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My best
find ever in 1.7 m of water on one of our local
beaches, using the CZ21. It weighs 42 grams and
is 9ct gold Metal Core as far as my research has
allowed it is probably circa 1940's. Almost had
a heart attack on the spot!
I have a massive steel scoop and I must have done
at least a dozen or so before it actually moved.
I was pretty cold and tired so I almost gave up
twice, thinking it's probably a can or something.
Regards
Oscar
Some pictures
supporting the GB Pro and its awesome performance.
The GB Pro will do everything that the GBII will
do but better, easier and with far less of a learning
curve. Like any unit you have to play with it and
learn it. I have been out almost every other day
since it came out and I am just trying to enlighten
people about a good thing.
TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS
Fisher
F75 Special Edition and Gold
I looked forward to the introduction of the Fisher
F75 with great anticipation since the lead engineer
behind it was Dave Johnson. Dave has had a hand in
many of the best VLF gold detectors ever designed.
I admit
to being put off when I got my first F75. The stupid
thing seemed to false constantly when I used it
in Anchorage. And on top of that there were numerous
reports of problems with product quality issues
from users far and wide. I sold my first unit in
fairly short order.
But then
my friend George reported how much he liked his
F75. Then buddy John got one and reported how great
it was. Then detector pal Gary told me how much
he liked his. Obviously I was missing something.
So I got
an F75 Special Edition, an all-black limited edition
model with gold trim, which comes with two coils
and which has a special Boost Mode for extra depth
where it can be used.
I took that
detector to Moore Creek in 2010 and found gold nuggets
with it in trash infested areas others avoided.
I went to Ganes Creek next with it and did ok but
no special love on that trip. I took it to England
last fall and did exceptionally well for a first
visit. Then off to California for a High Sierra
visit and my first gold outside Alaska. Then back
to Ganes Creek this spring, and gold nuggets every
day.
I like a
few things. First, the weight and balance is superb.
I can swing the F75 all day and then some. Add to
that exceptional battery life. This detector just
keeps on going. It comes with a meter cover and
control box cover that are perfect for rainy conditions.
The small coil is great on small gold. It is a very
hot 13 kHz detector.
I learned
a lot at Ganes Creek. I ran in all-metal mode. What
makes the F75 rather unique is that the meter is
always in discriminate mode even when the unit is
operating in all metal. All metal gets you max depth
and sensitivity. So I would hunt and listen with
all settings jacked to the max. Boost all metal
sensitivity set to 99. Any audio response is a reason
to stop, slow down and examine the signal. If the
meter is blank, dig on down until the meter kicks
in. If you get solid 15 or lower meter readings
repeatedly take a pass and move on. If the target
does anything else on the meter (bouncing from high
to low) dig that puppy. Most gold reads about 22
but the larger the nugget the higher it can read.
I wish I could get my first week at Ganes back this
spring as it was not until week two that I really
zeroed in on how the machine works. I consistently
was getting small nuggets that most of the other
people were leaving behind.
Over three
ounces of gold my F75 found at Ganes Creek:
So hunt
all metal, hunt by ear, study each target with the
meter, and dig anything not 100% bad. This ability
to hunt in all metal to get 100% performance allows
targets to be found that would be missed in a discriminate
mode. The signals that give an audio but no meter
reading would not be found if the detector is run
in discriminate mode.
If there
is a lot of trash or hot rocks running in all metal
and examining every target can be overwhelming.
At Moore Creek there are so many hot rocks I was
better off running in disc and setting the discrimination
to knock out the hot rocks.
No machine
does it all, but the F75 Special Edition is a detector
that I will be using a lot in 2012 because for what
it does well it does exceptionally well. What it
still does not do well is run quietly in urban areas.
The machine is rock solid out in the middle of nowhere
but is a chatterbox in town. Still, I like how it
feels on my arm and I am convinced I have an edge
on the next guy. I can't ask for more than that.
And it shows how a detector that I once disliked
can end up being one of my favorites.
Steve Herschbach
World famous
treasure hunter Captain Carl ‘Fizz’
Fismer pictured with his Fisher CZ21 along with
some Spanish treasure he recovered. Ballast rocks,
pottery shards, pewter fragments, lead, musket balls,
EO'S encrusted objects. Also a hand full oxidized
silver Spanish coins.
I recently
became the owner of a new Fisher Gold Bug Pro DP
with a 11 inch DD coil, so I decided to take it
out to some of my spots I have hunted in the past.
First I dug some misc. iron cavalry relics, hoof
picks, saddle buckles, etc. I came to some little
brush where my machine showed 2 signals , one coming
in at 72- 77 and the other at 87 on the VDI. I dug
the lower number reading first only to find 2 rusty
nails and an old can top. Both readings were showing
a depth of around 2 inches. Well time to dig the
other signal. Roots were all over the place and
when I pulled out the plug I noticed a rectangular
shaped object, that was just under the root about
4 inches. I must say, I've never dug an artifact
that made my hands shake. I feel very lucky to have
found this, for the town I live in has many coils
going over it, probably one of my best finds in
my 14 years of detecting.
RvaDigg'n
S.W. Patterson
Seven Pines, VA
The
cannon ball was 20 inches deep. The nice breast plate
was found the first time I hunted with this new machine.
The area that the button and good breast plate came
from has been hammered for the last 20 years. The
button is from The University of the South, Sewanee,
Tennesee. All found with Gold Bug DP. It's an awesome
machine.
