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  1. Last Monday I thought I’d ry out my new waterproof GoPro 8 Black at the lake, and ended up leaking, so much for being water proof. 😡 So anyway I ended loosing my video. I ended finding a nice old gold signet ring, not too deep, and a big tungsten, alotta clad, some aluminum ect. That tungsten ring was DEEEEEP! The guy who lost it must been a big dude, it’s a big ring. Those crummy rings are so heavy it’s no wonder their always at least a foot deep! Check out the link for more pics.https://forums.tarsaccisales.com/forum/5/last-mondaysome-gold-and-tungsten Thanks looking....Aaron
    10 points
  2. Good morning everyone! Just passing by to drop some of my Vanquish finds! Really great machine! Its my Mini Nox haha. No complaints from here! Already managed to find a scattered hoard from the 14th century with it! Have great day! Cheers
    10 points
  3. Hey wassup guys!😃 These are all my golds, found last year with my trusty Equinox 800! ( except the scorpion medallion, was found with 9HF) Staring from the top: 2 Escudos from Philippe II - 1556-1598 400 Reis from Ioannes V - 1722 Barbarian Tremiss 3 - 6th Century if I'm correct 1/4 Dinar aka Fraction - 12- 13th Century if I'm correct Roman Earing Hollow Earing 18-19th if I'm correct Scorpion medallion. I turned one of those coins into a ring. I never tried hunting for native gold and never tried learning how to track it, but I got sort of specialized on tracking Ancient/Medieval areas. Best of luck to you all! Cheers
    9 points
  4. Had the Nox 800 in the saltwater today for 4 1/2 hours and I didn't see any difference in using different sensitivity settings. Still the same as before but one good thing... it still finds gold. A 10K ring and gold plated chain along with some coins and the usual junk. Bob
    7 points
  5. There is an old saying "THE CREAM ALWAYS FLOATS TO THE TOP" That is how I found this thread today and I read every word of it including the posts from the interview. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of it and would like to thank you Steve for your honesty openness. I now know now why I immediately liked you when I accidentally met you in the Nevada desert. Thanks for providing us with such a great forum Norm
    5 points
  6. I've been sober since 1986. I don't know how it is I missed this thread until now.
    5 points
  7. Hey wassup guys!😀 Theses are my last 3 hunts with my brand new GPX 5000! I have 4 coils : Commander 15x12 DD, Commander 11" Mono and Double-D, Coiltek 14" Mono Elite. 👍 I only used the 11" Double-D and the Coiltek! I have been learning a few things with Gordon Heritage from UK! These are all finds from areas where i hunted before with other machines! My main machine is the Equinox 800! I'm very pleased with the GPX! Cheers
    3 points
  8. Had some great winds, zero, .......smooth water, .........and fairly good tide. In the water about 3 hours, could not had been better. Other then the boats and jetski's , seemed everyone want to cruise close to shore, three times I had to flag them past. Two gold rings, 8 silver Washington's...
    3 points
  9. Steve, my deepest congratulations to your "coming out"! What you wrote about anonymity and the ego-thing and so on may be true and need to be careful thinking. But it's also very true, that it helps other people so much, to see, that everybody struggles in live, even a "bright star" like you. Nowadays everybody tries to present only the best of himself in TV, social media etc.. This gives a very distorted image of how people are. This distorted image of flawless and successful people can lead to depressions because of the stress for many to reach this unachievable goal. So I'm absolutely sure, your book will help many, not only regarding alcohol, but generally in life. Thank you for your contribution, and God bless you, Steve!
    3 points
  10. Thanks GB, This was found in freshwater but my understanding is that the higher the gold content is, the more resistant to corrosion the piece will be. Much of the 10K gold I have found in freshwater will be tarnished but usually not black like this was. The 10K I find at the beach often has a green patina buildup on parts of the ring. 14K and above usually holds up pretty well, even after decades in the water but I think the alloys used have a lot to do with it.
