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Returned to my local park and continued my Jedi knight training with the F-75. 8 targets recovered, 2 silver (51-D quarter and 47-S rosie) and 2 wheats (30 or 39-S and 55-D). Started swinging and within a couple of minutes got a nice sweet, repeatable tone that sounded like it was miles away! 
8 inches down, 51-D quarter! After a couple of wheats, I got a tone that sounded like the guy stuck in the spider’s web at the end of the movie “The Fly”, when he is screaming, “Heeeeelp meeee! Heeeelp meeee!” It was really bouncy on the VID, but sounded a lot better than it looked. 
Another 8 inch deep silver! One target was IDing as a mid-tone target in the 50s, deep and bouncy, but the tone sounded much higher. 7 inch wheatie! I kinda felt a little wobbly at that moment, because it occurred to me how many of those exact target profiles I have left in the ground this year. I listened to at least 100 targets in this area and only dug a plug after my ears liked what they heard and a glance at the depth meter showed it maxed-out. I think I dug part of a skeleton key. The clipped memorial sounded faint and deep, I think they are always going to fool me. The clad dime was deep, don’t know how it got there among the good stuff. After I felt like I had covered this area well, I moved onto another spot in the same park and wasn’t there more than 4 minutes before Ranger Lady drove her truck across the soggy lawn and told me I couldn’t dig in the turf. I was prepared for this and said, OK, thanks. I wasn’t going to win a logical argument with her. But then, she told me I could dig in any of the ‘dirt areas’ underneath the tree canopies. Ugh. Again, I said thanks, and decided to call it a day after 90 minutes of hunting.
A new lesson I learned on the F-75 is to run it in Delta Pitch mode for turf silver. If you run it in 3 or 4 tones (called 3H and 4H in the manual), silver dimes and clad dimes will sound exactly alike. This is because the 3H and 4H options are essentially monotone within a range of higher VID values. Delta pitch, on the other hand, is a continuous scale, it becomes sweeter and higher with every numerical increase in VID. Oops, cat’s out of the bag now…
8 inches down, 51-D quarter! After a couple of wheats, I got a tone that sounded like the guy stuck in the spider’s web at the end of the movie “The Fly”, when he is screaming, “Heeeeelp meeee! Heeeelp meeee!” It was really bouncy on the VID, but sounded a lot better than it looked. Another 8 inch deep silver! One target was IDing as a mid-tone target in the 50s, deep and bouncy, but the tone sounded much higher. 7 inch wheatie! I kinda felt a little wobbly at that moment, because it occurred to me how many of those exact target profiles I have left in the ground this year. I listened to at least 100 targets in this area and only dug a plug after my ears liked what they heard and a glance at the depth meter showed it maxed-out. I think I dug part of a skeleton key. The clipped memorial sounded faint and deep, I think they are always going to fool me. The clad dime was deep, don’t know how it got there among the good stuff. After I felt like I had covered this area well, I moved onto another spot in the same park and wasn’t there more than 4 minutes before Ranger Lady drove her truck across the soggy lawn and told me I couldn’t dig in the turf. I was prepared for this and said, OK, thanks. I wasn’t going to win a logical argument with her. But then, she told me I could dig in any of the ‘dirt areas’ underneath the tree canopies. Ugh. Again, I said thanks, and decided to call it a day after 90 minutes of hunting.A new lesson I learned on the F-75 is to run it in Delta Pitch mode for turf silver. If you run it in 3 or 4 tones (called 3H and 4H in the manual), silver dimes and clad dimes will sound exactly alike. This is because the 3H and 4H options are essentially monotone within a range of higher VID values. Delta pitch, on the other hand, is a continuous scale, it becomes sweeter and higher with every numerical increase in VID. Oops, cat’s out of the bag now…
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