Fisher F75SE :fisher: More Wheat Pennies :detecting:

[tabman]

I've been hitting a new site that I recently found pretty hard. I've pulled over 20 pieces of silver from it in the last few hunts. I decided that I'd let the F75SE with the Sharpshooter Coil in on the action today. To keep things quiet, I used the Boost Mode with the sensitivity set at 50. I mainly used 4H tones. I was surprised at how many wheat pennies (18 ) that I found today. I figure if I'm still finding wheat pennies, copper and clad coins there's a good chance that there is more silver that I've missed. I was hoping for a silver half dollar, but all I found were a couple of Rosie dimes (1958, 1948 ). When I stop finding wheat pennies and clad coins, I'll move to another site to search for more silver coins.

tabman

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Nice haul! I wonder how many masked targets remain there - with all that foot traffic there over the years there is bound to me more goodies that are occluded by iron...nevertheless you continue to pull multiple silvers locally! My hat's off to you, sir!

 

[mike5853]

Tabman you are the consummate detectorist! What a great haul. I'm ordering an F75 this Friday.

 

[jas415]

So Tabman, if you have a moment could you answer a couple of questions for me please? What do your wheats ring up, clad dimes, clad quarters, silver dimes and silver quarters? I am using mostly de, sense at about 70-80, disc at about 23-25, 4n and my numbers are NEVER consistent! In fact almost everything rings up as a dime on the top little boxes, and it runs from 68-69 to 79-81. On pin point quite often the 'confidence' bar moves from low to high back to low. It is almost all are dimes and the numbers really move around quite a bit. I guess my question is how in the world do you determine with any degree of accuracy what is down there? Is this the norm for the F75? Numbers and id's bouncing all over the grid?

MY wheats come in at 69 all the way up to 75. Memorials come in at 68 to 74, clad dimes are all over the place, 70 to 82, and two mercs came in at 73. A walker at 86, several silver quarters at 85-87. My only real consistent 'id' is a nickel at 30.

 

[mudpuppy]

Very nice work! A lot of targets there again for you!
Mud

 

[tabman]

So Tabman, if you have a moment could you answer a couple of questions for me please? What do your wheats ring up, clad dimes, clad quarters, silver dimes and silver quarters? I am using mostly de, sense at about 70-80, disc at about 23-25, 4n and my numbers are NEVER consistent! In fact almost everything rings up as a dime on the top little boxes, and it runs from 68-69 to 79-81. On pin point quite often the 'confidence' bar moves from low to high back to low. It is almost all are dimes and the numbers really move around quite a bit. I guess my question is how in the world do you determine with any degree of accuracy what is down there? Is this the norm for the F75? Numbers and id's bouncing all over the grid?

MY wheats come in at 69 all the way up to 75. Memorials come in at 68 to 74, clad dimes are all over the place, 70 to 82, and two mercs came in at 73. A walker at 86, several silver quarters at 85-87. My only real consistent 'id' is a nickel at 30.

I hardly ever depend on the number ID on the F75 because in the real world out detecting the numbers are too bouncy to depend on them totally. The coins could be on edge or something near them could be causing the the ID numbers to change. Instead I depend mostly on tones to ID targets. In other words, if I hear even a slight high tone I'm on it like a duck on a June Bug that just hit the water. Some of the wheat pennies are just barely making it into the high tone ID. The shallow dimes that I dug in this hunt were bouncy but I was pretty sure that they were silver because the ID bounced up into the mid eighties.

The best way to determine what's down there is to dig it and look at it.

tabman

 

[jas415]

Tabman I use the CTX normally but got the F75 a month ago as a backup to hunt really trashy iron infested areas. What I am trying to do is utilize the information the machine gives me to make a better decision on digging. Yeah, I know, you have to dig it to see it. Crossing a demo lot I will get maybe a thousand high tones in 60'. Bits of tin, copper, aluminum, can slaw, washers, coins, pipes, rusty nails, etc..

 

[Coin Rescue Inc]

So Tabman, if you have a moment could you answer a couple of questions for me please? What do your wheats ring up, clad dimes, clad quarters, silver dimes and silver quarters? I am using mostly de, sense at about 70-80, disc at about 23-25, 4n and my numbers are NEVER consistent! In fact almost everything rings up as a dime on the top little boxes, and it runs from 68-69 to 79-81. On pin point quite often the 'confidence' bar moves from low to high back to low. It is almost all are dimes and the numbers really move around quite a bit. I guess my question is how in the world do you determine with any degree of accuracy what is down there? Is this the norm for the F75? Numbers and id's bouncing all over the grid?

MY wheats come in at 69 all the way up to 75. Memorials come in at 68 to 74, clad dimes are all over the place, 70 to 82, and two mercs came in at 73. A walker at 86, several silver quarters at 85-87. My only real consistent 'id' is a nickel at 30.

I hardly ever depend on the number ID on the F75 because in the real world out detecting the numbers are too bouncy to depend on them totally. The coins could be on edge or something near them could be causing the the ID numbers to change. Instead I depend mostly on tones to ID targets. In other words, if I hear even a slight high tone I'm on it like a duck on a June Bug that just hit the water. Some of the wheat pennies are just barely making it into the high tone ID. The shallow dimes that I dug in this hunt were bouncy but I was pretty sure that they were silver because the ID bounced up into the mid eighties.

The best way to determine what's down there is to dig it and look at it.
tabman[/quote
Hey Tabman,
What "tones" do you use for the high tone you mentioned in the above narrative? I've notice a quarter and nail together read like a "tab"

 

[tabman]

Hey Tabman,
What "tones" do you use for the high tone you mentioned in the above narrative? I've notice a quarter and nail together read like a "tab"

Mostly the 4H tone setting unless it's really trashy then I use either the 3 or 4 tone setting. I just need a slight break through of the high tone to get me digging. It's really best to dig all repeatable audio tones above iron. Beep and dig is very productive and I do it a lot if the detector doesn't talk me out of digging.

tabman

 

[Coin Rescue Inc]

Thanks
I used 4H all summer prior to the upgrade.
I let the digital read out and clear solid tones influence most of my digging.
I have to learn to listen better now that I am learning more about masking affects. I tested an old pull tab with a quarter and it hit about 52 on the read out. There is allot to learn. lol