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I posted about this silver bracelet find in the Today's Find forum, this is about the settings I used in a usually difficult site to find it.
Well, after a successful first season hunting with the F70, more successful than I could have dreamed considering I spent so much time fiddling and messing around with so many settings and less time digging than usual, I think I finally settled on some that might just end up to be my everyday set up for most sites I hunt.
1 tone seems to be quieter, more informative, more productive, less mentally fatigueing and more fun for me to use than any others I have tried so far.
I used AM, 1F, 2F and 4H a lot this year, just a little time in with the others including DP...found a bunch of neat stuff, coins and silver and gold jewelry with most of them using 3 different coils, but 1 tone seems to work for me better in more sites with different conditions and all kinds of trash levels than any other.
You never know, I am such a big tweaker that I might even find better ones next season, but for now I am pretty confident and happy about this.
This year I learned with practice I could find great targets completely masked by an unbelievable amount of iron at an old farmhouse site using maxed out, blown out, blast through all metal settings, and when good finds slowed down to nothing I switched to 1 tone and immediately and fairly easily found more.
I hoped that this setting could work well in my normal park sites that are loaded with a large amounts of regular park trash and quickly found coins, silver and gold attempting to hide in those trash heaps so I found out it does.
2 days ago I tried this setting in another type of site that has its own share of difficulties and again it worked eye openly well.
This is a site that is in the woods, I have to trek up a small mountain to get there, because of the high location it is almost direct line of site of most tv, radio, and cell towers in the area so in many areas heavy EMI can be an issue.
This site also goes back to the late 1800's As a recreational horse trail site and camping area...now there are bicycle trails running all over the area.
I go there looking for old coins, they are few and far between in those huge multi acre area, but they are there.
I have found some 60's silver and a few older wheaties, others have found Indian Heads and Barbers and those are my ultimate goal.
I usually hunt this area in either all metal....very noisy but noise doesn't bother me all that much although it does tire me out listening to all that noise all the time, and 2F which is way quieter.
I read posts from users that said 2F is not bothered so much by EMI as other settings which is true, but 1 tone is even better I have found.
Also bothersome at this site is a decent amount of horseshoes and horseshoe nails buried here, among other horse related iron, and particularly
prevalent is tin and aluminum foil in all sizes left by campers over the years.
If you think that stuff breaks down over time you may be correct, but I am here to tell you it will take much more than 100 years before that will even to begin to happen.
This is what I tried for a short time here that day, and I can't wait to go back again.
Program 2 is set up as a second check over any good targets and in case I find something deep or any pop tops in the area.
I rim pop tops with the edge of the big DD coil and see the number drop way down usually into iron so I can recognize them and avoid them.
I look for areas with a decent amount of foil...an indication of a camping area, and then I switch to program 1 to hunt and look for coins.
Settings are 1 tone, sense way up to 89-90, disc at 25 to avoid most iron and most of the huge amount of foil pieces and I was able to get the threshold up to 2.
DE speed was very quiet, I switched to SL expecting much more chatter but again I was surprised with very little difference between that and DE so I left it there.
In this area with so much noise and falsing I got on all the other settings I have tried here, these settings were quiet...remarkably and jaw droppingly quiet as a matter of fact, something that surprised and totally pleased me to no end.
I searched each area this way and didn't find any coins this trip but I easily located and dug a few others when I came across each one as a solid and repeatable tone.
Some buttons, a piece of an old flashlight, a head stamp from the 20's, a couple of 22 cal. bullets a buckle from a piece of horse tack and a couple of pieces of larger foil that was not knocked out by my disc settings and similar targets.
I got some high tone falsing from some larger pieces of iron but I knew what it was because it didn't repeat like good targets did, one thing I did dig because it was so loud was this iron stirrup, my first from this site.
Plucking out these non ferrous and non foil targets was effortless and easy with these settings, much more so than I ever thought possible.
To do it so quietly with those settings set so high at this heavy EMI site was as I said, surprising and jaw dropping.
I was walking from one area to another looking for another camp site in disc and not all metal and came across another pretty solid repeating signal.
In the middle of nowhere really, but even though it was still a bit jumpy in the mid to high 60's it was still totally diggable at a site like this.
I dug down about 4-5" and found this small ID bracelet, I rooted around the hole with my Propinter and found that other small piece of chain, too.
No marks on this thing but it came up clean, left black marks on my cleaning cloth like silver always does, and it will be tested but I am 99.9% sure this is silver.
I am a jewelry hunter at my core, but it seems even at sites where I am looking for old coins 100% I guess if there is jewelry in the area I still have the skills and good luck to find it.
This small thing found in such a huge area just aimlessly wandering around is just amazing to me, maybe if some of those horse people or campers lost other silver or gold jewelry pieces I now have enough confidence that I have a good a shot as any to find it along with any of their lost coins.
