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Question for Mike Hillis on the new F-75 LTD2
- Thread starter D&P-OR
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Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Sorry Del
Been swamped with work and home stuff.
I could give a dissertation on steel bottle caps, but the short answer is No. The F75 and the DD coil is what it is on steel bottle caps.
Best advice I could give someone about steel bottle caps would be to go out and purposely hunt just for those bottle caps.
HH
Mike
Been swamped with work and home stuff.
I could give a dissertation on steel bottle caps, but the short answer is No. The F75 and the DD coil is what it is on steel bottle caps.
Best advice I could give someone about steel bottle caps would be to go out and purposely hunt just for those bottle caps.
HH
Mike
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Sorry Del
Been swamped with work and home stuff.
I could give a dissertation on steel bottle caps and metal detectors but the short answer is No. The F75 and the DD coil is what it is on steel bottle caps.
Reiver made a good post about what Monte calls "edge pass rejection".
Best advice I could give someone about steel bottle caps would be to go out and purposely hunt for bottle caps with all the tools the F75 makes available to you.
One tool not mentioned very often is that target id works in the F75 non-motion all metal pinpoint mode. The depth readout replaces the TID number but all the other stuff works (confidence meter, FE304 meter, conductive graph indicator).
HH
Mike
Been swamped with work and home stuff.
I could give a dissertation on steel bottle caps and metal detectors but the short answer is No. The F75 and the DD coil is what it is on steel bottle caps.
Reiver made a good post about what Monte calls "edge pass rejection".
Best advice I could give someone about steel bottle caps would be to go out and purposely hunt for bottle caps with all the tools the F75 makes available to you.
One tool not mentioned very often is that target id works in the F75 non-motion all metal pinpoint mode. The depth readout replaces the TID number but all the other stuff works (confidence meter, FE304 meter, conductive graph indicator).
HH
Mike
Thanks Mike----That's the answer I thought I (and was afraid I would get) on the new F-75 b.c. handling abilities.------IMO, that b.c. mode on the older 75's was all but useless also.------I wonder---wonder----maybe that new 5 X 10" DD for the F-75's would do a better job in this regard----could well be!
REVIER
Well-known member
Yep...that edge pass rejection thing, I prefer to call it rimming the coil, works well for me.
Not all bottle caps are eliminated because I still dig a few, but about 95% of them are so that is huge.
Some say you can lift the coil and see that same drop-down effect in the numbers but I can't get that method to give me the same accurate results.
This technique is a godsend for me in especially trashy park sites that I gravitate to.
Made hunting with DD coils a pleasure for me as long as I use them with detectors that have screens.
It works on my Tesoros too but manipulating that disc knob to see this effect just takes to long and I don't have the patience for that so I used to just dig all of them which those units.
Now I use the F70 and the big coil most of the time, a DD sniper the rest of the time, and I have great confidence when I leave those high tone and numbered signals that drop in the ground and never worry anymore.
I have come across a few coins that acted a little wonky in the past few months, unstable and a bit jumpy, but I have yet to see a good target like a ring or coin act exactly the same way as these pop tops do so this technique has turned out to be one of if not the most important and useful arrows in my quiver of tricks that I have ever learned in this hobby so far.
Not all bottle caps are eliminated because I still dig a few, but about 95% of them are so that is huge.
Some say you can lift the coil and see that same drop-down effect in the numbers but I can't get that method to give me the same accurate results.
This technique is a godsend for me in especially trashy park sites that I gravitate to.
Made hunting with DD coils a pleasure for me as long as I use them with detectors that have screens.
It works on my Tesoros too but manipulating that disc knob to see this effect just takes to long and I don't have the patience for that so I used to just dig all of them which those units.
Now I use the F70 and the big coil most of the time, a DD sniper the rest of the time, and I have great confidence when I leave those high tone and numbered signals that drop in the ground and never worry anymore.
I have come across a few coins that acted a little wonky in the past few months, unstable and a bit jumpy, but I have yet to see a good target like a ring or coin act exactly the same way as these pop tops do so this technique has turned out to be one of if not the most important and useful arrows in my quiver of tricks that I have ever learned in this hobby so far.