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I had one for a few years and found my first seated dime with it. Actually preferred it over the MXT once I got used to the difference in the audio. Truly a great detector.

I have a sluice and a drywasher. I plan on utilizing them both. Plenty of water to run a sluice now. Later in the summer, the drywasher should come into play. Wish I could get out there for more than a day at a time.

Take a picture of it with Google Lens. While its not accurate all the time, it can point you in the right direction. I use it a lot. Its about 70-30...

Well u have atlantic and pacific oceans lots of shipwrecks and treasures lurking in the jungle . Issue is that strip of the country full of that tar looking black sand that glitters magically during full moon. I dont want to spend 3k on a machine and if i do will it work🤔 equinox 6 and 8 will die on the spot, the manticore and even the deus 2 will fall very ill in these beaches . The Tarsacci ive always seen in kelly store but i dont know anybody who owns it so i cannot say. Advanced Pi is my only option that or aquamans echo location.

Thanks for the reply. As long as I have an idea of how deep the target is, I guess the carrot is still fine. Seems that the guy I got the Safari from, never told me the upper lock clip DOESN'T stay in place and slips out while swinging a short while. Will see if I can shim with a plastic knife blade or just tape it in place. Of course this isn't a solution if I want to change coils, but it'll get me some shooting hours. The settings I'm planning to go with, with the stock coil are: Sensitivity 17, Threshold 12, Trash Density is Low, I notched out -10 to 13, 16 to 29 and 40. The threshold will come into play when I wear headphones, then I can lower it. The school I will be using it at, has very little trash. I believe I saw the Trash Density on Low gives better depth. When I was a kid in 1979 (14) and got my Bounty Hunter 840, I use to tune the machine and then press the tuning button to get a slight hum. I'd always say I "de-tuned" the machine. It was the slight break in the hum that enabled me to find deeper targets, more so than other people who just listened for loud blips. Funny how years later, its documented as a threshold break. I will check out those 2 coils. Amazing there are so many available for the FBS as they're all interchangeable. SF

Give it a go, but personally I wouldn't as it can become a risk if you get tangled up. I've never had the issue and we get some pretty rough waves. Your headphones already keep you tethered to the machine. If anything, see if you can find a way to strap your headphones under your chin, my mate does this and it looks like a far better method. Similar to this Another thing to try is to put reflective tape on your machine/coil 🙂 I do this as it makes it easier to pinpoint, but should help find the detector if it gets a bit murky and you do happen to drop it.

Thanks! I'm hoping to be in the water really soon. I'm thinking of taking one of the lanyards off my kids boogie boards or surfboards to use to keep the detector attached to me if a big wave yanks it out my my hand.

I would start on that bench

I too have read every post since the beginning and have really enjoyed it. Lots of times after a hard day of work it is nice to take my mind to something else. Thanks.

Look for bedrock. Shallow ground. I was a gold seeking machine back in Redding. I found several patches that produced several ounces at each spot all in a span of one year. Now I'm in Winnemucca working my arse off and can't get a day off. Have been out about 20 times. Saw tooth, rye patch, Eugenes, it just doesn't jump out at me like Redding patches do. Everything is so monotone, homogeneous, with the exception of sawtooth, I'm confident I can find gold there. But so far not a speck of Nevada gold in the poke for me as of yet. Anyway if you put in the time, you will learn the area. The fact you're finding gold right off the bat, you're doing good. If the gold is not big, a dry washer or recirculating sluice might be a better bet. Good luck and keep us posted

This is a topic that has been brought up here before...say you have a silver coin worth potentially $1700-$4500 or more..it has some dirt that rinsing will not get rid of maybe a iron stain on it..the coin is in fairly good shape.. what would be your next move? strick

Yay, I'm so glad it helps! There's not too many of us that do it so you're more than welcome to ask away if you have any questions about it. I mainly snorkel but I do occasionally use the Blu3 Nomad for assistance, but very rarely. My breath-hold isn't great so you may not need it at all. The conditions in this video were very calm, I've got another video coming out this week showing a bit more extreme conditions 😄 Here's a quick preview

Thank you for sharing this treatise Steve. The diagrams are really interesting. Seeing how the old timers set up sluices with what they had on hand is very cool!

Close, but 5 years = 60 months = 10 rings per week average from this spot. 😉 If it wasn't for the premiums I sell gold for, as well as the random large pieces, your numbers would be very close. I try to keep pretty good track of my numbers. This year so far, gold has been 35% of my total ring finds. Last year was 26% from 262 total rings, and the year before was 29% from 225 rings. The years before that I didn't categorise metals, just tallied the rings. The average ring would be 2-4 grams of either 9ct or 18ct with the exception of the odd 10-20g 18ct. Approximately 74% of each years rings are from this spot. of the other 26%, about 20% would be from another good spot I have. That's a pretty rough guess but it wouldn't be far off. I do keep a very good record of what it's worth in scrap price, as well as what I've sold. I sell a lot of relics and I try sell gold at a fair premium after it's all cleaned up. It sure is a great spot. we go there every chance we get. 🙂

The sadder part was that no one has tried to revive Tesoro. Although lots of people would see them as old technology there are still some who WANT that. I'm glad I was able to at least own and use a Tesoro for a little while. A Tesoro Cortes, and the only reason i got rid of it was because it was a battery eater/hog and I wanted to have more target ID capability. Really wish they would have went farther with that idea and modernized it slightly and throw in a rechargeable onboard battery. But most of all wish I'd have kept it. The only steel penny I've ever found was with that Cortes.

Not sure on the clubs there but spent time detecting there a long time ago. We had a relative that worked at the Empire Mine and my relatives were caretakers of the Saint Anthony Mining Property.

Thank you very much. It has been a pleasure.

Would 1/8th plastic be too thick or should I go the next size down which is roughly 1/16th?

Do you keep the stock skid plate on it? I’m trying to find one in the US right now but can’t at the moment. Might try my luck at making one.

One of the most underrated detectors to have ever been produced, if i did not already have one I would bid on it

I’m going to try to make one with ABS sheet plastic and bend it with a heat gun to get an edge around it. I was out this weekend in some stubble from a freshly cut wheat field and was losing a few inches due to it. I don’t care about a little extra weight. Honestly I wish someone would come out with a solid closed coil.

Im in Malaysia sir

Thank you GhostMiner, I really did enjoy following this and looked forward to seeing the entries every day. Cheers

Fully agree with that Gerry. This is exactly what I use the Manticore for. Love that machine (I only use it with the M8) and I can highly recommend it for gold hunting at mine sites (threshold on, goldfield, all metal, prospecting theme)! In fact, the only detector I have that produces there. Also, hot rocks can reasonably well be identified by their often unstable ID, when going over them from various angles (in particular with the M8). This is an added benefit provided by the advanced ID system and is great considering it is just a VLF, which usually struggle the most with hot rocks. IMO the Manticore beats the 6000 for shallow gold (<2 inch) in trashy (and hot rock infested) areas. I just get more gold at these sites and also keep my sanity (if any left). GC

Ah, Panama. This is the reason I never bought a place in Panama. My Black Sand is nowhere near that bad. I think your only choice would be a PI machine, which I have no experience with. If I had to rank how the newest machines worked on my beach it would be. Tarsacci, close second the Equinox and Manticore [TIE] and the worst is the Deus2. We will soon be testing a Rutus.