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Went hunting that morning at one park, played around with some settings, found clad, got tired and came home.
Rested up a bit and watched Prospectors on the weather channel then the wife comes in, steals all the remotes, switches over to Roku and finds some stupid British Hammer film horror pic so I said I am going out hunting again.
I went up to another park in the neighborhood but I expected
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Well 2015 is over and I had a better year than I could have ever hoped for.
A bunch of silver jewelry, several gold targets including a large 14k religious pendant worth quite a few bucks and my first 22k ring.
Coins...more wheaties, IH's, older nickels than ever before and more silver coins too including a bucket list seated dime and a now beloved Peace dollar.
I pick up and hold that bi
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Thanks all...and especially you, Tom.
I love a challenge, when great things pop up after learning new skills that is one of the sweetest experiences you can have in this hobby.
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Well, I am known for skipping steps in my career, I haven't dug anything 18k yet but I have dug up some 22k for instance.
This time I skipped right by finding a Barber, something I have been searching for hard for at least two years, and went right to an 1875 seated.
Most of my difficult soil all around here and especially in a park I hunt most of the time has a huge amount of iron infused
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I hunt in heavy mineralization at sites loaded with iron of all sizes both shallow and deep.
Extra iron because of the minerals existing in the soil and the history of this city rooted in the iron and steel industries.
For months I have been tweaking and experimenting with my F70 attempting to crack the code and get deeper than most other VLF detectors I ever heard of around here, or at least m
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Thanks Tom, usually I hunt in all metal or with the disc somewhere between 1-6.
This is just a way to cherry pick in very difficult conditions and it seems to work...somewhat.
I am finding silver and older coins in areas I have hunted many times in the past and missed so just another quiver in my belt of tricks.
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I have just hit upon some new coin settings that are working pretty good for me on my last few hunts with my F70 and talking to another hunter on a different forum with whom I am sharing settings because he also deals with some hot soil he suggested a different way to do the exact same thing.
I am going to try this method but I am curious about exactly what the differences would be between them,
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Heck yea!
I love the technical talk and learn much around here, but when something new I try works I love to show off the results.
For example...
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BH EX, (Quicksilver)...First detector, learned on this one...Cost $50, found $30 in clad before retired permanently
Vaquero...Paid for itself probably twice in clad, silver and gold finds.
F2...Paid for itself about 10X's over in clad, silver and gold finds.
Compadre...Paid for itself about 7X's over in clad, silver and gold finds.
F70...Cost $400...Paid for itself in clad,
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Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Congrats on the Big Silver!!!!
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> hard find !!
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> That feeling will last a lifetime ...
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> Your to far gone now!!!
>
> Keith
Thanks!
With your help and advice from others I am inching ever deeper in this devil dirt, starting to understand it better than ever before an
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Harold,ILL. Wrote:
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> Nice! Still on my Bucket list also. Maybe the fact
> it was only 4'' is why it was still there as many
> today bypass loud shallow signals thinkin' some
> sort of big trash as yourself. I must admit been
> guilty of it myself at times. This will remind Me
> to at least probe the ta
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MichiganRelicHunter Wrote:
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> Nice coin - congrats!
>
> You might wanna try a FBS machine in that dirt
> though??
>
> I was down there hunting last winter in AL & GA in
> that red clay stuff you guys call "dirt" and it
> ain't no joke!
>
> I had a Deus and CTX with me
>
>
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earthmansurfer Wrote:
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> Nice Coin, congrats!
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> Curios, what machine and what size coil are you
> using? Keith has extremely bad ground as well and
> has done a lot of working punching deeper.
> Wonder if a smaller coil would not lose depth but
> get you separation?
>
> Best,
> Albert
F70 and t
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Been trying some different settings and techniques to get a bit deeper in my soil, in the last few weeks I have been rewarded with another silver war nickel and several wheaties in the teens including my earliest so far a 1910.
I can now get down to the 6-7" area and make some pretty good digging decisions when I roll over something good down there when it is not iron.
In this dirt with al
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I was a member of one of the greatest clubs in the country when I lived in NE Kansas.
The best people, open friendly, welcoming, helpful, it made this hobby so much better for me after being a lone wolf most of my career.
We had indoor meetings in the winter with some very interesting top notch expert specialty hunters sometimes as guest speakers, and in the summer months we had outdoor meeting
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> VERY well done. Again!
