This morning I decided to try my old standby park. This place is hunted hard by every detectorist in my area. I can usually find a wheat penny or two, but that is in four hours or so detecting. I was going to use my "new found" knowledge of what these deep coins sound like. The first hour was nothing but deep trash. I did notice that trash targets might high tone in all directions, but the numbers vary by sometimes 25 numbers. I can't resist the tones so I dig them even though I have a feeling they are junk. I finally got the signal I was looking for with weak, repeatable high ticks and numbers staying in the upper 80's. I found two wheat pennies in the same hole at 9 inches deep. About one foot away, I got a deep signal that bounced from 29 to 70. It was about 8 inches deep and pinpointed(sized) like a coin. Sure enough from 8 inches a 37 Buffalo nickel with a clean date. There is something about Fisher detectors and deep nickels that I have found. If you get a nickel number and a higher coin number that is deep, dig it. My F5 and the many Coinstrikes that I owned did this exact same thing. I found another dateless Buffalo about ten minutes later and it did the same thing. It too was in the 8 inch deep range. My last older coin was a 1920 wheat penny from an insanely deep 10-11 inches. A very weak, but repeatable signal and again high 80's numbers. It's going to be a long winter waiting to use this lethal detector again. I hope I don't forget what things look and sound like.
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More Deep Coins
- Thread starter RLOH
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Mike Hillis
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Don't you hate that! Get something figured out and then have to wait forever to use the knowledge again 
Maybe you'll get a few more hunts in before you get shut out. Maybe even do an audio recording so you can listen to it over the winter a few times.
Congrats on getting the deep coins signals down and pulling a few more out of the ground.
HH
Mike
Maybe you'll get a few more hunts in before you get shut out. Maybe even do an audio recording so you can listen to it over the winter a few times.Congrats on getting the deep coins signals down and pulling a few more out of the ground.
HH
Mike
Jackpine Savage
Active member
Ya know RL a couple months ago I would have questioned 10-11" depths on wheaties. But that was before I got me one of these powerhouse F75's. 
Tom
Tom
still looking 52
Well-known member
RLOH, Earlier this year my brother and I discovered those faint deep sounding targets and now that's the sound we love to hear. The average person Misses those targets because they move to fast and are looking for those loud solid sounds,thats were the clad is not the silver and other old coins.
Tom, I had one of the first F75's and I could not use it at most of the places I detect. I could not get within 75 feet of just about any overhead power line. As a matter of fact, I took that F75 to the same park I detected today and had a terrible time trying to find spots without emi. I do remember finding a very deep Barber dime that first day, but that only added to my frustration. I knew what the detector was capable of, but also the emi downfalls. I also had the SE with boost and cache. I hardly ever used the "boost mode" as it was just to "chirpy" even with lower sensitivity. This new standard gold model is night and day improved over my previous F75's. I have found these very deep coins in DE mode with sens at 80. It is extremely quiet, so quiet that I am constantly sweeping over my shoe eyelets. It is a near perfect detector. I got rid of a V3i because of it's weight and as you know, the F75 is very light and perfectly balanced. I run out of gas before my shoulder, elbow, or wrist starts hurting. Without a doubt, this 599.00 F75 is the bargain of all bargains.
Jackpine Savage
Active member
They are a Great bargain since most dealers will let them out the door for $500.00
RLOH said:
I tried two of the F75 Golds this summer, the first one had something wrong with it, had a constant 10 times per second chirp, even when I laid it down away from everything and walked away from it! I sent it back because the company told me it must be defective, and they sent me another one, I Love Fisher! The second one was definitely quieter, and I did find some deep Wheaties with it. But couldn't get used to all the high chirps! I used it exclusively for a month, long and hard, using every setting I could research and try. After about a month, I hunted a small area in my sons front yard for two hours with it, nothing but some small pieces of deep brass. I then took out my F4, that I had for almost 3 years and went over the same area. Within 5 minutes, I found 2 Wheaties only 3 inches deep! I don't know what I was doing wrong, but with all the chirps, I guessed I was subconsciously ignoring some signals? So I gave up and sold it, took a loss on it, but I sure do love my F4. I'm getting to know the deep signals with it, last weekend I found 2 Indian Heads about 9 inches deep! Had to swing only moving about an inch forward and any signal that wasn't easily repeatable, I'd go over it 10-20 times, if it repeated the 59, I dug it, and came out with an 1876 and 1901! Could have missed it, if I went very fast! Wish I could've gotten used to the F75, because I believe there is a lot of older treasures just out of my reach! Maybe I could rent a Caterpillar Scraper and take off 6 inches and then I could get the deep goodies!!! LOL Happy Huntin!!!