New Fisher User- F22

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I tried out an F 22 yesterday on a lawn in Oneonta, NY that was loaded with coal, coke, and iron. It seemed like someone emptied their fire pit or coal stove out in the yard but I found a dozen wheaties, 2 silver dimes, 2 buttons and some old toys. In between the iron chatter I could sift through and find the good tones. I sure am impressed. I hunted mostly with a whites classic SL and a DFX in the past and was used to slow sweeping trashy sites for targets but ran into trouble on lawns with the same type of debris. Is this great ability to cut through the old coal debris and trash the norm with Fishers and if so is the F70 or patriot ALOT better than the F22? I must say being a Whites and Troy Shadow guy, I sure was impressed by the Fisher F22. Thanks!

 

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I tried out an F 22 yesterday on a lawn in Oneonta, NY that was loaded with coal, coke, and iron. It seemed like someone emptied their fire pit or coal stove out in the yard but I found a dozen wheaties, 2 silver dimes, 2 buttons and some old toys. In between the iron chatter I could sift through and find the good tones. I sure am impressed. I hunted mostly with a whites classic SL and a DFX in the past and was used to slow sweeping trashy sites for targets but ran into trouble on lawns with the same type of debris. Is this great ability to cut through the old coal debris and trash the norm with Fishers and if so is the F70 or patriot ALOT better than the F22? I must say being a Whites and Troy Shadow guy, I sure was impressed by the Fisher F22. Thanks!

I went from an F2 to an F70.
I used both for hundreds and hundreds of hours in both fantastically great almost perfect soil out west in Kansas and Missouri and also in the mineralized, iron and trash infested devil dirt here in the deep south.
With that F2 I found tons of coins, (won most coins award 3 years running at my club), older coins, relics and I was mostly a jewelry hunter at that time and I found a huge amount of silver and a pretty unbelievable amount of gold.
In three years I found over $2000 worth of treasure and sold a lot of extra F2's because of the millions of glowing words I wrote about it on most forums.
There is no bigger fan of this lower frequency powerhouse than me.

As happy as I was using it I always wondered how well I could do with an upper end Fisher and a bunch of extra settings to play with plus more power.
I was thinking hard about an F75 but a brand new F70 at $400 passed my way and I jumped on it....and never looked back.

From the first hunt with the F70 my jaw dropped and in 4 years it has not came back up yet.
I found tiny silver deep on my first hunt, a huge gold ring on my 4th in a severely trashy picnic site and I didn't have a clue about using it or utilizing most of the extra settings at that time.
I immediately realized I was able to hunt at a deeper level than that F2 consistently, as time went on and I learned how all the extra settings worked I went back to extremely challenging sites I had hunted so many times before and since then have used it at so many more that were so difficult that most others avoided them like the plague.
Also I visited many that were considered totally hunted out by most.
In all of them I was wildly successful...way more than I ever thought possible.
It was all that power and the many different setting combinations I found that made it all possible.
As much as I loved that F2 my F70 found me so much more in those oh so difficult sites that the F2 just didn't have the tools and ability to conquer.
The F2 wasn't bad at all but after learning to understand it at such a deep level I just maxed out its capabilities.
The minute I picked up the F70 I jumped into a deeper level...deeper not only in depth but in total ability and ease of use.

Is the F70/Patriot A LOT better than the lower end Fisher units...that depends on what you are hunting for and what kind of places you hunt.
For normal sites and most normal depth targets those lower end Fishers work just fine, as you have discovered.
My F2 could find coins on edge, great targets in trash and/or iron, could find them at decently deep levels and performed extremely well for what it cost.
The F70 could do all that too but it could also do so much more way deeper and it could do it way, way better in the most difficult sites you can imagine
Most surprising to me is how well that thing works in my mineralized SE. dirt which shocked me because the F2 just couldn't deal with this devil dirt anywhere near as well.
The things I can do with the F70 are at a whole completely different level which is exactly what I needed to advance my career and skill set into areas I could only dream of.
I have a ton of pics of the treasure I found using mine all over this forum in the F Series and Today's finds sections so look them up and judge that for yourself if you like.

