I was having a below average year detecting and was getting very discouraged with lack of decent finds. I just reached 40 silver coins for the year which has been about my average for the last five years or so. I envy some of the people who are still having 100 silver years,but it sure makes my day to find just one silver coin. The new F75 standard model that I traded for about a month ago sure renewed my interest in this great hobby. This detector is a much improved version of the other F75's that I have owned. In the last month, I set my F5 down and used the new F75 exclusively. I was determined to learn to get the best out of it. While I found some decent finds in the first couple of weeks, I found myself digging loads of trash. The only downfall I can see in this detector is how it responds to small pieces of foil(gum wrappers, pill sleeves, and aluminum foil type targets. These items sound exactly like a deep coin, but I finally realized the traits that gave these targets away. They almost always give a weak high tone just like a deep coin, but the numbers give them away. I might get a high 80's to around 90, but when I check them from different angles, the numbers go into the low 60 range. It is hard to ignore them, but after several hundred small pieces, I finally got the message. I am not discouraged by this trait. Most every detector I have owned has had problems with one type of target or another. Yesterday, I found my 10th silver coin the new F75 and it was a remarkable find even though it was a 52 roosie. It was only three inches deep and in an area that I should have found it before. What was so remarkable? I found the coin with my pinpointer and silver was the last thing I was expecting. When I got the coin out, I rechecked the hole as I always do and got a low tone directly under where the dime was. It turned out to be a large rusty nail. I set my disc between 6 and 15 and yesterday I was at 15. The original signal was scratchy, but consistant. For the record, I had one of my best months in the last 6 years. I found 10 silver coins, three Buffalo nickels, 37 wheat pennies, and a handful of junk jewelery. This detector will find a rivet from blue jeans over 6 inches deep with a clear signal. The best thing of all I have found with this detector is the ability to detect for four hours or so. The Explorers and V3i's while nice detectors, wore me out after an hour or so. The F75 is the near perfect detector. Light, responsive, deep, and get unbelievable battery life.
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First Month with F75
- Thread starter RLOH
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Each target has its own little quirks, tells and behavior, coins, trash, whatever...and that can change depending on the depth, soil and conditions.
This is all about learning the language and using Fishers I know for sure it is a rich one.
You don't learn French, Spanish, German or whatever in a day, it takes time to just get the basics and to become fluent it takes way more and same with this.
The first thing I learned about was pop tops, what they are and how to avoid them.
Then I learned some tells on other trash like, foil and can slaw and iron...plus more.
I learned what happens when they are shallow and then what happens when they are deep and after digging tons of all of it I slowly started cutting them out as my confidence grew.
Of course I can be fooled but after digging 400 pieces of garbage you learn to remember and rely on your instincts so the what if's usually stay away.
I took hours and hours learning to hunt in extreme iron infested sites.
At first nothing but I kept at it and eventually figured out the right settings and behavior for those conditions too and had more success than I thought possible.
When I got my F70 I couldn't find a deep coin in my great Kansas soil to save my life but eventually I figured out that behavior and noticed the tells and got deeper and deeper on every hunt and soon enough I was digging them at 8-9 and 10".
Then I moved from that great soil to the horrible southeast and had to start all over.
The language and behavior here is totally different than in good soil
Again no depth but once again that stubbornness kicked in and now I am getting deeper in the bad stuff than anyone I ever heard of or know and I am finding bucket list items in totally abandoned sites because most think there is nothing left in them.
There are, but they sure don't act normal in the least but once I realized this I could use this new language I learned to find them.
Some trash still fools me most of the time, for some reason on these things a 10" deep beaver tail tab acts like a dime just about every time but if I dig that deep I am still grateful something was down there even if it was disguised.
I cut out about 80% of my trash digging over time because that is what I want to do.
Some say that's crazy an I will miss a lot but I say so the heck what, I still find way more great things doing it this way than the law should probably allow and I hunt sites over and over so what I don't find today I might tomorrow.
Learning new skills in this hobby takes time and is a progression and it actually never ends.
There is always one more thing to notice, one more bell that rings and one lightbulb that might pop on when you have one of those AHA moments.
One by one you learn and before you know it you have a pretty good amount of knowledge in the arsenal we call our brain.
Every year I get better, every year I find more in more difficult sites and conditions.
What I know now is great, what I will know in the future will be greater and that is one of the best things about this hobby that sense of accomplishment when you learn something useful and makes you successful.
You know it, you have done it and as time goes on it gets even better.
This is all about learning the language and using Fishers I know for sure it is a rich one.
You don't learn French, Spanish, German or whatever in a day, it takes time to just get the basics and to become fluent it takes way more and same with this.
The first thing I learned about was pop tops, what they are and how to avoid them.
Then I learned some tells on other trash like, foil and can slaw and iron...plus more.
I learned what happens when they are shallow and then what happens when they are deep and after digging tons of all of it I slowly started cutting them out as my confidence grew.
Of course I can be fooled but after digging 400 pieces of garbage you learn to remember and rely on your instincts so the what if's usually stay away.
I took hours and hours learning to hunt in extreme iron infested sites.
At first nothing but I kept at it and eventually figured out the right settings and behavior for those conditions too and had more success than I thought possible.
When I got my F70 I couldn't find a deep coin in my great Kansas soil to save my life but eventually I figured out that behavior and noticed the tells and got deeper and deeper on every hunt and soon enough I was digging them at 8-9 and 10".
Then I moved from that great soil to the horrible southeast and had to start all over.
The language and behavior here is totally different than in good soil
Again no depth but once again that stubbornness kicked in and now I am getting deeper in the bad stuff than anyone I ever heard of or know and I am finding bucket list items in totally abandoned sites because most think there is nothing left in them.
There are, but they sure don't act normal in the least but once I realized this I could use this new language I learned to find them.
Some trash still fools me most of the time, for some reason on these things a 10" deep beaver tail tab acts like a dime just about every time but if I dig that deep I am still grateful something was down there even if it was disguised.
I cut out about 80% of my trash digging over time because that is what I want to do.
Some say that's crazy an I will miss a lot but I say so the heck what, I still find way more great things doing it this way than the law should probably allow and I hunt sites over and over so what I don't find today I might tomorrow.
Learning new skills in this hobby takes time and is a progression and it actually never ends.
There is always one more thing to notice, one more bell that rings and one lightbulb that might pop on when you have one of those AHA moments.
One by one you learn and before you know it you have a pretty good amount of knowledge in the arsenal we call our brain.
Every year I get better, every year I find more in more difficult sites and conditions.
What I know now is great, what I will know in the future will be greater and that is one of the best things about this hobby that sense of accomplishment when you learn something useful and makes you successful.
You know it, you have done it and as time goes on it gets even better.
HH jim tn
still looking 52
Well-known member
That's a lot of silver, no wonder you love that machine.
I have owned an F75 now for about 7 months...I have been re-working old sites repeatedly, focusing on one tone type or processing type per visit, and have been quite pleased with the flexibility of multiple tones one trip, and using the 1n mode another time, or using FA one trip and PF on another. Maybe in a couple more years I will feel fully comfortable with all its features.