    3 points
  11. After setting back reading all of the post, no doubt location is the deciding factor if depth is important. I've been searching (for deep) several years now and found one that meets my needs.........Now to put it to use. ☠️
    3 points
  12. Welcome,some tremendous finds,have detected with Gordon (Ironhearted Gog' a few times over the years and also possibly on one of the hardest inland sites to detect a roman trading villa site as the soil conditions are just like black high mineral sand that you find on the beach its that bad,but machines like the GPX which you use have accounted for many many coins found on this site infact the huge amount is staggering. One main thing i learnt from Gordon when related to using a Pulse machine in this instant also is the GPX 5K is the 'spray paint' method' when on farmland using a special marker spray can on either a new permission or one that has all ready produced a hoard,in Gorden's YouTube video that he made some years back he demonstrated how he uses his GPX and a Minelab705 together trying to locate possibly more gold full staters from the original hoard......this is a method that i adopted some years back albeit not with a GPX but a TDI Pro with the 15x12 GPX mono coil and the Nexus MP both work identically to the same system devised by Gordon. The history on your sites ie roman and saxon etc and basically the exact same as what we find here in the UK,very well done on your finds,i can also relate to your comments about depth and the main reason behind why you use the GPX for deep artefact/hoard hunting and the reason why a Pulse with large coil is required as it only possibly takes just one decent find at that greater depth to pay for all the detectors many times over. Enjoy your style of detecting.
    3 points
  13. Regarding your inability to find a clear spot to GB - what may be happening (especially if you are searching for a "clean" spot using no discrimination (i.e., horseshoe mode)) is the detector is reacting to mineralization ground feedback as opposed to actual ground targets. Try this next time you are having trouble finding "clean" ground to GB - use the pinpoint mode find a clear patch. Pinpoint mode is a non-motion mode and is also not subject to reacting to ground mineralization. If pinpoint mode does not sound off then there is no target under your coil to interfere with getting a sat GB. Again, GB is not so much about depth as it is about reducing ground feedback noise that can interfere with getting a clear target signal especially if that signal is a lower conductor or deep target that can appear to be ferrous. Sat GB tends to clear up those iffy signals. On the other hand, especially in multifrequency, the Equinox is very forgiving of a less than perfect ground balance, so don't sweat it too much. But if you are experiencing ground noise or you are at a site that is subject to ground phase variations, periodically check your GB or use tracking mode. Unless you are looking for micro jewelry or small natural gold, tracking will not typicially null out a keeper target. Don't use tracking unless you have to though and be sure to do a GB first before you put it in tracking to get tracking "in the ballpark". If there is not enough of a change in mineralization to trigger a rebalance, then tracking can do more harm than good, so just ground balance once and be done with it. Similarly, if your ground phase is taking "wild" swings, your best bet might be to just periodically do an auto ground balance because tracking reacts rather slowly (in order to not over compensate and cause target nulling during target interrogation) and may not be keeping up with severe changes in ground phase. The numbers don't necessarily directly correlate to the level of mineralization in the ground. There are several soil properties that can affect the ground phase reading including mineralization (attributed mostly to magnetite and to a lesser extent, maghemite) and alkalai salt content. But other consituents such as moisture content can also affect the ground balance point. The only way to tell if mineralization is driving the ground balance point is to have a separate mineralization meter which the Equinox lacks (although it does measure mineralization because that is what it uses to trigger its tracking ground balance algorithm, it just doesn't display mineralization level to the user). Also, beware, that each mode responds to the ground differently due to the differing Multi IQ frequency profiles. On the same patch of ground you may get a 30 with Park 1 and 55 with Park 2. So the numbers are just giving you a visual reference for how close the detector is to being balanced and the relative variation from the default neutral ground reference point of "0". This is also the reason why you need to balance each mode separately if you intend to use more than one mode at the site (for example searching in Park 1 and interrogating the target in Field 2 or Gold mode to see how the target ID and audio ID tone respond). Generally, at the beach, keeping the GB at the "0" default is fine, even in wet salt sand. But if you are in the surf with varying levels of salinity or the wet sand is showing signs of variable black sand mineralization (or the mineralization overload warning shows on the display), shifting to tracking GB is a best practice as recommended by the manual. Hope all this doesn't make you over think it even more. In practice, just get a sat ground balance (use pinpoint to find a target-free patch) and swing away. Periodically check the detector response using the horseshoe mode (no discrimination) and if you are getting a lot of ground feedback in form of ferrous grunts and -9, -8 target ID numbers, then re-balance the detector. HTH.
