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Tom do the settings you wrote about work for the small coil? I also found that I could not use mono tone with a disc of 6 my machine went crazy and as good as I am I had to go for the multy tone and disc at 0-4. I have used the mono tone and 6 disc on areas that are not so filled with trash and love it when I can use it that way. I still dig a lot of bad targets but the high to mid tones gives me
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Great info Tom I am going to try this at the old camp from the 1800 on turkey we hit it hard with the F75 and the second time targets were hard to find. But I pulled out six half dimes from 1834-1838.
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It seems that you are new to detecting or new to the CZ3D. Find a good clean area and ground balance. The meter will read zinc and copper differently. but you neer know what you will find with the penny reading so you may want to dig it if you are in an old area.
Sometimes the small coil is better my friend can almost keep up with my F75 if we are not in an area with iron, if so he fades away
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All I can say is they are heavy and at my young age of 52 I want to be detecitng for a long time. So I will take the F75 speed an easy to use interface a lot of programing and what you see is what you get.
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That is where I found the gold ring right near a tree you sometimes have to put yourself in the other persons shoes...A couple of lovers will go to a place in a park where they can me more alone and you will find a lot of stuff in those places also..or kids will go towards the bushes to get high or smoke a cig. I have found a lot of old coins near old trees and they are under roots and somewhat d
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Boy that is enough heat and hard dirt to make one just hunt parks and schools till we get a good soaking. I have the same problem sometimes but one homestead I was hunting the coins were almost on the surface
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Rusted or new, flip tops, old or new, you name it, put them in the gound or on top set your F5 at sens 85, threshold 0, disc 0-6 4 tones and all the junk reads at mid tone and clad from nickel up hits high tone. Found a huge mens gold ring with nuggets on the face of the ring...came in as nickel about 35, hit hard and stayed there. Third tone and bang I pull out this gold ring...So is this machin
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It is not a big deal USB anyone that knows their unit can program it it is like cooking it is more fun to that way. And all the added stuff may take away some power or slow it down a bit. Spend more time on depth and masking and being able to tell you more about the terget. How about finding more gold rings
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I WOULD SAY AFTER FINDING A FEW TARGETS LIKE THAT SOME MAY PASS THAT READING UP. SOME JUST CHERRY PICK READINGS..BT SOME UNITS JUST BEEP AND IF THEY ARE NOT USING A LOT OF DISC THEN THEY WOULD BE DIGGING UP ALL GOOD HITS. I WOULD SAY MAYBE YOU MAY FIND SOME WHEAT'S AND SOME LOCKS AND KEYS. And gold is always hiding because of its low reading. So go for it dude!
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Well I had to rush to make this video so I did a lot of fast editing...The F5 turns out to be a lot of bang for the buck and is a little brother to the F75. Very fast and nice and stabel give the F5 a DD and boy it would give the F75 a run for the money. All my targets were shallow. Some of the places I hunt have very little sink factor. I got the F5 as a back up instead of getting the F70. I wan
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In calif your detector does not even come close to the F75 I don't think many detectors do. The Fisher is a great machine and I am still findinding ways to tweak it
I tired your unit it was slow and heavy and had no depth and did not do a good job at relic hunting. I tried a lot of machines and in Calif all of the Fishers have been great machines. And with the help of Tom it is the best t
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Well after I dug an 1800 large cent at 13" and then found a old army sight that dated back to the 1830 and found buckles and old half dimes from the 1830s you name it the F75 found it. However they built it they built mine just right!
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so Tom - 15 years ago
If I hunt at a 0 disc and multy Tone and sens at 62 I will get masking but great depth? If I hunt at 0 disc and mono tone and sens 62 I will have great depth and little masking?
I have a hard time with mono tone because where I hunt my unit will give a mono tone every sec there is a lot of trash in the ground where I relic hunt.
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Maybe you have a bad machine or coil I don't notch out anything and have found a
lot of coins my oldest being an 1800 large cent at 13" at a park. The f75 is not easy to learn but it came naturaly for me to understand what the it was telling me. My unit does not always give a crisp tone some of my best coins silver and old 1834 were very dirty with numbers flying. It may not be the mac
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You have to wonder after the F75 was out on the open market and Fisher started to come out with its new line of detectors what Dave Johnson is working on next. I am sure he now has time to take the F75 to the next level. I wonder what some of the compaines do after they finish a line of detectors? Whites has not come out with something new and different for years now.
Fiher seems to be the onl
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Took the F75 and F5 out for a relic hunt the last two Saturdays...I live in the Gold Country where the ground can be down right nasty. The reason I got the F5 was for a back to the F75. I know most of you if not all of you are saying how can the F5 back up one of the best detectors made in recent years. I mean the F70 should be number 2? Well I don't want a detector that is almost the same a
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everyone that relic hunts should try the F75...the CZ3 is a bit harder in iron but if you use the small coil you can hunt with the F75...I have both but use the f75 for all my hard places and use the CZ3 for parks and schools the F75 does just as well Tom says use four tones and you have the F75 set up as the CZ3 but with the iron and masking solved....just my thoughts.
My buddy has a CZ3 we
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That happens sometimes to me and you just say nothing? But I am sure that some masking is going on maybe a small coil. Maybe morning or early evening. Maybe after a nice rain. You have to maybe try to find a place where no one thought of to hunt. But I am sure it has been hit hard by a tone of machines.
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I have dug targets in the fall and winter when the ground is moist and they could be deep or just a few inches deep and when I pull out the silver or sometimes clad I can go over the hole with my coil and still get a tone. Then it starts to fade....Halo? I think it could be an effect from the target and the dirt maytrix and the moist ground? Kind of like when iron bleeds. Dirt has such an effect
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Come on Tom do you read the info that is out on the F5 detector? Is it a subpar unit compaired to the F75 and F70? Is the lower freq going to make a difference on say silver coins or is my F75 king of the hill and can do it all.
I am looking for a back up to the F75 I want it fast great in iron trash I want a DD coil but am I missing out on not getting a machine with a lower freq...Had the CZ
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