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Yes, the device needs a new update to solve the problem. It reached the highest sensitivity of 30-35 without any problems, according to what the company said. The device reaches levels of sensitivity that are very low.

Thank you Mike. You were one of the biggest supporters of the journal. There were some others as well. Many thanks to those people.

Guys, I have been out of the game for awhile and could use some advice on accessories for the Minelab Manticore. I took advantage of the sale and have a Manticore ,M8, and Profind40 ordered. My hunting will include Woods,Beach, Diving and hopefully some older Sites. I believe that I am covered in the Digging/Scoop Department. Diving Headphone advice needed, are the Bone induction ones the way to go? What are my options? I have a lot to learn, and if there are books that may be beneficial, I would be interested. I ordered a cover for the control box. What other must haves, or handy accessories recommended? Looking forward to the arrival, and hopefully hit the ground running. Thanks much! E

WOW!, Nice. GaryC/Oregon Coast

They pare up just fine, mine work great. Like the fact that I could still hear a rattler if one was nearby or hear my buddy if he called me.

My first choice of a machine when I head out is my Tesoro.

I never had any dealings with a bear until I went to Alaska but Cougars is a different story. I had a place that one stayed on it and would see others often. This guy was going to hunt on it one year and I told him to watch out for it but he blew me off. That’s until it jumped up in front of him one day. Chuck

Honestly after owning the Axiom for over a year, the ONLY feature I can think of that I would like added in an update would be manual "channel" manipulation. Instead of having to do the "frequency scan" and let it go through all the "channels". In a group hunt situation you can be operating quietly then someone comes near with another machine and you get emi interference. Would be nice to be able to manually adjust a few "channels" (for lack of a better word) up or down to stay silent. Other than that, My Axiom functions very satisfactorily and I wouldnt change a thing. And that feature I mentioned isnt even an issue unless you are detecting with a group.

Jim it’s good to always have a friend and carry a gun. If a bear gets after both of you remember don’t shoot the bear shoot your friend to slow him down so the bear don’t get you. Chuck

That was a great decision to call the season on a great pile of gold. Hard work to say the least but everyone went home with a nice cache for the winter. Next spring it could start off again with a bang if you felt the glory hole was not yet complete. Great story. Hope there is more to come.

Chuck, you're absolutely right. A black bear is much more likely to eat you after the kill. A grizzly is mostly responding to what it sees as a threat, or to defend a kill. All the historical evidence supports that, which doesn't mean grizzlies don't ever eat people. Personally, I don't go into grizzly country anymore...I'm too old to outrun the younger guys, and can't find a one-legged guy to buddy up with. Jim

Got out on Sunday and collected another 4 buckets of gravel for the "100 GOLD BUCKET CHALLENGE" I entered using my Geo Highbanker. So far, there are entrants from US, New Zealand, Canada and Australia. Kind of fun too. Anyhow, here's what 8 buckets of North Saskatchewan River Gold from Alberta Canada faired so far.

Absolutely beautiful.

Funny the situations between a black bear attack and a grizzly bear attack are just the opposite of what I have believed all my life. Fortunately for me I have never come across a bear that wasn't running away from me when I saw it.

By the time a grizzly dies from a shot to the heart/lung area, you'd be dead, so could greet him when he finally dies, unless you shoot him at a range beyond 150 yards. In that case you could pay the Feds a pile of money for his funeral expenses. Jim

Two more demos from Moodz showing discrimination with a Mono PI coil. Small objects and large objects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t00RdBtrHQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoSXoeZ13pA

Packing an .06, shells, a 7000 and my recovered nuggets all day long? I think I'd rather get et by a bear.

you missing out man.. adjustable keypad backlight is auwsome 😁

Hi Gerry, If a detector is ground balancing out small iron and seeing it as ground mineralization I don’t believe this is any form of discrimination or Iron ID as you state. This is the detector seeing the iron in the ground as minerals or hot ground. Like I have stated I have found that the 5000 in fine gold can at times balance out rotten rusty nails and small flakes of iron. As for large Iron I do understand the labor that it takes. Tailing piles are known for holding large iron and I have dug my share of pits in them. With tailing piles I prefer a VLF detector that discriminates and also finds the porous type gold.

Hi Strick. That was the second time I hunted that park. The first time was "dig all" looking for jewelry. I mainly got clad and aluminum trash. I did that in a few parks and sports fields before deciding to give up on that hunting style. I'm fairly new to water hunting, but the jewelry rewards are infinitely better than dirt hunting. Right now, I'm looking for all the ways to increase the odds of finding jewelry when hunting in the dirt. I'm thinking that due to the ring shape of rings lol, that most of them are shallow due to being caught up in the grass roots. If so, I might be able avoid even more targets that I don't, by only digging the shallower targets.

Exactly....I'd never touch anything on the machine and I would keep it like it is now. Do you know what? I just need a clock 🤣

Thats one way to do it for sure. How many times have you hunted this particular park? I've noticed that when I hunt parks I will find most of my rings in the first several hunts and then it goes down hill from there...sometimes I'll notch out the small foil but it's hard to think that I could be missing a nice gold chain in the process...so I usually will hunt by sound and id stability when searching for jewelry and dig or pass based on those traits..nice hunt strick

I appreciate your comments but have a couple issues with the thinking. "I think a detector that doesn’t see the small ferrous metal would be more to my liking than one with a discriminator." That my friend is Discrimination = Iron ID. "The larger iron is easy enough to dig". I've attempted to dig large iron out of tailing piles in the hopes of a large chunk of gold. After 2 or 3 feet down and an hour wasted on 1 iron target, I end up with no energy and my body is spent/drained. Do that a few times a day and your comment "The larger iron is easy enough to dig" is tossed out the window. I'm assuming your detecting style is much different than many of the locations I find good gold. That's totally understandable as there are so many variations in this hobby "Gold Hunting with a Detector". Some of my best sites that still produce gold are the ones with big deep iron and also plenty of small bits. A couple of my VLF detectors will smoke w GPX-5000 in these situations. To be fair to a 5000. If not much trash in the area and decent size dense gold, I'll certainly dig the occasional trash and iron, as that's "currently" still part of the game. But what does the future hold? Either way, it's great for discussion and gives those smarter guys than us, the desire to continue to improve what out there now.

I'm no Engineer Chet and you certainly understand it better than I. Seeing it on a bench gets me excited as I would think all detectors start out on the bench. Now you could be right, it only shows good results on the bench? At least we know there are folks working on it and trying to get us "more detector options of the future".

I'm here just to help drum up some value on the proven X-705. Many newer players in the gold game may not know if it, so I will give some Insite. It was the hottest selling VLF general use Coin/Relic/Gold Prospecting detector at one time. It even outperformed the very popular White's MXT for a few years. Why so? Lighter, Faster but most importantly, a better Target Identification & Iron ID. X-705 Gold came with the 18.75kHz coil for Prospecting. What's amazing is if you wanted extra depth on low conductors, you could get larger coils in the same 18.75kHz. When you wanted to hunt silver coins, change to a lower kHz coil. I sold hundreds of this model at $729.99 once folks could see what it could do. Here's some pics of my customers/I success using the older X-Terra 70 & the newer version X-705. Someone is going to score a heck of a detector at a killer price.