    3 points
  14. It’s a book on alcoholism and recovery, something I know too much about. I was addicted to alcohol and am coming up on eight years sober. It was the hardest thing ever did, with it taking lots of miserable years and two stints in rehab to get clean. I’m working towards a peer support specialist certificate at the University of Nevada, Reno. It’s a continuation of a new chapter in my life that I’m very excited about. Oddly enough I count my struggles with alcohol now as among the greatest blessings in my life as it set my feet on a path I don’t think I would have found otherwise. Thanks for asking. That was my official “coming out” statement. A real issue with addiction is the false dual life a person leads, and I’m enjoying finally just being whole in who I am. The good and the bad, no more energy devoted to presenting a false front. I’m just a flawed human doing the best I can. One of the reasons I am doing this is that as a so-called “successful person” I am in a position to speak out on issues surrounding the stigma attached to addiction and recovery issues. As an Alaskan I knew far too many people who are not with us now due to drugs and alcohol. It’s an issue that has touched too many lives in this country. My goal is to make some hard earned lemonade out of the lemons I grew and hopefully help some people the way I was helped myself. I am amazed every single day and eternally grateful for how fortunate I am. Thanks again for asking. This post is another big step forward in my ongoing recovery journey. But definitely off topic!
    3 points
  15. Some finds from area that i tracked some months ago! We were having a very boring day... after several hours walking near a river bank hoping for a Medieval dock, I started to see few fragments of pottery and Equinox 800 started to grunt alot... 1 musket ball... 2... 3... We had just found a new hot spot! Lots of goodies from the 18th Century. When we started to get short on signals, I loaded my sea level simulator for a quick inspect... ( the more you go back in history, the more higher was the sea level), i saw an interesting elevation and went there for a inspection. Managed to extract 9 Medieval coppers on a small patch at the top! Hope y'all don't mind that I post old hunts... Be lucky! Cheers
    2 points
  16. Not to confuse things but I am confused. Pinpoint mode on the Equinox is definitely a non motion mode but it IS subject to reacting to ground mineralization. Once the pinpoint button is pressed to enter pinpoint mode any discrimination pattern being used is removed and all detectable targets under the coil are detected. So, the ground and its mineralization become a target and from my experience any target response is also momentarily amplified. I experience this everyday when I am detecting. If my ground balance is a little off, using the pinpoint mode creates quite a bit of ground feedback and creates even more unwanted noise while trying to pinpoint say a coin at 4" which normally is a fairly small sounding target in pinpoint mode. It becomes much larger or is just swallowed up in the ground noise if my ground balance is appreciably off while using the pinpoint mode. Jeff
    2 points
  17. Wow, you are not kidding about the hoard! what an area to hunt so lucky to have so much history under your feet, and nice dog too! 🤠
    2 points
  18. Thank you mate! Glad you like! Yes it has! I know a couple of old-schools... I remember hearing then talking about their hunts 30+ years ago, back when they were swinging Fishers and Cscopes!😃 There are always people interested to collect. About museums, well, I donate all the very important relics (I don't get paid), relics such as Axes, spear heads, daggers and some other cool stuff (mostly from the Chalcolithic or Bronze Age). I also collect some stuff. Most of the history I know, I learned from what I've found!😁
    2 points
  19. I would not say every swing....I would say between 4 and 5 buoy's every few swings..and I dug a few to see what they were..crab pots pieces..so I know I would be best going into mute mode in that area.......I even dug a nail...rare here.. Add on ..second site.. Modern beach to the right, old beach to the left..there are areas of high iron where there are pieces every swing on the old beach...and I got my two gold rings from these areas, using the excal..and they were Nulls..to deep for the excal to ID..so it nulls... To the right is AQ area...to the left I will venture once I feel more confident with using the AQ in those area's...I know now to go slow and overlap my swing..see if that works..in the mute mod.. still learning..
