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I went out for a detect last night after dealing with some plumbing problems. That put me on the beach on a cut later than I wanted to be there. The cut was by far the biggest of the season. I started out in the normal fashion but every day on the beach is different. You can go to the same beach every day and expect different results. Before I got to any spot last night I noticed a couple of detectorists had been there first. They were coming back as I was going out. They must have had an epic night because there were dig holes all over the place. This was one of those events that by myself I could never have detected in one night. Who knows how far I would have gotten but I had to keep on detecting around and between the dig holes. The tide had gone out since it was detected so there was a reason to keep going to my spots. I'd never seen this stretch of beach so thoroughly detected. I was getting just a target here and there but these are good detectorists and they weren't leaving many quarters or anything. That was until I got to one patch where dig holes were on top of dig holes. I should have gone out sooner but once again I might not have made it this far. They must have had hearing fatigue because I heard a target or two amongst the holes. I dug a black ring. Whew ... something anyway. About 5 feet away I got another scratchy signal mixed with a 13. I'm standing in holes and digging a hole when I look down in the scoop and see another ring. This one had the chance of being 'real' so I was rewarded for seeing 200 or 300 dig holes. I couldn't read it so I had to just look at it and the stone in it. Who knows how many of those dig holes in this little 20x20 patch had been rings before I got there. I estimate a few. I had to look for more misses because I was at the end of the beach. I worked and worked and found one other cheap little ring on my way back. I got to the beach late. I was the second shift. I still got a goodie. The ring is stamped 14k, MMG, 3g and the diamond tests real and is about 6mm.

I've been reluctant to post some of my finds this year because it seems that many hunters are saying that they are not finding much due to stay at home mandates, beach closures, sanded in conditions and other reasons. One of my hunting buddies suggested that I wait a bit before posting my finds so that is what I am starting to do. Even though I didn't hunt for 2 months due to the pandemic the other 6 months this year have yielded some of my favorite finds in all the years that I have been detecting. One find in particular stands out. It came near the end of a pretty successful hunt that had already produced a beautiful, heavy, Italian, silver bracelet, costume jewelry and coins. It was a faint but wide signal, the kind of tone that usually winds up being a deep rusty blob of iron. As I repeatedly made attempts to retrieve the target from the wet sand it seemed that it was sinking deeper and deeper but I finally snagged it and up came a sight that I didn't expect. It wasn't a piece of junk. I saw a lengthy, blackish/gold chain but then saw a ring on the chain and a pendant as well! When the ring and pendant were first exposed to the air and sunlight, they were bright orange in color- glowing almost like they were heated up by a torch. I had seen this effect before but never to such an extreme. This must have been buried in the sand a long time. There were a lot of people around so I slipped the find into my pouch feeling pretty confident that it was a good one. When I got home I saw that the ring and "Star" medallion were both stamped "18K". With the chain being so discolored I was thinking it might be 10K but I located a "750" stamp near the claw and verified 18K with an acid test. I carefully scrubbed the chain with jewelry cream and a toothbrush and the beauty of the the chain was revealed. I forgot to mention that the chain was clasped all in one piece when I found it so it must have come off over someone's head unless they had it in their pocket. It may be 2 bucket-listers in one as I had never found a gold ring on a gold chain before and it is the first 18K gold chain that I have ever found with the detector although it was the ring and star that my detector was seeing. In a subsequent test my TDI BH would not detect the chain by itself. The silver bracelet was actually the first target I dug on this hunt. It looked so good and clean when I found it that I was thinking that it could be a fake but it must have been a fresh drop. Thanks for reading. GL&HH!

Scratch tested and stamped as 750, very happy with this! Bought a new detector with it 🙂 It's 3 rings in 1, land find. 2 together came up as a 17 on the Equinox and the loose one came up as a 15. The other finds in the area were just old .12ga shells lol

Simon your post’s are full of baits and triggers, I get that your balancing the books but until there’s actually a coil available to do a comparison there is little point to constantly jibing away, I say this with all due respect.😬 This is a little like the GPX 6000 thread, full of supposition and guess work, based on very little factual information. The main thing for me is the Z search coils from NF will be lighter and plug and play offering massive peace of mind, that alone makes it worth the wait, I for one wish they were doing a larger coil first. Till the dealers are actually told there is stock available the sizes being proposed are irrelevant, in the past when I was doing testing for them I often saw Nugget Finder make big changes to coils and design techniques almost overnight, thats the beauty of having a small factory, they can quickly make changes to designs right up to the last minute. I’d say the real reason why the coil has been delayed so much is the massive demand since COVID, our shop has struggled all season to get stock from all of our suppliers, it is maddening to have a shop in the middle of the busy season with huge demand with no stock, no coils, no picks and no detectors!! It’s been that crazy!! Every dealer in Australia has this issue right now, getting Nugget Finder EVO coils has been extremely hit and miss for the last 3 months. JP

Hi everyone. Been having some fun with the Zed on the gold lately. Here's some Video's hope you enjoy.

