I think I've made up my mind, I'm going to get the fisher f2 with the 4 and 8 inch coils, it also comes with a pinpointer and a carry case for $215, is that a good price and am I making the right decision?
I have another question. What would be better, the f2 or the f22?
As I mentioned that 2 coil F2 package is still one of the best values out there at $215.
I actually picked up mine for $200 when I bought it including free shipping.
I bought mine to be used only as a backup and as a take-on-vacation unit only but after I got it that thing found me so much so easily right out of the box and it was so much fun to use it became my prime detector for the next several seasons.
Still one of the best purchase decisions I have made in this hobby to this day.
The F22 is a newer product, it will be replacing the F2 when they are all gone.
The F22 is weatherproof so if you plan on hunting in wet weather a lot this is an advantage.
It supposedly works very well as all Fishers do, this was not available when I picked up my F2 back in 2010 but if it was I might have made a different choice...however...
Over the years I came to understand and love the sniper coils as I tend to hunt some very trashy sites more often than not...that sniper became my most potent weapon once I realized how well it worked.
I thought that little hockey puck coil was a joke for a long time, after mounting it as a lark one day I stopped laughing and it rarely came off after that.
The F2 has this coil as an almost free option in the F2 2 coil package and it is cheap as heck buying them aftermarket new and hardly anything when you find them for sale used.
Using the sniper coil on the F2 at first is also the easiest and quickest way to learn and get comfortable with it, too.
The F22 has sniper coil options too but the cost new for one is going to be about half the price of the entire detector.
For hunting relatively clean open areas mostly I would probably go with the F22 nowadays but that F2 and sniper coil found me so many coins, so much jewelry both silver and almost 2 dozen gold rings and other gold targets in heavy trash so easily it would be a tough choice considering the cost of the F22 sniper coils...for me, the way I hunt and the sites I usually hunt in.
The cheap pinpointer in that 2 coil F2 package isn't very good but it is better than nothing.
The way this thing finds coins in public areas finding enough clad to cover the cost of a better pinpointer fairly quickly is not out of the question.
In three seasons I found somewhere between $7-$800 in clad in public parks if not more and found it all effortlessly with the F2.
That kind of money can easily buy you a new pinpointer, a new DD coil which might work a bit better and deeper if your soil is hot and even a new upgraded unit...eventually.
