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Threw the sniper coil on the new F70 the other day.
Target separation is fantastic.
They say it is pretty good using the long scanning field in the 11"dd too, but some of my super trashy sites the garbage is so close and concentrated it will be easier just to use this sniper so I am thrilled that I have one now.
These are the results from a couple of short hunts in very trashy areas I have hit many times before.
Still picking up nickels like they were shallow silver dollars, they are so easy to hear in 3H or 4H.
All good targets coming in loud and clear no matter how deep.
Tried DP for a bit because mudpuppy says once you learn the sounds you KNOW what you are swinging over.
Still confuses me a little because I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of how different targets sound...yet, but I did roll over a couple of bottle caps and they did sound different than dimes or quarters with extra jumping and sounds like a low tone iron grunt here and there so one day with practice this might be my setting for hunting sites with a million of these in the ground.
Hit a few bottle caps with the 11" dd and I do belive there might have been an iron grunt in there too, but I do remember digging them so I might have been fooled and that is something you just have to deal with using DD's
Using the 10" eliptical or this sniper those high tone bottle caps don't seem to be a problem at all.
I took a little trip into a woodsy area that is overgrown a bit now, but at one time had a small house and a couple more buildings.
A very difficult area to hunt, I call it the iron mine because it seems like they just knocked down all the buildings, (some had tin roofs), and just covered it all with a layer of dirt there is so much garbage in there.
Iron, steel, tin aluminum and more of all sizes from small to huge in there, but using the F70 in this environment was a wonderful experience.
Disc on 1, I could hear all the iron grunts and over the large pieces the overload sound plus with the jumping I know the Fishers do over irregular shaped trash I could almost paint a perfect picture in my head of exactly what was below me.
I can see that for relic hunters in iron heavy sites this thing would be a potent weapon.
Yesterday came across this tiny ring, too.
A 73, maybe 3-4" deep, came up pretty clean, looks like silver, cleaned up like silver with black marks on my cleaning cloth, not a mark on it anywhere, however, so I am not counting it till I test it.
Could be stainless but whatever it is it is small and found easily with the F70.
Messing around with the thresh still, managed to get it up into the positive numbers with the sniper to maybe 1 or 2, but it still skews the sound of the tones a little too much for my taste.
I could get the sense into the 90's but usually push it back to 80 or so for a little quieter experience.
Past 90 it says in the manual that you will start to hear circuitry noise and that is true.
Just a small hum like a background threshold but I will probably not go that high unless it is necessary.
Even at half that setting it still seems to go deep.
Screwed up weather coming in again but I get out when I can here and there when it gets into the 30's so maybe Sunday I will have a shot at another hunt.
Target separation is fantastic.
They say it is pretty good using the long scanning field in the 11"dd too, but some of my super trashy sites the garbage is so close and concentrated it will be easier just to use this sniper so I am thrilled that I have one now.
These are the results from a couple of short hunts in very trashy areas I have hit many times before.
Still picking up nickels like they were shallow silver dollars, they are so easy to hear in 3H or 4H.
All good targets coming in loud and clear no matter how deep.
Tried DP for a bit because mudpuppy says once you learn the sounds you KNOW what you are swinging over.
Still confuses me a little because I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of how different targets sound...yet, but I did roll over a couple of bottle caps and they did sound different than dimes or quarters with extra jumping and sounds like a low tone iron grunt here and there so one day with practice this might be my setting for hunting sites with a million of these in the ground.
Hit a few bottle caps with the 11" dd and I do belive there might have been an iron grunt in there too, but I do remember digging them so I might have been fooled and that is something you just have to deal with using DD's
Using the 10" eliptical or this sniper those high tone bottle caps don't seem to be a problem at all.
I took a little trip into a woodsy area that is overgrown a bit now, but at one time had a small house and a couple more buildings.
A very difficult area to hunt, I call it the iron mine because it seems like they just knocked down all the buildings, (some had tin roofs), and just covered it all with a layer of dirt there is so much garbage in there.
Iron, steel, tin aluminum and more of all sizes from small to huge in there, but using the F70 in this environment was a wonderful experience.
Disc on 1, I could hear all the iron grunts and over the large pieces the overload sound plus with the jumping I know the Fishers do over irregular shaped trash I could almost paint a perfect picture in my head of exactly what was below me.
I can see that for relic hunters in iron heavy sites this thing would be a potent weapon.
Yesterday came across this tiny ring, too.
A 73, maybe 3-4" deep, came up pretty clean, looks like silver, cleaned up like silver with black marks on my cleaning cloth, not a mark on it anywhere, however, so I am not counting it till I test it.
Could be stainless but whatever it is it is small and found easily with the F70.
Messing around with the thresh still, managed to get it up into the positive numbers with the sniper to maybe 1 or 2, but it still skews the sound of the tones a little too much for my taste.
I could get the sense into the 90's but usually push it back to 80 or so for a little quieter experience.
Past 90 it says in the manual that you will start to hear circuitry noise and that is true.
Just a small hum like a background threshold but I will probably not go that high unless it is necessary.
Even at half that setting it still seems to go deep.
Screwed up weather coming in again but I get out when I can here and there when it gets into the 30's so maybe Sunday I will have a shot at another hunt.