others may be missing the boat.

Ron in WV
 
Beautiful Ben jim haha!!!! Nice hunting....rick in mi
 
On my F70 in my devil dirt, most of it loaded with both trash and very heavy iron, I have learned to use the standard concentric and the big DD with great success but the sniper coil has turned out to be my most potent weapon and tool overall.
If you said I had to get rid of all coils I own except one in the much better low mineralized Kansas soil I used to hunt I would choose the big DD but here in this mess no question the sniper would be my overwhelming choice.
 
Thanks everyone for your comments and observations. If one uses what I call the stealth hunting approach, and many of you no doubt do, on trashy and hard hunted spots, there will be some additional keepers to be recovered. I went back to the site early Sat morning and again this morning and on the Sat mornings hunt recovered another Mercury dime and a very small sterling ring with a red stone from the curb strips doing what Jerry, AKA Tinfoil, calls the sidestep down the strip. This morning, I got 2 more Merc's. Both hunts were with the 5" coil still on and these particular targets were in the 6-7" depth range.

Stealth hunting isn't for everyone and seems to work best on beat to death spots. It is a slow hunting approach that takes patience and hard concentration. One just inches their way along and concentrates on those small, faint whispers. The 5" coil doesn't cover much ground, but with laser like effect can really zero in on those faint whispers. Also, and I have mentioned this before, I feel coins have a more solid ting to them in dry ground.

Anyway, I thought I would pass this along as I know many of you are ardent old coin hunters and this approach has worked for me. HH jim tn
 
Sidestep it again. Since the elliptical is a concentric it should get some more depth for you since you got the DD coil stuff out of the way. After that then, the 11DD and that should really clean it out. I am a Clean it out type of guy. :rofl: .I don't want to leave nothing not even for my self. Way to go buddy. Clean um out. :detecting: :thumbup: .
 
Jerry, I don't have a 3 x 6 anymore. I have the 5 x 10 DD and while it does get a bit more depth, it also sees a little more ground. On a site like this, I usually start with the 11" DD and work my way down to the 5". This spot has been hunted since the 80's when the Military housing was torn down. And those Navy guys and their spouses liked their beer. HH jim tn
 
Nice going on finding Ben's hiding place! I still have yet to find out where he lives....:clapping:

Hope you guys get the Big Cooldown early this year....August is just plain murder after 9am in W TN :stretcher:
 
I agree with that combo being killer. I test every detector I purchase ,on my own personal property, to see if I can manage any good target that the others have missed. The last two coins I found were 20's wheaties mixed in with an abundance of nails. The signal wasn't awesome, but enough to make me stop and investigate. The recovery speed is so quick, that not much can hide unless totally masked. I have tried the R2 with 5x10 and a few tesoro's with 5" coils after the F75, and have yet to find anything else. I have not tried my OOR coil on the R2 yet, but so far the F75LTD holds the title. I have lived at my property for over 6 years and ran Ace250, DFX, 705,Etrac, Atpro, MXTpro, Bandito2, Outlaw, and R2 over it. In all fairness, I did not have the R2, or the 2 Tesoro's before the last 2 coins were found.
I don't feel the F75 gets trumped by anything I have tried to date. My favorite land detector has been the 705 till the F75DST. I'm still a little torn between the two, but the 705 usually takes back seat now. I haven't given the R2 a fair enough shake yet. Anyway, congrats on the Big Silver. Ben is still on my bucket list.
 
Jim nice job finding old Ben!

I've been playing with my F75 LTD2, after letting it sit a while learning the R1/R2, and it's still a solid machine. The DST came in handy at a site that has given my R1/R2 units a challenge.

hh,
Brian
 
My 5" coil has sat on the shelf most of the time. I pulled it out once to hunt a field and found a CW bullet. After reading your post, I decided to pull it out again and hunt areas that I have beat to death, slowing down and seeking new targets. I have found many coins that I believe I passed up with the F-75 LTD stock coil. Seems to me that swinging the stock coil, multiple targets are 'seen' by the coil at once and as a result, you miss numerous good signals. The detector has to sort these multiple targets out to decide what ID number to assign. With the 5", each target for the most part, is singled out. It picked many coins out that my stock coil did not ID as a coin. Just my opinion. So, as an experiment, I will stick with the small %" for a while. I have a Facebook page too, where I post pics from hunts. I have included recent hunts with the 5" coil. My FB page is called BP's Metal Detecting Lounge, in case anyone wants to peek at some find pics. I also have pics of the CS belt buckle I found here in Goldsboro, NC last year.
 
I got into an argument a few years ago with a member on another forum about snipers.
He insisted that larger coils are just as good because they get signals on the same targets as snipers so no advantage.
He had an issue with me finding so many gold rings and coins in public parks where he never could in his trashy parks so it had to be that my parks were just better sites that had more gold in my areas than his.
I tried to explain that it isn't about just getting a signal but more about what kind of signal you get that will make you notice and dig because I managed to find these things in many different parks in two different states...and the target volume really picked up noticeably after I started using sniper coils.
With a smaller footprint good targets will be noticed easier with sometimes more obvious signals when surrounded by intense trash or iron...not to mention the up and down-averaging issue.
He was having none of that so I politely asked him if he would kindly just give me the locations of some very trashy sites he hunted that he swore had no good targets at all when he hunted them.
Alas, he never did.

I never thought twice about using sniper coils for almost two years...then I put one on.
Now they are my favorite coil of all and are now a must-have and mostly a go-to for all my detectors.
 
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