    2 points
  20. What do you do at beaches that are loaded with iron? More then like this..what I did yesterday..Someone asked if I hunted the spot I got the 2 small 14k women's engagement rings with the AQ yet.... Not hunted that beach with the AQ yet,... Yesterday was a scouting mission. I marked off where not to hunt with the AQ and where to hunt with it. And I guess your wonder how I marked the area off being I'm shoulder deep in the water......they have crab pot trap buoy's..between buoy's 1 thru 3 is good but once I start going into area 4 to 5 lots of iron.......Between buoy's 1 to 3..maybe 4 pieces....and I marked those pieces of iron by digging a few scoops of the sand. Since the sand is hard packed there......... any soft sand area I encounter later I pass by knowing I've been there and it's not good target...... Yesterdays Gold rings were small and all found in area 3 to 4, each crab pot is about 70 to 80 feet a part. I love this time of year for those crab pot buoys are life savers. I just walk out to where I left and start. Last year they pulled all in Oct and I was lost! Wouldn't the AQ in tone/mute be useful at sites like that, or would the Equinox be a better choice? I would not take the AQ blindly into a spot with out first getting to know it better Every beach is so different and there make up.......... I would suggest getting to know it with a Nox, CTX, or Excal. Then trying to do as I do...I have two places just waiting for the AQ...but conditions have to be calm...so I can hear the faints...I got the battery time now so if I can stay on these spots and a few more come fall and super low tides I should be able to do good, I hope. And a side note..All it takes is one wrong wind storm to waste all you know..we had a storm around March 13 to 15 that devastated one of the spots I hunt..I'm still trying to rebuilt the map in my mind with landmarks and any areas that stand out..like pilings, high iron area's, cuts, bottom matrix,....anything.....
    2 points
  21. Aside from Joe OBN... It has been really quiet about results with the few AQ's that are in use.
    2 points
  22. Thanks for this site Steve. I have not been lucky enough to have someone show me the ropes so most of what I have learned is from this forum. Thanks to all that have shared their knowledge.
    2 points
  23. Thank you all for the kind words of support, it’s much appreciated. Though I do have to be careful. My ego is my number one enemy and humility my friend and protector. I am not an AA member per se, but they recommend anonymity for good reason. The downside of that however is it does contribute to the stigma side of things. It’s important that people know it’s not just that skid row bum but everyone in all walks of life that faces these issues. Business owners are just one of many classes at particular risk. I’m still on the Board of Directors of my old company. They look at me like some amazing old guy, one of the founders, successful business person and all that hoorah. My last visit up I gave a presentation to the entire company where I told them no, I’m just a high school kid who made good but not because I am perfect by any means. I told them my story and let them know people in need would always get our support, to not be afraid to come forward and ask for help. There were literally tears in some eyes... it was a very emotional thing. The dark, cold, and social isolation of Alaska means the rates of every bad thing in the book are sky high. I am a good speaker and good story teller so I want to leverage those strengths to best advantage. I can help people one on one but it’s all about finding ways to be of more influence than that, and a book plays right into it. The problem always is making it about me instead of the people I want to help, and therein lies the danger in being public about this sort of thing. All I can say is I have always been a risk taker and will walk that tightrope as best I can. I can’t imagine giving up the peace of mind I have attained for any reason, but addiction is a tricky thing and I’m not entirely normal, whatever the heck that means! That’s ok though, I have learned to embrace my weirdness and above all laugh at myself. If I start taking myself seriously I know I’m on the wrong path. Anyway, once again, thank you all. It really is massively off topic but hey, I think I’ll give it a pass this time. That’s enough from me on the subject though, the rest can wait for that book. It’s been in the works all year with the goal of getting published next year. I’ve denied myself any more new toys, vacations, you name it until that thing is done and in the bag. Going public with all this does help put a fire under my goal, so there is a method here at work where I am purposefully making the commitment publicly as one of my self motivation tricks. With that, my best to all of you in your own journeys, and if you do need some help, please seek it out. It is amazing how many people want to help if all you do is admit you need it and ask. That is indeed the key. It’s ok to be human.
