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So I've been getting a lot of clad coins with both the Equinox and the Vanquish 440 in the local parks, but even in the older ones, silver coins have escaped me for a couple of months now. In between thunderstorms this afternoon, I hit the neighbor's parking strip, and in less than ten minutes, I pulled two silvers and a wheatie! My first silver quarter, AND my first Canadian silver. The quarter is pretty trashed, but I'm glad just the same! Felt good to break the slump!

My first metal detector in 1972 was a White's Coinmaster 4. I became a White's dealer in 1976. Over the years I owned the following: White's Beachhunter ID, White's Coinmaster IV, White's Coinmaster V Supreme, White's DFX, White's Goldmaster, White's Goldmaster II, White's Goldmaster V/SAT, White's Goldmaster 3, White's Goldmaster 4/B, White's Goldmaster 24K, White's GMT, White's M6, White's MXT, White's MX Sport, White's Surfmaster II, White's Surf PI, White's Surf PI Pro, White's Surf PI Dual Field, White's Sierra Pulse Pro, White's TDI, White's TDI SL, White's Vision, White's V3i And as a dealer I "borrowed" and played with countless more models. Right as of this moment I still have a DFX, V3i, and Goldmaster 24K I got in the fall of 2018. It's just now sinking in that after 48 years of using White's metal detectors, I have probably officially purchased my last new White's. I guess it is not impossible yet somebody could purchase the company and somehow take things on to new and improved models. Unfortunately, I just do not see that as being very likely. The name may continue, but White's as an industry leader is probably nothing more now than a memory. It's hard to believe that a company that produced something as sophisticated as the V3i in 2009 is now done.... I was still harboring a hope that somehow a V4 would see the light of day. In fact I figured they either pull a rabbit out of their hat, or it was over. Unfortunately it proved to be the latter. I do know one thing. My V3i is in pristine condition, and I am going to treat it with kid gloves now. If there was ever a detector that might become a collectors item, the V3i is it. I do not think we will see anything remotely like it ever again. The Goldmaster 24k is a very good detector, and thanks to Tom Boykin I got to use it early on and write my last big review of a White's detector. I always felt a little bad about the MX Sport debacle, so it was nice to end things on an upbeat note. A picture of my last detector from White's Electronics, quite a difference from my first "big box" Goldmaster in 1973.

I went back to an area that I had been over with my 3030 at least two times, this time with the NOX 800 and came away with this nice Barber. It wasn't deep, just next to a piece of trash too close for the CTX to separate. Norm

I am a player with many brand metal detectors. I come from China. At this stage in my country, people are very keen to detect gold coins and treasures. Nice to meet everyone.

Largest Gold Find in Idaho for 2020, you tell me. As some of you who have been on DP for quite a many years, you know one of my focuses of chasing gold is in tailing piles. My biggest finds have all been in tailing piles and I feel most folks just don’t have the patience to get skunked for hours and sometimes days or weeks. But the rewards can be very gratifying for those who are dedicated and don’t mind a few “0” nugget days. Well since I’ve been training customers for 25 yrs, I see some of them actually taking that next step. Hats off to them as I know how hard they truly hunt. This particular customer is most certainly there at the Advance Level. He has found some amazing pieces of gold in years past with every gold detector he purchased from me. But to pull off this one only took his 3rd trip out with a 3 week old Equinox 800. Total weight of this beauty is over a pound coming in at 14.68 ounce troy. Specific gravity shows right at 3.6 ounces of heavy thick creamy rich yellow metal. I swear this year has been fantastic for my customers and I can’t even hardly keep up with their finds. If anyone has seen a bigger piece of gold come from Idaho this year with a detector please let us know. Heck, I’d just as soon be happy with anyone showing us some Idaho gold. So my question to everyone is this: Would you rather find a bunch of smaller nuggets or a single big rock “Idaho Golden Delicious”. Do you feel this piece is worthy of a museum and how would one go about getting it into an Idaho museum without outright donating it? Has anyone been through the process?

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Steve, I know exactly how you feel. I myself was a White's user for 37 years, and for 30 years I was one of their largest dealers. I'm still mentally numb about them going out of business. Yesterday l said my "goodbyes" to many of my friends at Whites. What a loss. Oh well...

no problem! Welcome to consult!