Charles
My name
is Quindy Robertson and I live in Tennessee. I bought
a Fisher 1266-X in 1995 and began searching for
Civil War relics. In July 2009, I upgraded to a
Fisher F75. I have been very impressed with the
lightweight unit, search speed, easy learning curve,
battery lifeand the ability to separate many small
iron signals from brass and lead. This last feature
has opened up a whole new opportunity to go back
and hunt previously “hunted out” sites
with Civil War relics where older technology detectors
would just blank out. You may have read my articles
in Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine, American
Digger Magazine and North South Trader’s Civil
War Magazine in the last year. Here are examples
of six (6) of my finds recovered with the F75 since
December 2009 that were pictured inNorth South Trader’s
Civil War Magazine and/or American Digger Magazine.
I highly recommend the Fisher F75 for relic hunting.
Quindy in
Tennessee
I
am and have been a strong Fisher Fan - I dug a VERY
RARE (only 20 have ever been dug) Tennessee state
CW Veteran's pin with the old 1266-X detector in
Nov. 2008. It was selected as a Best Find of 2008
by Western Eastern Treasure Magazine.
Quindy in
Tennesse
1.25
Gram Nugget found with GBPRO -
I found
this nice 1.25 gram nugget in a well searched spot
outside of Yucca Valley in California's Mojave Desert.
I had been hunting all day with my Gold Bug Pro
and had been skunked thus far. As it was going on
5:00pm, I grabbed my rake for the first time that
day and told my dad that I was going to have to
manufacture a nugget. (Similar to baseball when
nothing is happening, so the team figures out how
to make a run happen). I raked out a 5'x12' spot
in a gulley and went over it carefully. And there
it was... right in the middle of the raked out area
and about 4 inches down! Not even a nice sharp sound
in the headphones until I started scraping. I was
expecting hot rock until the sound cleaned up...
then I was expecting bullet... and then I saw the
gold.
The hot
rocks in this area are particularly plentiful and
annoying, but with all the readouts the Gold Bug
Pro provides to cross-identify targets, I was able
to rule out most hot rocks and dig just the metal
targets. And at that, most metal targets can be
classified by the detector before they are even
dug! This is definitely a well designed, versatile
and user friendly metal detector. I have no problem
recommending the Gold Bug Pro to a seasoned nugget
shooter, beginning detectorist or anyone in between.
Let me finish
by telling you about my learning experience with
this easy to use detector: My first time out in
a gold field with the Gold Bug Pro netted me three
nuggets... and my first park experience a few weeks
later produced a 1945 Mercury dime! The Gold Bug
Pro is another Fisher 'winner' in my book, and I
have already started turning these firsts into seconds,
thirds, fourths, etc.
Lucky Joe
My wife
just had dropped me off at one of my areas I play
in. I walked in for ten minutes and hit the area
that I wanted to go over. Seven targets in a five
foot square area. I took the GB Pro and went over
all the targets again checking the meter. The meter
said five of the targets were lead,one target was
iron and the other target gave me an overload response
on 40 with no ferrous bars. Hmmm, well I dug the
the iron, then I dug the lead targets. The meter
had been right on. Now, because I have been fooled
a couple of times before with the GB Pro hitting
that 40 mark but the target being a very old and
real brass casing I still was not excited. In the
past I have not had brass casing go into overload
mode. The target was located in a short crevice
maybe three inches deep and covered with light sand.
I took my little gold pan and dipped some water
up and poured over the top of the crevice washing
the sand down. When it cleared up here was this
12.7 dwt nugget looking back up at me. Most of you
guys know that feeling, its like the first time
all over again. I called the wife up and told her
to come meet me at the pickup point. Ten minutes
later I was on the road again to the house, still
glowing. I think I will sit around the pool the
rest of the day. TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS
I
have been a VERY loyal CZ-20 and now CZ-21 user.
First
Texas has had problems in the past BUT since taking
over the Fisher line and taking over all their past
detctors and customers, I am sure it has been a huge
learning curve. I am grateful for Felix at the repair
center and I am a proud owner of a great machine.
I
dive Michigan 's lakes as much as possible. My best
find was the year before last in Lake St Clair . I
was searching for gold and have had plenty of success
in this lake. This one late afternoon I was slowly
crawling on the bottom and recieved a nice mid tone.
After fanning my hand a beautiful ring appeared. I
picked it up and came up out of the water to look
at it clearly. It had a princess cut diamond on top
and 16 smaller princess cut diamonds on the sides
with a number 6 inside. I finished my dive with it
partially on my pinky finger and went back to the
car. Put my gear away and drove to St. Clair Michigan
to a jewlery store. I got there 3 minutes before closing.
I was still in my wetsuit and walked in to the lobby.
I showed them the ring and said, Please just tell
me if this is real!! The salesmen looked at it and
then tested it. Came back and said yes its real and
you have about a 12 grand ring!!
I
have found lots and lots of gold but this one was
the best so far.
Thank
you for your time. I absolutely love my machine and
I wish your company success in keeping the Fisher
line of detectors going strong.
Robert AKA scubadetector
"The
Finds tell the story: The F75 Ltd is my machine
of choice!"
Gene Scullion
a.k.a. "Scully
My first
gold coin in 31 years of detecting was found with
a brand new F70 when that machine first came out.
