Heres the thing with the F70..its all about SPEED Hunting...Its a quick broom! Its perfect for running a fleet of chip/gravel/sand totters, dry sanding beaches, or sweeping up shallow dirt clad/jewelry...Why? On account of the Delta Pitch/ Proportional audio feature...
You can instantly tell audibly a Q from a D, a copper from a D or a zinc, a nickel from a tab etc and their depth!...You know the targets depth via the Proportional audio....so, 'Theres a Q at 3"' is dead on and accurate...plus, with the 11" DD, you can 'Hop coil' so you dont have to use the PP button or dink around, just stoop and stab with a screwdriver and pull the target easily....Heads up hunting, no need to look at the TIDS...all Audio hunting...Target 'Ping to Pouch' in less than 10sec...
You gotta be pulling at a 90+CPH rate, so you got no time to diddle around over a target...You can fling down a wide open beach on the towel line or Sportsfield sidelines and find the primary drop zones really quick... cutting a 12' arc...its light and fast and the batts last forever, it will run on fumes...
One big problem with the 11"dd hardware?.....You gotta cut off those coil fins or they catch wet grass, snow, sand and make the coil weigh a ton! You get rid of those fins, and buddy, talk about majorly fast!
Theres better rigs out there for finding deep old silver coins, although this one can do it if properly set up and dedicated, this F70 rigs unique strength is in its speed, lightweight, accuracy in finding targets situated in the top 5" of dirt via soft and half power settings...working around heavy iron in totters or along a chain link fence...things like this...modern sites for fast easy clad and jewelry..picking through heavy trash quickly at a festival park....
You gotta like to hunt really fast though, like really really fast...like weedwhacker speed on the stick, and worm grabbing speed on pulling the target...
No kneepads!, no pinpointer!, and no shovel!..just the F70 and a screwdriver! hop coil, and StoopNStab!
You gotta wear loose fitting trousers and get good with the 'stoopNstab screwdriver' retrieval technique or all is naught...The damn thing is a one-of-a-kind tool in our marketplace, nothing holds a candle to it........
This is a Big Planet, getting really good at shallow speed hunting is a benefit that will come in handy as the old silver runs out....you go slam clad as fast as possible, and then buy all the old silver if thats what you want....Just saying, Its a hell of a lot ROI positive to slam the clad than find the old silver..no matter what rig you run...slam the clad, buy the silver...or beer, or gas, or whatever....
The F70 is the monster money maker if you can keep up with her...which I doubt you can, since even to this day, plying her daily, I myself cannot!....
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You dont ever have to ground balance it or nothing! The F70 stores the last program, so I feel exactly like Clint Eastwood in 'Pale Rider' where He's walking up the street in the final scene and changing to a fresh cylinder on his Rem 1858 Colt revolver without looking?...
This is exactly what I do and exactly how I feel on my way into hunting a different venue with the F70!....No looking at the screen, just turning it on and ramping the sens up or down like swapping out a cylinder...then hammering me some dirty stinky clad!...
I absolutely love this F70 rig! Its an extension of myself! Did I mention that?
I bet Clint Eastwood would run an F70!...For sure not a freaking AtPro or a Minelab!