F2 Pinpointing...

[mnteer]

Just bought an F2 and have about 4 hrs in on it, 1st time detectorist, btw with any machine standard 8 in coil no 4 in coil but am thinking maybe about getting one.

My question is this: I've learned to dig the beeps at 00 when it beeps, that part had me confused at 1st, I am detecting around my house just for practice purposes right now am keeping the Sens low about 2 bars maybe 3 depending on the distance I am away from my house. 1st part of queston the EMI that is coming from the appliances and what not in the house how far out should that affect the Sens on the machine? 2nd part of the question is this, is it better to turn down the Sens when Pinpointing a target or should it stay the same as when I am targeting the the object before I start to Pinpoint?


Also I understand that the generalized assumpution that the higher the Sens when in trashy area will lead to lesser and often obscure finds, nails, pull tabs, and almunium cans and such, is it better to turn the Sens down to weed out more of the trash or turn it up with Disc set up higher a bit more?


Any help or input would be much welcomed thank you.

 

[REVIER]

Just bought an F2 and have about 4 hrs in on it, 1st time detectorist, btw with any machine standard 8 in coil no 4 in coil but am thinking maybe about getting one.

My question is this: I've learned to dig the beeps at 00 when it beeps, that part had me confused at 1st, I am detecting around my house just for practice purposes right now am keeping the Sens low about 2 bars maybe 3 depending on the distance I am away from my house. 1st part of queston the EMI that is coming from the appliances and what not in the house how far out should that affect the Sens on the machine?

.EMI can affect detectors all around houses, power lines overhead and underground, and wifi goes pretty far too, and if you don't have wifi, a neighbor or two sure could.
Some parks I hunt my F2 just goes crazy, others it is quiet as a mouse.


2nd part of the question is this, is it better to turn down the Sens when Pinpointing a target or should it stay the same as when I am targeting the the object before I start to Pinpoint?

Keep it the same.


Also I understand that the generalized assumpution that the higher the Sens when in trashy area will lead to lesser and often obscure finds, nails, pull tabs, and almunium cans and such,

???? No, this is wrong.


is it better to turn the Sens down to weed out more of the trash or turn it up with Disc set up higher a bit more?

I always hunt with sense high as possible...maxed out actually most of the time.
Turning down the sense to scan at higher levels in the soil will not weed out much trash because even on 1 bar you can still get pretty deep in good soil.
The smaller sniper coil is better for hunting in trash to get around trash.

With more practice, you will see that if you want to avoid some of the trash, just don't dig many signals that do quite a bit of jumping...like 6-10 numbers.

I consider a solid and good digging signal numbers that stay stable or jump no more than 2 numbers with the depth bar on the right also steady with no jumping.
As the different parts of the coil moves over trash like tabs or foil or can slaw, it seems like it just can't lock on so there is some big jumping going on.
Good signals like coins and rings pretty much stay stable on numbers and that depth bar, but so do some of those screw-on and pop tops too.

You are very new at this and I know this is all very confusing, but just keep swinging and learning and reading and it will come.


Any help or input would be much welcomed thank you.

 

[mnteer]

I will try out what you've said after bit and try to dig some today.

I've gotten a few targets where it almost seems like the machine is sticking (same number, same depth, same strength) but I've moved away from the area like 4 or 5 feet just to see if it will still do that and it does. Is this an indication of a steady target that I would possibly want to dig or could it be bad ground conditions etc. Thats what had me the most confused and I didn't try to Pinpont the target either so I'm not sure. I will try and Pinpoint those targets and dig them just to see what comes up.

General area around here has seen floods (not flash flooding in my area though) live in West Virginia but not "coal country" around me more like naturual gas.

Thank you so much, mnteer.