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I decided to keep it. Its the LTD model but before they added the DST. We have been experiencing a severe drought and nothing can find much. I did take it out and the chatter is tolerable. I was trying to learn it. Last week we got a lot of rain, then it got cold, so I went back out and noticed the chatter was a lot less. Im still learning the ground balance. Im still looking for a silver dime I burred 4 years ago about 6". Yes its the 5" DD. As soon as it warms up a little Ill try some more. My ground is very strange. I live in NE Alabama and on top of a bluff of a mountain.
Yes I know how to do that although I can see no advantage of switching freqs unless Im getting adjacent detector problems but I can also do that. Learning to read the ground minerals is what I really need to learn.
I got the F70...no DST.
I live in Birmingham, my soil is just as strange as yours if not stranger...red clay mineralization, heaping huge amounts of extra iron infused into my soil plus tons of iron targets from tiny to large because most sites I hunt in public parks used to have old homes and neighborhoods existing there.
I have a large old park within walking distance and I spend the bulk of my time there, most areas near the edges have a high amount of wifi and one area near an entrance is surrounded by electrical wires running on all sides.
This park, among many others around here, has been declared hunted out because after hunters visiting here for about 60 years most assume everything we can possibly find has been found...but they were all wrong.
Look at the pic below, all of those targets were found here and most came from this one difficult park including many from that difficult entrance area and there are many, many more.
More buffs, more Indians, many more dimes both rosies and mercs, some 200 year old flat buttons, the sterling Masonic coin, an 1880's V nickel plus that seated dime in the pic all came from that entrance with a huge amount of problems including sometimes massive EMI issues.
Hunted out, hardly, others just didn't know how to understand how deeper targets past 5" act around here in this devil dirt and all this iron because it is far from obvious and normal but I figured it out...the proof is in that pic of just a few of my better treasures I found most past that 5" depth mark.
I found it all using three coils, the big DD, the elliptical concentric and the 5" DD...the small sniper is my most used coil here and all three coils have gotten me to the same depth, so far 8", and I bet in your area like I have found in mine there is probably a target rich layer at the 6-8" area in the bad stuff that most others don't even know is there but the Fishers can see them and tell you they do...but you need to learn a different language and indicators to realize this.
Even in the better black stuff here GB numbers and my mineralization bars run high...most of the time I GB at the mid 60's to the low 80's, I have 3 mineralization bars on my rig and those run always at 2 and are maxed out at 3 more often than not.
These Fishers are designed to up-average all targets around iron and this is a great thing and a huge reason I could learn to find those deeper hidden and masked treasures that others missed for decades.
The numbers will run unusually high in this kind of soil, the deeper you go past just a few inches they will soar, everything past 4-5" will not be close to normal and even deep nickels come in like silver halves and dollars will in normal soil.
You want to find that 6" silver dime, better not assume it will begin the low to mid 70's normal numbers that deep nor will it come in stable with only a small 1-3 number jump....start looking for a high range of numbers that repeats from two directions and if it acts anything like my dirt it will be a larger range of numbers from the high 80's to low 90's.
That's how you find things in this mineralization filled dirt, that's a big part of this new language I needed to learn.
Learn this new language and you will find that dime even if you are using the small sniper coil.
I started my career here in the south and hunted all over but like most could never get much past the 5" area no matter what brand or detectors any of us used.
I moved to Kansas for three years and that soil was heavenly and I thanked the MD gods I could hunt there every time I went out.
When we decided to move back here I got depressed...how to you go from heaven to hell and be happy doing this hobby having had a taste of the good stuff?
I was planning on getting a PI unit, it was the only thing I could think of that might combat this devil dirt and all this iron and get me to that 6-8" depth area or more that I suspected held a ton of great targets but were all but unrecognizable to most normal VLF detectors.
Stubborn me I vowed to try to solve the problem, unlock the key to this difficult Alabama dirt before I gave up and bought that PI because digging tons of trash is just not my thing anymore.
With time, experience and some outside the box thinking I succeeded...again the proof is in that pic below.
You don't need boost, you don't need DST, you don't need to turn that F75 to extremely high levels to get deep and find great things in this state, you just need to understand how things work here, a new language and some special target behavior and use a tool that is capable of teaching you that language...and you have one.
Learn to understand it and the sky is the limit....trust me, I know.
. Im way past 50 hours now on one set of batteries. i actually prefer a product towards the end of a long production run as most of the teething issues are sorted.
