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[ausnimrod]

Hello All,

I'm a new member to this forum, and I've owned an F70 for about 3 years. I've had a lot of fun with my daughter and we've found lots of coins, and a small ring, buckshot, and a bullet. lol.

I have a few questions.

1) My dream is still to find a silver coin. When I was a kid, my friend had one and we went out and found an old silver quarter. He got to keep it. lol. and I've always wanted to find one. So is there a "general" type of place to find older coins that you have the most luck? (closest coin I found is a 1965 quarter. lol.

2) I went on to youtube and found a couple of videos to help me find some settings to try, yet I still don't really understand it all. How often do you change your settings, and have you guys/girls ever published what you think are the top 2 "modes" to preset your F70?

3) Lastly, posted on our community page (Next Door) someone lost a titanium ring sledding about 1/2 mile from my house. Any thoughts on what it's like to find a titanium ring, hopefully near the surface? I'd love to find and return it to them.

Thanks in advance!

Looking forward to gathering your wisdom!

 

[tometusns]

Welcome to the forum. I'm not familiar with the f70 but wish you good luck on your silver quest!! HH!!, Tom

 

[doc holiday232]

Calling Reveir!!!

 

[Elton]

Welcome.

We have several members here who can advise "Their " best settings.
I'm sure they will be very happy to assist you. We are blessed with good people here.
Keep in mind..Sometimes others settings will not be exact for your soil conditions.
But..it will get you going in the right direction..and small adjustments on your part, will then, soon get you finding great finds.

Old Parks, Schools , Empty lots, Private permission sites, and any other allowed areas can produce good finds.

Another good thing is have a test garden ..

 

[dfmike]

The F70 should allow you to easily get silver objects if they are present in the ground (even with factory default settings). I don't have the F70 but the signal ID you want to look for should be close to the F5 that I had (anything stable in the 70's, 80's and up to the low 90's should be worth investigating). Other than that, make sure you ground balance properly and there's plenty of good videos on that. Last but not least: Location is of course extremely important. If you want to find old silver coins, you will have to research hunting areas for potential. I find the internet invaluable for this. Do you have access to some old private properties ? These are the best places to start. Sometimes friends, work colleagues, family or relatives will let you hunt there.

Did you buy your F70 second hand ? If you didn't get the manual with it, I would download it right away and read it carefully. Most of what you need to start is in there.

 

[REVIER]

A few questions....
Where are you hunting, what state, what is your soil like, mineralized or not, what are your average GB numbers?
What settings are you using?
What coils do you have?
What kind of sites have you hunted looking for silver coins?

I have found silver coins at many different sites but if you really want the best chance you need to try to hunt some higher percentage sites.
Old parks can be good but many have been hunted to death...doesn't mean there is no silver there but it just might be a little harder to find.
I have found several in some totally hunted to death parks in my town but none were easy, most were heavily masked which is why they were still there so using different settings and understanding them thoroughly is important.
One of the better places to hunt would be lawns of private homes.
Not everyone is into asking owners about doing this but the worst thing that can happen is they say no and sometimes you might get a yes.
It gets easier with practice and I have found a lot of silver in just a few lawns on my block when I asked the owners about doing this as I was just walking by on my way somewhere else.
Silver dimes, war nickels, quarters even a walker half....these kind of sites are usually virgin territory so your best shot at finding that silver coin as soon as possible.


Here are a few settings that might help you out if silver coins are your goal, I have tons of different ones for all kinds of situations but I call these my silver shooting settings.
Disc all the way up to 65.
Sense and thresh up high as you can but keep it quiet as possible.
You can notch in one area, maybe two, any more than that it might get noisy.
Usually I notch in nickels and maybe tabs to notice nickels, war nickels and hopefully gold if it is around.
I have used all kinds of tones doing this but DP or one of the multi tone selections will let you listen for those high tones without looking at the screen too closely and high conductors should stick out and be sharp and noticeable.
The reason for the high disc and notching areas back in, which on the face might seem redundant, but just like using the sense and gain settings to control noise and chatter the disc seems to be to have an effect too...the higher the disc the less it is affected by EMI.
This thing gets deep on most sense settings but I just like to set the sense and thresh as high as I can sometimes for a shot at the deepest targets in my mineralized environment.

