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Ok, hunt # 3 and things just keep getting better and better...if that is even possible to believe.
Dug a little more trash to check to make sure that jumpy signals are trash...and all of them were.
Got fooled only one time by a bottle cap that came in as a pretty solid dime signal and believe me there were bottle caps all over this place, and some other solid signals in foil nickel and tabs that didn't jump much and those were trash too but that is normal and I know this can happen if the trash is shallow or presenting itself flat in the ground which does happen from time to time.
Overall I dug relatively little trash and still found all the targets you see in the pic below in areas I hunted before.
This thing is a wonder on good targets like coins and rings and other things.
Nice solid sounding signals, sometimes a little jumpy in the numbers but I listen for the good tone first and foremost and never even look at the screen until I hear one and then go back and examine the target a little more thoroughly and then try to hit targets from different angles if necessary to calm those numbers down to stay within 2 or 3..
This worked for me using the F2 and it works using the F70 but even more so.
This one is just more precise for lack of a better term, with what seems to be even more information in those tones than the 4 I heard on my F2.
This is hard to explain but I know there is a difference and the difference is something I can use to make me an even more efficient and faster hunter.
Depth is pretty amazing and I am easily hitting deeper areas with clear signals using this thing and the 10" elliptical coil which I am really starting to love.
The F2 and the 10" coil went pretty deep from time to time too, but the different shape hunting in areas with trash does seem to affect the info I received...hunting with this new coil is almost like hunting with a sniper or a DD coil and that thinner scanning field.
A few times I picked up a coin target in the same hole as a tab or a piece of foil and the F70 seemed to lock onto the good target and ignore the bad one right next to it.
Well, not ignore really, the numbers did jump more than 3 a few times from certain directions but the good tone I heard triggered me to dig and even though in these cases the numbers jumped a little more than the 2 or 3 I was looking for every time I dug one of these jumpier but solid sounding full signals I did find a good target very close to the vicinity of trash.
In trash this thing is more surprising and efficient than I thought it could be without a sniper coil and when there is a clean area to hunt this thing can acquire targets like it is honing in on the thing with a laser...no matter what that target might be.
Coins...this thing is a beast and even better than my F2 I think.
Nickels...look at the pic, this thing seems to love to find them in open areas or trashy ones and the proof is here.
I was still using 4H tones and those nickels just seemed to come alive with solid tones that said dig me whenever and wherever I came across them.
This is a very good ability for a mostly gold hunter like me.
I messed around with the thresh a little bit but couldn't go any higher than -1 before the tones started to become to fuzzy which I don't like.
The sense I left up between 80 and 99 most of the time, a little lower when I got too much noise in a few areas.
A little noisy on the higher settings but I was finding stuff 6 and 7" deep at 80 and maybe a bit deeper at that lower setting so I am confident this thing will find me deeper targets if I come across them at even lower settings than that.
All in all a great day and every minute I swing this thing I seem to be getting a little more comfortable with it and it feels so natural in my hands.
Again, I must thank the F2 and all those hours spent together for that.
I found a heartbreaker fake gold or low karat gold class ring shallow that came in as a solid nickel signal.
This was probably some sort of salesman's sample and would have been a cool and odd find, normally, but when I am on the hunt for my 12th piece of gold to hit a year long goal with very limited time left to do it this thing was just what I said...a heartbreaker...there is no other words to describe it.
As if the universe said we are not done messing with you yet I also found a silver looking ring and came up clean that might be real but it came in as a high zinc signal so maybe not and no markings so I am not counting it as silver but it was small and easily acquired at 6-7" deep.
A bunch more clad, also, and all of it found effortlessly and easily in clear areas and a few with some heavy trash.
Even a few odds and ends like several keys and the dog tag and junk charm among others not in the pic.
One more good weather day before I am maybe shut down for the winter so if I can get out today after some appointments and chores I will try to pick a good site and make it count.
Can't believe how much fun I am just starting to have and now it might end abruptly but that is life in the big city, I guess.
A northern city, anyway.
Hope to report back some more great things if I do get out today.
Dug a little more trash to check to make sure that jumpy signals are trash...and all of them were.