    2 points
  24. was out looking for coins and got a hit on a nickle plated item of age , and I soon realized i had an out house. this is the 1st bottle i found in it , Still have to finish it
    1 point
  25. I was approached by a young man (wearing a mask) today on the beach that I was metal detecting on. He ask me if my metal detector could find a medallion that he had lost when his chain had broken. He then said it was gold. I told him that gold was what I was looking for on the beach and said, Let's go find it. He and his buddies had been tossing a football around and that was when his gold chain had broken and the medallion had dropped into the dry sand and disappeared. I said, "I hope this is your lucky day". Two minutes later I ask his if it was "Jesus on the cross". He said "yes" and I handed it back to him. It took all of about 5 minutes of my time and made his day. I love this hobby!
    1 point
  26. Nice finds and excellent photos! Good to see the Tek T2 is still a capable detector as the world moves increasingly to simultaneous multi-frequency. Your 1883 Liberty (V-) nickel is the more common (15 million minted vs. 5 million) "with Cents" variety. Your photos show that nicely. Here is the earlier, less common version reverse: The story goes that scammers were coating them with gold and subsequently passing them off as 5 dollar gold pieces so the mint scrambled to thwart that. Interestingly, the "with Cents" variety carries more value in high grades. This likely reflects the fact that (still true today) when a new design is released people snarf them up thinking "oh, this is a collector's item and will be valuable!" Then later (e.g. 2nd year of issue) the novelty has subsided and the coins get into circulation, leading to wear on most specimens. A fairly recent example of that are the 1976 quarters, half dollars, and Eisenhower dollars. Everybody and her brother stashed those and they are worth, oh, exactly 25 cents, 50 cents, and 1 dollar respectively 44 years later. The intricate brass(?) item with the 1870 patent date is interesting. And have you figured out what the "Honey Dew" token(?) is for? Discount at the local brothel??
    1 point
  27. Hi mate! There's only 2 photos from that hoard in this thread, the one with the Vanquish rain cover as display and one without it (same photo from different angles). Haha my Jackie Danielle! Thank you Cheers
    1 point
  28. I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!
    1 point
  29. Gold mode was hitting all iron after the update. I reset the Equinox and then it was working right. 4 khz works nice.
    1 point
  30. Jeff is correct to call me out on my imprecise language (should have said “not AS subject to reacting to ground mineralization). Pinpoint does react to ground mineralization (though in my experience not in the same way as it responds to targets) so my suggestion previously to use pinpoint to differentiate between target response and ground feedback is a YMMV thing depending on how much mineralization you are dealing with. Should work for most “out of balance” situations, though. To recap, I get a lot of reports that people can’t find a clean spot to ground balance. And what I have found is that folks are often reacting to ground feedback noise (with disc off) vs. a true carpet of targets situation. In that case switching to pinpoint can aid in finding that “clear patch” of ground to pump the coil. The non-motion aspect and desensitizing action of the pinpoint feature helps trace and shrink the target footprint (unless that target footprint is indeed large) and minimize mineralization feedback to manageable points so you can adequately find a clean enough spot to pump the coil. Pinpoint reacting to mineralization is typically not as repeatable as a true target under the coil. I personally don’t sweat it much and have never found a place where I couldn’t find a clear enough patch to pump without going into pinpoint (in fact, I am not sure if it really matters unless something large is under your coil). In severe mineralization conditions, sure, you might be chasing ghosts, either way but in my experience, pinpoint clears the picture up under the coil vs. constant -8/-9 grunts in detect mode. After awhile as you gain experience, you quickly recognize the -8/-9 grunts are merely ground feedback and not targets and just pump away without going through this hoop. This concept is hard to get across in words without tripping over details because of oversimplified explanations. Just trying to help people differentiate between legit targets and ground noise Pinpoint has been the best way for me to demonstrate this in the field. Yeah, it’s not perfect or foolproof, but what is when it comes to detecting?
