F75 First Hunt

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Took the F75 out to a very old school in Sutter Creek that I have hunted before with the compass I found a 1923 nickle with the gold scanner pro last year and the year before an Indian head penny 1899. With the T2 I found clad this past winter. So enter the arena with the F75 and I find this nice Barber DIme. The target was iffy but an 89 kept popping up and I had to slow down to really find it. It was about 8 inches deep in soft ground. I can't say the F75 is really any better then the T2. I was in 3H mood and sens at about 65 the disc was at about 5 and I was in the demo mood the first preset.

It was a tough find very tough...if I was in very trashy ground I would have missed it. The machine is almost too fast it will skip over a target that is deep and mixed with bad soil so you do have to slow down and go over those high tones.

I would have missed it with 2 tones because the dime did not give off a clear enough higher tone. It was mixed in with the iron tone. I think these machines are so sensitive that you still get a bit of the minerals in the soil even if you find clean ground. Maybe in Calif manual ground bal like the compass is the way to really get the machine running very tight. Maybe balance it a bit on the + side?

 

[MattR]

[quote Low-Boy/LCPM]Took the F75 out to a very old school in Sutter Creek that I have hunted before with the compass I found a 1923 nickle with the gold scanner pro last year and the year before an Indian head penny 1899. With the T2 I found clad this past winter. So enter the arena with the F75 and I find this nice Barber DIme. The target was iffy but an 89 kept popping up and I had to slow down to really find it. It was about 8 inches deep in soft ground. I can't say the F75 is really any better then the T2. I was in 3H mood and sens at about 65 the disc was at about 5 and I was in the demo mood the first preset.
It was a tough find very tough...if I was in very trashy ground I would have missed it. The machine is almost too fast it will skip over a target that is deep and mixed with bad soil so you do have to slow down and go over those high tones.

I would have missed it with 2 tones because the dime did not give off a clear enough higher tone. It was mixed in with the iron tone. I think these machines are so sensitive that you still get a bit of the minerals in the soil even if you find clean ground. Maybe in Calif manual ground bal like the compass is the way to really get the machine running very tight. Maybe balance it a bit on the + side?[/quote]

Hi there LB!

Nice to see you have your new 75.

You are obviously starting cautiously with the settings you've quoted.

May I suggest you be a little more adventurous and move the disc level up to 10, maybe even 12..?

Then once you've ground balanced, increase your motion sensitivity up to at least 70. In the case of your Dime find, I think it may have come through stronger and with less of the iron tone.
8 inches on a Dime sized coin, with tonal identification is a good hit. Without knowledge of your soil conditions it is hard to realise just how good a hit it was.

The F75 is potentially better than the T2, you just have to give yourself a little more time to discover that fact.
As with any detector,it will only be as good as the man using it.

[size=large]Forget the T2 and re-learn your new unit.[/size]

Don't dig your next good target until you've 'experimented' `with it by changing the tones and processes.

You need to be patient but quick in the experimental stages, for the settings opportunity 'time-out' after about 5 to 7 seconds.

DON'T mess with the notch at this early stage of learning, it could leave you with a confused set-up. If in doubt, refer to page 7, and follow the section on the RESET function. That will bring matters back to normal default mode.........All the best. "Go get'em".....MattR.UK.

p.s. Go back there and let the F75 root out the 'goodies'.

Just stand still and work the area repeatedly within your sweep for several minutes. I guarantee with that method you will find lots of good targets.

JUST DIG THOSE PERSISTENT TARGETS REGARDLESS OF TONES, and let's see what you bring to the table.

Please don't talk about the ground UNLESS YOU QUOTE THE RELEVANT GB AND Fe READINGS.....PLEASE..........MattR.UK.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

May I suggest you be a little more adventurous and move the disc level up to 10, maybe even 12..?

So how do you set up your iron for relic hunting? I would run the T2 at say 21 I was told by Bill Ladd that five on the F75 is about = to what 21 is on the T2. I thought you want to hear the iron so it won't mask out the higher tones?

You live in the UK and from what I have read you have a lot of iron? Do you have trash mixed in with it like we do in the US? I was turf hunting not something I liked to do with the T2. So give me some of your tips for different hunting in different types of ground and how you set up your F75.

Thanks Mate
Low-Boy

 

[Old California]

Cool finds Lawrenzo,

Good to hear your first hunt found some nice finds, As Matt said take some time to learn the new machine.

I've noticed several new F-75 users are experiencing what we T-2 users did at the beginning and we still continue too, Super fast recovery speed, excellent depth and great separation especially in older areas full of iron.

I like the F-75 but then again the T-2 fills the need for certain types of detecting, Most likely I'll stay with the T-2, I'm kind of old school and enjoy twisting knobs.

Paul (Ca)

 

[Bill Ladd]

But the audio is hard to duplicate. MattR has some great points. There's alot different on the F75 in many ways. Trying to replicate that T2 monotone setting may hinder us from finding a great iron set-up on the F75....keep experimenting with different tones/processes & disc settings. I'm still doing all that myself. I really like MattR's idea of finding say a weak target you think is worth digging, but before digging switch around into some other processes. This helps to see which mode/tones make that buried target sound louder or more diggable. Sometimes I bring those little flags & mark targets of interest. Then get either another unit or a different setting to see what happens. This actually can be fun to test in that way....different that your typical beep/dig routine.
HH,
Bill

 

[FrankMD]

test garden, it'd be a great idea to try various modes and settings.