Especially using the F70 and these 1 tone settings.
Well, after a successful first season hunting with the F70, more successful than I could have dreamed considering I spent so much time fiddling and messing around with so many settings and less time digging than usual, I think I finally settled on some that might just end up to be my everyday set up for most sites I hunt.
1 tone seems to be quieter, more informative, more productive, less mentally fatigueing and more fun for me to use than any others I have tried so far.
I used AM, 1F, 2F and 4H a lot this year, just a little time in with the others including DP...found a bunch of neat stuff, coins and silver and gold jewelry with most of them using 3 different coils, but 1 tone seems to work for me better in more sites with different conditions and all kinds of trash levels than any other.
You never know, I am such a big tweaker that I might even find better ones next season, but for now I am pretty confident and happy about this.
This year I learned with practice I could find great targets completely masked by an unbelievable amount of iron at an old farmhouse site using maxed out, blown out, blast through all metal settings, and when good finds slowed down to nothing I switched to 1 tone and immediately and fairly easily found more.
I hoped that this setting could work well in my normal park sites that are loaded with a large amounts of regular park trash and quickly found coins, silver and gold attempting to hide in those trash heaps so I found out it does.
2 days ago I tried this setting in another type of site that has its own share of difficulties and again it worked eye openly well.
This is a site that is in the woods, I have to trek up a small mountain to get there, because of the high location it is almost direct line of site of most tv, radio, and cell towers in the area so in many areas heavy EMI can be an issue.
This site also goes back to the late 1800's As a recreational horse trail site and camping area...now there are bicycle trails running all over the area.
I go there looking for old coins, they are few and far between in those huge multi acre area, but they are there.
I have found some 60's silver and a few older wheaties, others have found Indian Heads and Barbers and those are my ultimate goal.
I usually hunt this area in either all metal....very noisy but noise doesn't bother me all that much although it does tire me out listening to all that noise all the time, and 2F which is way quieter.
I read posts from users that said 2F is not bothered so much by EMI as other settings which is true, but 1 tone is even better I have found.
Also bothersome at this site is a decent amount of horseshoes and horseshoe nails buried here, among other horse related iron, and particularly
prevalent is tin and aluminum foil in all sizes left by campers over the years.
If you think that stuff breaks down over time you may be correct, but I am here to tell you it will take much more than 100 years before that will even to begin to happen.
This is what I tried for a short time here that day, and I can't wait to go back again.
Program 2 is set up as a second check over any good targets and in case I find something deep or any pop tops in the area.
I rim pop tops with the edge of the big DD coil and see the number drop way down usually into iron so I can recognize them and avoid them.
I look for areas with a decent amount of foil...an indication of a camping area, and then I switch to program 1 to hunt and look for coins.
Settings are 1 tone, sense way up to 89-90, disc at 25 to avoid most iron and most of the huge amount of foil pieces and I was able to get the threshold up to 2.
DE speed was very quiet, I switched to SL expecting much more chatter but again I was surprised with very little difference between that and DE so I left it there.
In this area with so much noise and falsing I got on all the other settings I have tried here, these settings were quiet...remarkably and jaw droppingly quiet as a matter of fact, something that surprised and totally pleased me to no end.
I searched each area this way and didn't find any coins this trip but I easily located and dug a few others when I came across each one as a solid and repeatable tone.
Some buttons, a piece of an old flashlight, a head stamp from the 20's, a couple of 22 cal. bullets a buckle from a piece of horse tack and a couple of pieces of larger foil that was not knocked out by my disc settings and similar targets.
I got some high tone falsing from some larger pieces of iron but I knew what it was because it didn't repeat like good targets did, one thing I did dig because it was so loud was this iron stirrup, my first from this site.
Plucking out these non ferrous and non foil targets was effortless and easy with these settings, much more so than I ever thought possible.
To do it so quietly with those settings set so high at this heavy EMI site was as I said, surprising and jaw dropping.
I was walking from one area to another looking for another camp site in disc and not all metal and came across another pretty solid repeating signal.
In the middle of nowhere really, but even though it was still a bit jumpy in the mid to high 60's it was still totally diggable at a site like this.
I dug down about 4-5" and found this small ID bracelet, I rooted around the hole with my Propinter and found that other small piece of chain, too.
No marks on this thing but it came up clean, left black marks on my cleaning cloth like silver always does, and it will be tested but I am 99.9% sure this is silver.
I am a jewelry hunter at my core, but it seems even at sites where I am looking for old coins 100% I guess if there is jewelry in the area I still have the skills and good luck to find it.
This small thing found in such a huge area just aimlessly wandering around is just amazing to me, maybe if some of those horse people or campers lost other silver or gold jewelry pieces I now have enough confidence that I have a good a shot as any to find it along with any of their lost coins.
Especially using the F70 and these 1 tone settings.
. (I eyeballed this little 14k earring in a parking garage)