    1 point
  31. Yes, triangle overload symbol has been There since day one. Page 10 in the manual.
    1 point
  32. My first Roman search with the Tarsacci went very well, sadly though the stubble was much longer than I imagined, only a few areas were short, most was just too high for detecting. However, I found Roman coins, including a early silver! loads of silvers have come from here over the past years! Really cuffed to get my first silver with the MDT,,,. I've not tried to ID it yet, but looks an early one. Not much else turned up, a couple of shotgun tops, one piece of lead,didn't get caught out with much iron, really is quite easy to tell Iron using the Tarsacci, the best area of the field as for Finds go is still in crop, so will have to get back later, may probably wait for the field to be cultivated, taking into account the long stubble. Settings . TrH, -4,,,, any higher was getting noisy, -1 was unusable here. Dsc, -30 Sens, 7 ,,,, very stable GB, auto 910/930 Disc mode ST, 41 Black sand, OFF TRACK, OFF Fc, 12K & 18K The -4 on TrH,, made all the difference here today, no false signals from the Coil touching the stubble, all together a very enjoyable 3 hour search, can't wait to get back here again, always a good test for any new detector is a well searched out site, gives a good insight to how good the machine should be. I'm so far delighted with the MDT. Regards. Dave.
    1 point
  33. Very nice maybe you should wear a high vis vest to stay on the safe side.......... RR
    1 point
  34. thanks, yea I never thought of using the pinpoint mode like that. But yea this is a particular park that had multiple schools on it in the past and large areas are just solid nails and you can hear every one of them every 3 inches lol But I have still managed to pick out a couple gold rings there so I will continue to experiment
    1 point
  35. Thank You! Maybe I am the only one that loves my machine? I did have a few month jump on everyone to learn but it will take me years to feel as comfortable as I do using the excalibur..... I was offered a "AQ" in early January and wish I had taken it now, lost time. I noticed also...
    1 point
  36. The first night I went out with the update I went to a beach that I often detect as a test. I could not complete the beach so I went back out again last night. When I got down to the wet sand of the beach and started quickly walking toward my area the 'noise' was awful. I had not changed any settings from less than 24 hours before but I could not keep a smooth sound at 23. What had happened, had I 'imagined' the smoother, better quality sound? (I thought I was going to have to retract all the good things I said about the update.) I couldn't take it any more after about 15 minutes and had to lower the sensitivity. I went down to 20 and it gave my head and ears a rest. I detected a few targets but knew this was not how I wanted to detect on the way to my beach. It would be too shallow. I pushed the sensitivity back up and to my pleasant surprise the noise did not come back with the increased sensitivity. As a matter of fact I could go up to 24 and stay smooth later in the hunt but for now it was stable and I was on the move. The targets came slow while I walked fast to my spot. (I know I miss deep targets walking fast.) When I got there I was disappointed also with the upside of my beach. The waves had been small over the last 24 hours and targets were not really on the 'move' in my zone where I've found gold and silver already this year. At the turnaround I had a few quarters and pennies but nothing else. Then I decided to slowly walk back with the little waves on my left and the wet sand on the right. I got a ring! (The cheap little stone ring.) That made me relax. I circled and found some other targets. A pattern was developing. This was a recent lost jewelry beach! Small waves had grouped targets at the bottom of the hill at low tide. I didn't go back up for the 1 hour back. I stayed within 20 feet of the wet sand. I got the steel ring. (10) And then finally I got the lion's head ring. That one was a surprise. I had been digging 15s and 16s in the area with a nickel (13) here and there and this target was not deep and it crackled a bit. When I looked in the scoop I saw this massive ring. The band reminded me of silver. It looked like it had been resized but the numbers didn't say silver. When I got back at 3 AM I looked and still thought there was a chance it was silver. It weighs .85 oz. I researched it before I did this post and it is a titanium ring that sells for about $10. Bummer. I ended up with 4 rings. and some other goodies including an old watch body. It was a fun hunt even tho it was not very valuable. I didn't have any more issues with the noise. I went back over the area that had affected me in the beginning and it was smooth and I dug a target there. Down about 3 inches was a black sand and gunk layer that also had a stink. I don't know what caused it but it was no longer a problem. Making an adjustment to the sensitivity and then adjusting back is something I'll remember for a future noisy session. Mitchel
    1 point
  37. I would buy the AQ even if it had no tone/mute modes. What do you do at beaches that are loaded with iron? Do you just avoid those places? Wouldn't the AQ in tone/mute be useful at sites like that, or would the Equinox be a better choice?
