Quick background, and Ill try to be brief. I live on a farm with a house that is circa 1900, with a second older home site dating back to the 1830's. Nothing left above ground of those older buildings. Started detecting two years ago, began with Bounty Hunter pioneer, upgraded to Land Ranger Pro. Was satisfied, found some great stuff, but got the idea it was all "low handing fruit." The areas I detect are littered with iron and I thought there may be some great stuff hiding in the iron that my detectors are not finding. I decided to upgrade, and as you all know the new choices are bewildering. I finally flipped a coin (pun intended) and went with the F75.
Being the high IQ guy I am, I decided to rid myself of all the iron in the area first. Went to all metal mode, turned up sensitivity to 99, and went at it. One hour, ten lineal feet, 15 dug holes, and 38 pieces of iron later, I decided may be there was a better way. (I are a quick learner) Off to this site, Youtube, ect, to educated myself. Armed with advice from detectorists way smarter than myself, I returned with a new strategy. I went to discrimination mode, sensitivity at 60, discriminated out low iron (up to about 10) As if by magic, I was suddenly getting good hits in areas where I had gone over many times with the Bounty Hunter. It was amazing
I guess the moral of my story is that I found the F75 to be an extremely sensitive machine, and you can literally overpower your site. At the settings I mentioned I was digging up coins (all clad thus far) up to 8 inches, shotgun shells up to ten, and a strange cache of 15 round edged school sissors, all in an area I thought I had hunted out. I have yet to venture to the old house site yet, but that should be fun. I am very impressed with the F 75. Is this similar to others experiences? Any more tips would be greatly appreciated, and if you are near Ohio, send me a message, I could use help hunting these areas
Being the high IQ guy I am, I decided to rid myself of all the iron in the area first. Went to all metal mode, turned up sensitivity to 99, and went at it. One hour, ten lineal feet, 15 dug holes, and 38 pieces of iron later, I decided may be there was a better way. (I are a quick learner) Off to this site, Youtube, ect, to educated myself. Armed with advice from detectorists way smarter than myself, I returned with a new strategy. I went to discrimination mode, sensitivity at 60, discriminated out low iron (up to about 10) As if by magic, I was suddenly getting good hits in areas where I had gone over many times with the Bounty Hunter. It was amazing
I guess the moral of my story is that I found the F75 to be an extremely sensitive machine, and you can literally overpower your site. At the settings I mentioned I was digging up coins (all clad thus far) up to 8 inches, shotgun shells up to ten, and a strange cache of 15 round edged school sissors, all in an area I thought I had hunted out. I have yet to venture to the old house site yet, but that should be fun. I am very impressed with the F 75. Is this similar to others experiences? Any more tips would be greatly appreciated, and if you are near Ohio, send me a message, I could use help hunting these areas