It was the very first target I unearthed with the
F70. My second gold coin was recovered in January
of 2011, with the F75 Ltd, which is now my go-to machine
for nearly all of my detecting jobs. Since 1977 I
have enjoyed this great hobby, but my finds have never
been as exciting or rewarding as they have been with
the F70/F75 family of machines. I don't think it's
a coincidence that I didn't find any gold coins until
these machines came along. --- fatigue-free hunting
for hours and hours, fast retune speed for great target
separation, optional audio and search modes, a great
variety of coil sizes, great depth, all combined in
an easy to learn machine --- The F75 showed me just
how much iron is out there masking really great targets,
and with this machine I am now digging targets in
heavy iron, and having a blast doing it. These machines
will put the fun back in detecting and light up the
sites you thought were cleaned out.
Gene Scullion, a.k.a
"Scully"
F75
Gold
By Steve Herschbach
My friends
had been trying to convince me for several years
to go on a metal detecting trip to the UK in search
of Celtic gold coins and hammered silver. Finally,
in 2009 I committed to making the trip in the fall
of 2010, as you need to book these trips a year
in advance.
The spring of 2010 arrived, and I had my summer
gold nugget hunting trips laid out. I had decided
that the Fisher F75 was high on my list of units
to take to the UK due to its high sensitivity to
small targets and incredibly fast response time.
I tend to concentrate more on covering area than
in seeking extreme depth, and so I favor a machine
that can tolerate a very fast sweep speed. The F75
excels in this regard, and is no slouch in the depth
department either. It is imperative one practice
with a unit prior to an important trip, and so I
packed my F75 for my nugget trips. The F75 is not
usually thought of as a prospecting detector, but
it has all the features required for the task. I
figured I would kill two birds with one stone -
see how the F75 does nugget hunting and get practice
for the UK trip.
My first trip in June was to Moore Creek, Alaska.
Moore Creek normally favors pulse induction detectors,
but I was pleased to find the F75 handled the tough
hot rock environment as well as any VLF detector
I have used there, if not better. I got some time
to do a little nugget detecting myself, and so looked
for an opportunity to use the F75. The airstrip
at Moore Creek is made of old tailings, and so has
the potential for nuggets. But it also is loaded
with trash, so people tend to avoid it. Another
person in camp was using a VLF, so I suggested he
give the airstrip a go in discrimination mode to
sort through the trash and maybe find a nugget.
He declined, so I figured what the heck, I'll do
it myself. Usually one nugget hunts in all metal
mode. But I do use discrimination modes a lot, when
in trashy areas, or to help with severe hot rocks.
I set the F75 up in JE mode and cranked the sensitivity
as high as conditions would allow. I used notch
1, discrimination 6, single tone. The unit ran hot
and a bit chirpy. I soon discerned that hot rocks
were hitting about 16, and concentrated on hits
over 16. I dug lots of .22 shell casings, which
I was amused to find hit at 22. Plus bullets and
aluminum trash. I was right in the middle of the
runway when I got a strong signal, and was surprised
when a 1/2 ounce nugget popped out of the ground!
It also hit right at 22. The next day I hunted with
the F75 again, and pulled up two more gold nuggets,
each a couple pennyweight each. Needless to say
I was very happy with the F75 at this point.
My time at Moore Creek was over and I flew directly
over to Ganes Creek, Alaska. Ganes Creek is only
30 miles from Moore Creek, but conditions are far
different. It is low mineral ground loaded with
ferrous junk, and large gold nuggets. Good ferrous
discriminating VLF units are favored there, and
so once again I gave the F75 a spin. This time I
experimented with the all metal mode. I found I
could run with the settings maxed in all metal and
yet the unit ran smoother than in disc mode. Better
yet the machine is getting maximum audio depth,
while the meter continues to operate in discrimination
mode. This is a rare trait in a detector, offering
the best of the all metal and discrimination modes
at one time. You hunt by ear, and in cases where
the target is shallow enough, you will get a target
id. But what got my interest were the targets I
heard, but for which there was no target id. These
are very deep targets, deeper than units operating
in a pure discrimination mode will hear. I waited
until an opportunity arose where the other people
in the group pounded a particular tailing pile that
had just been bulldozed. This tailing pile always
produces gold, so people were all over it, giving
it their best shot. Finally, nothing was coming
out of the ground, so they all wandered off.
I set the F75 up in all metal, and really put my
effort into covering every inch to the best of my
ability, listening for the faintest whispers. Up
came various non-ferrous targets the others has
passed over, all beyond discrimination depth. What
I did was get a signal, but no target id, then dig
off some soil until the target id kicked in. This
usually revealed a ferrous target, and I would quit.
Or a non-ferrous target, in which case I dug it
up. They proved to be various aluminum targets,
which anyone looking for gold has to dig. I persevered,
and finally got a nice, sweet audio, within no id.
I dug down, and still no id. And dug some more,
and it kicked in as non-ferrous. And then, at over
a foot, another 1/2 nugget appeared, but a much
nicer piece than the once I had found at Moore Creek.
This one was solid gold and a very attractive nugget.
I was pleased to no end. It really makes me feel
good when I can go in behind a bunch of good detectorists
and still pull up an excellent find. I is impossible
not to like a detector that lets me make such a
find.
A month later and I found myself in northern California,
on my first nugget hunting trip outside Alaska.
We were hunting an old hydraulic pit, and I was
leaning on the Gold Bug 2 since the gold was very
small. But I did give the F75 a spin, to see how
small a nugget I could find with it. Unfortunately
I did not have my small coil along, so I can't offer
an absolute answer to that question. The smaller
coils are hotter than the stock coil on small gold.