Another way to set up is explained here but it is kind of advanced.
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2351519,page=1

It works too, just one of many combinations that might give you a good shot at finding some masked targets in challenging sites.
Search here using my name and the words F70, settings, in the F Series forum for more combinations that might work for you.

 

[vlad]

Try yards of friends and family-greater chance of them being virgin sites. You can find silver at schools and parks, but many have been hard hit.
Stick with the high denomination coins.

 

[jim tn]

The best thing you can do is to get to know your detector and that takes more then a casual outing here and there. Dig a lot of targets and pay attention to how they sound and read. There are no magic settings for most detectors. Once you get familiar with your unit, then a bit of tweaking here and there will result in a bit more depth. But, your detector will find a lot of good targets simply running in the default mode......and always get a good ground balance and run it stable. As far as finding silver, any older spot has the potential for silver coins. Parks, school yards, athletic fields, older homes and so on. In your outtings, if you are recovering wheat cents, there should also be some silver around. Any site older then the mid 60's has the chance for silver. Good luck! HH jim tn

 

[still looking 52]

All good advice, the only thing I would add is learn how to tell the difference between a four inch coin and say a eight inch coin down in the ground because most of the silver now is deeper than four inches and it takes a different approach. I use the F5 and it has modulated sound which just means the deeper targets sound further away, take a clad dime and plant it out in your yard, first 4" deep and another 8" deep and notice the sound difference. A lot of times you will only get the 8" deep target from one direction.

 

[WV62]

Can't add much to the above, welcome to the forum.

Here is a little something that will tell you that you are in an area where you will have a good chance to find some silver. We like to think when we are finding wheat pennies we are in the right place to find silver.

Good luck and have fun,

Ron in WV

 

[GroundScanner]

Welcome to the forum. GS

 

[ausnimrod]

n/t

 

[ausnimrod]

Ok! You guys are awesome. I bought my F7- New,

To answer Mr. Revier.

My settings are currently (gleaned from the internet)
Disc -6
Speed - DE
Sensitivity - 90
Threshold - -3
# Tones - 2F
Notch - 1

I'm in Cincinnati Ohio
Average GB numbers are 55-60 unless the ground is wet, then a little higher
I have a 10# Elipticle coil
I've mostly hunted in the neighborhood. Most houses were built in the 30's -50's. I've done a few parks, softball fields, and working on an old golf course. I found an old map that shows where all the greens and tees were. I've also searched friends property that has an old road in the woods, supposedly dating back to the civil war. Just found old cut nails, and a broken horseshoe. (this site is hard because it's along a High Power Line) I've found plenty of coins, of course a few wheatbacks here and there.

So it sounds like...1) look for old virgin sites, most likely around homes, Old coins (silver) will be deeper,

 

[REVIER]

Ok! You guys are awesome. I bought my F7- New,

To answer Mr. Revier.

My settings are currently (gleaned from the internet)
Disc -6
Speed - DE
Sensitivity - 90
Threshold - -3
# Tones - 2F
Notch - 1

I'm in Cincinnati Ohio
Average GB numbers are 55-60 unless the ground is wet, then a little higher
I have a 10# Elipticle coil.
I've mostly hunted in the neighborhoaod. Most houses were built in the 30's -50's. I've done a few parks, softball fields, and working on an old golf course. I found an old map that shows where all the greens and tees were. I've also searched friends property that has an old road in the woods, supposedly dating back to the civil war. Just found old cut nails, and a broken horseshoe. (this site is hard because it's along a High Power Line) I've found plenty of coins, of course a few wheatbacks here and there.

