North Georgia Relics
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I have a school that I take most detectors to for a "shake down" run. This has to be the trashiest school in the State. I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. In parts of the yard there are signals everywhere. It is hunted regularly by some local hunter and is a pretty good test area for that reason alone. I really did not expect to find anything other than a few shallow pennies and dimes.
I left the F70 at the factory setting, except I had to change frequencies and I upped the discrimination to the foil level. I cleaned out a small area and ground balanced the machine. I hunted for around 2.5 hours with about 15 - 20 minutes just getting accustomed to what the machine was telling me. Basically it confirmed what I already said, there were targets everywhere.
Here is the take: 7 zinc pennies, 4 copper pennies, 1 nickel, 6 quarters and 20 dimes. All but about 5 of the dimes were 5 to 6 inches deep and surrounded by trash signals. I was surprised at the good loud signals I got on all the dimes and the copper pennies. I do not believe there would have been any problem getting the targets if they had been deeper. Several of the zinc pennies read as tabs but were just good enough that I dug them anyway. I am still trying to decide if this is good or bad as most all of the zincs had already started to decay.
Long post to say that I was really pleased with the F70. Super light weight and very quick response time. Pretty easy to isolate targets in trashy areas and the pinpointing was dead on.
Disclaimer: I am a Fisher Dealer. I normally hunt with an X-Terra 70 and a Fisher F75 and a few other machines.
Don
I left the F70 at the factory setting, except I had to change frequencies and I upped the discrimination to the foil level. I cleaned out a small area and ground balanced the machine. I hunted for around 2.5 hours with about 15 - 20 minutes just getting accustomed to what the machine was telling me. Basically it confirmed what I already said, there were targets everywhere.
Here is the take: 7 zinc pennies, 4 copper pennies, 1 nickel, 6 quarters and 20 dimes. All but about 5 of the dimes were 5 to 6 inches deep and surrounded by trash signals. I was surprised at the good loud signals I got on all the dimes and the copper pennies. I do not believe there would have been any problem getting the targets if they had been deeper. Several of the zinc pennies read as tabs but were just good enough that I dug them anyway. I am still trying to decide if this is good or bad as most all of the zincs had already started to decay.
Long post to say that I was really pleased with the F70. Super light weight and very quick response time. Pretty easy to isolate targets in trashy areas and the pinpointing was dead on.
Disclaimer: I am a Fisher Dealer. I normally hunt with an X-Terra 70 and a Fisher F75 and a few other machines.
Don