Ohhhhhhh.....they look damn nice 👍 Joe has saved me big time here.....my only other alternative was to have to buy the endcap WITH the crappy Koss headphones because that is how Minelab receive them from their supplier......Minelab do not have the single endcap part !! Joe definitely da’ man........

Don't forget all the melted bon fire aluminum cans, that sound like silver! To me, that is worse than the pallet nails! And broken beer bottles, syringes, etc... The public has no idea how much we clean up!👍👍

Yes a M12-4 pin SS 3M brand, but not on the TDI BH, that one belonged to a friend and I just sent it back. I put them on my excaliburs...I also used the Sournia a few years ago..just like the AQ..but I liked SS better. Tonys endcaps 3rd picture, they are for the excalibur also so he can use a different set of HPs...

Some finds two years.

Most YouTube videos are aimed at being entertaining rather than being in depth analysis of a detectors features and performance. One reason I do not do videos is that in order to do one the way I want it would take, and I’m not joking, probably about 30 to 50 hours to shoot the video and edit it in such a way that I would feel like I had really done the job well. In my case I may spend 8 hours driving back and forth plus gas money just to run a detector at a particular location, camping overnight to get in a couple days of field use and comparisons with other detectors on found targets. It takes multiple locations to get the full picture. And some manufacturer thinks I’m going to do all that just for a free detector I don’t need anyway? Or to chase eyeballs on a YouTube channel in hopes the ad revenue will pay for the time and effort? That in a nutshell is why the very best videos are never going to get made anymore. The people watching want everything to be free, and the manufacturers are not willing to pay for the real deal. In fact they don’t care about in depth information as much as content that just draws eyeballs, no matter how offbeat or silly it is. That said I appreciate any videos anybody does take the time to do videos for people to watch for free. As far as the content... you get what you pay for. At least they are bothering at all, which is more than I can say about me!

A book of 10,000 gold rings...Harry Fink..Hunted the Chesapeake Bay and Florida..Even before metal detectors he did diving and scooping..I'm not sure if he is still a live but a Legend in his time. Now forgotten by many.

I like posting content here because Steve makes me feel welcomed, regardless of what equipment I'm swinging or posting about. I don't feel like I have to be using the latest greatest to make a contribution. And I think the other folks that frequent this site feel the same way. It doesn't matter if you are swinging and talking about a Bounty Hunter Tracker IV or the Minelab GMZ 7000 your content contribution is appreciated. I like that. HH Mike

Now that White’s has closed the factory in Sweet Home, these are the officially designated places to have warranty work and service done. Garrett has purchased White's, and will continue to support the product, with manuals here. Centreville Electronics (East Coast) 9437 Main Street Manassas, VA 20110 (888) 645-0202 (703) 367-7999 Fax: (703) 367-0868 bobnpaul@centrevilleelectronics.net www.centrevilleelectronics.net Centreville Electronics Northwest (West Coast) 1550 Maple Pl. Lebanon Oregon 97355 (541)409-7263 www.centrevilleelectronicsnw.com centrevilleelectronicsnw@gmail.com Canada Ed Sebulski 21920 44A Avenue Langley, British Columbia, Canada V3A 9J3 604-532-8153 Use this Service Center for Older Water Detectors Specializing in repairing legacy White’s water detectors. Please call for other repairs. Warren’s Repair Center Freeport, Florida (850) 835-3344 warren32439@gmail.com Europe At last report the White’s facility in Scotland closed in November and is no longer accepting items for service: White’s Electronics (UK) Ltd 35J Harbour Road Inverness Scotland IV1 1UA Email: info@whites.co.uk UK Customers: 01463 223 456 International Customers: +44 1463 223 456

Went back again to lake last week w the Tarsacci, managed to find another small child’s gold ring again. This one was down at least 6” and sounded very good. I’m getting a chest mount for my iPhone, so I promise my next video will be better! Aaron

This is from the lumbering days in Michigan. It would be hammered into the end of a log and logs were floated in lakes and rivers. This one must have broke when they were hammering on it. I was in Pickerel Lake detecting. http://mauriceeby.org/My_Books_files/Great Lumbering Era 4.pdf When I was a kid this was a boys camp. Now it's a county camp ground. I was detecting in the water where the beach is. That's a native Brook trout stream running thru it. n

I lucked out. I sent in a GMT for repairs and it got to the factory the same day the dealers got the email about them closing. They called me yesterday and it's repaired and on it's way back to me.

