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The F75SE is one he!! of a detector
Posted by ncwayne
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The F75SE is one he!! of a detector October 27, 2014 03:46AM |
Fisher and its flagship F75/Ltd/SE has taken its lumps lately on this forum but today I fell in love with mine all over again. Joe Johnston's army moved toward Greensboro after engaging Sherman's army at Bentonville. Johnston's troops encamped over a fairly large area encircling Greensboro. I'm from this area and didn't learn of these camps till roughly 2 years ago. Thirty years ago I was traveling to VA and eastern NC to do my CW detecting.
Anyway, I've been detecting one of these sites over the past month, having now spent 4 half-days there. Twice I've carried the F75SE and twice, the Deus. Today was the F75's turn. These sites were pounded heavily for years and years before I even heard about them. I've run into some other hunters during my forays who detected these sites years ago. Some recent construction work has brought them back. With 3 or 4 souls detecting, a minie ball or two or three were found each day I was there. But not by me. I did find a small flat button two weeks ago, the smallest flat button I've seen. It's a bit smaller than a dime.
Well, today with the F75SE, I managed to find an Enfield and a three ringer that had laid where I found them for 149 years and 6 months (or there abouts). And it had been roughly 29 years since I had found my last minie ball. I felt that I had a bullet jinx on me and I had been working my fanny off trying to shake that jinx. Well, today I finally did it. Or rather, the F75 and I did it. What a relief! And what a thrill to see those bullets laying in the dirt! Recovery depth was approx. 7 inches.
An interesting note, to me anyway, is that I just read in the owner's manual this morning that the F75 is best used at a fast swing which will result in optimum signal and more accurate VDI. Well, that's what I did. I swung that sucker fast and covered lots of ground. It really is quite a detector! My setup was, for anyone interested, bP process, 85 sensitivity, 6 Discrimination, 1F tones. I noted, at one point, that mineralization in the area was .3 on the scale. With sensitivity at 85 and Discrim at 6, there was some audio liveliness but it was quite manageable.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for looking.
Pleasant Garden, NC
AT Max, Nokta Impact, MX Sport, Nokta FORS Relic, GPX 4800, Infinium, Racer, Deus, F75SE, Nautilus DMC II (order of acquisition, last to first)
Does an archeologist argue with a plow? A bureaucrat with a bulldozer?
Anyway, I've been detecting one of these sites over the past month, having now spent 4 half-days there. Twice I've carried the F75SE and twice, the Deus. Today was the F75's turn. These sites were pounded heavily for years and years before I even heard about them. I've run into some other hunters during my forays who detected these sites years ago. Some recent construction work has brought them back. With 3 or 4 souls detecting, a minie ball or two or three were found each day I was there. But not by me. I did find a small flat button two weeks ago, the smallest flat button I've seen. It's a bit smaller than a dime.
Well, today with the F75SE, I managed to find an Enfield and a three ringer that had laid where I found them for 149 years and 6 months (or there abouts). And it had been roughly 29 years since I had found my last minie ball. I felt that I had a bullet jinx on me and I had been working my fanny off trying to shake that jinx. Well, today I finally did it. Or rather, the F75 and I did it. What a relief! And what a thrill to see those bullets laying in the dirt! Recovery depth was approx. 7 inches.
An interesting note, to me anyway, is that I just read in the owner's manual this morning that the F75 is best used at a fast swing which will result in optimum signal and more accurate VDI. Well, that's what I did. I swung that sucker fast and covered lots of ground. It really is quite a detector! My setup was, for anyone interested, bP process, 85 sensitivity, 6 Discrimination, 1F tones. I noted, at one point, that mineralization in the area was .3 on the scale. With sensitivity at 85 and Discrim at 6, there was some audio liveliness but it was quite manageable.
Thanks for reading. Thanks for looking.
Pleasant Garden, NC
AT Max, Nokta Impact, MX Sport, Nokta FORS Relic, GPX 4800, Infinium, Racer, Deus, F75SE, Nautilus DMC II (order of acquisition, last to first)
Does an archeologist argue with a plow? A bureaucrat with a bulldozer?