    1 point
  38. Joe D A little "Joe" trivia; my Daughter🙋‍♀️ walked for the first time at Cocoa Beach!! Good thing i wasn't detecting back then, i probably would have missed it!!🤦‍♀️ 👍👍 A great memory Joe. Cocoa will be a place you'll never forget. 😃
    1 point
  39. Seeing that video of Whites really brings home what a tiny company they actually were. Makes their accomplishments even more impressive, too. Jim
    1 point
  40. It’s actually all over the map. It has a lot to do with the growth of the grass. It humid climates turf builds depth rather quickly, as dead grass, especially clippings, compact and add inches over time. In my home base in Alaska and here in Reno it is different. In Alaska the place is frozen half the year. The rest of the time it’s rather dry and people don’t really take care of parks as much - the turf is often kind of threadbare. Very little build up over time. In Reno it depends a lot on the watering. Water is expensive, and so most places go a little shy on what is needed for the heat, again leading to threadbare places, with hard pack soil base. Other places seem to have been more generous both with peat type soil fill, and watering, so there is some depth. The recent practice of laying complete new turf can add inches overnight. Rough rule of thumb very dry climates, hot or cold, tend to have thin buildup. There are places in the desert where 100 year old coins can be found on the surface. Humid climates with lush greenery it builds much faster.
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  41. A terrific and very interesting topic,but one that although the common denominator here is 'metal detecting' can vary and we adapt using what detectors best suits the job in hand ie in Aussieland or Arizona and your targets are gold nugget hunting then depth is important as well as a machine for extremely small targets hence high freq VLF and PI suits that type of detecting. For me personally and for my type of detecting and the targets that i am after here in the UK then i use machine best suited to our extreme historical past going back 1000s of years,also the extreme variations is materials used,this could be from using gold,silver,bronze,lead and many other different metals and also the added twist and complications of additional metals into various combinations eg a silver coin or gold coin from say 1000 years ago could have a higher content or even a lesser content of base metal due to how the economy was at that time. So for me i tend to use 2-3 or even more detectors as in my mind no one detector does it all across such a wide spectrum as what we have on offer,so my way of thinking is that i use 2 main machines ie Deus and Equinox that cover the freq from 4khz upto 80khz then also bring into the equation also not desirable targets like some extremely trash roman/saxon sites then also coil size on the 2 main machines also can improve the odds in your favour,so matching coils to said machines can also be as important as using the correct freq. For the most part even though our history is extremely rich and varied most common finds across the spectrum are found within the top say 6-8'' for the most part,hence most detectors can find these common finds like say roman and silver/gold hammered coins using a stock 10'' coil,but also its not uncommon for us to find finds that are say the highly valuable ones this could be say artifacts or hoards which could well be below the eveyday 8'' finds layer that most folks like detecting for.But by using a everyday detector most folks unless its a very large pot could possibly miss these more desirable deeper hidden targets like hoard.One has to remember that banks and other saving institutions are modern forms of saving valuables but with such a long history as on the UK the safest place to store valuables till war and other major problems past was by hiding said artefacts and valuables in the ground near say a strategic location near a tree,building or what ever waiting for the original owner to return and retrieve the item but alas this often never happened hence the reason why so many hoards are found and this is my personal opinion many many more are still awaiting to be found. This brings me onto my obsession with either using VLF or PI machines with larger coils like my TDI Pro,2 Nexus machines and also my TW-5 twin box and the reason for this is that if i suspect that even the slimmest of possibilities that a large artefact/hoard could be in that location due to the previous history then i always carry one heavy hitter with me as well as my 2-3 machines that i use,the logic behind my way of thinking is that if i find say a tight radius of coins this is a classic indication that a scattered haord that has been clipped by the plough is in this area then the heavy hitter either VLF or PI comes into its own and yes i have used these a few times.I like to think that i try and cover all possibilities if i am away on a days detecting and these means from small single coins right upto large deep artefacts and hoards and also increase the odds in my favour.It may seem like i am over doing it but if i was using say just one machine with a happy medium stock coil then i would find possibly everything upto say 12'' depending on item size that is but targets that are more desirable maybe deeper upto the average hoard depth of say a man laying on the ground and putting said hoard at arms length from say 18-24'' depth and in some cases deeper. Its possibly a long winded post and possibly folks who hunt solely for deep gold would not relate to how i detect and why i use the detectors that i do and the methods that i use,but i can only mention how i detector and why,but sharing this fascination and interesting hobby of ours is always wonderful.