Well I've got to take the ORX out some and I'm liking it fine. Like any new machine it'll take time but the im6 pinpointer is awesome. I just got it and have only used it once but I love it! If minelab could come up with a pinpointer that paired with the Equinox I would have one.

Even though I have found plenty of carpenter nails on the beach I think some people use the term to describe a lot of the other, rusty, nail-like pieces of metal that are more common than actual nails. As to where all the trash comes from- that is a good question. Maybe people used to dump their trash in the ocean or buried it in the sand and it eventually disintegrated in the surf? Perhaps nails are from boats, crates and pallets?

Well on top of White’s closure, we have pandemic shutdowns plus 4th of July holiday. Not a good time to be trying to find people and get answers.

That’s not strictly true. Tahoe is large enough that is can get some decent surf. It’s just not as big nor often as the oceans, but I am sure it creates scour conditions that might be beneficial at times.

She was looking for gold nuggets in the Golden Triangle and found these instead ... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8472753/Amateur-metal-detector-finds-FOURTEEN-extremely-valuable-sovereign-coins.html

Congratulations Steve, You have an international following which is great. It brings other viewpoints and experiences to the forum. Doc

Mike I also think your post is spot on. It doesn't matter what detector you use. It's all about the mind-set, the focus, the interest in learning about methods of detecting, the research… this is what we all have in common that is important and that is why Steve's forum shines.

I coated the bottom 4 inches of mine with PLASTI DIP, it is used to coat tool handles. It has held up very well against abrasion.

Please find enclose the setting i used today i added a bit of threshold,sens to the max and GB manually 6 or 7 on that beach this was set up by a french detectorist (Carus) and as been share by my friend "Magus" who will join this forum soon,they both found a lot of gold with it including a 20gr chain bracelet in 18carat. I have done 2 session so a total of 5 hours with it I DONT PRETEND IT IS THE BEST SETTING IN THE WORLD! Try it and let me know your thoughts RR

The Goldmonster 1000 is about as good as it gets for a simple to operate, single frequency, gold prospecting specific VLF metal detector. As a beginner, if you only wanted to detect for gold or if you already had a good coin and jewelry detector but wanted to add a gold prospecting detector for very small gold, it would be a great choice. That being said, I can only strongly echo what the other posters have said here. The Equinox is just as good on very small gold especially with the 6" coil as the Goldmonster 1000. I have owned both, found very small gold with both and still have the Equinox 800. The Goldmonster 1000 can detect any type of conductive metal target within its operating range. It will only tell you with varying accuracy if it is ferrous target or a non-ferrous target and it will do so with one audio tone and a ferrous/non-ferrous display bar. The Equinox will do the same thing on very small gold but it will give you so much more information about the target under the coil in the gold prospecting modes. Then you have 4 outstanding dry land and fresh water detecting modes with up to 50 different audio tones and numerical target IDs for identification along with an outstanding display with tons of other easy to read and understand information. Then you have two salt water detecting modes, waterproof, two different wireless audio capabilities........I could go on and on. If you want just a gold prospecting detector (which in your situation doesn't make much sense as it will take you many years to find enough tiny gold to pay for your detector) get the GoldMonster. If you intend to do many types of metal detecting ( you can pay for your Equinox with coin and jewelry finds eventually if you learn it well) get the Equinox 800 and you have just about every possible detecting scenario covered for the life of your detector. Jeff

I think if you really want to find gold, in your situation you’d be better off with a gold pan. Use the right tool for the job, and this is one job where a gold pan is the better tool. With a huge amount of effort with a metal detector you may find some gold. In most small gold locations however you will come away empty handed. If there is gold that can be found at all, a properly used gold pan will find it, and at far lower cost. In a lot of ways a gold pan is a more serious prospecting tool than a metal detector, revealing gold in multitudes of locations where metal detectors would say there is no gold at all.

Best way to avoid bears is to carry pepper spray and wear bells on your shoes. The best way to tell if you are in bear country is to study the scat you come across. Bear scat smells like pepper and has little bells in it! The most danger here in Western Australia is exhaustion from carrying the wildlife on your back.

As most of my gold is Eluvial and not Alluvial it is great to see a well worn piece of rock/quartz and the gold looks like it took a bit of hammering as it went down the waterway. It sure is a nice specimen. 🤑

My partner and I started our business in our senior year of high school.... I graduated in 1976. White’s was one of our first dealerships, along with Keene Engineering. If I am not showing my age it’s not due to clean living, so must be luck of the genetic draw!