So it sounds like...1) look for old virgin sites, most likely around homes, Old coins (silver) will be deeper,

Decent settings, some of the multi tone settings might make it a bit easier to hear silver high tones like 3-4H or DP.
A favorite of mine for long time when I got the F70 was 4H, disc about 21-23....found tons of coins, some silver, lots of nickels, a good amount of silver jewelry and plenty of gold.
The key to any good settings are to enable you to recognize the good target behavior when you come across it and that can be different for anybody.
Older silver coins might not always be deeper every time necessarily, I have found many in some older sites that were only 2-4" deep or so.
Many were in well hunted sites but were masked but I found them because I had settings that cut out much of the extra confusing signals I didn't need to deal with I could concentrate on the other more important behavior and tones that I needed to notice them.
I do use mostly low disc nowadays at 6 down to 0 and also all metal but it took awhile to get down to that.
A lot of time spent swinging and lowering that disc bit by bit.
The only reason I mention this stuff is if these are the settings you have been using for awhile or from the beginning and have not found one silver coin I am concerned it is the 6 disc which makes for a very busy environment and the 2F tones that make you concentrate on the tones AND watching the screen that might be holding you back....maybe they could have made it harder for you to notice any sharper high tone coin signals especially in one of those 30-50's home sites if you actually came across one.
High tones are easier for most of us to notice than singular low tones even if they are modulated, when I started swinging the F70 I found it way easier to find those high tone targets by actually using high tones including nickel area gold which also are high tones in 3H or 4H.
You could be very good at using these settings for all I know but 3 years without a single silver coin makes me wonder if other settings might work a bit better in trashy environments.

Ohio has some good soil in most of that state and it sounds like you have some nice places to hunt.
Maybe change up your settings a bit and you might be a bit more successful and find that silver coin you want.
Then again all settings should work pretty well but there might be some better than others that each of us should experiment a little and try to find.

 

[ausnimrod]

This is great info. I changed the settings for the heck of it, and I'm going to set up another group of settings as my "backup."

One last question...can you describe what "numbers" you see on the screen, and "hear" for tone that gets you really excited? Makes your adrenaline kick in? Lol.

 

[REVIER]

This is great info. I changed the settings for the heck of it, and I'm going to set up another group of settings as my "backup."

One last question...can you describe what "numbers" you see on the screen, and "hear" for tone that gets you really excited? Makes your adrenaline kick in? Lol.

That's all kind of different but I can tell you that coil that you use is just extra special when it comes to hearing especially sweet tones over great high conductive targets...precious metals especially.
Many never used that concentric long enough to hear or understand the difference in response between that and a DD but I used them both for hundreds of hours and I know there is one.
Regarding silver, either coins or jewelry, when you run over that stuff in multi tones and especially 3-4H that high tone sound just clicks off something in my DNA, ears and brain.
This is something you just have to experience a few times to be able to understand because it is hard to explain.
Also I have noticed a little more stability in many silver targets even at depth.
Not all the time because all kinds of things can affect signals like masking trash or iron but even here in my difficult soil where everything gets really jumpy past 2" or so I have seen much more stable behavior deeper when there is less garbage to deal with.
This is one great example, a rarer sterling Masonic coin from the late 30's top early 40's.
I was using that same elliptical coil walking through an area I had been through many times before when I hit this high tone so nice it stopped me in my tracks.
It was solid and clear and loud and stable as anything I have ever come across in good soil or bad at any depth.
It repeated from two directions and when I checked the depth my screen shows me a consistent 84-85, quarter, at 7-8".
I was shocked, nothing in my dirt ever came in that stable that was that deep before or since.
I was expecting nothing, I figured it was probably some large piece of junk but I was curious so I dug it anyway.
When I got down to that 7-8" level I found something about the size of a quarter but it wasn't a quarter and it was pretty clean and shiny.
When I saw the word sterling I was shocked again.
Still one of my most favorite finds ever.





