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New F70 users please don't ever discount the value of the standard elliptical if that is the model you own or start with.
I got other coils and I love them too. The large F75 DD has scary depth, a little more than the concentric in good soil in good soil, and can be adjusted with your settings to hunt in very trashy environments easily and of course the coverage is great.
The sniper DD coil is one of my favorites because I hunt in some very trashy and iron infested areas with some heavy mineralization and it does its job more than well with also some very eye opening and surprising depth.
That elliptical, however, is different...a bit different in the sounds I hear, the response, the speed and just everything.
I put this thing on the bottom of my rod and smile every time I get that first signal of the day.
A gold and silver magnet, depth is great or at more than enough for my needs in my southeastern clay filled devil dirt and yesterday I explored an out of the way area of my local park with several difficulties and it worked beautifully.
I started in a small area with hard clay that I believe was a dump site at one time and also filled with lots of normal park trash such as can slaw, tabs and foil.
Dug some junk, in this soil unless it is on top of the ground or very shallow no numbers are very stable and most everything deeper jumps around a bit but I have learned new indicators, behavior and language to help me avoid most iron and the bulk of the trash.
In this area with a GB number about 80 I plucked out an old Curtis Industries key, a metal Revlon lipstick tube, a tax token in pretty decent shape, a condom package top that is a brand I have never seen before the LE Shunk latex co out of Akron Ohio and some kind of weird little aluminum fork...plus some modern clad.
I also found a piece of a cap gun luckily with the name on it that says Young Buffalo Bill plus hammers from 3 different cap guns in this area.
It sits behind some old houses so I think kids played in this area long ago.
All of these finds range from the 30's to the 50's.
I walked up a little trail that leads into some woods that are also on this side of the park, this part has some better black dirt but I was still GB'ing in the 80's because in this area of the country and my city the dirt is unforgiving, I found some modern clad but then I hit an area with some wheaties. After taking a break to clean these wheats to find a date I discovered one was a mid 40's but the other two were older...a 1925 and a 1919 in very good shape.
That made me go back to that site and into the woods a bit further where there very few signals but I did come across one more high one that I hoped was another old wheat but was way better.
It turned out to be the nicest and I think oldest merc I have come across so far and I mean great.
All these signals were good on the better targets, most of the trash I suspected was trash but in this environment you never know so I dug them.
All coin signals were great even in this garbage thanks to this coil's speed, response and distinct sound.
Along the way I even dug two modern quarters out if a hole with a huge rusty spike so in iron it performs fantastically well with separation almost on par with my DD's...maybe the shape has something to do with that.
All I can say is I love my F70 and all three coils I own get plenty of time out there in the field including this strange shaped concentric.
Never use the elliptical again, for me that will never happen because I have heard enough signals with all three, dug enough bucket list items with all of them to know in my heart if hearts that this thing is special.
If you get an F70 with that elliptical don't be in a hurry to get rid of it quickly becuause so many sing the praises of other coils.
Use it, listen to it, get to know it.
I have and it has a permanent place in my arsenal forever more.
I got other coils and I love them too. The large F75 DD has scary depth, a little more than the concentric in good soil in good soil, and can be adjusted with your settings to hunt in very trashy environments easily and of course the coverage is great.
The sniper DD coil is one of my favorites because I hunt in some very trashy and iron infested areas with some heavy mineralization and it does its job more than well with also some very eye opening and surprising depth.
That elliptical, however, is different...a bit different in the sounds I hear, the response, the speed and just everything.
I put this thing on the bottom of my rod and smile every time I get that first signal of the day.
A gold and silver magnet, depth is great or at more than enough for my needs in my southeastern clay filled devil dirt and yesterday I explored an out of the way area of my local park with several difficulties and it worked beautifully.
I started in a small area with hard clay that I believe was a dump site at one time and also filled with lots of normal park trash such as can slaw, tabs and foil.
Dug some junk, in this soil unless it is on top of the ground or very shallow no numbers are very stable and most everything deeper jumps around a bit but I have learned new indicators, behavior and language to help me avoid most iron and the bulk of the trash.
In this area with a GB number about 80 I plucked out an old Curtis Industries key, a metal Revlon lipstick tube, a tax token in pretty decent shape, a condom package top that is a brand I have never seen before the LE Shunk latex co out of Akron Ohio and some kind of weird little aluminum fork...plus some modern clad.
I also found a piece of a cap gun luckily with the name on it that says Young Buffalo Bill plus hammers from 3 different cap guns in this area.
It sits behind some old houses so I think kids played in this area long ago.
All of these finds range from the 30's to the 50's.
I walked up a little trail that leads into some woods that are also on this side of the park, this part has some better black dirt but I was still GB'ing in the 80's because in this area of the country and my city the dirt is unforgiving, I found some modern clad but then I hit an area with some wheaties. After taking a break to clean these wheats to find a date I discovered one was a mid 40's but the other two were older...a 1925 and a 1919 in very good shape.
That made me go back to that site and into the woods a bit further where there very few signals but I did come across one more high one that I hoped was another old wheat but was way better.
It turned out to be the nicest and I think oldest merc I have come across so far and I mean great.
All these signals were good on the better targets, most of the trash I suspected was trash but in this environment you never know so I dug them.
All coin signals were great even in this garbage thanks to this coil's speed, response and distinct sound.
Along the way I even dug two modern quarters out if a hole with a huge rusty spike so in iron it performs fantastically well with separation almost on par with my DD's...maybe the shape has something to do with that.
All I can say is I love my F70 and all three coils I own get plenty of time out there in the field including this strange shaped concentric.
Never use the elliptical again, for me that will never happen because I have heard enough signals with all three, dug enough bucket list items with all of them to know in my heart if hearts that this thing is special.
If you get an F70 with that elliptical don't be in a hurry to get rid of it quickly becuause so many sing the praises of other coils.
Use it, listen to it, get to know it.
I have and it has a permanent place in my arsenal forever more.