Since all I had was the stock coil, I gave it a
try. A little experimentation showed me that the
all metal mode hit small gold well, but the audio
response is very soft. I found the same test nugget
would bang out hard in JE mode cranked up to sensitivity
99, single tone, discrimination at 6. So I went
with that. I hit an area right next to camp and
due to the low mineralization the unit ran smooth
even though the settings were maxed out. Not something
you will see often. I dug shell casing fragments
for some time and bits of lead, but that made me
happy. If an area is cleaned out, there should not
be non-ferrous targets of any sort left in the ground.
Then I got a small nugget, my first gold ever from
outside Alaska! I have found many pounds of larger
gold, but this little nugget was my favorite of
the summer just for being from California. It only
weighed a few grains. A bit more hunting in the
same area turned up its cousin, also only a few
grains in weight.
I have to note that a few grains is small indeed.
If the F75 is that hot with the stock coil, it should
do better yet with a small coil. So there you have
it. Large nuggets and small, gold from mineralized
ground and in the middle of trashy ground. For versatility
the F75 is hard to beat, and it is definitely a
very capable prospecting detector. I managed to
pay for the detector in just a few days nugget hunting.
And better yet. I am typing this report out at 5:30
AM in the UK, the morning of my third day of hunting
here. My first day I scored two hammered silver
coins with the F75, and another yesterday! My efforts
with the F75 earlier in the summer are paying off
as I hit the ground running. But that will be a
story for another day!
One pictures is the 1/2 oz nugget found at Moore
Creek, the other is a 1/2 oz nugget found at Ganes
Creek, first California nugget and F75 in the field
in California.
Steve Herschbach
I was
hunting a spot in Georgia that has been hunted a LOT
over the years, by virtually every make of detector.
I normally use the small coil and don't think I lose
any depth with it. I checked a high iron area and
dug a silver ring and tip from umbrella. Made a circle
back around to another iron area and found a lead
sabot off of a 100 pounder then headed back towards
the car to one more high iron area when I heard that
nice high tone with a little chatter around (I run
4H tones in boost mode). Out from 6 to 7 inches in
iron infested area pops out my Bucks of America button.
This button was used by a company of free-black soldiers
that fought in the Revolutionary War for US Independence
and is a rare and valuable piece of US History. Fisher
in high iron sites that have been hunted hard for
years can't be beat.
Shannon D. Cripps
Found
a half-dollar on my first hunt with the F75 Ltd, running
in BP mode; it was dug at a depth of about 16 inches.
Also found a quarter 6 inches away at the same depth.
Mark Slade
This
past week I attended my first ever DIV hunt; it was
DIV XVII. When I first got to the location it seemed
like everyone had some type of newer more sophisticated
detector. I was a little worried about how the F75
machine would perform in such a field of heavy hitters.
Well I sure didn't have to worry, let me tell you.
When I hit the field
on day number one all I had to do was turn on the
machine, use standard quick grab ground balance
and switch to all-metal motion and start to find
relics. During the hunt most of the adjustment to
ground balance was done by just pushing the toggle
switch forward and pumping it a few times and then
taking off hunting again. This was accomplished
in some of the hottest soil you can imagine. My
take for the hunt was outstanding:
Day 1: (1) Eagle
Breast Plate, (1) 1861 2-1/2 dollar gold coin, (1)
silver wedding band, (2) large cents, (1) Confederate
Block I button, (3) flat buttons, (31) minnies,
(2) eagle buttons, (2) lead buckle backs and a rosette
back.
Day 2: (1) 1836 1/2
dollar, (1) 1853 1/2 dime, (1) King George copper,
(1) clip corner buckle, (1) oval belt buckle, (15)
minnies and (4) eagle buttons.
Day 3: This was a
short day for me because I had to leave after lunch:
(1) staff officers button, (5) minnies, (1) harness
buckle and (1) 1861 2-1/2 dollar gold coin.
That's right (2)
2-1/2 dollar gold coins during the hunt. Fantastic!!!
Thanks to all of you at Fisher for designing such
a terrific machine. By the end of the hunt, several
people that had brought their F75 machines, got
them and finished the hunt using this fine machine.
If I am lucky enough to attend another hunt you
can be sure what machine I will be using. If there
is any doubt then let me spell it out - F75.
Regards, Wayne Altomonte
F5
Finds BIG SILVER!
Dear Fisher,
I bought my Fisher F5 about a month ago, after weeks
of research and comparisons. I was very impressed
all the features that were packed into such an affordable
machine. I especially love the phase lock system
you incorporated into the design. Makes ground balancing
a snap, and nearly makes it a turn on and go. More
like a turn on and go in 10 seconds machine. Plenty
quick enough for this eager hunter!
Yesterday,
November 13, 2010, I was out searching a farm field
just outside of San Angelo, Tx. There used to be
a mail station that sat on the land back in the
late 1800's and various coins have been pulled out
of that field. Yesterday was the first time I had
a chance to use my new Fisher on that land and it
turned out to be a great day because of it. In a
small corner of that field that I'd been over with
other metal detectors before I got a strong signal
indicative of a quarter. It rang out like a bell
in my headphones and got me excited very quickly.
I eagerly switched it to pinpoint mode and found
the signal pointing to a quarter target about 4-5
inches below the coil. I cut a square plug around
the coil and dug down the indicated distance. After
clearing the hole, I rechecked the signal to find
the target still inside. I slowly chipped away the
ground in the bottom of the hole and slowly revealed
a breathtaker staring back at me. Once uncovered
and free of dirt and other possible junk targets
the quarter signal showed its true colors as the
half dollar signal it really was. At the bottom
of the hole looking back at me was an 1856 O Seated
Liberty Half Dollar! In an instant I became a true
believer in the greatness packed into that affordable
F5 package. Thank you Fisher for making my dreams
come true finding such a beautiful coin!
