F75 settings for the Beach

[prankster2u]

Whats the best settings on the old Fisher F75 for Beach Detecting.

 

[Elton]

Ground balance in manual a must and run as high as you can on sens in JE Mode without getting a lot of feedback noise. Two tones works better too.

 

[jim tn]

With my regular F 75 I stayed in de mode usually or all metal. In the dry sand you will have little or no problem. Over wet sand, as Elton said, manual gb is the only way you can gb it. On the Ga coast my gb was usually around 9-16 in the wet sand. Good luck. HH jim tn

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

2 tones manual ground balance, DE mode. Maybe try boost or Je with same settings.

 

[markg]

Dry or wet sand hunting?

 

[tvr]

Here is an older post by Tinfoil on hunting salt water beaches and handling wet areas:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,617795,618873#msg-618873 Tinfoil did some other posts on set up that I am not finding right now.

markg posted some video a while back and he talks through some settings as he demonstrates the detector response on the video.

Set up is a bit different over wet salt and black sand areas than it is most other places; that is why Mark is asking wet or dry. Ground balance is critical over the wet salt sand areas, like Elton indicates. It can be in the single digits and many of the east coast beaches I've hunted are in the 0 to 1 range where you need to be on the correct click and checking GB frequently. (5 clicks for each number, e.g. 0 has 5 clicks before you get to 1, then 5 clicks more until you get to 2). The F75 manual explains it well.

I prefer the 10 inch concentric coil for the wet salt sand areas, although the 11 inch DD (standard coil) works well.

Let us know a little more about your hunting conditions.