Patriot , how are you folks liking yours ?

[REVIER]

Hi,
I finally bought a Patriot after over a year of wondering if it was the right choice for my area. It was a new, unopened return at lower than discount code price from a great dealer. I am super impressed. I have tried several 8 to 15 kHz detectors in my thick EMI and high mineralized dirt. Most of them completely failed to handle the EMI and/or the mineralization. I was skeptical that the Patriot would do any better. I was very wrong. I just turned it on (outside!) ground balanced it in discrimination mode and lowered the default sensitivity from 80 to 60. It was super quiet EMI wise, with the coil facing outward. When I swept the ground there were only a few iron wrap around falses in the high conductor silver range from all the naturally occurring iron in my dirt. It has good depth, solid target ID and tones on coin sized targets and is fairly easy to understand and adjust. It has a great all metal mode (Auto Tune) too which also settled down nicely and went really deep. I love the target ID in Auto Tune! Right out of the box, it is a definite keeper for me!!!

Jeff

As you learn and see what it really can do and how it can deal with just about everything and anything you throw at it you will be even more...enthusiastic.

It can deal with the most iron infested site you can imagine...I figured out one using some settings you might not believe but there are probably more out there using other settings that have been super successful.
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2105767,2113762#msg-2113762

Here is more information, a ton, just absorb it as fast as you want/need too...if you want to.
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2163779,page=1

And more info...
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2430631,2430843#msg-2430843

How Gene Scully from Fisher sets his F75 for hunting iron...The Patriot can be set the same.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BFfAAkTQDg

Bottlecaps, I hate em and I hunt in many old infested parks.
This thing can see these for what they are 95% of the time even with the DD coil.
Crazy easy too, one of the most helpful things I have ever learned.
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2212459,2212462#msg-2212462

Depth, don't think you need to crank it up to get deep, all sense numbers from 1-99 are higher than you think.
Way higher.
Here is an 8" nickel being hit with thresh in the positive and a sense setting of...one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KaJG8ohPbjE

In good dirt my 11" DD coil could get to 12" easily, I went to 15" on one target once.
The Fisher round sniper coil could hit 10+ there.

Here in my mineralized iron infested mess I can still get fairly deep, past 5-6" anyway, which is a barrier we all have to overcome here.
My sniper got me a thin worn V nickel in mineralized dirt in an area surrounded by power lines and EMI galore.
That nickel was 8-9" deep.
I couldn't believe it and neither could a buddy who was hunting with an E Trac.
The technique I used to find that nickel is something I discovered that can make this thing eerily quiet but still hit deep.
I call it my silver slaying settings because it makes all high tone targets really stick out...disc maxed, just a few areas notched back in, thresh high,
sense high, although the sense and thresh can be backed down if needed.
https://www.findmall.com/read.php?37,2399667,2399922#msg-2399922


Learn it well and have great fun doing it...you really have no choice in that last part.

 

[Crew Chief]

Revier, you are the main reason I went with the F70. You should write a book on metal detecting. The manual with the F70 got me started but your post on this forum took me to a whole new level. I'm still playing around with the DP tones but mainly have learned the 3H suits me pretty good so far. Thanks for your continued input here. I look forward to your post.

 

[REVIER]

Revier, you are the main reason I went with the F70. You should write a book on metal detecting. The manual with the F70 got me started but your post on this forum took me to a whole new level. I'm still playing around with the DP tones but mainly have learned the 3H suits me pretty good so far. Thanks for your continued input here. I look forward to your post.

Anytime.
I just experiment like crazy and write about what works.
I think there are many ways to use and set this tool to be successful, everyone is different and many use totally different settings and yet still find the goods.
Most every setting I use I found in one of these forums and then I just tweak for my needs, a few weird ones I stumbled on myself.
All seem to work, I think these Fishers see most things but it might not always be in your face obvious and the job for each owner is to find the settings that make targets signals the most accurate and get noticed the most...by them.
What one guy can deal with and utilize might be unintelligible to another but there are a ton more combinations to try.

 

[MidTN]

Had mine for two weeks.As of today I've found CW Enfield bullets and clad coins. It's all good.

 

[MrDirtyHands]

Revier, you are the main reason I went with the F70. You should write a book on metal detecting. The manual with the F70 got me started but your post on this forum took me to a whole new level. I'm still playing around with the DP tones but mainly have learned the 3H suits me pretty good so far. Thanks for your continued input here. I look forward to your post.

LOL ~ I've bugged him a bit about writing a F70/Patriot Bible! How many guys would pay $20.00 for that? I sure would!!