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Hey mud, remember back at the beginning of the year when you through down the gauntlet in a thread that doesn't seem to be around any longer?
We were going to meet back here on 12/31/14 and compare finds, you with your F70 and 4 years experience and little ol' me just starting out using that thing.
I just thought you might want a little peek at what this thing has found for me this season, learning year notwithstanding.
I was blocked out of hunting for most of the first 2.5 months of the year due to frozen ground and deep snow, and then for several month I did a lot of experimenting and messing around with the settings, a ton of experimenting, and a lot less digging than usual.
Finds were sparse at first, not many clad coins and I didn't find my first silver jewelry piece till May or my first gold ring till June, but eventually I found a few settings I liked more than others and got down to the business of hunting and digging more than fooling around and the finds started to come out of the ground for me at a much brisker pace after that.
You probably killed me on clad, no way do I find sites like you seem to that are loaded with coins, and I spent a lot of time hunting in the woods at first with very little clad coins to be found if any on several hunts.
Also when I finally got back to the parks I had way less time to hunt this year than others and I stayed close to home and just hunted a few parks that I had already drained of a lot of clad in the past.
Still, I managed a respectable $190 or so in clad coins so far, a testament to the effortless way the F70 can find these things even in trashy sites and even at pounded in the past sites.
The first pic is some cool odds and ends.
I love every one because except for the full size brass slip wheel lighter and the Ronson lighter, every one was found at the most difficult, confounding, frustrating iron infested site I have ever hunted in my life so each target was a victory.
The large license plate insurance tag is cool because it still has a lot of the color left on it.
No info on this long gone insurance company at all anywhere on the net but I know it is old.
The 5 pocket knives all came out of that iron mine site, a 6th one too that is not pictured.
The brass fixture is a valve from and old time high box toilet.
Not worth much at all but after I tumbled it and saw how nicely it cleaned up I grew to love it so it is now display worthy I feel...but I am weird that way.
That soap token is 87 years old or so, not bad looking at all for such an old geezer.
I think you probably wished you looked as good and you are not even close to that age.
Coins are next.
I wanted to learn to find more older coins this year and the total isn't close to some other hunters that specialize in this but this is my best year so far in that category so I am happy.
That 1954 Farthing was all wrapped up in a nice silver bezel so both a coin and a silver jewelry find.
The Eisenhower dollar is not silver but still a rare and fun find and my second one to date.
My favorites are the 1901 IH that is the best looking coin of this type I have ever found, and that Walker half is a bucket list item so still flying high off of that one.
Both of these plus one of those mercs and a few other really old wheaties in this pic and not pictured were all found in that iron mine so I am doubly proud I learned to do that this year.
The lessons I learned hunting that iron site will carry me through the rest of my life spent in this hobby, and I am still learning and refining the methods and settings I used to accomplish these feats.
Jewelry is next.
Still a jewelry hunter at my very core, and even though I switched tools this year and started out slow, as I learned the precious metal finds started to pop up more and more.
If this is all I am destined to find this year I am a happy camper, but if we are lucky we might have one or two months hunting time left before winter ends my season.
The southwestern earring is a beauty, the silver grill is odd and weird but cool, the necklace and pendant is complete and apparently just fell of somebody and they never noticed it.
The rings are all neat, my favorite is the Harley ring that was an odd signal and crushed into a figure 8 in the ground but I saved it and fixed it with the help of my mandrel.
The titanium ring is the second one I have found, I believe, the tiny thin ring sitting on the dime was found with the Compadre but it still gives off a sweet and loud tone on the F70 in air testing even with the big DD coil.
I have found studs with that same coil also, so finding micro jewelry does not seem to be a problem for this thing, no matter how small or what coil you use.
Last of course is gold.
Not on a quest to find this metal like I was last year, but still a welcome sight to see in the hole, of course.
All found with the F70 in extreme trash in a few different parks, one with the sniper the rest with the big DD coil.
All solid signals I chose to dig while avoiding digging the many more jumpy and not solid signals all around them.
So there you are mud, not to bad a total considering it is a learning year, and with luck it ain't over yet.
Still want to get back into the woods to look for old coins before I am shut down, still need to find the one ridiculous goal I set for myself this year, a gold coin.
With this fine tool in my hands the future is always uncertain and the great surprises might be right around the corner on any target.
So how you doin'?
We were going to meet back here on 12/31/14 and compare finds, you with your F70 and 4 years experience and little ol' me just starting out using that thing.
I just thought you might want a little peek at what this thing has found for me this season, learning year notwithstanding.
I was blocked out of hunting for most of the first 2.5 months of the year due to frozen ground and deep snow, and then for several month I did a lot of experimenting and messing around with the settings, a ton of experimenting, and a lot less digging than usual.
