Yesterday I was at a churchyard, mostly digging clad and a few wheaties. Got a button, a couple of rivets, and a pin of some sort. I tried to use a V3 but it was just frustration. I tried my Sovereign and it worked fine but was a bit heavy and I didn't feel like chestmounting it. Used the E-TRAC for a few minutes but I guess Ireally wanted to use the F75 because I got it out and spent most of the time with it. I had used it there before and it works really soild for me on that site (except for right under the powerlines). Anyway, I used BP the whole time but tried different tone settings and disc levels. I found a sensitivity in the 80s to work well but with a lower disc setting I got a lot of chatter from iron and minerals. Going up to 6 helped and worked fine if I hunted in 2F or 3 or 4 tones. I prefer either 3 or 4 tones because I like for a nickel to give me a mid tone, I find it makes them easier to find. The most stable setting was 1 tone with the disc raised to 20. It was quiet and most signals were worth digging. Later though I got to wondering if I was risking missed gold jewelry with the disc on 20. I checked the manual and it says most iron is 12 and under and foil runs from 16 to 25. Since I like running in 1 tone do you think setting the disc on 13 or 14 will bring in most jewelry and still not signal most iron and minerals?
Sometimes I can stand all the noise and will run 2F or 3 tones with either 0 or 6 disc. I almost always ran my original on disc-6 and 2F tones... but like I said I am finding that I really like 1 tone. It gives a good soild signal and a good TID number but not if you have to listen to everything. Sometimes I will use AM but not everywhere... sometimes there are too many signals and with age I can only look down at the angle required to watch the screen for so long before I get a neckache and backache.
So back to the original question... how much disc do you find is just right for hunting in disc and 1 tone?
Also if you want to answer... I asked a question over on the Teknetics forum about why some people like the T2 better than the F75 for coin hunting. I don't understand this since the F75 has an expanded TID range in the upper numbers where most coins read... I like me T2 but I like my F75 better but both will find targets. They say that the F75 is deeper but most everything I was finding yesterday was at the 4 to 5 inch range. A few were 6" but very few... I think it is just where the targets were... not any problem with the machine. This F75 LTD is greally beginning to grow on me. I have spent way too much time trying to like the V3... it has become a job, I am going to try a little longer to learn to understand it but if I don't get a breakthrough soon I will be finished with it. Life is too short to make frustrating work out of a hobby.
Thanks,
Julien
Sometimes I can stand all the noise and will run 2F or 3 tones with either 0 or 6 disc. I almost always ran my original on disc-6 and 2F tones... but like I said I am finding that I really like 1 tone. It gives a good soild signal and a good TID number but not if you have to listen to everything. Sometimes I will use AM but not everywhere... sometimes there are too many signals and with age I can only look down at the angle required to watch the screen for so long before I get a neckache and backache.
So back to the original question... how much disc do you find is just right for hunting in disc and 1 tone?
Also if you want to answer... I asked a question over on the Teknetics forum about why some people like the T2 better than the F75 for coin hunting. I don't understand this since the F75 has an expanded TID range in the upper numbers where most coins read... I like me T2 but I like my F75 better but both will find targets. They say that the F75 is deeper but most everything I was finding yesterday was at the 4 to 5 inch range. A few were 6" but very few... I think it is just where the targets were... not any problem with the machine. This F75 LTD is greally beginning to grow on me. I have spent way too much time trying to like the V3... it has become a job, I am going to try a little longer to learn to understand it but if I don't get a breakthrough soon I will be finished with it. Life is too short to make frustrating work out of a hobby.
Thanks,
Julien