I was wondering if the F2 can be set to pick up the same signals as the Ace 250 (nickle/gold+top 4 notches on Ace} and give an audio signal so you can search without looking at numbers.
What sllingshot said.
A good tone is a good tone, no matter what you use, and I
never even look at the screen before I hear a good tone no matter what I am using.
As far as gold, most every piece I have ever dug except one has been solid, repeating and clear...
but every one was disguised as trash.
Only one came in as an exact nickel signal, every other piece tried to fool me and came in as tones, numbers and icon positions as lower zinc trash, tabs, nickel areas but trash, and foil and one thin gold chain as iron.
You probably have an idea on just how much foil is out there, a ton, but you might not know how much of the smaller gold rings and other jewelry pieces come in there, too.
Also a huge amount.
Not to mention chains of all kinds including silver.
I have found more silver chains at foil than just about any other area...that is just the way of the world in this hobby.
So the answer to your question is yes, by either knocking out all the lower sections on the F2 or by using the notch system which will give you the choice of about 95 different combinations of disc settings you can listen for a good tone and just dig those...but you will miss so much if all you ever do is dig those higher end targets, and if you do take a peak at those numbers on the screen after a good tone that information will tell you volumes and help to distinguish the difference between lots of trash and good targets including gold.
Not all trash but a very large percentage of it.
The good thing is every piece of gold I have dug so far, 26 pieces in 4 years, have been solid in the tone and stable in the numbers on both my F70 and that F2 with stable non jumping numbers in the VDI info and stable non jumping depth bars.
All have been relatively shallow at about 6" or less, very deep gold can act differently and be way more skittish on the F2 and any detectors for that matter.
All detectors give you information in audio clues and many in screen information...some more, some less.
The key is to figure out all these clues and dig the highest percentage targets to find the good stuff and try not to waste time and energy digging the bad stuff.
I have stated I am a dig-it-all kind of hunter but in actuality that is not really true.
What I am is a dig-it-all solid signal in the screen information and tones digger because even though I still dig a lot of that solid sounding and stable trash, (exactly like most gold signals I have come across), lots of trash is not solid or stable at all and I rarely dig those anymore.
Used to, but I have dug enough to learn that most will be trash and I just won't waste my energy digging most of that stuff anymore after digging thousands and learning my lesson.
You never know 100% what you are swinging over unless you dig it, always remember that, but I had to draw a line in the sand somewhere and that line was determined by learning my detectors as well as possible and quickly adding up all the clues I hear and see on any screens to make as many high percentage digging decisions as I can and that method has worked well for me so far.
Keep in mind I was not this good at doing it this way at the beginning with any of my detectors, I dug way more trash than you would believe possible for a long time, but only after many hours of swinging and experimenting and learning have I gotten to this point with a relatively high success rate at finding gold in the dirt in public sites and was able to cut down on my trash digging amount by a good margin.
Still learning too...that never ends IMO.
