rayoh
Full Member
- Jan 13, 2017
- 162
- 468
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac-Notka Legend
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Today I took my new to me Fisher F5 out to the test garden to play with the gain-threshold settings. After four runs through the garden, I settled on the settings I have used for years(I have had three F5's) These settings give me the quietest and deepest performance. Gain 85 and threshold 0.
My house is built over where a trailer sat in the early 60's. I have scoured the yard with every detector I have owned in the last 5 years. In one place between the sidewalk and driveway(15x20 foot area) I have found over 100 coins with only one wheat penny. Today I tried a spot by my vegetable garden. I never found anything there, but I never really tried. Within a minute, I got that extremely faint "whine" that is a trademark of the F5. Sometimes it is deep rusty iron, but not today. From 8 inches a 1954 wheatie. I started slowly creeping the NEL Sharpshooter around the original dig and kept getting these faint whines. From a 2foot by 2 foot area, I found 12 wheats and 3 old memorials. The wheats were all from the 50's and the memorials from early 60's. This spill was probably a kids treasure that he or she buried.
I absolutely love the F5 as a coin shooter and probably have approaching 1000 hours on all of them I have owned. Deep coins WILL NOT be heard without decent headphones, but once you dig a couple, you will be hooked. The only other detector with similar characteristics is a proper CZ. The CZ is slightly different, more a a faint "tick". I don't find coins like I use to, but today's little party brought back a boat load of memories. I call metal detecting an "Easter Egg Hunt For Grown-ups.
My house is built over where a trailer sat in the early 60's. I have scoured the yard with every detector I have owned in the last 5 years. In one place between the sidewalk and driveway(15x20 foot area) I have found over 100 coins with only one wheat penny. Today I tried a spot by my vegetable garden. I never found anything there, but I never really tried. Within a minute, I got that extremely faint "whine" that is a trademark of the F5. Sometimes it is deep rusty iron, but not today. From 8 inches a 1954 wheatie. I started slowly creeping the NEL Sharpshooter around the original dig and kept getting these faint whines. From a 2foot by 2 foot area, I found 12 wheats and 3 old memorials. The wheats were all from the 50's and the memorials from early 60's. This spill was probably a kids treasure that he or she buried.
I absolutely love the F5 as a coin shooter and probably have approaching 1000 hours on all of them I have owned. Deep coins WILL NOT be heard without decent headphones, but once you dig a couple, you will be hooked. The only other detector with similar characteristics is a proper CZ. The CZ is slightly different, more a a faint "tick". I don't find coins like I use to, but today's little party brought back a boat load of memories. I call metal detecting an "Easter Egg Hunt For Grown-ups.