Got fooled only one time by a bottle cap that came in as a pretty solid dime signal and believe me there were bottle caps all over this place, and some other solid signals in foil nickel and tabs that didn't jump much and those were trash too but that is normal and I know this can happen if the trash is shallow or presenting itself flat in the ground which does happen from time to time.
Overall I dug relatively little trash and still found all the targets you see in the pic below in areas I hunted before.
This thing is a wonder on good targets like coins and rings and other things.
Nice solid sounding signals, sometimes a little jumpy in the numbers but I listen for the good tone first and foremost and never even look at the screen until I hear one and then go back and examine the target a little more thoroughly and then try to hit targets from different angles if necessary to calm those numbers down to stay within 2 or 3..
This worked for me using the F2 and it works using the F70 but even more so.
This one is just more precise for lack of a better term, with what seems to be even more information in those tones than the 4 I heard on my F2.
This is hard to explain but I know there is a difference and the difference is something I can use to make me an even more efficient and faster hunter.
Depth is pretty amazing and I am easily hitting deeper areas with clear signals using this thing and the 10" elliptical coil which I am really starting to love.
The F2 and the 10" coil went pretty deep from time to time too, but the different shape hunting in areas with trash does seem to affect the info I received...hunting with this new coil is almost like hunting with a sniper or a DD coil and that thinner scanning field.
A few times I picked up a coin target in the same hole as a tab or a piece of foil and the F70 seemed to lock onto the good target and ignore the bad one right next to it.
Well, not ignore really, the numbers did jump more than 3 a few times from certain directions but the good tone I heard triggered me to dig and even though in these cases the numbers jumped a little more than the 2 or 3 I was looking for every time I dug one of these jumpier but solid sounding full signals I did find a good target very close to the vicinity of trash.
In trash this thing is more surprising and efficient than I thought it could be without a sniper coil and when there is a clean area to hunt this thing can acquire targets like it is honing in on the thing with a laser...no matter what that target might be.
Coins...this thing is a beast and even better than my F2 I think.
Nickels...look at the pic, this thing seems to love to find them in open areas or trashy ones and the proof is here.
I was still using 4H tones and those nickels just seemed to come alive with solid tones that said dig me whenever and wherever I came across them.
This is a very good ability for a mostly gold hunter like me.
I messed around with the thresh a little bit but couldn't go any higher than -1 before the tones started to become to fuzzy which I don't like.
The sense I left up between 80 and 99 most of the time, a little lower when I got too much noise in a few areas.
A little noisy on the higher settings but I was finding stuff 6 and 7" deep at 80 and maybe a bit deeper at that lower setting so I am confident this thing will find me deeper targets if I come across them at even lower settings than that.
All in all a great day and every minute I swing this thing I seem to be getting a little more comfortable with it and it feels so natural in my hands.
Again, I must thank the F2 and all those hours spent together for that.
I found a heartbreaker fake gold or low karat gold class ring shallow that came in as a solid nickel signal.
This was probably some sort of salesman's sample and would have been a cool and odd find, normally, but when I am on the hunt for my 12th piece of gold to hit a year long goal with very limited time left to do it this thing was just what I said...a heartbreaker...there is no other words to describe it.
As if the universe said we are not done messing with you yet I also found a silver looking ring and came up clean that might be real but it came in as a high zinc signal so maybe not and no markings so I am not counting it as silver but it was small and easily acquired at 6-7" deep.
A bunch more clad, also, and all of it found effortlessly and easily in clear areas and a few with some heavy trash.
Even a few odds and ends like several keys and the dog tag and junk charm among others not in the pic.
One more good weather day before I am maybe shut down for the winter so if I can get out today after some appointments and chores I will try to pick a good site and make it count.
Can't believe how much fun I am just starting to have and now it might end abruptly but that is life in the big city, I guess.
A northern city, anyway.
Hope to report back some more great things if I do get out today.
The lower the sens, the tighter the target...try it out when you hit a target...just keep dropping it until the target is gone, and then turn it up until the target is audible and right under the sweet spot of the coil...just to see how much power this thing has...I did not think you would not be running that hot for the kind of work you like to do..yes the proportional audio feedback is really sensitive and tells a whole lot about all targets.
Got that area about cleaned out!
