New Fisher F70 Owner and a newbie to the hobby

[Marlon Brando]

Thank goodness I found this group! Let me preface by saying that I'm a newbie to the hobby, as in "today was my first real hunt" newbie. I'm starting out with a Fisher F70 and from what I understand it's a great machine but I'm a little clueless how to set it up for the best results. I'm mostly coinshooting and today I went to an old homestead in Western Nebraska with a couple of foundations and an old school. Needless to say I found a bottle, couple of old machine parts, a gear, tons of coffee can lids and enough pull tabs to....well, I saw enough pull tabs. My main question is what kind of settings should I have across the board to most effectively coin shoot? Any help or tips will be greatful!

THANK YOU!!!

 

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[limegoldconvertible68]

I prefer to use the F70 with minimum discrimination. By doing so it makes a huge difference in the depth I can obtain. It also makes a big difference with unmasking target that others have missed. I like to use disc (0) with 2F tone. If there is too much iron buzz I will turn the disc up to 6. I almost never turn it up higher than that. I let the site I am hunting determine the settings for both the sensitivity and the threshold. Find the point at which the chatter starts and keep the settings just under that point. In town I can usually get by with sens set at about 70-75 with threshold at (-1or -2). I can obtain very adequate depth with the detector at those settings. Mess around with airtesting and notice the correlation with disc and thres and how they relate to your depth. In rural setting you should be able to crank it wide open. For target ID its helpful to circle around a possible good target. If you can continue sweeping the coil while making the circle and the target consistantly stays above the iron range I check depth( if it doesn't pass this test and only gives good reading from one or two sides I have almost always found it to be rusty iron). Here in Illinois the good finds almost always measure over 3" deep. So if MY target registers deeper I dig.

 

[prodrigsr]

Newbie huh YOU COULD'A BEEN A CONTENDER!!!!