Sven
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Finally got to go out and detect, only for about 1 1/2 hours. Wife came a long to watch me, of course had to stop at Timmy's for her daily coffee first.
I went to a local soccer/ baseball field in a park that was hunted to death by the pros and newbies over the past 35 years. Didn't figure on finding much, not that it really mattered.
Read everything, well almost everything I could find about the F5. Spent several hours bench testing old and new Canadian clad, silver coins, silver rings, gold ring etc. and complied a listing of ID numbers etc. There will be a learning curve to this machine. Did manage to condense the ID number listing down to diggable numbers, ID, tone. Interesting to see older clad comes in different than newer clad. Silver pretty much ID's correctly and locks on. CA clad bounces, if on edge produces a low tone with Id numbers 6-8.
Since this was going to be my first hunt, pretty much everything that is repeatable, on my list would be dug. Hunted in disc mode, threshold at 3 o'clock and Gain at 12:00, disc set at 5 otherwise coins on edge would not be found. Set tones at 3 tones.
Soooo, we made it to the hunt site, turned the unit and trekked away. I found it easy to get used to this machine and use coming off the Fisher ID Edge and used to manual adjusted controls. Started digging signals just to see what ID numbered targets were, a bunch of junk was pulled out of the ground, which I thought would be junk and those I thought were coins. Some signals were iffy, sounded like coins, maybe deep, found that they were indeed coins. Most of the coins were before 1980, which is fine with me, gives me the incentive to go back over places others have been.
Had one target ID'd as silver and locked on, to my surprise dug up a 1930 silver dime, first silver coin in 2 years of hunting.
I am very happy with the F5 at this point, just need to work on pinpointing with the stock coil. My F5 is version 6.2.
Hope to get out later this afternoon , going back to the same spot.
P.S. My wife now want an ID machine again, last one she had was a Garrett GTi1500 about 8 years ago. She decided she wants to let the Tesoro Silver umax with the stock 8" and 7" coils go. Think she is sold on a Teknetics Greek version.
I went to a local soccer/ baseball field in a park that was hunted to death by the pros and newbies over the past 35 years. Didn't figure on finding much, not that it really mattered.
Read everything, well almost everything I could find about the F5. Spent several hours bench testing old and new Canadian clad, silver coins, silver rings, gold ring etc. and complied a listing of ID numbers etc. There will be a learning curve to this machine. Did manage to condense the ID number listing down to diggable numbers, ID, tone. Interesting to see older clad comes in different than newer clad. Silver pretty much ID's correctly and locks on. CA clad bounces, if on edge produces a low tone with Id numbers 6-8.
Since this was going to be my first hunt, pretty much everything that is repeatable, on my list would be dug. Hunted in disc mode, threshold at 3 o'clock and Gain at 12:00, disc set at 5 otherwise coins on edge would not be found. Set tones at 3 tones.
Soooo, we made it to the hunt site, turned the unit and trekked away. I found it easy to get used to this machine and use coming off the Fisher ID Edge and used to manual adjusted controls. Started digging signals just to see what ID numbered targets were, a bunch of junk was pulled out of the ground, which I thought would be junk and those I thought were coins. Some signals were iffy, sounded like coins, maybe deep, found that they were indeed coins. Most of the coins were before 1980, which is fine with me, gives me the incentive to go back over places others have been.
Had one target ID'd as silver and locked on, to my surprise dug up a 1930 silver dime, first silver coin in 2 years of hunting.
I am very happy with the F5 at this point, just need to work on pinpointing with the stock coil. My F5 is version 6.2.
Hope to get out later this afternoon , going back to the same spot.
P.S. My wife now want an ID machine again, last one she had was a Garrett GTi1500 about 8 years ago. She decided she wants to let the Tesoro Silver umax with the stock 8" and 7" coils go. Think she is sold on a Teknetics Greek version.
