Ed Steinhoff
Active member
Weather and work finally cooperated to let me do my first offical hunt of the year in my home valley!
Been learning my f-70 for a little over a year now and I can say I am finally getting confident with it and able to program different settings for different sites. As my hunt site today was a 3year old school totlot
I was not expecting any old deep targets so my settings were disc 15, speed de, sens 45, thres -2, tones dp,(more about that later), and it ground balanced at 74, which is low for this area. Normal gb in this area runs from 85 to 90.
The top 3 to 4 inches of wood chips were thawed out, but below that it was still solid ice so there were a few good signals that had to stay. I was usinf the 11" f-75 coil for ground coverage and discovered somthing that might be of use. I hunted all last year in 4h tones and with the big coil it was just confuseing and chattey next to the playground euipment, so I either left those areas alone or switched to a tracker IV with a 4" coil to get close. BUT, with the dp tones I noticed that the equip. posts would sound a low tone and any coins close to them were sounding thier normal high tones! So by listening to what the tones were telling me I was getting the coins close to the posts without having to change coils or machines!
Sooooo-the tally---41 pennies, 9 nickels, 27 dimes, 23 quarters, three junk necklece pendents, 1 sterling silver bracelet 8.4 g rams, 1 10k black hills gold ring .7 grams (small) total 100 coins= $9.26
I AM SO STOOKED! Mud, I am the dp tones camp to stay!
One other signal of note was a bouncy 31 to 85 on the first two or three passes but after slowing my swing speed it settled down to a solid 32 which is a nickel. when i dug it, there was a quarter stacked on top of a nickel! fast swing it was trying to read them both, slow swing it settled on the nickel and ignored the quarter! Does that mean these setting will pick gold out of heavy trash at a slow swing speed? Crazy happy to be hunting again!
HH Ed in co.
Been learning my f-70 for a little over a year now and I can say I am finally getting confident with it and able to program different settings for different sites. As my hunt site today was a 3year old school totlot
I was not expecting any old deep targets so my settings were disc 15, speed de, sens 45, thres -2, tones dp,(more about that later), and it ground balanced at 74, which is low for this area. Normal gb in this area runs from 85 to 90.
The top 3 to 4 inches of wood chips were thawed out, but below that it was still solid ice so there were a few good signals that had to stay. I was usinf the 11" f-75 coil for ground coverage and discovered somthing that might be of use. I hunted all last year in 4h tones and with the big coil it was just confuseing and chattey next to the playground euipment, so I either left those areas alone or switched to a tracker IV with a 4" coil to get close. BUT, with the dp tones I noticed that the equip. posts would sound a low tone and any coins close to them were sounding thier normal high tones! So by listening to what the tones were telling me I was getting the coins close to the posts without having to change coils or machines!
Sooooo-the tally---41 pennies, 9 nickels, 27 dimes, 23 quarters, three junk necklece pendents, 1 sterling silver bracelet 8.4 g rams, 1 10k black hills gold ring .7 grams (small) total 100 coins= $9.26
I AM SO STOOKED! Mud, I am the dp tones camp to stay!
One other signal of note was a bouncy 31 to 85 on the first two or three passes but after slowing my swing speed it settled down to a solid 32 which is a nickel. when i dug it, there was a quarter stacked on top of a nickel! fast swing it was trying to read them both, slow swing it settled on the nickel and ignored the quarter! Does that mean these setting will pick gold out of heavy trash at a slow swing speed? Crazy happy to be hunting again!
HH Ed in co.
