Found another silver dime...

[REVIER]

Found a silver dime the other day in an area I had hunted many times in the past.
Posted about it here with my settings....

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2245894

Today I went back to this park and tried some new settings using disc AND notch which is rare for me.
I am a jewelry hunter so using lots of disc is foreign to me but if I want to become a well rounded hunter, an older coin and silver hunter, I gotta embrace a different way of thinking.
Settings were sense at 80, mono tone, thresh at -2, SL speed, disc at 10 to knock out most if the iron and I notched out all the tab section because I didn't want too deal with them today.
Worked pretty good, picked up some clad here and there and then I got tired of dealing with another kind of trash at this park, s few on caps.
Most of them came in at the high 50's-mid 60's so I decided to knock zinc out also on the F70.
For the heck of it I raised the disc up to 15 and got rid of iron, too, then I switched the tone to 3H.
Now this was nothing like the settings I started with but it was super quiet and I stopped looking at the screen so much and just listened for the good tone.
I hoped I could still get decent depth with these settings most older stuff around here seems to settle at about 6"and I thought I could still hit that mark.
When I wandered back to the area near where I found that merc I discovered I could still hit that level easily.
On this one it was jumpy like most deeper targets are in this soil but the tone was solid, loud and sweet.
The depth reading said 6" so I was hopeful, when I dug down and popped it up I knew it was silver and I was happy.
Pretty weird settings today but still good enough to find gold at foil or nickel and just right for finding silver, evidently.
I might try this again soon.

 

[still looking 52]

Revier I don't think you will lose any depth at all by increasing your disc we've played around with that quiet a bit and found depth is not affected. I'm thinking your disc set should be adjusted according to the area your hunting and to the style of hunting your doing. What I hunt for most is silver but if I'm in a fairly clean area I'll run lower disc low but if I get in a trashy area I'll run higher disc. This keeps me from going insane.Nice find on that silver Rosie.

 

[Coilfisher]

Revier, did you ever try running it with Delta Pitch?

 

[REVIER]

Revier, did you ever try running it with Delta Pitch?

Once in awhile.
I got so used to using the F2 for about 1000 hours I usually switch to 3H or 4H when I want to use multi tones.
I do play around with DP a bit though, I was using DP for the first time in a long time last month when I rolled over a silver dollar so it appears to be lucky.

 

[WV62]

Revier I don't think you will lose any depth at all by increasing your disc we've played around with that quiet a bit and found depth is not affected. I'm thinking your disc set should be adjusted according to the area your hunting and to the style of hunting your doing. What I hunt for most is silver but if I'm in a fairly clean area I'll run lower disc low but if I get in a trashy area I'll run higher disc. This keeps me from going insane.Nice find on that silver Rosie.

Revier, I agree with little brother SL52, your machine will most likely not lose any depth, and in the case of the F75 they will gain a little depth depending on the processor being run. The older machines like the 1265x and 1266x were bad about that. That is why we always ran low disc back in the day. When I got my first 1270 that was one of the first things I checked and the 1270 didn't lose depth with high disc settings.

Think about this and see if sounds like something that would work for you. Reverse your notches and notch in the numbers you want and take your disc up to knock out zincs. I am thinking you may have a little simpler setup and still do the same thing. Do you have a block of numbers that are favorite for your gold finds? You may be able to notch in a little window to see that gold. Also if you wanted to share that block of gold numbers, it may help us boys here in WV, we have already cleaned out most of the silver.LOL

Now something else you may want to try, is what I call silver blasting. Just set your disc to max and go through the area fist run and cherry pick all that silver out of the way. Then go back another day or time and work your jewelry. The reason I say this is when you are jewelry hunting I would guess you are going a lot slower, and while you are cleaning the area somebody else may jump in there and help you clean out the silver. I think your gold would be safe from most other hunters, but that silver is easy pickens.

Ron in WV

 

[REVIER]

Well Ron, after this morning's hunt I gotta say these new coin settings I have with nickels and foil left in but zinc and tabs notched out worked again.

http://www.findmall.com/list.php?37


I sure will try your suggestion and do it the opposite with high disc and notch in both those sections and see what happens...couldn't hurt.
I wonder what the difference is, technologically, between these two set ups, and what, if any different effects these opposite methods might show up as?
The park I am experimenting at is just a half block away so no big deal.
As far as notching my F70 is not like your F75...I can't really control the numbers, either entire sections are in or out.
I have mentioned before that I think all the extras the F75 has compared to my F70 are all way cool, but the only one that I probably wish I had on mine is more control over those notch sections and if I did I would probably use notch more.
Still, you make do with what you got to work with and my first real use of the notch system seems to be working out pretty good for me so far.

For gold I gotta keep in foil and nickels because so many come in here.
Even a large white gold ring with diamonds came in low at 24 because it was mixed so everything from 24 on up is in play for rings.
Only found a couple in tabs but they could show up anywhere in that section depending on the size and purity, 5 large gold class rings all came in at low zinc from 48-52 so those are numbers I must dig every time I see them pop up.

Below is a pic of most of my gold but missing about 4 of my latest rings.
The numbers are all mostly from an F2 in air testing so they should transfer over to the higher end F series with only a number or two difference, if that, because of the frequency differences.
These were the numbers out of the ground...in the ground a couple were slightly different but they were all solid and didn't jump more than 3 numbers when I came across them.
If it is solid and repeats from more than one way with little jumping I dig it no matter where the numbers come in.
Also none were deeper than 5"...deep ones could act different.
I am anxious to find my first deeper gold ring in this tough soil.
Will it still be stable like all my others or will it be jumpy?
Will this up averaging thing that happens on all my deeper coins be the same on gold rings?
Inquiring minds want to know so hopefully I will find one soon with these settings.

 

[WV62]

Rivier, I am pretty sure the only difference in notches for the F70 and the F75 is the F70 does a larger block of numbers and the 75 does about half the numbers.

If you want to you can bring your disc down and cut into your notch block of numbers. Never seen the need to do that but you can play the numbers.

Ron in WV