Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Got out yesterday afternoon with my F5 and the 5x10" DD coil. I'd already been out that morning with the Golden and found a gold chain. Now I wanted to hunt the F5 for a while and see if I might get another piece of gold at a different location.
I chose an athletic field at a school I'd never hunted before. Now I don't know about how the athletic fields are in your part of the world. But here, they level a site, bring in a couple of dump trucks of top soil from down in the valley, spread it around a few inches deep in the shape they want, then lay sod on top of that. So you have these barren patches of dirt with a green rectangle inside it.
I was able to run my F5 with a Gain of 95 and a threshold of +8 at this location with no....no interference. It was stable with the coil held still. First time I've ever been able to run it hot like that. It was great.
Anyway...started off hunting the field. Most of the time I probe my targets with a screw driver because they are shallow (most of my hunt sites are shallow sites). But here there were very few what I would call shallow targets. Most were deeper than 3" and required digging plugs. Found quite a few quarters and dimes that all sounded good with a solid "ing"on the ping (due to the high threshold setting). I had two good finds.
The first was a bouncing signal that gave a high coin ping on one sweep and a tab tone sweep on the other. There was a lot of can slaw in this area and I couldn' tell if it was slaw or something else, but the high tone ping I got to repeat every other swing sounded so good I dug it. Out came the digger, up came the plug and out came a quarter. Ok...that was good. Put my uniprobe back in the hole and got another signal. Out came the digger, out came another two inches of dirt and out came a gold ring. Well, ok...I thought it was a gold ring at first, but turned out to be plated junk. Still liked finding it though as the two targets were vertically co-located and the F5 told me exactly what was going on with both tones and visual id.
A little later I got a nice ping sound and about 5" down pulled up a 1956 silver dime. My first silver coin with the new coil. Sweet.
That ended the day and homeward I went.
The picture shows both my Golden finds along with the F5 finds. The two earrings, the ss pendant with the baby picture, the half dollar, and a few of the dimes and pennies where found with the Golden in a frozen woodchip tot lot. The gold chain was found by the Golden down about 1-1/2" on the side of a grassy hill. The silver dime, junk ring, and most of the quarters and dimes were found by the F5 in the athletic field. Clad total, not counting the silver dime, was $6.67
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HH
Mike
I chose an athletic field at a school I'd never hunted before. Now I don't know about how the athletic fields are in your part of the world. But here, they level a site, bring in a couple of dump trucks of top soil from down in the valley, spread it around a few inches deep in the shape they want, then lay sod on top of that. So you have these barren patches of dirt with a green rectangle inside it.
I was able to run my F5 with a Gain of 95 and a threshold of +8 at this location with no....no interference. It was stable with the coil held still. First time I've ever been able to run it hot like that. It was great.
Anyway...started off hunting the field. Most of the time I probe my targets with a screw driver because they are shallow (most of my hunt sites are shallow sites). But here there were very few what I would call shallow targets. Most were deeper than 3" and required digging plugs. Found quite a few quarters and dimes that all sounded good with a solid "ing"on the ping (due to the high threshold setting). I had two good finds.
The first was a bouncing signal that gave a high coin ping on one sweep and a tab tone sweep on the other. There was a lot of can slaw in this area and I couldn' tell if it was slaw or something else, but the high tone ping I got to repeat every other swing sounded so good I dug it. Out came the digger, up came the plug and out came a quarter. Ok...that was good. Put my uniprobe back in the hole and got another signal. Out came the digger, out came another two inches of dirt and out came a gold ring. Well, ok...I thought it was a gold ring at first, but turned out to be plated junk. Still liked finding it though as the two targets were vertically co-located and the F5 told me exactly what was going on with both tones and visual id.
A little later I got a nice ping sound and about 5" down pulled up a 1956 silver dime. My first silver coin with the new coil. Sweet.
That ended the day and homeward I went.
The picture shows both my Golden finds along with the F5 finds. The two earrings, the ss pendant with the baby picture, the half dollar, and a few of the dimes and pennies where found with the Golden in a frozen woodchip tot lot. The gold chain was found by the Golden down about 1-1/2" on the side of a grassy hill. The silver dime, junk ring, and most of the quarters and dimes were found by the F5 in the athletic field. Clad total, not counting the silver dime, was $6.67
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HH
Mike