Read the field reports, interviews, etc. regarding these machines we use. A person can gain a greater understanding of the designers intent, effort, and thought processes gained from real world experience in the design and manufacture of such an incredible tool these detectors are. I find it helpful as I get more in field experience that assists in the understanding of what disc, thresh, sens actually do. Its also comforting to know we are using a product that has some real thoughtful design by many talented people behind it..
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Theres so many great youtube videos that have been done as well that at least a fellow can keep entertained and learn a lot about particular machines tones and functions and even training to recognize good locations too! What else can we do until this weather breaks?
that's the Formula 1 not some early machine by Fisher!
so sledding hills and skiing hills and all that are great places to hunt in the winter. I think it was a few years ago, I went out into a snow covered soccer field, the ground was not frozen beneath 5" of snow, and I was just slamming clad right through the snow and down into the dirt. I remember being impressed at the time to be able to have the coil that high off the ground and hitting coins that hard. Sledding hill hunting has its own type of problems, you gotta get there really early in the dark, before the Sno-Cat runs if possible, its cold, and sometimes really icy treacherous walking the slopes, hard to sometimes pick through the ice to the target, but generally a fellow can find some clad by the warming shed, or at the bottom 3rd of the hill, near the rope tows or lifts, etc. and even at the very top where people go to sit down on a toboggan or a tube. I like to also hunt the side of the hill that has afternoon sun at the back, just where somebody would stand to take a picture, (sun at your back) where they might take off a glove and drop a ring when working the camera...I've had the F70 out in some really cold temps below freezing with no troubles, and no modifications done, with the exception of putting a plastic shopping bag over the coil to keep the snow from sticking to it and making it weigh 10lbs....I'd prefer a warm rain hunting day or any other hunting for that matter to snow though. but it sort of gets a guy through the winter. once the plowed snowpiles at the edges of parkinglots melt in the spring, a guy can sweep through there with deadly effect for anything that was lost in that parking lot over the winter! Now that's Fun! all surface targets just laying there!