Finds were sparse at first, not many clad coins and I didn't find my first silver jewelry piece till May or my first gold ring till June, but eventually I found a few settings I liked more than others and got down to the business of hunting and digging more than fooling around and the finds started to come out of the ground for me at a much brisker pace after that.
You probably killed me on clad, no way do I find sites like you seem to that are loaded with coins, and I spent a lot of time hunting in the woods at first with very little clad coins to be found if any on several hunts.
Also when I finally got back to the parks I had way less time to hunt this year than others and I stayed close to home and just hunted a few parks that I had already drained of a lot of clad in the past.
Still, I managed a respectable $190 or so in clad coins so far, a testament to the effortless way the F70 can find these things even in trashy sites and even at pounded in the past sites.
The first pic is some cool odds and ends.
I love every one because except for the full size brass slip wheel lighter and the Ronson lighter, every one was found at the most difficult, confounding, frustrating iron infested site I have ever hunted in my life so each target was a victory.
The large license plate insurance tag is cool because it still has a lot of the color left on it.
No info on this long gone insurance company at all anywhere on the net but I know it is old.
The 5 pocket knives all came out of that iron mine site, a 6th one too that is not pictured.
The brass fixture is a valve from and old time high box toilet.
Not worth much at all but after I tumbled it and saw how nicely it cleaned up I grew to love it so it is now display worthy I feel...but I am weird that way.
That soap token is 87 years old or so, not bad looking at all for such an old geezer.
I think you probably wished you looked as good and you are not even close to that age.
Coins are next.
I wanted to learn to find more older coins this year and the total isn't close to some other hunters that specialize in this but this is my best year so far in that category so I am happy.
That 1954 Farthing was all wrapped up in a nice silver bezel so both a coin and a silver jewelry find.
The Eisenhower dollar is not silver but still a rare and fun find and my second one to date.
My favorites are the 1901 IH that is the best looking coin of this type I have ever found, and that Walker half is a bucket list item so still flying high off of that one.
Both of these plus one of those mercs and a few other really old wheaties in this pic and not pictured were all found in that iron mine so I am doubly proud I learned to do that this year.
The lessons I learned hunting that iron site will carry me through the rest of my life spent in this hobby, and I am still learning and refining the methods and settings I used to accomplish these feats.
Jewelry is next.
Still a jewelry hunter at my very core, and even though I switched tools this year and started out slow, as I learned the precious metal finds started to pop up more and more.
If this is all I am destined to find this year I am a happy camper, but if we are lucky we might have one or two months hunting time left before winter ends my season.
The southwestern earring is a beauty, the silver grill is odd and weird but cool, the necklace and pendant is complete and apparently just fell of somebody and they never noticed it.
The rings are all neat, my favorite is the Harley ring that was an odd signal and crushed into a figure 8 in the ground but I saved it and fixed it with the help of my mandrel.
The titanium ring is the second one I have found, I believe, the tiny thin ring sitting on the dime was found with the Compadre but it still gives off a sweet and loud tone on the F70 in air testing even with the big DD coil.
I have found studs with that same coil also, so finding micro jewelry does not seem to be a problem for this thing, no matter how small or what coil you use.
Last of course is gold.
Not on a quest to find this metal like I was last year, but still a welcome sight to see in the hole, of course.
All found with the F70 in extreme trash in a few different parks, one with the sniper the rest with the big DD coil.
All solid signals I chose to dig while avoiding digging the many more jumpy and not solid signals all around them.
So there you are mud, not to bad a total considering it is a learning year, and with luck it ain't over yet.
Still want to get back into the woods to look for old coins before I am shut down, still need to find the one ridiculous goal I set for myself this year, a gold coin.
With this fine tool in my hands the future is always uncertain and the great surprises might be right around the corner on any target.
So how you doin'?
Lets see...thinking...looking at your shots for something I found this year you didnt!...Oh yeah! I got that one barber dime at that Habitat place along with that Walker half that one day!![attachment 302529 walker.jpg]
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And, you have taken that 70 into uncharted setting wilderness with great feedback and advice to us all...so, unless I get coil over a Brasher in a totlot in the next few weeks before the chips freeze, I'd have to give this year to you alright! 
I can say I have learned a whole lot from your adventure with the 70...you have made me a better hunter with it on account of your diligence, competitiveness, and your great information you freely post here!...I owe you one buddy, outstanding work! I still cuss you name whenever I dig a Zinc hoping for a big gold ring though.
.and you really had an awesome year last year when you got your 'dozen golds' ticket punched..that was cool!
I used to live in Guntersville AL..so I swing through there every once in a while and pick through that red iron dirt and chert...I've been looking at Manchester TN by satellite..just off 24 south of Nashville....I bet if you have a look, you can figure out right where I'll be as the sun comes up Sunday am as I head for ATL to spend a few hours stretching my legs after a 10hr drive..I dont need to be in ATL until Sunday afternoon, so I figured I'd do a hunt or two... .Have a look, if you see any place in there that looks good to you, holler..