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  1. This has been my feeling for years. It is the worst product Minelab makes. (At least of the ones I've tried.) You need to use the spelling Pro-Find in searching this subject also.
  2. This comes from good target results. It is how you use your detector to interrogate your targets. There are simply beaches without good targets. It may take you 5 times to a big beach to find that out and move on to another beach that does have good targets. How patient are you? What is your time worth?
  3. It is always difficult to leave a good spot and look for new but it has to happen when results lessen. This spot was certainly a good go but maybe it gives you ideas about other places with more or less targets. It's been fun watching you get these goodies. Mitchel
  4. One came from here: https://beachsandscoop.com/Metal-Detecting-Sand-Scoop-Miami The other was bought locally.
  5. I just saw that there was a rocket stage re-entry observed and caught on video. When I looked at it it reminded me of the front row seat I had for the iridium. The multiple pieces I saw with some of them tumbling is still something I think about often when I'm out in the desert at night. https://www.livescience.com/falcon-9-burn-up-meteor-shower-2021.html?utm_source=notification
  6. This one is a tank. It was one of those Lithuanian scoops. I bought two of them 8-9 years ago and I waited a couple of months and no scoop. (It was from that Miami scoop company.) I contacted the seller and the place where he dropped them off for shipping mixed up my address and they went to Virginia. He got them to address it to me and they showed up by mail taped together with a little bit of plastic over them. They were not damaged but they were listed as muffler parts on the import slip. Both of them are really a piece of art.
  7. I bet someone here has done it. Now if we had Simon ... haha
  8. I was one of the first to get an 800 in the United States. I got on Bill's waiting list several months before the release. Since then I've had to replace the control unit because of a broken switch. Everything has worked well and I've found lots of good targets. Along the way I bought a pair of Avantree headphones and they work fine but I prefer the Minelabs. Today I put them on the USB charger. I've had to fiddle with several different power cords the last few months but eventually I get the red charging lights to come on and that was the same today. When I picked them and the charged 800 up the charging lights were out per normal. When I got to the beach to connect I couldn't get the 'on' tones for the headphones. They were completely dead. I've since fiddled with them and tried multiple cables that had charged them before but I can't get the 3 little red charging lights to come on. I've cleaned the mini leads with alcohol and jiggled everything but no go. Is it dead? haha I'll use the Avantree until I can get another pair of the originals. They don't need to be new.
  9. Here is the scoop that never found wet sand that it can't handle. If targets are deep this will go after them more easily than the pull scoop but for shallow targets it is too much.
  10. Good go Steve. I wonder if the Yank will make it out there with you.
  11. I have turned up the iron volume on my 800 settings and I dig many of the below 0 targets and in some cases they are very good. Learn your beach and you may learn that a negative number in the wet, salt sand can turn into a good target and in some cases a ring. Muttled sound can be a good sign for things like chains. Often times tho it turns into a shielded penny.
  12. Beaches in the wet sand are about the energy that was there in the previous 12 hours or so. Try to look at a site that will tell you if there were big waves or frequent smaller waves before you get there. Hunt beaches that have had a big parking lot in the past or now. Chase did a good job with his post. I pretty much went 'all in' on this thread and don't have any more to add without learning a specific beach which takes feet on the sand. There is no substitute.
  13. Here is a good video of a detectorist using a 15" Concentric X coil. He finds 15 bits each day for about a 7 gram total. Simon mentions JW in this video. If you want to contact him send him a message Simon's on YouTube.
  14. King, I would 'quote' you but it won't let me do that. To answer your question, I've been through lots of scoops. This one is from a guy in Van Nuys. I've been using it for over 3 years and it looks like the day I bought it. There is no give in the basket. This scoop doesn't let me get into too much trouble with a larger amount of wet sand in the scoop. I have a left shoulder strain that doesn't want to go away. This doesn't aggravate too much. I have a Lithuanian scoop (actually 2) that I can step on like a shovel but it requires a crane to lift it out of a hole. If I was digging really deep targets like the last couple of days then I'd use it more often. I have to admit there are some wet holes I don't get the target with my pull scoop. But I can't think of my really deep holes as really good value targets either. I'm sure others have different experience with good, deep targets. Mitchel
  15. The last couple of days we've had a hard wind blowing in the afternoon. It is not deep energy like swells but it does stir up the bottom a bit depending upon the tide. The first trip I didn't find much but the knife and a couple of cheap rings. At least that is what I thought. These are the finds from the first day. This was the 'cheap' ring upon closer examination. This was the depth of the knife. It was right at 20 inches. These were today's finds in nearly the same area. At the beginning of the hunt was this better knife. It was open when I found it. Then the remainder of the finds. This was a cheap ring. Two day total of 3 rings and 2 knives. Mitchel
  16. Much of the value of "white metal" bullion comes from its industrial uses. For example, silver sees widespread use in electronics manufacturing. Platinum and palladium play major roles in catalytic converters for internal combustion engines. While all three of these metals also see investment demand, it isn't the main source of their value. Gold bullion, in contrast, sees nearly all its value derive from investment demand. https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/blog/what-is-bullion
  17. I should have had it analyzed today but I forgot it and another odd piece.
  18. The XRF says 18k gold! Now for the diamonds/crystals.
  19. Well, the analysis is in ... 75% copper! The number of 21 on the Nox 800 told the story on this one. But now I know where it was made and why the pour was bad. This little silver ring is worth more than that cross.
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