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Many thanks.

I have read this since day one, check in almost everyday. Its been a great read.

Hello, i am by no means a geologist but i am trying to learn about different minerals and compositions of rocks. There is an area i am working in New Zealand at the top of a hill where i am finding a lot of Brown (Iron?) coloured rocks and inside is a really dark grey/blue with shiny particles. Im an amateur prospector and learning every day! Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

I've already got it. Thats what was on it when I found the small nugget

Speaking of which, I am back in Montana camped up by my claims in griz country. Glad to be out of rattlesnake country for a few months.

I can relate because I would trap every year and run my traps about midnight then again just before daylight not thinking about that cat. I just carried a 22 with 22 shorts to put down what was not so lucky. I remember the time I caught two half grown coons in a trap together each had a leg in it . I didn’t want to kill them and here I was with two sticks to keep them off of me . I had them between my legs trying to get my boots on the springs to release them. All three of us were happy to live another day. Deer I guess you could say was heavy are lots but I didn’t hunt them too often. I did shoot one for trespassing now and then if I needed the meat to make sausage. Time passed but great memories. Chuck

Wow nice !! The lack of the olive branch and arrows, which was designed late 1700's, and predominate on most eagle buttons and Insignia, leans me to the thought that ring might be diplomatic. It sure has the cool factor, and that old look.

Parks also get re-sodded & other “improvements”.

Vigilance is a detecting virtue. Glad you were able to hunt it. There should be more there.

That is an elaborate ring. A very special find. Any clues on the side panels? Strange that it would not have any maker’s markings. It is obviously a quality piece.

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Yea i feel the same too.. no more Manticore update.. If one day Minelab decide to put a priice on a feature add on like Mineralizations meter with colour graph for USD99, pinpoint volume control for USD15.. would you buy it? I would.. lol .. because for me the Manticore already fullfill/answered my hunger/questions regarding vlf and be done with vlf. I dont think I would buy another vlf furthermore I need maybe another 2 years to truly master the Manticore .. now waiting for Nokta relics PI and see whats it all about

Good point about the deep pulltabs Strick. I'll still stick with the notching method though, because I don't have the physical or mental desire to dig any more aluminum trash than what I did with the notching 🙂

I think depth is more dependent on how soft the soil is water content of the soil, traffic (lawn mowers etc) and the weight of the object...I was out for a little hunt Sunday evening and I'm amazed at how deep some pull tabs are that I find...way below the roots of the grass and I always wonder how they do not just get caught up in the roots and just stay at that depth.. Notching out may be a good strategy in a real trashy park to begin with but after the easy targets disappear then its time to see what everyone else has walked with over and left..my CTX was a great notcher 🙂 strick

Thanks guys. It was my best coinage find in a while.

Get the 15" coil and then get out there and use it. It's the best overall machine out there right now. Only way to get better at it AND figure out what you need is to use it. Stay with factory settings for at least 100 hours before you start messing with settings. It's a great machine just with the 11" coil out of the box.

I've called in more than one lion. Always hunted alone. Always gave me a sore neck, at the end of the day, trying to look behind myself. Lions are always a treat to see, and where hunted, rarely dangerous to people, though not always. Had a bow-hunting buddy have one leap at him, and he got lucky and hit it in the neck. If not for that lucky shot, he may have been in real trouble. I was hunting alone once, and ended up on the ground with two black bears, too. They were working a cow carcus, while I was sneaking in trying to get an arrow into the bigger one. The whole thing lasted an hour, or more, and took two shots...neither connecting. At the time I felt cool as a cucumber, but when I got back to camp I was so sick with the adrenaline rush, I couldn't even eat dinner...just went to bed. I killed that bigger bear from a tree stand a couple of weeks later. I was young and tough back then, and didn't even carry a back-up firearm. Looking back i sometimes wonder how I got to 75 years of age....LOL Jim

The only thing I would like to see is a tightening of the TID of zinc pennies. I'm currently digging them anywhere between 43-65. This is too broad and wide for a single item. Other than that I'm ok with it.

Awesome ring. The eagle doesn't look exactly like any eagle button eagles I have seen, that were in use before, during or after the Civil War.

No help here on the eagle Tom but dang that is a beautiful find.

Did Golden Mask say if it happened to their products before?

A buddy of mine, here in CA, found this ring at a defunct old picnic site in the Sierra foothills. The date range of usage there is estimated to be 1860s or '70s at the earliest, to 1910s at the latest. He found this ring there over this last weekend. Composition appears to be silver (although it's not marked/stamped). And the motif of the eagle on the front is eerily familiar. I've seen it somewhere. Anyone recognize this ? Seems that it's on some sort of colonial button, if I'm not mistaken. Anyone know ? Thanx !

Yes, talking specifically of park turf type sites. Some of my deepest keeper finds in parks have been honker silver or gold rings. I find them on or near the surface, too. But they can and do sink in my dirt. And probably just because a big ring gives a strong signal, like I said, some of my deepest keepers in parks are rings. They tend to be oriented vertically too. My guess is because most are quite a bit heavier on the top side. - Dave

Just depends on the ground you are on . I have some beaches here that I use up to 32 sens , this goes deep . Others I can only use up to 24 , the ground is the key . Gold detecting is more limited with sens between 21 -24 usually , with the odd quiet area 27 is usable . I am totally happy with this machine , it has made all my other detectors redundant .

Slightly used and works fine. Version2 was purchased July2023. Never submerged. $550 shipped. Accept Venmo, PPFF or add3% for PP fees. Thanks for looking.