So that is what you need to determine for yourself, is the entry level detector area where you want to be or do you think you you would be better served by a unit with more power, shocking depth and more settings and abilities.

I can't say I actually have way more fun and enjoy my F70 over my F2 at all, I was thrilled to hunt with both and I don't regret standing behind either one for even one minute.
What did change for me after upgrading is my perception of what was possible to recover using one over the other.
I did great with the F2 but there was still a success level I could get to and no further whereas with the F70 I don't think there is a limit to the success I can achieve.
At least I don't believe I have come close to any limit as of yet.
But that is me, all of this is subjective and your mileage may very but to answer your question using my knowledge, experiences and parameters yea...the upper end is a lot better than entry level in the Fisher line or more capable of success at the least.

All the Fishers are great at what they do, actually, where you end up on that features and abilities curve that will satisfy you and make you happy is going to be totally up to you.

 

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Wow! Thank you so much Revier! As I read your words I think about all those trashy Cellar hole sites back in the woods that I pounded and others before me had pounded. I still found stuff but after a while it was picked clean....... or so I thought . You give me New Hope and a new mission to work up the money necessary to get that Patriot LOL have a wonderful weekend and thanks again for taking the time to share your amazing post

 

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Wow! Thank you so much Revier! As I read your words I think about all those trashy Cellar hole sites back in the woods that I pounded and others before me had pounded. I still found stuff but after a while it was picked clean....... or so I thought . You give me New Hope and a new mission to work up the money necessary to get that Patriot LOL have a wonderful weekend and thanks again for taking the time to share your amazing post

That cellar hole place reminds me of a site that was just outside a public park that used to be the area where an old farmhouse stood.
The park bought the property and tore down the old house and took away the wood but managed to leave most of the metal from the house in the ground.
Also there were about a million nails, screws, bits of wire and more, plus a ton of other huge iron and junk you find around a working farm.
It was a nightmare, nobody I knew ever came here and hunted it more than once and not much was ever found because of the massive challenging problems.
Of course I am more stubborn than most and this park was huge and I hunted it often so when this area was opened to hunt I hit it often suspecting there was a ton of masked targets.
I must have hunted it a dozen times with my F2 at least, a couple of times with a Compadre and a Vaquero and one time with a vintage Compass Judge2 which is supposed to have magic see through iron abilities.
After hours spent there with all those machines I came away with about 3-4 wheat cents and that's about it.
Then the F70 came into my life.

I took a few months getting used to and learning it and then I felt it was time to hit this site again but this time armed with a new weapon.
Nothing much at first using normal settings and disc, but on like my second hunt there I hit on a very out of the box setting combination that you would think was insane to try at this kind of site....but they kinda worked.
I spent several hours working on this method and got better and better until eventually I started pulling out non ferrous targets instead of iron and junk.
When I found a mercury dime and an old wheat in the same hole along with a bunch of iron I knew I had something there...on like my next hunt I found my first Walking half dollar and I knew all my effort was totally worth it.
There was much more there too, the pic below shows most of the good stuff.
I moved away from there but I am thinking there was still more to find.

It was the F70 that did it, I am positive the settings and abilities this thing possesses made it all possible because I really tried with other detectors for many hours and never could figure it out as had several other hunters.
I learned lessens about hunting in massive trash and iron at that site that I will use forever.
Just one of the life changing experiences I had with mine, use yours enough and you will have plenty too.

 

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Those are some sweet finds. I am pumped. I live near Albany, NY and have a ton of parks around that definitely still have stuff hidden amidst the pull tabs and 40 ounce caps. I don't mind sifting through the junk and with a new machine it will be a new experience. Thanks!