Fisher Satisfied Customer,
Nathan
San Angelo, Tx.
Fisher
1280 Aquanaut - Big copper blade from the Great
Lakes region of North America
This
HUGE (21-5/8" -- 550 ml. long) Copper Culture
era knife is an incredible find and could date back
over 8000 years. I was honored to be able to hold
this in my hands and it is one of the coolest most
incredible finds I have seen in a loooong time-knowing
how old it is its hard to believe what you are holding.
The picture does not do it justice. It weighs 1
lb. 4 oz...!!!! (567.5 grams)...... AND.... it is
absolutely flawless..... made from raw material
that doesn't show any faults in the finished tool...!!!!
The
proud owner would like to remain anonymous-he found
the knife on land and uses a Fisher 1280 Aquanaut
on land and in the water.
Mike
Scott
Dear
Fisher,
I've owned my CZ 20 now for 7 years with out any big
issues and the small issues were taken care of by
the service techs and sale people with great results.
I've been water detecting for about three years and
this has been my best years ever on jewelry finds.
You just can't get a more better detector for water
hunting then the CZ 20. Here is a picture of SOME
of the jewelry I have found just this past summer
and not shown is the large amount of coins that were
found too. I just wanted to say Thanks to Fisher,
the sale staff and to the techs for a wonderful detector
and GREAT service.
Thank
You - Joe in MD
I
got my F75 last summer and took it to England to
use as a backup.
The sounds
it made were a lot different from my MXT. However,
when I dug one of the strange signals on the second
day In England, what I first thought was a very
fancy Brit bottle cap popped out.
As the first
2 pictures on the attachment show, it is an awesome
Hammered gold Angel of Henry VII.
The 2 sword
handle pieces were found when I got back from England.
Both came from the same area.
The cannon
came from another plantation that I thought I had
worked over with my MXT.
Hal
First
2 days Hunting With My New Gold Bug
This
is a picture of my very first finds on July 30/31
2011 at a park in Christchurch New Zealand.
No gold
yet but am very very pleased with it so far..in
the picture there are some old 1 and 2 cent NZ coins
as well as some old 50 cent pieces.and the gold
colored coins are our 1 and 2 dollar coins. In total
about 10 hours hunting and learning how to use the
machine and figuring out the signals and what they
may mean..lol
Chris –
New Zealand
Gold
Bug Find
Only
had it about 2 weeks, And found a nice meteorite with
it. Am very pleased with the machine.
Thank
You
Tom
Beautiful
and rare George Washington inaugural button found
by Dave S
Using an F75.
Dave S.
Since
March, my finds now exceed the value of my F-70
and the three searchcoils I purchased. Wow! I am
so impressed with this machine!
Gold
bracelet recovery, 7-19-2010, Stanwood, WA. For
Judy Amenta, who lost the bracelet in the grass
a day before. She and relatives had been searching
for many hours with rakes and fingers for the missing
bracelet.
After
getting all the details and marking suspected loss
site, the detector was going wild, chattering like
a wild turkey! I asked property owners where the
interference may be coming from. After they turned
off the invisible dog fence, the hunt was on. I
found the bracelet in less than one minute about
6 feet from beginning search!
My
first find of lost jewelry& First gold find
!
Detector
screamed with a loud but inconsistent signal. Scanning
at 90 deg, readings varied between 1 and 18, with
occasional spikes to about 60. I was going to adjust
volume on this target….the first detected
on my hunt.
. Using zero discrimination mode, at sensitivity
setting of 50, threshold at zero. . Fisher F70 detector
using the 10” coil.
Robert
Marysville, Washington
I
was searching a Lost & Found posting and noticed
someone had lost a Wedding Ring at a beach about 50
miles away.
I contacted
the individual and after offering assistance to
find the ring, was given directions to its possible
whereabouts. The following day, I was on my way
to the Coast.
My F2 performed
without fault in the wet and dry sands of the beach.
After approximately 30 minutes time, I got a hit
that registered 30-32 steadily and new I struck
GOLD! One scoop of the sand and there it was!!!
It was a huge, white gold 14K band! I couldn't wait
to get back home to notify the owner. However, the
owner advised me that there was a name etched on
the inside. "Oh well, I guess I've got another
ring to add to my collection".
I then questioned
the name given and searched the internet to find
that this name is actually the Jewelry Company he
bought it from! After contacting him again, he confirmed
that was true and was mistaken about the writing
inside the ring. There was none. So, I said great!
"You've got your ring back".
After about
a 1hr drive to my town, we met locally and I was
able to hand him his ring!
Richard
Found
my 2nd Spanish silver coin today and it appears to
be a 1/2 Reale dated 1808. It has been clipped along
the edges (a practice used to pilfer bits of silver
from coins in those days). The coin measures slightly
less than the 17mm diameter of a 1/2 Reale coin. It
is pictured next to a "1 bit" piece cut
from an 8 Reale coin that I found a few days earlier.
Both were found with my F75 LTD between 5 and 6 inches
deep with the 5" DD coil.
