Jackpine Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said: If bronze cents are coming in that low, where are Zincolns? and IH's that normally hit 19-20? add in the bouncers with negative numbers that are non-ferrous targets in hiding. It's a jungle out there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjc Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 On 10/1/2019 at 1:49 PM, Flowdog said: running F2@9 sounded like I had cotton in my earphones. Well said but it's doing a remarkable job up at the high settings--killing even alloyed slag. Looking at Steves chart didn't realize that it was an expanded range on both ends = better drawing of targets out of iron??? My intital "cap beater" F26+ range tests (In 2 tone to liven it up--take the cotton...) were impressive and seemed to offer a good solution for those brutal slag and cap infested beaches. Much as I like to complain I open my mouth and nothing comes out...!!! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Goldman Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 31 minutes ago, cjc said: Well said but it's doing a remarkable job up at the high settings--killing even alloyed slag. Looking at Steves chart didn't realize that it was an expanded range on both ends = better drawing of targets out of iron??? My intital "cap beater" F26+ range tests (In 2 tone to liven it up--take the cotton...) were impressive and seemed to offer a good solution for those brutal slag and cap infested beaches. Much as I like to complain I open my mouth and nothing comes out...!!! I still like to complain, in general, but certainly not about this F2 implementation. Still working it out, but I am liking F2 5 as a sweet spot over my tried and true FE 0. Will give it a workout in some mineralized, iron infested relic sites in about three weeks and will learn a lot more about it. Can't wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackpine Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 I believe the key to success with the new F2 mode is mitigating audio fatigue. The other day I was hunting an old beat to death site with good success using F2 2 and recovery speed 4. Anything lower than 4 was overload for my ears and what I mean by that is the slightly longer drawn out iron responses creating a cacophony of noise. I was hunting at my normal sweep speed as well. Note: watch out for old nickels hitting just below the normal nickel 12-13 bounce. Got a 1905 V that was mostly a solid 12 but bouncing to 11 as well with a bit of iron in the plug directly above the nickel. Reminded me of the Fisher CZ 5 where you dig all nickel foil bouncers in old sites and parks. I have had good success on old nickels using park 1. Tom D had stated Park 1 is good for nickels and he's correct on that IMO. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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