Charlie P. (NY)
Gold Member
- Feb 3, 2006
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Musketeer Advantage Pro w/8" & 10" DD coils/Fisher F75se(Upgraded to LTD2) w/11" DD, 6.5" concentric & 9.5" NEL Sharpshooter DD coils/Sunray FX-1 Probe & F-Point/Black Widows/Rattler headphone
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Odd little hunt this morning once again left me impressed with my trusty F-75. Yesterday after supper I was out "stump shooting" in practice for an upcoming traditional archery shoot. I was tossing wood arrows with blunt tips. One long shot (80 yards +/-) along a power-line right of way put the arrow somewhere in marshy moss and dead goldenrod & long grass mat left over from the winter. I looked until dark and could not find the arrow.
Normally I'd have called it a loss, but I needed all my arrows for the upcoming shoot (there's always some attrition with wood arrows). We had thunderstorms and much rain last night, but at dawn it was sunny so I grabbed my F-75 and headed out. When I got to within about 200 ft of the powerlines I turned on the detector. "Oh oh". Even that far away from the high-tension poles I was in a world of chatter. I turned the sensitivity down to 40 and disc. to 4. The only metal on my arrow was a blunt tip - a steel cylinder about the size of a Bic pen cap. After 5 minutes of working around the target (a hummock of grass along the right-of-way) I had become used to the chatter pattern and noted a definate hit just a yard past it and off to one side - about 30 feet from the overhead lines. It was a shotgun slug. I spiralled the target and got a low chirp about 15 feet in front of the target. Very distinct from the chatter. I turned over the moss - nothing. I pinpointed the hit and found the steel head down 4" in a puddle that formed as I moved soil This was maybe 40 ft from the overhead lines (and 50 ft below). Going to probably need straightening once dry, but the arrow returns.
As I took off my headset I could hear the powerlines sizzling above me. That's buckets of EMI. I am very impressed the F-75 could find a steel target that close to wet powerlines!
Normally I'd have called it a loss, but I needed all my arrows for the upcoming shoot (there's always some attrition with wood arrows). We had thunderstorms and much rain last night, but at dawn it was sunny so I grabbed my F-75 and headed out. When I got to within about 200 ft of the powerlines I turned on the detector. "Oh oh". Even that far away from the high-tension poles I was in a world of chatter. I turned the sensitivity down to 40 and disc. to 4. The only metal on my arrow was a blunt tip - a steel cylinder about the size of a Bic pen cap. After 5 minutes of working around the target (a hummock of grass along the right-of-way) I had become used to the chatter pattern and noted a definate hit just a yard past it and off to one side - about 30 feet from the overhead lines. It was a shotgun slug. I spiralled the target and got a low chirp about 15 feet in front of the target. Very distinct from the chatter. I turned over the moss - nothing. I pinpointed the hit and found the steel head down 4" in a puddle that formed as I moved soil This was maybe 40 ft from the overhead lines (and 50 ft below). Going to probably need straightening once dry, but the arrow returns.
As I took off my headset I could hear the powerlines sizzling above me. That's buckets of EMI. I am very impressed the F-75 could find a steel target that close to wet powerlines!
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