Dykes
Cupstid in Port Gibson, MS
Unbelievable
all this in 1 hole, the best spill I ever found:
Still can't believe it. Fisher 1270 about 9 to 10
inches 8" coil Disc.4 Sen. 8 “A Truly
AWESOME MACHINE”
It wasn't
a wide or really loud signal, if you notice there
are some stack stains on some of the coins. I worked
this camp about 25 years ago with a Fisher VLF-990,
it was my first detector. found a few coins but
nothing to scream about, today for lack of a good
place to go close-by I figured lets try the old
camp. Coins everywhere!!! Was working the kiddy
area, swings, ETC. A lot of digging at 4 DISC. But,
found about 60 odd coins, figured I try the baseball
field, mistake so went back to the kiddy area, moved
up from where I was working earlier and BANG! Hit
that spill, I kept working that area in a tight
overlap and picked up 9 wheaties (individuals) and
they were every bit of 6 to 8" inches…
Shooter, Northern New Jersey
Found
this buckle about 8" down on an old farm with
my Fisher 1270 w/ stock 8” Spider coil, in Northern
New Jersey. It was a warm up spell with melting snow
in Jan 2010. The info I have been getting dates it
between 1810 and 1820, some say it’s a NY Militia
Plate. The old farm dates back to the early 1800’s
and I just got permission to hunt it the farm has
never been done. Can’t wait till Spring.
Pete Becherp
My
wife and I have been hunting for a short while and
we love it. I have a Fisher CZ70 pro and I love
this thing. It goes very deep but it proved to me
today that deep isn't always better. We were hunting
in a park that we usually hunt in today because
I got her a new Teknetics Delta 4000 and we wanted
to go try it out. I was kind of jealous of her new
detector just because its new and she does fairly
well with it. Anyway I pulled out my ole CZ70 pro
and it never fails me. I found a few clad coins
and pennies then I got a hit about 4 inches down.
I can't remember what it was IDing at but it sounded
good. I dug down and found a beautiful sterling
silver bracelet in great condition. I wasn't sure
it was silver until I got home. I new it was a little
heavy. I got my magnifiying glasses out and on the
round clasp there it was. "925". I was
extatic. I can't wait to be able to get the CZ3D.
The CZ70 pro is older but it does great but I feel
with a new CZ3D would be even better with the reviews
I have been reading. I used to hunt with White's
but I am sold on Fisher. Nothing but Fisher for
me!!!
Here are the PICS!!
CZ-70 PRO
South
Carolina finds with the F-75
Mike
Scott
Here
is what the last 4 hunts to a "Hunted Out Camp"
turned up once again. My hunting buddy and I have
gotten 4 gold dollars out of this so called camp
in the last year. Believe me nothing is hunted out
using the LTD and the correct settings for where
you are. In the picture is another 1862 Gold Dollar,
a few A buttons, nap sack hooks, a Rosette US from
a horse blanket[ we believe] and the real surprise
it the 16--- 41 cal. Volcanic bullets, also called
Rocket Balls. They were made by the Volcanic Arm
Company just before the CW war. It was the first
tube feed under the barrel magazine but it just
didn't have the knock down power. The company when
broke, and Mr. Winchester ended up with it and hired
a fellow Named " Henry" who redesigned
it, refined the bullet to a cartridge type hence
the " Henry 44 cal rifle". These are rare
bullets for they made 41 and 31 cal. These bullets
will bring $ 60 to $ 95 on the market if I want
to sell them. I may just wait to see what the LTD
will be replaced with before a make a move on them.
IF you are interested in the setting that I use
and these are really proven, for pressing the red
button down to switch back to DE, from BP they are
very weak, broken up or just non existing. I used
50-70 sens, where ever it is most stable, PB mode,
and most important"""""
0 discrimination, and 4 tones I JUST LOVE MY LTD
oh yes my back up is another LTD, wouldn't walk
back to the truck for anything else.
I
can only tell you" THE BOSS IN THE FIELD ,
IS THE RELIC KILLER LTD, HANDS DOWN."
LiL
John
Buried Treasure
We
bought our farm in 1993 from the widow of the man
that had owned it for thirty-three years. In all
of that time he never had lived on the land. He
and his friends hung out in the old barn. I guessed
to keep from going home to their wives. The barn
by the time we got it was in sad shape. The siding
was falling off, and there were large gaps in between
the boards. The roof leaked and the all of the wood
in the barn was full of wormholes. There was an
old springhouse and some other out buildings on
the land also, which he had used to store all of
his junk and his friend’s junk as well. The
land looked like a mini junkyard.
The springhouse
was in really bad shape. The weather had had its
way with it. The foundation had one complete corner
and the back end cracked apart from the rest of
it. The spring in the basement had exited through
the crack and ate the ground from under the foundation,
causing the whole building to tilt towards the downhill
side. It was beyond fixing and in a few more years
collapsed into a pile of rubble with the spring
water running through it, making it a muddy mess.
In 1994
we built a new house behind and off to one side
of the barn. After three years we decided to tear
down the old barn. The wife didn’t like it
in front of the house and it was well on its way
to falling down anyway. We left the barn’s
concrete floor and used it to park our trailer and
farm tractors on.
In 1998
we built a new sheet metal barn down by the springhouse.
In 2004 we decided to clean out the springhouse
mess and replace it with modern construction. It
proved to be a far bigger job than we had planned
on. We got the new foundation and basement walls
up, with the spring still running through the basement.
This time it was all enclosed in a tile and a plastic
drain line that carries the water away from the
foundation, but before we could finish it, the wife
got laid off of her job and we kept saying, “next
year, we’ll finish it”, but like tomorrow,
next year never seemed to come.
In 2008 we had a barn sale and met and talked to
some people who used to live around the area back
in the fifties. They told us about the old man that
owned the land before the man that we got the land
from did. The story goes that he lived in the old
springhouse, which had no electricity or bathroom.