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  42. I sent a first message via Amazon to the vendor. There is no way to upload a photo. The response: "Hi Steve... call the below telephone number and ask to speak to Van. Van maybe able to help you. Nokta Makro Service Center +1 706 619 2601" Quick response, I'll give them that. I had created this thread so I could post the photo here and sent another message along with the link to this thread. Got another response: "See attached. Amazon removed the website or the link you emailed to me. Try calling me at XXX-XXX-XXXX" So I can give whoever it is a call I guess. Starting to seem like a hassle for all involved for something that might work anyway. Not like I had to mortgage the house to buy it. So I just went and looked at it again. The black electrical contact portion inserts into the end and locks into place via a couple tabs to a matching pair of small rectangular holes on each side of the shaft. The material between one hole and the end of the shaft has broken away. The other hole on the other side is still intact. Does not look very strong - just inserting the end would stress the plastic a little and possibly cause it to pop. If you look at the intact 5" one the plastic looks a little weird at that point. The black part will pull straight out but shows no tendency to want to rotate as the tabs are still doing their job. I went ahead and installed the coil and it locks into place and works fine. I'm not the sort to get bent out of shape over something like this. Frankly, I'm a bit lazy and boxing it up to send back to get another one seems hardly worth the effort, especially if I have to pay shipping. I'm just going to apply some of my magic epoxy and call it good.
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  43. I guess the good news is that I think by looking at it that I can make this work anyway. It's on the inside of the seal and most of the twist lock mechanism is intact. A little epoxy and it will probably be ok. I'll wait and see what the vendor has to say first before I do any typical Alaskan duct tape and baling wire repair.
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  44. Hi Karelian, the part you circled is the ground Ballance trim pot, just set the the main GB knob to 8 , do normal ground balance and adjust the inside one till ground ballanced .
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  45. Whites was my first detector in 1972 and my first detector dealership in 1976. Yeah, a lot of history there so I know how you feel Gerry. We told people Ganes was a once in a lifetime opportunity and would not last forever. I don’t think there will ever be anything quite like Ganes Creek ever again unfortunately, or even Moore Creek for that matter. It was great having a hand in both. I talked Doug into giving a “pay to detect” operation a try and sent his first customers his way. Getting Moore Creek up and running will go down as the greatest adventure in my life, and I’ve had a few.
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  46. Steve Houston and I ran a prototype MXT at Ganes Creek of all places, but it was not until the next year that I figured out how good it was there. I sold a ton of MXTs off of what happened at Ganes Creek. Over 1000 ounces of gold found there with the MXT alone. White’s representative Steve Houston with 3.25 ounce gold nugget he found at Ganes Creek, Alaska in 2002...
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  47. That took some guts. Makes finding gold child's play by comparison. Respect!
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  48. Hi Steve, I really enjoyed reading about your life, struggles and future plans. No wonder I like this website so much and always feel safe sharing opinions and experiences with you and all of the members here after reading about you. Some of the BS that occurs on other sites is really sad and frankly depressing. It is just metal detecting for fun, enjoying nature and the thrill of a possible great find........at least for me. Thanks for being an excellent administrator, mentor and cyber friend to all of us. Still struggling with the Deus......... Jeff
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