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Welcome Steve to Sweet Home OR. Steve was able to stop by for a visit Wed. night, the night of our club meeting. Sooo of course we talked him into speaking at the meeting. It didn't take much talking in fact it didn't take any at all. If you don't know Steve he is a great guy and probably the best speaker when it comes to his passion, GOLD. I've known Steve for 15 years and he is a natural when it comes to using and speaking about metal detecting, metal detectors and gold in it's many forms. Thank you Steve! We will hook up in Northern Nevada and spend some time together detecting for gold. Hopefully it will be as good next time as it was last time. Thanks again, Steve Houston

Took my Nokta to an old creek.... Well I gave the machine a few swings along the bank and found 1 piece so I put the coil in the 6" deep water and sweeped the ground ...not one target ...hit another spot in the water about 5ft away and the machine went nuts... The water was about a ft deep so I pulled out my trusty Keene A52 ...my shovel and classifier and got busy... The pic shows my results 2.8 dwt in an hr and a half...I will be back at that spot over the weekend...for a full day....

so, I was out at the rye patch with my gpz digging holes and having fun, I had just dropped a 40 caliber slug in my pocket and was down on one knee with my buddy zed resting atop the other. I let go of it for just a second while it was resting on my leg and twisted a little while using two hands to slip my pick in its holder and zed slipped about a foot and a half or so to the ground, the bungee was off. I checked it out and everything was working perfect so I'm thinking good no problem. Im swinging zed a little more and happen to take a closer look at the bottom and notice a crack in the case, now Im bummed my good friend zed is hurt and its my fault. the good news is everything is working fine, it did not fall far or hit hard but it did hit a pointed rock in just the right way i guess. the plastic case is egg shell thin so be very careful. I put a piece of tape over the crack and suppose I could just live with it but will likely call mine lab and find out the cost of repair. the good news, i was digging a nice signal near an old sage brush stump and found a Rye Patch meteorite the size of a dime... my first.

beautiful pan, good luck next time out.

good going.

Dave, Your not wrong our ground is much quieter than WA, although we do have some that compares but not with your salt ground. But regardless the ground would be just as big a problem to the PI to GPZ user as it is to the new user who hasn`t used a PI is my belief, but the consensus seems that it is the user who goes from the PIs to the GPZ who is having the most problems. That I find hard to comprehend because the GPZ is as you pointed out is easy to set and understand how to set. Remarkable that it was introduced and cannot handle WA mineralisation, because the OZ market I feel would be largest in WA, with a lot of GPZs purchased over this way heading to WA in winter. But it certainly is a gold magnet in our ground, straight out of the box.

Interesting subject, but I have found signal responses in the PI`s and the GPZ much similar, deeper nuggets are often a null directly over target same as ferrous targets, with a signal on each side and those warbley signals just love them. Also contrary to what seems the consensus the GPZ is a easy machine to use straight out of its box I believe, would recommend it to a beginner over the GPXs. Why the GPZ has been portrayed as a difficult machine to use for those who used a PI before is beyond me, and with the finds that are being made by previous GPXs users who have switched over to the GPZ that belief is certainly not universal. GB is simply different but just follow the manual. Too many times I`ve thought this is gold and its ferrous and vice versa. Maybe I`m not hearing properly but feel neither the PI`s or GPZ are capable of discrimination to a degree that you could trust. But I stress my belief is simply if you get a signal dig it up and am keen to save some digging if the GPZ is capable of discriminating.

Have you tried turning the knobs on it? Tightened mine up a little.

yellowtail tuna are shoing up in marinas and at piers in So Cal. Lets hope we have a winter like 1986. That was the biggest in my time in the Sierra. Got to break tracks in 20 plus feet of powder on KT-22 at Squaw Valley. 97 was pretty big too because much of the snowpack in January was melted by the fierce warm El Nino rains. Flooded much of N. CA. It will happen again

I find it absolutely amazing that minelab can be so far ahead of the game in electronics, yet miss so many things o on the case/coil/headphone plug... on their equipment... It is almost like their QA department is non existent.... Very simple things that should not be...

Here are some recent finds from the last couple of Saturday outings. SDC nuggets. My buddy's nuggets using his 3500. These are this afternoon's X-Terra finds from a mining town that was established in the late 1800s. I believe that these are parts from a clock. All found within a small area. There is more of it I'm sure but I ran out of day light. Was really hoping for an old coin (aren't we all)but it didn't happen today. TONS of junk! I'm slowly learning what the X-Terra is telling me. I see why a small 6" coil would come in handy. Every swing hit multiple targets. I found two sides of an ornate wood stove that are awesome but couldn't carry them back to the truck in the dark. So I stashed them for next time. The clock gears appear to be brass(?). Starting to have some fun with the X-terra. Good luck. Dean

That ground up there is why they make PI detectors. Just loaded with magnetite and there are places even a SDC 2300 will struggle. Bottom line is it can be a real battle with any VLF in places like that. Smaller coils, DD coils, low sensitivity settings etc are all possible ways that will help. There is no magic solution for a VLF in really bad ground however. Not the best place to use a new machine as a person usually needs to be an expert VLF operator to tackle locations like that. Sorry to hear about the coil.

Pic showing four out of a total of 10 gold bracelets or armbands or the like which a detecting pair found in one field in Denmark. Total weight of gold is 3.5 kg or 7.7 pounds - 113 ounces troy. 3,500 one gram nuggets - ouch! These object are from the Bronze Age - 1500 - 500 BC Only catch. By law in Denmark this is National Heritage Treasure. The finders and the landowner will recieve a payment based on the value of the metal.

Here are my best beach finds for the month and my desert finds as well.