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> Skill-set....... skill-set...... skill-set!
Thanks Tom, yes I do love my skillets and I have learned to make a great omelet.
Oops...you said skill-set...my bad.
That is growing with every hunt.
In my retail business I had, in relationships, in life and in this hobby I have al
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Went back to the same area and looked for targets that came in high and didn't bounce a lot.
The deepest target was a wheat that was about 6-7" and it came in at the low 80's.
I did well so I am slowly figuring out this soil.
5 wheaties...3 from the mid 40's, a 1929 and a 1918.
2 tokens and although dirty both in perfect shape.
My first Mississippi tax token, 5 mill.
Lo
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Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Pretty coins..
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> yes the deeper they get the higher they will get
> on I.D. in our soil..
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> they will wrap into iron at some point ...thats
> why its a good idea to HEAR the iron....a faint
> iron tone thats ROUND can be a goodie in this Red
> Dirt..
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> Keith
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My dirt here in Birmingham is pretty bad with that red dirt severe mineralization problem the south has plus we have some tiny naturally occurring iron nodules infused into a lot of the dirt around here.
My F70 which could pick up and ID targets easily on standard factory settings up to 10" and beyond in the much better Kansas soil never shows any screen info much past 3-4" on those sa
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Just to add yesterday I went out with the big DD coil on board.
WAY different experience than when using the sniper.
It seemed more jumpy, couldn't get the high tone coins to stabilize and stay in the higher range every time, a bit more EMI problems but I adapted.
That jumping could well have been caused by multiple targets under or in range of the bigger coil...probably.
The areas hunte
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tnsharpshooter Wrote:
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> Back last spring I got my lesson in the bad dirt.
> 5 bars on the F75LTD2. What did this mean???? In
> the super high mineral soil the sink rate didn't
> seem to be very high for undisturbed ground. But
> 6 inches was about max--past that iron tones with
> an extremely small hot spot
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capt. Wrote:
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> Great write up. I experienced something very
> similar in central Arkansas a couple of days ago
> with the high tone an inch or three off the side
> of iron. This was a first for me. Bar meter was
> pegged out. Pulled a few pennies out of the
> area... one was a 1942 wheat. All shallow targets.
> W
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Ok, I just got some more tips and advice on another forum about tweaking this method that seems to work pretty great.
A couple of brothers in West Virginia that swing an F75 and an F5 seem to be using it with good results.
I know the F5 guy only has the big DD coil.
He told me that Jim Tn clued them in about it.
Hunting in disc, sense around 80, not sure about their tone choices but I am usin
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PittsburghWill Wrote:
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> Hey I thought I lived in the "Steel City". I have
> the same headaches up here in Pittsburgh. Most
> places I dig are 4-5 bars on the T2. Everything
> beyond about 3" Will be grunting unless it's a big
> target. I've learned to look for a glimpse of a
> good tone a
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Keith Southern Wrote:
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> Welcome to my Headache's....LOL!!!
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> Keith
Keith, I started my career here and made my bones learning to hunt in this garbage.
Mostly hunted for jewelry and shallow stuff because it was just too frustrating jumping through hoops trying to find deeper and well hidden older coins.
I did well
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This is about something I just learned so I will post this long thing in case some other Fisher owner, specifically the newer ones, might read it and maybe take something from it that they can use to find that next great thing.
Not saying I am an expert, I just observe things and report back if they are helpful to me.
For me, in this soil with my equipment this is a lesson I will use well in th
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I have been scouring the forums looking for information and reviews and a few are starting to pop up.
Keith has some good vids on it, here are a couple more reviews.
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I would define a few of the sites I hunt as very trashy.
When you have to dig several trash targets out of a one square foot area just to GB that is trashy.
Over time I have figured out ways to dig less trash and still find great targets.
Below is a couple of examples of the trash I dug when I used to be afraid of missing something good.
I think differently now, there is always another day an
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The F2 is much more than just an entry detector.
3 years and about 1000 hours swinging going it I learned much....found a ton of coins, some relics and silver and gold.
I learned there actually is a slight difference in tones, but more importantly than tone information is the behavior I saw on the screen.
The numbers I saw, the amount they jumped, (or didn't), even what I saw on the dep
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