BrundleFly
Tenderfoot
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2018
- Messages
- 7
- Reaction score
- 19
- Golden Thread
- 0
- Location
- Manitou Springs, CO
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher F5 with 10" Elliptical Concentric Coil
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
- #1
Thread Owner
Assembled my new Fisher F5 (love the old-school, 'knobby' interface) over lunch, and slipped out for a quick swing at dusk in the back yard. First 4-5 hits were ringing in as iron - not too surprisingly since we just built an addition on the house that left a lot of construction trash behind. It was getting pretty dark and cold so I decided to just go ahead and dig one of these Fe targets. Sure enough, I was rewarded with a 2-1/4" box nail at 4" right where the pinpoint mode said it would be.
Speaking of pinpointing, freebies in the package included ye olde TX2003 pinpointer. It seemed to work reasonably, consistently detecting handheld coins at .5 to .75 inches. But 4 hours later when I turned it on as i headed outside, it wouldn't stop buzzing even with the sensitivity control turned full clockwise. I've read a bunch of reviews that were tepid at best, and saw the Youtube videos on how to juice up the sensitivity by tweaking an internal pot, but I didn't see this particular failure mode reported anywhere. It's a mystery.
On a sudden hunch as I was writing this, I went downstairs to see if possibly proximity to the WiFi router was causing the problem, and now the pinpointer is working perfectly again in the same place it was acting up before. Methinks some corollary to Murphy's Law is active here; works only when not needed. ;^)
Aaaanyway... just wanted to say hello, and report the thrill of my first find. Obviously this is not the best time of year to be starting this hobby, but I had a 10-year Glutton-For-Punishment bonus from my employer burning a hole in my pocket, and decided to follow through on all the time I spent researching mid-range detectors and watching treasure-hunting videos about a year ago.
I'm hoping our usually mild and frequently sunny late Fall into early Winter weather will leave the ground diggable for a while yet so I can practice a bit for next season, and looking forward to finding my first older copper and silver coins. There are no dimes in my small coin collection, so a Mercury, or even a silver Roosevelt, would be a joy to find.
Cheers,
Dave
Speaking of pinpointing, freebies in the package included ye olde TX2003 pinpointer. It seemed to work reasonably, consistently detecting handheld coins at .5 to .75 inches. But 4 hours later when I turned it on as i headed outside, it wouldn't stop buzzing even with the sensitivity control turned full clockwise. I've read a bunch of reviews that were tepid at best, and saw the Youtube videos on how to juice up the sensitivity by tweaking an internal pot, but I didn't see this particular failure mode reported anywhere. It's a mystery.
On a sudden hunch as I was writing this, I went downstairs to see if possibly proximity to the WiFi router was causing the problem, and now the pinpointer is working perfectly again in the same place it was acting up before. Methinks some corollary to Murphy's Law is active here; works only when not needed. ;^)
Aaaanyway... just wanted to say hello, and report the thrill of my first find. Obviously this is not the best time of year to be starting this hobby, but I had a 10-year Glutton-For-Punishment bonus from my employer burning a hole in my pocket, and decided to follow through on all the time I spent researching mid-range detectors and watching treasure-hunting videos about a year ago.
I'm hoping our usually mild and frequently sunny late Fall into early Winter weather will leave the ground diggable for a while yet so I can practice a bit for next season, and looking forward to finding my first older copper and silver coins. There are no dimes in my small coin collection, so a Mercury, or even a silver Roosevelt, would be a joy to find.
Cheers,
Dave
Colorado
An hour, well-wasted, actually.
