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.
for me. Love'em.
Be careful with that REVIER though...he finds those big gold rings in the zinc penny signals, and you will be cussing him every time you dig a rotten penny up!