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In our county parks a permit is required. Many a time I am stoped by the Rangers, they ask if I have a permit and of course I show them. By now they know me by sight & only ask if I'm having any luck. I carry a shovel with a blade the size of Toms but with a modified longer handle so I don't have to bend down. If people come up to me with the attitude that I'm destroying their
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Hello Blackadder43, I think that would be pretty darn neat and a great experience for you as the host and for your guests.....metal detecting holiday...I like it. There is never a guarantee of finding something when detecting in either your land or ours,,,but the anticipation and possibilities make for a fun and exiciting time.
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Hey Tony, I bought my 2" x 6" x 1" at Applied Magnets in Texas (Phone # 972-333-6392) for $46.24 including shipping. Other places wanted a couple hundred for that size. Be careful with it...It's very powerful @ 350 lb
Edit- i'm sorry not a 6" but a 4"
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I have also stopped watching TV about a year and a half ago. It's difficult at first, but after 6 months, no problem. I started reading, with the encouragement of a friend, and got hooked on books...then so did my wife. Twice a week we watch a Netflix movie ....good fill in. I'd also like to mention I had a Great Great Grandfather who was wounded in the second days battel of Gettysburg,
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Yikes !!!!
I did a quick test with the old Special Edition F-75 w/ Toms test above.
I had to put discrim on 10 to quiet it down because around my home today the F-75 sounded like a full blown Starwars battle. We also just had a passing thunderstorm.
Manually ground ballanced to 90, sens 85, de mode, waved some 14k gold charms @ the coil, got tones about 4 to 6 inches out depending on the char
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Yes dgc, It happens to me at least once or twice an outing. Most of the time it's a large nail (3" +) or a piece of iron of similar shape in the side of the hole and deep. Also if it's a large piece of flat iron I'll get a good 4 way high tone. The f-75 says it's mid or shallow in debth. After digging past what the machine says, I know it is going to be a piece of iron, a
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Did anyone ever get a feeling just before going to a certain site, that you were going to find a particular coin? This happened to me twice. The first time I had this positive feeling of sureness as I was driving to this property, that I was going to find a seated dime, low and behold...presto, there it was, ten minutes into the hunt. I thought, that was odd, and moved on. That was last year.
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I have to keep my Garret PP in its belt holster, behind my back. When I take it out to pinpoint... and before turning it on,,, the F-75 will sound off erratically. Now as soon as I turn on the GPP the F-75 will go silent. Other than that, they are fine. When you turn it on, make sure its not touching the ground. Also, if you put too much side or down pressure on the GPP it will chirp.
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Lawrenzo, That plate you found with the eagle on it, I found the exact same one here in Pa. It measures 3-5/16" by 2-3/16" x 1/16" thick and looks like a stamped piece. Mine has two holes left side corners top & bottom. I thought I saw something similiar on your intro videos. Do you know the particulars about this item? Let me know...Thanks.
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Hey Jon, this is the place. Check out the home page & click on the articles to read.....good stuff. Toms DVD is one of a kind, very informative.
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Tom, are you saying it's best to invoke pinpointing in clean soil before going over the intended target (target just found & wanting to pinpoint)? And if you have some discrim set, while wanting to pinpoint over clean soil, the area may not be clean because a discrimed target may be below... so when you go back to the intended target the pinpoint may not be effective or is de-tuned.
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I'm probably missing something here, I almost always use 0 discrim & 4 tone. Dozens of target tones coming thru the headphones dosen't bother me. I pinpoint only if I hear a good tone amongst the the bad...so before I pinpoint, if possible I'll narrow down the good tone with a shorter sweep then a couple inch wiggle, then pinpoint, dig that, then sweep again, if the good tone i
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Thats a tuff one for me to dgc. I run into that on every hunt. I mainly look for old coins,old buttons etc. I always try to run the F-75 on 0 discrim, 4 tones sens on 85 and up. Ground ball around here is on average about 62. I basically do the same thing you do but it's never an exact determination. Like Jackpine says, I will switch to AM for another vote to dig or not, reading the numbers.
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The 20 rod test gave me a fond memory.
We used to get nightcrawlers & worms out of the ground for fishing bait by introducing an electric current into a water saturated ground. The difference was we pluged into an AC outlet and ran the hot lead to a pointed metal rod, pushing the rod into the wet earth, those worms would fly out of the ground...pick em up...go trout fishing. Anyway.. I have
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I was in a field with a friend who uses a E-trac. We were standing not 5 feet apart when I got a reptable high tone, vdi @ 90. I asked him to swing over the target w/ the e-trac, he did, and said the signal was broken and it was trash/junk. Of course I'm going to dig it...have to. As I dug down I remember thinking, man I hope this is a nice coin . Six inches down and I pull out an old flat b
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When my buddy & I hunt together, we will often want to compare readings on a particular target. He uses an E-trac & I use a F-75.... no problems as long as our coils stay a few feet away.
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Got the earth magnet today from the brown truck. It was packed in the center of the box, surrounded w/ peanut/foam and 1-1/2 inches of bubble rap around the magnet. The magnets dimentions are 4"x 2"x 1", N-42, 350 lbs. pull strength.
I put some iron nails on the ground and measured vertically, the distance it would pick up the 1" & 2" nails. It'll draw the nail
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I can't use my volume & hdphones maxed out, its way too loud even for my worn out eardrums. Sometimes the volume control on the F-75 gets rubbed on my side or catches on my coat and unknowingly raises the volume, next target gives me a sound blast followed by "son of a gun!!".
If the ground is loaded with iron bits & nails, it's easier for me to use discrim sounds...a
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Great explanation, I understand completly.
You like the AM audio because it has a little more feel/info from the sound vs just a flat one dimension tone, correct?
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Tom,
The 4'x 4' is the size of the dropcloth I used to put the soil onto. The area where the nails are concentrated is roughly about 50'x50' and nails thin out gradually from that area. I discoverd this area about 1-1/2 years ago, detecting without digging a pit,finding half dozen large cents, two half cents,my first flying eagle penny & more buttons than anything else
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Is it accurate to say; if in the discrim mode with 0 discrim setting, one tone, is basically all metal? Or even 0 discrim setting w/ more than one tone? I say it is but I may be overlooking something. I'll take technical answers in laymans terms if you have them, thanks!
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Ordered a rare earth magnet, it should be here in afew days.
I went back to that area again with a 4'x 4' drop cloth, detected iron and just dug, picking out the many nails first w/ the f-75 then w/ the pinpointer.
The first couple holes, buttons, mostly flat, ranging in size from 1/2" to 1-1/4" in dia & nails. Last hole of the day, buttons, then a nice high (in more w
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I daydreamed the same thing Wally, when I saw them pumping sand from large pipes onto Jersey beaches. There has got to be treasures out there, those barges are out quite a few hundred yards.
People were finding WW1 munitions on the beach after the army corps of engineers got done.
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Thats a good question dalpal. I copied this from a magnet dealer:
•The strong magnetic fields of neodymium magnets can damage magnetic media such as floppy disks, credit cards, magnetic I.D. cards, cassette tapes, video tapes or other such devices. Electronics such televisions, VCRs, computer monitors and other CRT displays can also be damaged.
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