Trailduster
Active member
Ha ha. No biggie. But for me it's a milestone.
Started detecting Sept. of last year. Cut my teeth with a used f2, Pistol Probe, and Lesche. Quickly traded off the Pistol Probe for a Garrett PP. Thanks to REIVIER started using the 4" sniper more which really narrowed the learning curve of the machine and I had a couple silvers and $30 in clad to show for it by snow fall in December.
Fast forward to this spring. Bought a f70, bought a used 5" dd for it in June and my clad count really took off even though I don't hunt much more than sporadically like I did last fall with the f2.
I hunt maybe 2 hours tops most days, between my kids belly aching and bad back and knee, 2 hours is my limit, and I'm lucky if I get out once a week if not two weeks. Plus I took all of July off when a disc in my back went ape squat.
Well. Got to wrapping my bucket-o-clad. Mind you I'm a 65+ sense kinda guy so It's majority Quarters, dimes, and pre-82 pennies with a few accidental nickels for good measure.
I finally broke the $100 barrier must have been sometime in the past couple weeks.
Not counting the 12oz cup of pennies, I rolled up $80 in quarters, $40 in dimes, and almost 1 roll of accidental nickels($1.80) plus a few loosies waiting for the next hunts to make full rolls.
Must say the f70 kicks butt. Wish I had more time and less aches to hunt.
Started detecting Sept. of last year. Cut my teeth with a used f2, Pistol Probe, and Lesche. Quickly traded off the Pistol Probe for a Garrett PP. Thanks to REIVIER started using the 4" sniper more which really narrowed the learning curve of the machine and I had a couple silvers and $30 in clad to show for it by snow fall in December.
Fast forward to this spring. Bought a f70, bought a used 5" dd for it in June and my clad count really took off even though I don't hunt much more than sporadically like I did last fall with the f2.
I hunt maybe 2 hours tops most days, between my kids belly aching and bad back and knee, 2 hours is my limit, and I'm lucky if I get out once a week if not two weeks. Plus I took all of July off when a disc in my back went ape squat.
Well. Got to wrapping my bucket-o-clad. Mind you I'm a 65+ sense kinda guy so It's majority Quarters, dimes, and pre-82 pennies with a few accidental nickels for good measure.
I finally broke the $100 barrier must have been sometime in the past couple weeks.
Not counting the 12oz cup of pennies, I rolled up $80 in quarters, $40 in dimes, and almost 1 roll of accidental nickels($1.80) plus a few loosies waiting for the next hunts to make full rolls.
Must say the f70 kicks butt. Wish I had more time and less aches to hunt.