It seemed that he was pretty much a hermit. He had
lived through the great depression and didn’t
trust banks or paper money.
At one time he had owned a complete section of land
around here, but he gradually sold off all of the
land expect for this twenty-one acres he was living
on. The story also goes that he sold the land on
the north side of him for $3300 and that he buried
the money some where on his land.
One lady said that when she was a young girl, her
mother would have her bring him some food from time
to time. She was always scared to walk back here
by herself. She also had heard the rumors about
him burying money. A man that use to live up the
road from here, said he came over here as a boy
and looked for the buried money along the creek,
but never found anything.
When we
cleared away the old springhouse, we didn’t
find anything in it or under it. All this talk about
buried money got us fired up, and we got out the
“Gold Bug II”. We thought that he would
have buried the money by some landmark that was
close and handy. The only thing around the springhouse
that was there fifty years ago was a large maple
tree. We’ve been detecting around the tree
in a grid, but as of yet we’ve not found any
money. We’ve found a lot of metal junk.
In May of
2009 we decided that we needed an implement storage
and repair shed. We’re going to build it where
the old barn stood, but first we would have to remove
all of the old concrete. The concrete was all broken
and uneven. My father-in-law and my wife were digging
up the concrete with a backhoe and took a noon break
for something to eat. While walking back out to
the backhoe, they walked through the area where
they had been digging. My father-in-law saw something
shiny in the dirt and bent down to see what it was.
Picking it up and wiping the dirt off it, he saw
it was a silver half dollar. Looking back down in
the dirt he saw some more, picking them up, he turned
to my wife and said. “Nancy, these are silver
half dollars.” She didn’t believe him
at first. He handed them to her and her heart started
to race. There was a line of them where the backhoe
had dragged them through the dirt.
She called me at work and was so excited. When I
answered, she said, “We’ve found the
‘Mother Lode’. Dad and I have found
some silver half dollars under the old barn floor.”
When I got
home, I got out my “Gold Bug II”, and
with the help of the detector, we were able to found
two hundred and eighty-six “Walking Liberty
silver half dollars”. They dated from 1917
up to 1945. The face value of the coins is $143,
the silver value of the coins is $1550, but the
coinage value is $2300. Some of the ones in the
forties look like they just came from the mint.
We plan on selling some of them and keeping some
as a reminder of the buried treasure we found.
We figured
that the old hermit buried the money in the barn’s
dirt floor and died before he could retrieve it.
The next owner then poured concrete over the barn’s
dirt floor, never knowing that the money was hidden
there. The fact that we found it was a lucky break
for us.
I’m sure there is more money buried on this
land somewhere and with the help of the metal detector,
I’m hoping we’ll find some of more of
it.
Left
- Some silver jewelry found with my Fisher F5 The
Native American made silver feather is my favorite
The butterfly ring isn’t silver but I wanted
to show it off.
Right
- Recent gold jewelry found with my Fisher F5.
Mike
Hillis
This
beautiful 1924D SLQ was found using my CZ3D and a
5” coil in a hunted out house site here in Tulsa
Oklahoma. The coin must have been on edge as the signal
was a broken one from all but one angle.
Thanks
for the contest and can’t wait to see the new
site.
Regards,
Robert Franklin
Colonial
cufflinks F75 MD Found Nov. 2009
Lil John
Found
this nice bust half dime in an area of a torn up sidewalk
here in N. Ky. It screamed in high tone & was
an inch in the loose dirt. Thanks for a neat detector.
The
first pic is slightly blurred but the coin was found
in the dirt next to this sidewalk in a 1700's town.
The second pic is the 1833 bust half dime in pretty
nice shape.
Thanks,
Mark Humphries
Maysville KY
I
have been using my CZ6a since they first came out
and will never part with it. Matter of fact, I bought
another used on because I like them so much. I have
bought, sold and traded numerous detectors over the
years, but never parted with my CZ6a.
I
found a BUNCH of 8 Reales on the beach this Summer
with my CZ6a and CZ20. I think the CZ's are one of
the best beach machines ever made ( I should say one
of the best all around machines ever made !). Here
is a picture of one of the Reales I found.
John
Cipriano
The
Fisher CZ-3d quickly became my favorite machine by
making many great finds including this rare 1909 S
VDB cent that was featured in the first edition of
Treasure Depot Magazine. Thanks Fisher!
Steve
This
military officer's sword belt plate was found with
my Fisher F2 with 8" coil on May 11, 2008 in
Bixby, Oklahoma.
Roque
M
First
is a Federal Eagle R Button, next is a NC Coat button
& both were found with a F75
Tony Mullen of
North Carolina
I
made my best find ever with my F75 this past October.
I was in Destin, FL and found this 1 KT diamond ring!
The victory was short lived as my wife promptly placed
it on her finger but the joy was in finding it. Thanks
Fisher.
Keith
Investigations LLC
Ellisville, MS
Nov.
2009 - My
name is George McDonald and I am a proud owner of
a Gold Bug – 2. Within the last 45 days I was
using my Gold Bug to search a creek in North Carolina
and happened on the largest single gold item found
in the state in over one hundred years. It was a 5.2
oz nugget I call the Golden Potato. It is roughly
the size of a goose egg. Just wanted to let you know
that the Gold Bug has done its job again and this
time it has found a historic piece.
