Find's Treasure Forums
Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!
You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.
Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.
Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.
Click here to register!
Need Support Help?
Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you
fisher f-2 three coil package any good
- Thread starter bigdawg47
- Start date
Trailduster
Active member
The best starter machine in it's price range. No lie.
I bought one last Sept. In 4 non winter months I found over $40 in clad, 3 silvers, 2 early 1800's Large 1c coins, and a few really cool relics.
Just moved up to a f70 and was considering selling the f2 to recoup some money but for the resale price I think I'm keeping it and laving the sniper on it for playgrounds and such and letting my son learn the hobby with it as well.
The thing that seperates it from other less expensive detectors (notice I didn't say cheap) is it's quick recovery speed..
G/L and happy hunting.
I bought one last Sept. In 4 non winter months I found over $40 in clad, 3 silvers, 2 early 1800's Large 1c coins, and a few really cool relics.
Just moved up to a f70 and was considering selling the f2 to recoup some money but for the resale price I think I'm keeping it and laving the sniper on it for playgrounds and such and letting my son learn the hobby with it as well.
The thing that seperates it from other less expensive detectors (notice I didn't say cheap) is it's quick recovery speed..
G/L and happy hunting.
REVIER
Well-known member
The F2 in my mind is absolutely the best starter detector going.
Add in the value you get with the multiple coil packages and it just can't be beat.
Not only pleasant tones but VDI numbers and other info on that screen that is so helpful when you learn the language.
This is not just a beginner's unit, it seems to have some of the abilities of its more expensive cousins up-line that are much more expensive...but just costs less because you do not pay for as many whistles and bells.
I have gotten good with mine...very good, and this was only supposed to be a backup/take on vacation detector when I bought it.
Mine has found me somewhere in the vicinity of 8X's what I paid for it originally...probably more.
As far as the coils this is what I know.
The 8" seems to be the least desirable for my use because it seems to be affected by EMI more than the sniper coil or the 10" which I purchased last summer.
The 10" will get a little deeper than the 8", and you will get clearer signals on targets that are 5" or more in depth.
Where the 10" really shines is in moist ground...that is where you can really tell the depth difference between the two larger coils.
The sniper coil is actually my main coil that I use on the F2 because I tend to hunt parks and prefer to hunt trashy areas in those parks around picnic pavilions and volley ball and basketball courts.
What really shocked me was taking the sniper coil back to a few sites that I thought I cleaned up very well with the 8" and finding so much more it was like I never hunted them in the past.
Masking can be a bigger problem than most believe in trashy sites, the sniper is the best coil for this situation.
Since I mounted my sniper I have found 5 gold rings and several silver chains and a gold chain, too..
4 of these rings were in trash and at sites others have hit before including myself, one was in an open area in a park where the bigger coil would have been better choice but I was lucky enough to run my coil over this thing in that wide open area.
If you are 1/2 as happy with yours as I have become with mine you will be a very happy camper indeed.
PM me and I can put you onto a ton of information and tips when using this great little machine.
Add in the value you get with the multiple coil packages and it just can't be beat.
Not only pleasant tones but VDI numbers and other info on that screen that is so helpful when you learn the language.
This is not just a beginner's unit, it seems to have some of the abilities of its more expensive cousins up-line that are much more expensive...but just costs less because you do not pay for as many whistles and bells.
I have gotten good with mine...very good, and this was only supposed to be a backup/take on vacation detector when I bought it.
Mine has found me somewhere in the vicinity of 8X's what I paid for it originally...probably more.
As far as the coils this is what I know.
The 8" seems to be the least desirable for my use because it seems to be affected by EMI more than the sniper coil or the 10" which I purchased last summer.
The 10" will get a little deeper than the 8", and you will get clearer signals on targets that are 5" or more in depth.
Where the 10" really shines is in moist ground...that is where you can really tell the depth difference between the two larger coils.
The sniper coil is actually my main coil that I use on the F2 because I tend to hunt parks and prefer to hunt trashy areas in those parks around picnic pavilions and volley ball and basketball courts.
What really shocked me was taking the sniper coil back to a few sites that I thought I cleaned up very well with the 8" and finding so much more it was like I never hunted them in the past.
Masking can be a bigger problem than most believe in trashy sites, the sniper is the best coil for this situation.
Since I mounted my sniper I have found 5 gold rings and several silver chains and a gold chain, too..
4 of these rings were in trash and at sites others have hit before including myself, one was in an open area in a park where the bigger coil would have been better choice but I was lucky enough to run my coil over this thing in that wide open area.
If you are 1/2 as happy with yours as I have become with mine you will be a very happy camper indeed.
PM me and I can put you onto a ton of information and tips when using this great little machine.