Other numbers that gets my blood going...
Anything stable from about 21 to the high 40's, or even higher, could be gold and for me that has been pretty often.
I have found 5 10k gold class rings that all rang in between 48-52.
Anything around 31-34 could be nickels, old nickels are the best and silver war nickels can be weird and come in from normal nickels up to much higher.
Low 60's are zincolns but they also could be Indian heads that range from the 50's to the 60's.
Chains can come in from foil up to zinc, even silver chains and so can gold chains.
The high 80's to low 90's can be very big silver rings but also silver halves.
A silver dollar will come in around the low to mid 90's.

For me most of the time in decent conditions all of these targets have come in pretty solid using your coil which I will never sell or trade and will always have a place in my arsenal.

 

[jim tn]

Small, round and touch on the mellow side. HH jim tn

 

[ausnimrod]

This is great info. I changed the settings for the heck of it, and I'm going to set up another group of settings as my "backup."

One last question...can you describe what "numbers" you see on the screen, and "hear" for tone that gets you really excited? Makes your adrenaline kick in? Lol.

That's all kind of different but I can tell you that coil that you use is just extra special when it comes to hearing especially sweet tones over great high conductive targets...precious metals especially.
Many never used that concentric long enough to hear or understand the difference in response between that and a DD but I used them both for hundreds of hours and I know there is one.
Regarding silver, either coins or jewelry, when you run over that stuff in multi tones and especially 3-4H that high tone sound just clicks off something in my DNA, ears and brain.
This is something you just have to experience a few times to be able to understand because it is hard to explain.
Also I have noticed a little more stability in many silver targets even at depth.
Not all the time because all kinds of things can affect signals like masking trash or iron but even here in my difficult soil where everything gets really jumpy past 2" or so I have seen much more stable behavior deeper when there is less garbage to deal with.
This is one great example, a rarer sterling Masonic coin from the late 30's top early 40's.
I was using that same elliptical coil walking through an area I had been through many times before when I hit this high tone so nice it stopped me in my tracks.
It was solid and clear and loud and stable as anything I have ever come across in good soil or bad at any depth.
It repeated from two directions and when I checked the depth my screen shows me a consistent 84-85, quarter, at 7-8".
I was shocked, nothing in my dirt ever came in that stable that was that deep before or since.
I was expecting nothing, I figured it was probably some large piece of junk but I was curious so I dug it anyway.
When I got down to that 7-8" level I found something about the size of a quarter but it wasn't a quarter and it was pretty clean and shiny.
When I saw the word sterling I was shocked again.
Still one of my most favorite finds ever.

https://s17.postimg.org/mlyka00sf/photostudio_1518302243049.jpg
https://s17.postimg.org/gxs9j6or3/photostudio_1518302188843.jpg


Other numbers that gets my blood going...
Anything stable from about 21 to the high 40's, or even higher, could be gold and for me that has been pretty often.
I have found 5 10k gold class rings that all rang in between 48-52.
Anything around 31-34 could be nickels, old nickels are the best and silver war nickels can be weird and come in from normal nickels up to much higher.
Low 60's are zincolns but they also could be Indian heads that range from the 50's to the 60's.
Chains can come in from foil up to zinc, even silver chains and so can gold chains.
The high 80's to low 90's can be very big silver rings but also silver halves.
A silver dollar will come in around the low to mid 90's.

For me most of the time in decent conditions all of these targets have come in pretty solid using your coil which I will never sell or trade and will always have a place in my arsenal.

This is cool! What an awesome find! I was just out during a warm day about a week ago at a sledding hill. I got a lot of great signals, but the ground is still too frozen to dig beyond 1 inch. I was hoping to find the wedding ring someone lost on the surface so I could return it to him. Thanks! I hope to post some pictures too...soon!