F70 nickel notch question

[Bill_S]

How many TID numbers does the nickel notch have. For example if you were to notch out foil and pull tabs and left the nickel notch open how many TID numbers are left open? I think on the Omega it was 55-60. I think the F5 has a lot wider zone for nickels.

 

[mudpuppy]

I'll check on mine today and get back to you once the sun comes up, and I get back from diggin.
Mud

 

[mudpuppy]

25 to 36

 

[Bill_S]

Thanks

 

[MarkCZ]

With the 11" DD coil the range can be narrowed down a lot, but if your using something like the 10" concentric coil then for deeper nickles you would need a wider range. For me nickles seem to go up the VID range the deeper they are, or to say beyond 4".
Other coins do this but nothing like nickels.
My Omega with the 11" DD seems to keep nickles beyond 4" closer to the nickel VID range.

Mark

 

[Bill_S]

So if you were to notch in nickels you would be accepting everything from 25-36? That seems like a pretty big spread.

 

[mudpuppy]

Hey Bill...I've had nickles TID in at 28-34 with 32 being the main number......in My World there arnt too many signals bothering a fellow in that window, usually its either nickles or parts of a can, or a gold ring, or half a square tab, or a button off the top of a ball cap, half a snap off a jacket, one of those metal things with the little teeth for that tan compression wrap fabric, etc. The bothersome reading is the full pulltab at 36 and up to 38, that pulltab notch goes clear up into the 50's I think...I've found nothing but junk in all my years swinging on signals from 40 to 55, so I guess a fellow could safely notch out those...Girls gold class rings bang in right dead on 37, as does my wedding ring, and a mens class ring is 61 on my machine, a few silver chain bracelets were 57ish...all of the gold rings ive found were in the mid to high 20's, nickle, and pulltab.
Mud

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Keep in mind old nickles such as buffalo, shield, V come in much lower along with real deep Jefferson and thats the reason for the large window. If you are just after newer Jefferson after a while you will see the window is small and may vary a tad from unit to unit..For instance on my F5....30 its a nickle most of the time but indeed
the old round tab,new square tab misc.can slaw or even a gold ring are possible in this window...Darned if you dig and darned if you don't....

 

[MarkCZ]

Keep in mind old nickles such as buffalo, shield, V come in much lower along with real deep Jefferson

I have been curious about nickles for a long time, in my testing (in WV dirt) and with ALL my detectors, nickels goes up the VDI scale the deeper they are in the ground (Jefferson's anyway) My coin garden is now over two years old and I have nickels planted at,
3"
4"
5"
6"

The 3" to 4" holds pretty good in the nickel range,
5" jumps up above the nickel into the square tab zone,
6" and the jump up to the screw cap range and will sometimes hit in the copper penny range.

So far the Omega with the 11" DD coil holds the deeper nickels the closest to their VDI range.
The worse machine I have to do this is my 1266. I can set the disc up well above the 3" nickel and swing over the 6" and it will hit solid, I'm pretty sure that's way the 1266 were such good nickles machines.
The nickels at depth jumps pretty high with my XLT but they don't make it high enough to clear the trash range.
They also went way high on my Whites 5900 Di Pro-sl,
They go high on both my CoinStrikes,
And they go way high on the Omega using the 10" concentric coil.

In my testing of the nickels I have found them to be the most allusive and even evasive coin I've delt with, I can wade through fair grounds and pretty much call nickels down to around 3" beyond that forget it.

Mark

 

[zeekeys]

Bill, Mud has it right on, for the F70. I have the same results. That is why I run like I do. Sens@70, Dics@24,Thresh@-3, notch@tabs, Tones@3H.
I am a coin hunter. I will be 72 soon. I can only dig so many targets in a day. On a good day up to 100 or more and on a bad day maybe 50. When I used my beep and dig detectors I dug everything. I think it was like 30/1 bad to good? I can no longer run with that kind of results. Yesterday I had 22 good hits and 5 bad. Wine bottle caps rang as a 72, pull tops from cans as 70, a piece of wire and metal together gave me a low 60ish reading. I can have 60 or more coins in my pouch and 10 pieces of trash. I know that I am passing up good targets. I go home satisfied. That is all that counts to me..... Thanks for reading ......Z

 

[Bill_S]

Thanks for all the input......I like the fact that you can setup the detector to high tone for nickles. That way you can swing along and listen for the high tones like on the CZ3D.