DIGGER27
In Memory Of
About the middle of september I started hunting with the F5 hoping for a more stable heater that can get fairly deep here in my mineralized iron infested mess.
Got the Nel Sharpshooter coil too because it seems to work so well here on the F70.
I used the F5 and that coil for about a month on several hunts, I was impressed.
More stable and less jumpy than my F70 in this dirt, unmasks as well if not better than my F70 or the Nox with an expanded target range I enjoy more than using the Minelab.
All that was great, it was what I was hoping for but didn't actually think I could get but it was the depth that surprised me the most, especially with that sniper coil.
Just about as deep if not deeper as anything I have used here so far with accurate depth readings to boot and with very decent and pretty darn normal readings which my F70 rarely can do...even my Nox can get skittish here as targets get deeper.
I can get fairly deep with the F70 but not with normal behavior, I had to learn a whole new language with that one to do it and the behavior patterns I use to notice just about anything around here past 4" or so is nothing most of you would recognize.
For the last month I have been switching around coils on this thing just to see what they would do.
I tried the tiny concentric sniper that came in the package along with the 10" elliptical concentric too.
I threw on my 11" Fisher DD coil off my F70 and my 5" DD and they had a whirl.
Yesterday I mounted a large Cors Cannon coil also designed to fit the F70.
The last three coils were a crapshoot, the F5 is 7.8 kHz and the F70 is 13.5 so I wasn't expecting much but had to try them just for my piece of mind.
The two F5 concentrics were alright but unlike in the great dirt in Kansas the depth here was not great.
The two big Fisher coils were fairly worthless to me on the F5, not really deep and some other odd behavior I wasn't thrilled with but again, mismatched frequency.
The round 5" DD Fisher coil worked the best out of that whole pack, if I had no other good coil to use I would be going with that one so a good backup but the Nel still outperformed all of them by leaps and bounds so that is going to be my coil going forward.
Today I mounted the Nel after not using it for a month, it was like going home again.
It did its job well while hunting a neighbor's lawn I am in the process of cleaning up and is starting to dry up on me, found coins I missed and several were masked like ninjas so that was great.
When I was done with that lawn for today I walked across the street back home and just for giggles hit my own lawn one more time.
I have hunted this tiny space literally more than a hundred times using every detector I own, every coil that fits in them and used so many different settings just to see if I can find one more good target which by now almost wishful thinking...there just ain't that much left to find.
But out of the blue I actually got one.
It sounded far away, that great F5 modulation, I wasn't exactly going slow because I was just heading for my porch thinking I would not find a thing and I was done for the day but a high tone jumped out at me.
A bit short, a bit squeaky but it stayed in the higher numbers in a small range from more than one direction, I disturbed the dirt a bit to see if it was some iron disguised as a wraparound high tone signal but it was still there and I just had to see what this was.
The depth reading says 6", the deepest target I have seen for a few weeks.
I dug down and from at least 6", and I swear I measured it at about 7", a small green coin pops up.
I was shocked.
Around here that 7" is more like 10" or even more in good dirt with a detector that can even get that far, and I can only think of one other coin sized target I have ever dug around here that was that deep with such normal, stable, recognizable behavior and that was with the F70 in a small patch of very rare great black fill dirt.
That is hunting here since we moved back from Kansas in 2015, and I have hunted in a lot of different places since then in many parks and other sites both near and not so near to my home.
Needless to say I am thrilled to death.
That F5 was $299, the Nel coil cost me $110 and it was all just a hopeful experiment but this setup seems to be performing as good if not better than anything else I have used here so far.
I am gobsmacked...and giddy with excitement just thinking of what else we can possibly accomplish!ish together in both my old and some newer sites.
It's just a worn 1920's wheat cent but what it represents is huge.
This is a really big deal...to me.
Plus, who doesn't just love to death the green ones?
Got the Nel Sharpshooter coil too because it seems to work so well here on the F70.
I used the F5 and that coil for about a month on several hunts, I was impressed.
More stable and less jumpy than my F70 in this dirt, unmasks as well if not better than my F70 or the Nox with an expanded target range I enjoy more than using the Minelab.
All that was great, it was what I was hoping for but didn't actually think I could get but it was the depth that surprised me the most, especially with that sniper coil.
Just about as deep if not deeper as anything I have used here so far with accurate depth readings to boot and with very decent and pretty darn normal readings which my F70 rarely can do...even my Nox can get skittish here as targets get deeper.
I can get fairly deep with the F70 but not with normal behavior, I had to learn a whole new language with that one to do it and the behavior patterns I use to notice just about anything around here past 4" or so is nothing most of you would recognize.
For the last month I have been switching around coils on this thing just to see what they would do.
I tried the tiny concentric sniper that came in the package along with the 10" elliptical concentric too.
I threw on my 11" Fisher DD coil off my F70 and my 5" DD and they had a whirl.
Yesterday I mounted a large Cors Cannon coil also designed to fit the F70.
The last three coils were a crapshoot, the F5 is 7.8 kHz and the F70 is 13.5 so I wasn't expecting much but had to try them just for my piece of mind.
The two F5 concentrics were alright but unlike in the great dirt in Kansas the depth here was not great.
The two big Fisher coils were fairly worthless to me on the F5, not really deep and some other odd behavior I wasn't thrilled with but again, mismatched frequency.
The round 5" DD Fisher coil worked the best out of that whole pack, if I had no other good coil to use I would be going with that one so a good backup but the Nel still outperformed all of them by leaps and bounds so that is going to be my coil going forward.
Today I mounted the Nel after not using it for a month, it was like going home again.
It did its job well while hunting a neighbor's lawn I am in the process of cleaning up and is starting to dry up on me, found coins I missed and several were masked like ninjas so that was great.
When I was done with that lawn for today I walked across the street back home and just for giggles hit my own lawn one more time.
I have hunted this tiny space literally more than a hundred times using every detector I own, every coil that fits in them and used so many different settings just to see if I can find one more good target which by now almost wishful thinking...there just ain't that much left to find.
But out of the blue I actually got one.
It sounded far away, that great F5 modulation, I wasn't exactly going slow because I was just heading for my porch thinking I would not find a thing and I was done for the day but a high tone jumped out at me.
A bit short, a bit squeaky but it stayed in the higher numbers in a small range from more than one direction, I disturbed the dirt a bit to see if it was some iron disguised as a wraparound high tone signal but it was still there and I just had to see what this was.
The depth reading says 6", the deepest target I have seen for a few weeks.
I dug down and from at least 6", and I swear I measured it at about 7", a small green coin pops up.
I was shocked.
Around here that 7" is more like 10" or even more in good dirt with a detector that can even get that far, and I can only think of one other coin sized target I have ever dug around here that was that deep with such normal, stable, recognizable behavior and that was with the F70 in a small patch of very rare great black fill dirt.
That is hunting here since we moved back from Kansas in 2015, and I have hunted in a lot of different places since then in many parks and other sites both near and not so near to my home.
Needless to say I am thrilled to death.
That F5 was $299, the Nel coil cost me $110 and it was all just a hopeful experiment but this setup seems to be performing as good if not better than anything else I have used here so far.
I am gobsmacked...and giddy with excitement just thinking of what else we can possibly accomplish!ish together in both my old and some newer sites.
It's just a worn 1920's wheat cent but what it represents is huge.
This is a really big deal...to me.
Plus, who doesn't just love to death the green ones?
