EMoss#83

Wow thanks for all the help guys, much better second time out after hours in my backyard. Dug 3 deep coins and knew they were coins, it's all about the tones with no screen to stare at. Still digging deep rusty nails that I swear are coins, and dug a railroad spike at 13 inches, lots of fun

Detect at night with a headlamp, that's what I do sometimes

I followed all the coin settings per Steve and others on the Internet ( high conductivity ,GB on 4 then 1.5, gain max, 10 s,) and she still sings on nails and everything else , I was getting signals on almost every swing, it was not silencing any iron like the videos by the southern fella, I am just going for coins where I have already hit with the mxt. Help please

thanks sjmpainter, you were right about its "not all about the gold", i went to a wood chip park to just practice and could only dig one inch in the frozen ground but had a blast. i plan on hitting some old schools like steve says, heres the the reverse

Then i dug this, and saw a buffalo staring at me, i darn near peed myself, but its a 05 lewis and clark

Please don't laugh!! last week i was excited about a 1968 dime, then i dug this in a new baseball field parking lot/fill dirt, its only my 5th time out learning the MXT, a 1946 wheat penny

I made up my practice targets, is lead the same sound as gold straight across (size for size?)

ok I am alittle confused, i thought the GB2 can pick up large flakes and pickers as that is what i am after, believe me i have low expectations- i just here all the writings and videos on how people find stuff previously detected by other machines? well maybe i will use my dads detector before i buy

good stuff guys, thanx for all the great info, you will be happy to know that my father has a brand new whites MXT or GMT not sure yet -its sitting in the box on a shelf somewhere in his garage,and i will have full access to using it. this is why i was going to buy a GB2 - I do a lot of hiking and four wheeling around south-central and wanted to be able to detect some color then maybe come back later with my small keene sluice and MXT and the family ( is my thinking correct here steve?)

thanks a million "sjmpainter" i called AK mining and diving and they said more GB 2's are coming in next week so i will make a special trip to anchorage. this will be my first metal detector and very excited about learning it, I am learning a lot from youtube and this site especially- so i will practice but i would love the opportunity for you to share with me how do deal with these darn "hot rocks" in the area.

Hi steve i attended your class a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I have a specific question. I want to target flakes and pickers and small nuggets behind my house in basically the Talkeetna mountains, which include hatcher pass, sutton area, willow, and numerous high small streams that i hike and four wheel into. from all the research i have done the fisher gold bug 2 seems to be the ticket and i see you have used it with great success. my question is this area a high mineralized area? i see the gold bug 2 is very sensitive to hot areas, i plan on using it a lot and practicing on the little sue with practice targets, is this something i need to be concerned with ? (also will be hitting crow creek,petersville and eureka) but mostly hatcher pass and sutton area. what are your thoughts on this?