REVIER
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Yesterday had a short hunt at a big park near me.
Found a nice Victorinox key chain knife near a lake where the fisherman hang out, always a good place to find knives of all kinds.
Settings were DE, sense at about 40, 4H, thresh at 0, disc at 4, 11" DD coil on board.
I was able to pick out the coins I left here, (I have hunted this bank area many times before), and it was easy with these settings.
Keeping the disc low I was still able to rim all the high tone pop tops and see the number drop and hear the low iron tone so I could avoid most of these.
The only thing that bothered me was some of the modern smaller sta tabs that in this park want to come in at about the 32-35 area just like nickels.
The jumpy ones that I couldn't get to stay within a 2 number jump were left in the ground, the shallow ones that were flat and laying flat in the ground so they didn't jump and looked, acted and sounded like a coin I dug.
I like nickels...I like gold better.
The knife came in as a high tone in the high eighties and that was a nice surprise.
I eventually moved over to another part of the park, had the park police come over and ask to see my yearly permit I buy every January and we had a nice conversation about how people are pigs.
He thanked me for cleaning up the park and I moved over to a very trashy area near a picnic pavilion, also an area I have hunted many times in the past.
The amount of those stupid sta tabs were worse here, I had tons of signals and I felt like hunting in a more surgical way and dig the least trash as possible so I did something I rarely have done in the past on any detector...I used the notch.
Settings were disc still at 4, thresh was 0, DE, I raised the sense to 60 and eventually 80 because not much interference in this area and I set the notch at 34.
The way I understand it this should knock out all the 25 to 34 numbers...and it did.
MUCH quieter now, I hate to get rid of a whole section where I could find gold but I will come back here again sometime in the future and hunt differently.
This notch setting was amazing...those sta tabs never made a peep and 90% of the signals and jumpy numbers went away.
Now with nothing getting in my way I was plucking out coins with surgical precision even if they were right next to trash which in many cases they were.
I found a locket with actual pictures still glued inside, and most of the clad you see in the pic was found after this setting change.
Once again the F70 performed as a champ and found me a lot of coins in areas that someone who was very good at coinshooting had hunted before several times...me!
Don't know how much I will use notch in the future, but in areas with specific ranges of trash that you just don't want to be bothered with I can see where it can come in very handy and maybe find less in that notch area but make it much easier to find targets not in notch.
Found a nice Victorinox key chain knife near a lake where the fisherman hang out, always a good place to find knives of all kinds.
Settings were DE, sense at about 40, 4H, thresh at 0, disc at 4, 11" DD coil on board.
I was able to pick out the coins I left here, (I have hunted this bank area many times before), and it was easy with these settings.
Keeping the disc low I was still able to rim all the high tone pop tops and see the number drop and hear the low iron tone so I could avoid most of these.
The only thing that bothered me was some of the modern smaller sta tabs that in this park want to come in at about the 32-35 area just like nickels.
The jumpy ones that I couldn't get to stay within a 2 number jump were left in the ground, the shallow ones that were flat and laying flat in the ground so they didn't jump and looked, acted and sounded like a coin I dug.
I like nickels...I like gold better.
The knife came in as a high tone in the high eighties and that was a nice surprise.
I eventually moved over to another part of the park, had the park police come over and ask to see my yearly permit I buy every January and we had a nice conversation about how people are pigs.
He thanked me for cleaning up the park and I moved over to a very trashy area near a picnic pavilion, also an area I have hunted many times in the past.
The amount of those stupid sta tabs were worse here, I had tons of signals and I felt like hunting in a more surgical way and dig the least trash as possible so I did something I rarely have done in the past on any detector...I used the notch.
Settings were disc still at 4, thresh was 0, DE, I raised the sense to 60 and eventually 80 because not much interference in this area and I set the notch at 34.
The way I understand it this should knock out all the 25 to 34 numbers...and it did.
MUCH quieter now, I hate to get rid of a whole section where I could find gold but I will come back here again sometime in the future and hunt differently.
This notch setting was amazing...those sta tabs never made a peep and 90% of the signals and jumpy numbers went away.
Now with nothing getting in my way I was plucking out coins with surgical precision even if they were right next to trash which in many cases they were.
I found a locket with actual pictures still glued inside, and most of the clad you see in the pic was found after this setting change.
Once again the F70 performed as a champ and found me a lot of coins in areas that someone who was very good at coinshooting had hunted before several times...me!
Don't know how much I will use notch in the future, but in areas with specific ranges of trash that you just don't want to be bothered with I can see where it can come in very handy and maybe find less in that notch area but make it much easier to find targets not in notch.
..still, its fun to go back and see exactly what a fellow MIGHT of missed, just to see if a guy can narrow down a style to one that is the most efficient...Yeah, these F70's are surgical in the right hands...
From the looks of your numbers, you definitely do NOT dink around, not that theres anything wrong with that!