Having just gotten back from a ten day fishing and detecting trip up in northern Minnesota, I have finally gotten through the many interesting posts on this forum regarding the F series detectors, mainly the F 75, and have a few comments to make.
While in Mn, I spent about 25 hours detecting on about a 118 year old fairgrounds. A site I have hunted each trip up there for about the past twenty plus years. The old grounds ranks as one of the most trashiest I have ever hunted, but I was still able to eek out 9 silver coins, 1 v nickel, 2 IH's and 5 wheaties. Of the silver, 7 were dimes, 5 Merc's and 2 Rosies, and 2 Wash. quarters. I hunted entirely with the 6 1/2" elliptical on my F 75 and settings of de, disc. 0, sen. of 90-95 and 4H tones. My g/b was typically 78-80 and a feo reading of .1-.3. Ground conditions were very dry. In my opinion, trashy sites are where the F 75 stands head and shoulders above the competition. Be it for coinshooting, or relic hunting.
First off, and I don't work for Fisher in any manner, I hate to read or hear of new F 75 users giving up on this detector so soon after purchasing one. It is just to good of a detector not to do what it takes to learn it. Which, isn't all that time consuming or hard. Many good responses have been posted on how to achieve getting used to what all the 75 is saying, so simply give it some hours in the factory preset modes.
Having had Fishers, two cz's, before getting my F 75, I personally am glad the First Texas Fishers aren't like the old Fishers. All the old Fishers were, and still are, great detectors. The F/T Fishers, though, are light weight, comfortable to swing all day, a numerous times faster target response, equal, if not deeper in depth, excell for sniffing out good targets in the trash and stand up well. I have had my F 75 since June of 07 and have yet to experience the first problem of any kind with it. And, I swing it on an average of 30 to 35 hours per week and it goes just about everywhere with me.
I do occasionally run onto a spot where interference is a problem. I have experienced that often times, however, severe interference is a short term thing, kind of like a power surge occurs and then in a short while, often will lessen. As has been so astutely stated, all detectors experience some form of interference and I for one, am glad to know when it does take place. When I know it is taking place and all modifications fail to work, I know so and can then move off what ever distance it takes to search comfortably.
Having devoted some amount of time to all the various combinations of settings that avail on the F 75, I have found that all will find some good targets. What works best for me in my ground may not be the best settings in your ground and what chatter I am able to contend with may be more or less then you are willing to deal with. In my ground, I can use low to 0 disc. and run my sen. in the 90's and not get "chatter" fatigue during the course of a typical outing. I personally use a high as possible sen. setting as I coin hunt trashy sites and find a high sen. setting does a better job of unmasking then a lower setting.
Enough said, and enjoy those F series detectors. I seldom leave home without mine.
HH jim tn
While in Mn, I spent about 25 hours detecting on about a 118 year old fairgrounds. A site I have hunted each trip up there for about the past twenty plus years. The old grounds ranks as one of the most trashiest I have ever hunted, but I was still able to eek out 9 silver coins, 1 v nickel, 2 IH's and 5 wheaties. Of the silver, 7 were dimes, 5 Merc's and 2 Rosies, and 2 Wash. quarters. I hunted entirely with the 6 1/2" elliptical on my F 75 and settings of de, disc. 0, sen. of 90-95 and 4H tones. My g/b was typically 78-80 and a feo reading of .1-.3. Ground conditions were very dry. In my opinion, trashy sites are where the F 75 stands head and shoulders above the competition. Be it for coinshooting, or relic hunting.
First off, and I don't work for Fisher in any manner, I hate to read or hear of new F 75 users giving up on this detector so soon after purchasing one. It is just to good of a detector not to do what it takes to learn it. Which, isn't all that time consuming or hard. Many good responses have been posted on how to achieve getting used to what all the 75 is saying, so simply give it some hours in the factory preset modes.
Having had Fishers, two cz's, before getting my F 75, I personally am glad the First Texas Fishers aren't like the old Fishers. All the old Fishers were, and still are, great detectors. The F/T Fishers, though, are light weight, comfortable to swing all day, a numerous times faster target response, equal, if not deeper in depth, excell for sniffing out good targets in the trash and stand up well. I have had my F 75 since June of 07 and have yet to experience the first problem of any kind with it. And, I swing it on an average of 30 to 35 hours per week and it goes just about everywhere with me.
I do occasionally run onto a spot where interference is a problem. I have experienced that often times, however, severe interference is a short term thing, kind of like a power surge occurs and then in a short while, often will lessen. As has been so astutely stated, all detectors experience some form of interference and I for one, am glad to know when it does take place. When I know it is taking place and all modifications fail to work, I know so and can then move off what ever distance it takes to search comfortably.
Having devoted some amount of time to all the various combinations of settings that avail on the F 75, I have found that all will find some good targets. What works best for me in my ground may not be the best settings in your ground and what chatter I am able to contend with may be more or less then you are willing to deal with. In my ground, I can use low to 0 disc. and run my sen. in the 90's and not get "chatter" fatigue during the course of a typical outing. I personally use a high as possible sen. setting as I coin hunt trashy sites and find a high sen. setting does a better job of unmasking then a lower setting.
Enough said, and enjoy those F series detectors. I seldom leave home without mine.
HH jim tn
HH jim tn