If the regular public knew how many "sharps" were in the sand, they would never go barefooted there! Or let their dogs run around there!! Some beaches near me have had bon fires for 60+ years! It's not as common anymore, but still happens! And that's not the worst of it! Broken glass, drug syringes, tent stakes.... and that's not counting the plastic stuff everwhere! I pick up the sharp stuff, and the dug items, but if i picked up everything i see, there would be no time to detect!! Sad but true!!👍👍

I think he said it read 8, but I'll need to verify.

Agree! That was how I was understanding it myself. The key is depth is not reduced (not a step backwards as Monte put it) with the latest software because you will still get target audio, just no visual target ID and random chatter and you retain all the other improvements that came along with 2.77 (headphone audio, new "Park 1" mode, AM threshold/ground adjust, etc. Don't have an Impact, but your theory sounds plausible based on how Nokta implemented that hidden setting in Impact. They are simply limited by the firmware/hardware interface implementation in Simplex and have to do it less "gracefully".

What ? Joe isn't your real name ? Thanks like sayin' John Wayne ISN'T John Wayne. Rich -

I want to throw my congratulations in as well. I read the posts and have learned a great deal of tips and insights to be more successful in the field. I truly appreciate the effort to provide detailed, comprehensive responses to questions. Thank you from the forum lurker!!!

I think everyone else has answered the other questions you put in this post and I think the reason for selling the Monster and keeping the Equinox was the same as everyone else too. They were both equally as good on tiny gold but the Equinox was far more versatile on coins/jewellery and had much better audio options, etc. Cheers, NE 👍

Steve, I have sold my GPX5000 and am looking forward to your actual test of the MDT 8000. From what I have read from the interview with the inventor as well as actual owners of this detector it looks promising for detecting in mineralized ground for gold. Yes, GPX owners will say, "you gave up a great machine for finding gold in mineralized ground"! I feel that the MDT8000 is going to be much much easier to use for finding gold in the ground where I prospect compared to the GPX. Anyway, can't wait to here your results with this machine and see pics of found gold.

He should be a happy fellow. I like to hit the piles as much as i can when i can too

Tailing piles.....hmmmmmm I need to find some tailing piles 😗. congrats to the finder!! Chris

Seems like they just don't make anything like they used to. A neighbor has an old Jeep Willy's that he has wanted to sell for quite some time. Beautiful Army Jeep with the trailer and all original equipment. 2 different windshields, spare parts of all kinds, and has little to no rust on it. He has never had any Bondo put on it and the paint is in great shape. Motor runs good, and so does the transmission. This past winter he was in his garage replacing the fuel pump because he thought it needed it. Don't know how much he wants for it as it is in great shape but I have seen him take it in places that I wouldn't go in a full size pickup. It is a collectible item so I would imagine he would want good money for it, I will ask if anyone wants to know what it would take to buy it.

You gotta love a big rock. What were the numbers on the Nox? Mitchel

I see metal detecting as having similarities to sports betting. There are disadvantages of being well known as successful. Now if people think you know how to pick stocks (even if you don't!) then there are few downsides. Everything you own you recommend and your followers drive up the price/value -- TYVM! A kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. But back to your request, if someone wants to be known I see no problem with that, either. Anyone who comes here to share knowledge, legend or not, is an asset in my book. Legends presumably have more to share, and Joe (one of several here) has done an excellent job of that.

I believe that Le_Jag on one of the last IMPULSE AQ V2 prototype, the pulse delay is at 5.5 µs on wet sand but it will be necessary to ask him, I do not remember. (I believe that at 6µs it is very stable.) We can improve between 3 and 4 inches for the 18k 2.5grs rings with the new experimental IMPULSE AQ systems. But with Le_Jag we came to the conclusion that we can no longer dig, gaining numbers of holes vs finds is not in our favor.

My Tesoro Stingray II leaked on the very first use. Has a White’s Surf PI leak on very first use. My second Garrett ATX leaked... at least not on the first use. A lot of full time surf hunters will tell you it’s not a matter of if, but when, a waterproof detector will leak. Just have a backup plan, go detecting, have fun.

I don’t know Rick, maybe you enjoy a little scuffle now and then. The answer is simple.... don’t feed the trolls!

😲😲 Don't wait too long! My age is creeping up.