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Right now I am very frustrated.
Been messing around all year with different settings on the F70.
Each one seemed better than the last, with a little practice each one brought more treasure as I got used to and better with them.
One month ago I found the best setting for me so far, pretty high on the sense but the key was the 1 tone option.
As well as I did at a major difficult iron infested site with blown out, maxed out all metal settings, a switch to 1 tone at the same site when the good finds slowed to nothing brought out more...that wheat in the picture below.
Then I brought the 1 tone set up into the regular areas in my parks that are densely packed would trash hoping it would work as well...and it did.
More practice picking out masked and hidden targets in that trash,(using 3 different coils, too), and I seemed to get better and better.
Gold was found, then silver started to show up.
Each hunt found me precious metal in areas that I had scoured before, or it seemed that way, and it was easier and easier on every succeeding hunt.
The last 3 hunts I believe I reached a new level, a new plateau in my skill set...silver, silver, silver on every one in extreme trash pits.
Thrilled...now it is time to flex those newly trained senses and skills and really see what I can do and.....old man winter rolled in like a freight train and I think I am done hunting in regular park areas and dirt for the season.
Frustrated....
I will head into the woods and hunt the still not frozen soil as long as I can still the heavy snow kills that after I get acclimated to the cold temps, but digging in any kind of frozen ground is just not fun for me and with these temps the ground in open areas of my parks is sure to start freezing.
Even if it warms up a bit after this cold snap to normal temps I don't think the soil will be back to normal till next spring unless we get some unusually warm temps which I do not see forecasted.
This is like having a champion filly with no race to run him in, a fast boat with no lake to open it up, a hot rod with no roads...you get the idea.
It was a learning year for me but also a great year.
To have it shut down is a sad thing, the wait for next spring and a new hunting season will be tough but what else can I do?
I will always have memories, I guess, and they will have to suffice.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2120038,2120064#msg-2120064
Been messing around all year with different settings on the F70.
Each one seemed better than the last, with a little practice each one brought more treasure as I got used to and better with them.
One month ago I found the best setting for me so far, pretty high on the sense but the key was the 1 tone option.
As well as I did at a major difficult iron infested site with blown out, maxed out all metal settings, a switch to 1 tone at the same site when the good finds slowed to nothing brought out more...that wheat in the picture below.
Then I brought the 1 tone set up into the regular areas in my parks that are densely packed would trash hoping it would work as well...and it did.
More practice picking out masked and hidden targets in that trash,(using 3 different coils, too), and I seemed to get better and better.
Gold was found, then silver started to show up.
Each hunt found me precious metal in areas that I had scoured before, or it seemed that way, and it was easier and easier on every succeeding hunt.
The last 3 hunts I believe I reached a new level, a new plateau in my skill set...silver, silver, silver on every one in extreme trash pits.
Thrilled...now it is time to flex those newly trained senses and skills and really see what I can do and.....old man winter rolled in like a freight train and I think I am done hunting in regular park areas and dirt for the season.
Frustrated....
I will head into the woods and hunt the still not frozen soil as long as I can still the heavy snow kills that after I get acclimated to the cold temps, but digging in any kind of frozen ground is just not fun for me and with these temps the ground in open areas of my parks is sure to start freezing.
Even if it warms up a bit after this cold snap to normal temps I don't think the soil will be back to normal till next spring unless we get some unusually warm temps which I do not see forecasted.
This is like having a champion filly with no race to run him in, a fast boat with no lake to open it up, a hot rod with no roads...you get the idea.
It was a learning year for me but also a great year.
To have it shut down is a sad thing, the wait for next spring and a new hunting season will be tough but what else can I do?
I will always have memories, I guess, and they will have to suffice.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2120038,2120064#msg-2120064
