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Second year having fun searching for Gold & tranquillity. — First Year using a detector (Fisher Gold Bug Pro) and getting prepare for my first trip. Happy to find this community and hope to contribute... When testing the detector, I remark that passing over a gold target in “All Metal Mode” raises the “Fe3O4” levels significantly. I checked with silver & gold targets, and it’s obvious that it is the target itself and not the mineralization (targets are placed 2 feet apart on the same sandy soil. MY QUESTION _________________________________________ I thought the “Fe3O4” levels would rise only on a metal target, not gold???? — (I also test a metal target in the same condition...) Good Day to All!

I think a detector that doesn’t see the small ferrous metal would be more to my liking than one with a discriminator. I’ve noticed with the GPX 5000 in the fine gold timing, at times will balance out rotten rusty nails and metal can pieces, seeing it as ground mineralization. Cut out the small iron so I don’t have to hear it and I’m good. The larger iron is easy enough to dig and the non ferrous targets are small in number and at times valuable. These need to come out of the ground anyway due to the possibility of them masking gold.

That guy is not metal detecting , it's aerobics.😆 Moving fast , swinging twice as fast ~ 15% coverage and in a hurry to find all those goldies in one 2 hour day. We have them here too. Sometimes I just sit down and watch if there's a rock or drift log handy . Neck deep isn't very far out for me ! But my one size fits all waders come up that high ! Would probably cover my nose if my crotch didn't stop 'em 🥸 My 800 is 4 years old and I'm kinda submerge shy with it too. Wading , an occasional wave might soak it but I have a micro fiber tissue for that LOL. Another camp trip coming up too ? That place will have some treasarrrr for ya fer sure ! 🏴‍☠️ I'm moved back over to camping now. Nothing worth mentioning so far . Found out about a disc golf course that is gone now but I know where it was.........maybe today before the monsoons return. Jeeeeze Tampa That sounds perfect for getting all the depositors (even the oldies and locals) out on the beach showing off and losing their finest summah yellah ! Terrible situation ! Don't forget the pics...

Water temp 83 here this morning. 🏝️🏖️😁

hi all ive got a used Whites Tdi sl $750 shipped conus comes with the the MINER JOHN 8" x 12" Folded Mono search coil theres 4 battery packs /2 for the 3 18650 batterys = fully charged 12 volts + lasts a long time no batterys included machine is in very nice shape machine works great but im thinning out the herd i take pp f&f please feel free to give me a ring 928.7one5.5324 az time walt

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Gentleman this detector sales for 499.00 and say I was buying it from a dealer ok . I ask and get my 15% discount for being a vet myself and that’s 74.85 off that 499.00 . I know it’s time and a lots of it before the bidding will stop but I just put this up to give all something to think about. Do a search for videos on this detector and you will find one of our own Minelab dealers that goes bye the name of Gerry showing you just some of the capability of this detector. At my bid is a steal but I hope somebody has got what it takes to out bid me. Chuck

Thanks RVP, Compared the coin haul to last year, and this year I did better. Last year: This year: But I did get far fewer Zincolns and nickels. Part of the coin success was hunting the golf cart parking, I was hoping to find some jewelry there too. I also hunted the tot lots, volleyball, basketball court, Cornhole area. Noticed a regular footprint pattern in the volleyball court so someone was hitting all that daily, probably a resident. Only two other detectorists I met there seemed to know what they were doing, one noob guy from New Yawk graciously asked me for settings on his Nox, I helped him out. The other three were swinging so high I'm surprised they found anything. Wish I could post the video of one of them 🤣 🤔 Here's an example: The water was fairly warm but the waves were pretty big, I'm not a fan of it. Met one guy who was years in the biz, he said he knew the gold was out there too but he also made do at low tide. He didn't trust his Nox as much as I trust the Deus, so he dug lots of big iron. I would love to have my wife out there with me, but her knee, hip, and back disagree. 😢 I knock off early, get breakfast and take her shopping, then she doesn't mind me going out later. No stranger to Neoprene waders in the Potomac, it doesn't get warm until August. 🥶 Also millions of jellyfish, it's a wonder anyone goes in. I've given moms vinegar from the summer stash in my truck. 😬 Going next week to the (inner) Outer Banks, a campground with lots of old stuff and clad that was a hunting camp in the 1800s. Even got a large cent and some old silvers there. I want to try again to get in the Sound, but physics are against you when you're up to your neck. Scooping is near impossible. 🙄

thanks for the reply,im looking at getting a second controller but i dont know for sure that it will work with the ws4 phones,,barry

Should work. Sold as a package. I’m in the same boat, but I can’t pull the trigger because for 250 more I could get a D2 WS6. I don’t want to go the distance for the D2, but I can’t buy a D1 controller because the price is too close. So, I’m stuck in the middle.

