REVIER
Well-known member
I got this thing the day after Thanksgiving last year and on my first hunt found a tiny silver pendant.
The third hunt I found one of my nicest rings ever and still needs to be tested again but I suspect might be a platinum and 18k mix.
In the 10 months I have had it I was sidelined for 2 months due to the winter freeze, spent a huge amount of hours in the woods looking for old silver and found some but besides a few other unusual things have relatively little to show for all that time, and for several weeks at the beginning I spent a ton of time experimenting and less digging than normal so my clad and finds totals were way lower than usual.
I also have way less time to hunt this year than in seasons past due to, well...life stuff.
As time went on I finally settled into using a few favorite settings and got back to hunting my usual parks when I had the time and where my clad and finds totals started to soar along with the quality of some of those finds.
I knew I was doing pretty good, but a few days ago someone on another forum that was thinking about getting the F70 wanted to know what it was capable of so I spent a little time getting some of my better finds together in a picture to show him.
I must say when I was done I was a little surprised.
Considering the relatively small amount of hunting time with this thing so far I didn't really know how good I was doing till I saw them together for this family pic.
Missing is over $150 in clad, several older wheaties from the teens on up, my first buff and silver war nickel, and a huge amount of other stuff that has little worth but are targets I love to find like old pocket watch pieces, pocket knives and much more.
Not too bad considering I am so new with this thing and I am swinging what many consider and unusable chatterbox of a detector in some of the most challenging sites I have ever hunted, many with super dense trash and/or iron plus some very heavy EMI.
The tips, techniques and advice I get from you guys have a lot to due with any success for sure, don't think I am not extremely grateful for that and it all went a long way to cutting down that learning curve by a large margin so my finds are your finds too, and I hope you believe that.
The scary thing is I am just at the beginning of my journey with this thing, I am still at what I consider closer to the beginning of the learning curve than even at the midway point, and my mind reels just thinking about what we might accomplish together in the future.
Buying this thing was one of the best decisions I have ever made in this hobby, the fun quotient is high, the boredom level is nonexistent and the surprises and way it can make my jaw drop so easily seems to happen on almost every hunt.
What a great machine...What a great hobby...What a great community to be part of to share it all!
The third hunt I found one of my nicest rings ever and still needs to be tested again but I suspect might be a platinum and 18k mix.
In the 10 months I have had it I was sidelined for 2 months due to the winter freeze, spent a huge amount of hours in the woods looking for old silver and found some but besides a few other unusual things have relatively little to show for all that time, and for several weeks at the beginning I spent a ton of time experimenting and less digging than normal so my clad and finds totals were way lower than usual.
I also have way less time to hunt this year than in seasons past due to, well...life stuff.
As time went on I finally settled into using a few favorite settings and got back to hunting my usual parks when I had the time and where my clad and finds totals started to soar along with the quality of some of those finds.
I knew I was doing pretty good, but a few days ago someone on another forum that was thinking about getting the F70 wanted to know what it was capable of so I spent a little time getting some of my better finds together in a picture to show him.
I must say when I was done I was a little surprised.
Considering the relatively small amount of hunting time with this thing so far I didn't really know how good I was doing till I saw them together for this family pic.
Missing is over $150 in clad, several older wheaties from the teens on up, my first buff and silver war nickel, and a huge amount of other stuff that has little worth but are targets I love to find like old pocket watch pieces, pocket knives and much more.
Not too bad considering I am so new with this thing and I am swinging what many consider and unusable chatterbox of a detector in some of the most challenging sites I have ever hunted, many with super dense trash and/or iron plus some very heavy EMI.
The tips, techniques and advice I get from you guys have a lot to due with any success for sure, don't think I am not extremely grateful for that and it all went a long way to cutting down that learning curve by a large margin so my finds are your finds too, and I hope you believe that.
The scary thing is I am just at the beginning of my journey with this thing, I am still at what I consider closer to the beginning of the learning curve than even at the midway point, and my mind reels just thinking about what we might accomplish together in the future.
Buying this thing was one of the best decisions I have ever made in this hobby, the fun quotient is high, the boredom level is nonexistent and the surprises and way it can make my jaw drop so easily seems to happen on almost every hunt.
What a great machine...What a great hobby...What a great community to be part of to share it all!
to you REVIER. I am also learning the F70 and like it more and more I use it. Glad you feel great about the F70. Good luck on many more hunts . Awesome finds. GS