Fisher
Find of the Month-October 2009
I
have been relic hunting since 1986 and have used many
different machines; the F75 is without question the
best relic hunting machine I have ever used. It gives
more depth with the smaller loops than most machines
do with the full sized loops. It absolutely can not
be beat in areas of iron and trash.
This
Confederate CS1 Staff button was found at 11 inches
with my F75 and small coil combination in an area
full of iron trash.
Joe
Haile
Fisher
Find of the Month-September 2009
Eddie
M., his first time using a F75 Metal Detector, found
a Virginia staff button with a least 95% gilt left,
at approximately 18” deep. He also found a silver
3 cent piece at about 10” deep
Early
1800's cufflinks these are called (the return),
depicts wife of an early 1800's sailor. She's
anxiously waiting on his return from his long
voyage out to sea.
Found
in Charleston, SC with the Fisher F75
Peter
Eles
2
very rare English imported, made for the confederacy,
Infantry buttons worn by South Carolina troops
during the civil war. Both found along with
a civil war period South Carolina state seal
button and an 1855 silver half dime.
Finds
made using the fisher F75 detector in the
low country of South Carolina winter of 09
Peter
Eles
Late
1700's masonic cufflink
Found
in Charleston, SC with the Fisher F75
Peter
Eles
one
of the rarest of all the war 1812 US infantry
officers buttons
Found
in Augusta, Georgia spring 09
with the Fisher F75
Peter
Eles
1909
gold Sacred Heart Academy, graduation pin
of Mary B Cashin was found summer 09 almost
exactly 100 yrs to the day miss Cashin graduated.
The church & school first opened it's
doors in 1900 and lasted for 71 yrs before
finally closing in 1971 It reopened in 1987
as the sacred heart cultural center and now
houses administrative offices of area civic
groups, the boy scouts, the Augusta ballet,
and the greater area Augusta arts council.
Found
in Augusta, Georgia
with the Fisher F75
Peter
Eles
3
civil war camp buttons - A pretty connecticut
state seal button, US staff officers button
and a 1piece silver eagle infantry button.
From
a Union civil war camp just outside of Charleston
, SC with the Fisher F75
Peter
Eles
Rare
1855 Charleston, SC servant slave tag
Found
near the famous old city in October, 09
Detector
used brand spanking new T2 LTD I love it!
Comments:
I took my F-75 to a "worked out" site that
has been hunted since the 1960's by every detector
brand known to man. My friends and I pounded this
spot hard for over 10 years with Fisher CZ's and 1266's.
It stopped producing relics and was really hard to
hunt because of all the iron trash in the ground (the
place was used as a dump site for many, many years).
When
I got to the site, I put the 3x6 coil on and waded
into all the junk. I found five buttons that day,
four eagle buttons and the cast "I". I was
amazed when the cast "I" came out. There
was iron junk in the ground all around it but the
F-75 still gave a good high tone! The F-75 just pulled
those buttons right out of the iron matrix! I also
dug bullets, an artillery shell fuse and other relics.
All these relics had been missed by us on previous
hunts at this spot .
I have found more Civil War buttons in the last six
months with the F-75 than I did the prior two years
with my old machine.
Thanks
Fisher for making such a great machine!
Michael
Thompson
October
28, 2009
If
the F75 can find these since April of this year I
can only dream what the LTD in boost mode could find.
Pictured are four silver quarters, 21 silver dimes,
2 silver nickels, my best find yet, a man's gold wedding
band and other nice gold and silver rings. Now not
in the picture are 51 wheat pennies, 6 buffalo's,
1 V nickel and 5 Indians, one of which was dated 1870
($75 book value). Without exaggerating my F75 has
found more gold and silver since April of this year
than the previous 5 years of hunting with other detectors.
Oh, before I forget, a huge handful of less than high
quality jewelry and lots of clad.
Mark
October
27, 2009
Machine:
F75
I
was hunting at an old school where I’ve found
some odd relics in the past. The ground is covered
with small pieces of coal cinders which are the size
of BB’s which makes it very difficult to hunt.
The machine (F75) usually GB at 82-85 and the FEO
meter is usually maxed out. This location is where
I found my first gold wedding band on 5/21/2009.,
but this coin was a complete surprise, found 10/25/2009.
Mark
Gillespie
2009
Machine: CZ-21
Location:
Somewhere in the Caribbean
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“The new
21 worked like a charm last week. I found 9 gold rings
and 2 Platinum, somewhere in the Caribbean. Thanks for
your help with Felix”
Submitted by:
Tom B
2009
Machine: F70
Location: Undisclosed
"Finding
a $1.00 US gold coin as the very first target I dug
with my new F70, gave me a huge vote of confidence in
its capabilities."
The coin is
an 1857, $1.00 US, Indian Princess found at about 3"
deep surrounded by plugs from a previous hunter.
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Gold
bracelet recovery, 7-19-2010, Stanwood, WA. For
Judy Amenta, who lost the bracelet in the grass
a day before. She and relatives had been searching
for many hours with rakes and fingers for the missing
bracelet. 
Colonial
cufflinks F75 MD Found Nov. 2009
First
is a Federal Eagle R Button, next is a NC Coat button
& both were found with a F75
Nov.
2009 - My
name is George McDonald and I am a proud owner of
a Gold Bug – 2. Within the last 45 days I was
using my Gold Bug to search a creek in North Carolina
and happened on the largest single gold item found
in the state in over one hundred years. It was a 5.2
oz nugget I call the Golden Potato. It is roughly
the size of a goose egg. Just wanted to let you know
that the Gold Bug has done its job again and this
time it has found a historic piece.