I'm thinking about buying the LG24, but I wonder if it's really worth and whether there's an real advantage over the LG30. Some of my fields are really trashy and/or noisy due to the soil, so I have to hunt almost in M3, because M1 and M2 leads to a lot of (false) signals. Could the LG24 in this case an advantage? Best regards GermanGuy

I already posted this elsewhere TTT but ARRRR blub blub blub ! 😜

Nothin' fishky 'bout that 😳fine lookin' pile-ah 🏴‍☠️ booty city Skull ! ooooie

You sure did a major pillage on this one 350 ! 🥸 No rain, where did all this stuff I'm getting come from ? 🙄 Water temp 71 ? ARRRRRRGH 47 here ( can you say neo waders ? ) ! Water temp envy .🤗 Yeah , was easy to switch my home harbor to find out. 5' tide ! You can almost reach low mark when it's all the way in ! Blub blub blub for me ! 2 rings , 2 dog tags and more change than I wanted to try counting , enough to sink ya if ya fell in anyway.. 😵 And you still have next time ! I give you permission to use my have a formal dress up Shore Dinnah on the beach idea........ You(r wife) needs more jewelry. Beach 🏴‍☠️ uptah camp. 🖖

hi everyone,some advice please,,i have a deus lite with no control box,ws4 head phones..i would like to get a controller,, so my question is will the controller work with the ws4 phones ( witch all ready has the menu settings ) any info please thanks barry

Thanks Dig4gold. It’s amazing how things have progressed over the years. The old coils must have been extremely heavy.

I am a beach hunter with non-mineralized sand and not near the iron in the ground that you have. My problem child is aluminum. When I have a piece of non-ferrous aluminum next to another type metal which is also non-ferrous, what you are doing by crossing in all directions usually sniffs out the good target at a different location on the non-ferrous center line. Meaning I have two dots showing up on the line (with the aluminum dot being to the left usually under 12 or so positioning) and the ID #'s bouncing between the two on at least one direction sweep. I run prospecting audio, so that's different from your set up also. I run recovery 4 and sensitivity on dry sand at 21 in beach low conductor mode, again different from what you have yet we both have trash that we are trying to differentiate when close to a good target. I think in your case of iron falsing, the official word from Minelab quoted above that fishersari posted is valuable info to know that may help in your testing/experimenting.

I had been seriously looking at going down the Garrett wireless headphone route a few month back but a few folks who actually own this setup also mentioned about the signal dropping out,they are not cheap so i went down the route of using a LL wireless Bluetooth Transmitter that i purchased from Ebay for £14 and i had all ready got a set of wireless Bluetooth LL headphones that i use on my Nox......works a treat on both my Nox and GPX and saved me a ton of money into the bargain. Some folks will undoubtedly praise the Garrett setup but alas they are not for me.

Interesting link Simon. The price of gold depends on your country and the USA economical state.

You can sell more swing arms for mops than for detectors. Quick Simon, patent that thought!

Dont Forget the Saga Swing Arm @Doc it gives you great control LOL

From personal experience of using the ms3 Z Link (Transmitter only) I would go with a low Latency Bluetooth wireless transmitter and the Avantree Torus Neckband speaker system something like the Avantree Relay and the Avantree Torus Neckband speaker system. the reason I state what I have is with the Garrett ms3 Z Link it can only be used with the Garrett wireless headphones unless you go with the ms3 Z ink that includes the TX transmitter and the RX receive box then you could use any wired headphones plugged into the RX box, with a wireless Bluetooth Transmitter you could use any wireless earbuds that are aptX LL compatible and you would be completely wire free Links attached for the Avantree Torus and Avantree Relay, these are the way I would go https://avantree.com/torus-nb05-bluetooth-wearable-speaker https://avantree.com/relay-airplane-bluetooth-adapter I also tried the Quest Wire Free Lite which is similar to the Garrett MS 3 Z Link https://www.fortbedfordmetaldetectors.com/detekniy-wire-free-lite-headphones

Dirt is NOT where you find it!

Over the middle of the Pacific as I type. Can't work on uploading pictures and don't really want to try. I'll do that another time. Too many to think about now.

Well I vaguely remember chores. But that is why I got married. Being the male chauvinist pig that I am, I thought your wife was supposed to take over all the chores your parents made you do. Otherwise, what is the point of getting married? I could have stayed in my parent's basement and kept playing with my Xbox. I mean we didn't have a basement and Xbox's weren't invented then, but still... 🤣 Doc