I'm not stressed Steve, you assume that I am.😏 I avoid posting here these days because of exactly what's just happened, open house for everyone to say and imply what they please but anything I say that might provide some balance or a differing view always seems to trigger a strong emotional misinterpretation of what it is I'm actually saying. Thanks for reminding me it's YOUR forum.....again.👌

It’s a forum and speculating, suppositions, and guess work about new products is a large part of the show. Like Simon notes I don’t know that you follow it JP, but the same thing goes on and always has with every new product by every manufacturer on the forum. Apex has been hot, the stuff around the Impulse AQ is just nuts, and NokMak Multi is up next. This is a lot of free advertising for Nugget Finder (over 22,000 views) so something tells me they and others don’t mind. NF, Minelab, or any other company is welcome to step in at any time to clear up anything they want. But they won’t, and if anything they feed the fires by telling us about product far in advance of arrival. This sort of thing went on for half a year with Equinox. Nobody made Minelab jump out of the plane with one at Detectival, and nobody made Nugget Finder announce this coil so early. The fact they did tells me they want this kind of social media speculation and coverage. Free advertising and a chance to keep people from buying something else while the work continues. Anyway, I’m sorry it all stresses you out so much JP. The reality for me as forum owner is I will continue to encourage early information and posting about it here, for the express purpose of stirring up speculation, suppositions, and guess work!

Only irrelevant if you have some kind of information we don't. Otherwise, right now all the factual information we were given is the "12 inch" from the website and "330 mm" from their photo, so those sizes are specifically relevant. It's been 12" on their website for quite some time. The new info we have now is the photo with 330mm. That is info provided by Nuggetfinder or a dealer themselves, not guesses. So, unless you have inside information then what you are doing is guessing about changes. Which you seem to take exception to others doing. The irony is that the bit about the NDA's combined with the lack of denial that you are testing these coils is written with an apparent intention to make people guess that you are in fact testing these coils, or at least guess that you know something more than we do about them. While we just got chastised for guessing, we are in the same reply almost encouraged to guess again. No offense intended man, just a strange chain to read and try to make sense out of.

For sure a good start 22k 7.3 gr. Being told the emerald is dark and of good quality the type worn in the North of India Deli area and would belong to a "big family" owing to it's value. Very nice signal on the AQ sounding bigger than it was and very clean --really got a sense of the machine's optimization with this find. Also getting the hang of this "setpoint" type of Discrimination never really use my TDI Pro in the GB mode. Now to figure out the two Discrimination models (reject vs SAT). In the tone mode Im still a bit concerned about it "squelching" on some big 22k such as a bangle and will need to do some more testing. ...and a garbage heartstopper chain certainly looked good for a nanosecond... cjc clivesgoldpage.com

Many of us find jewelry and then search online to see who made it or what a mark means. This helpful site, Heritage Auctions, lists several tools to help establish the value of our finds. https://jewelry.ha.com/ref/designer-marks.zx What databases do you use? Mitchel

A fold down handle on the GPZ would be a godsend. For balance, I do wonder if people may be underestimating the usefulness of a lighter 12" coil (assuming it's not 13") that equals or exceeds the GPZ14. Having used the X12 extensively, I have to say it's my favorite all arounder, and what I bring when I hike in with only 1 coil to a new spot. If I didn't have my range of coils, I might give a Z12 some serious consideration to replace the stock coil, as I feel it really should be the size the unit came with stock to begin with. Having my current range of coils, it is less appealing to me for obvious reasons, but I don't want to let that opinion taint the opinion of those who don't want to cut their cables. It may not be what some really need here who are looking for smaller ellipticals or rounds, but if it compares equally to the X12, my personal opinion is it will be superior in almost every way to the stock coil, just on general principal. With the 6000 coming out, I'd probably wait and see what that turns out to be before dropping $1k on a coil, but that's just me and I have to buy everything big on loan so I have to be careful with spending. They are probably not going to be cheap though, too inexpensive and they are a source of a cheap chipped cable and a lower shaft to use on a coil of more preferable size.

I also like that the SDC is foldable. I can't think of any other detector with this performance level that I would take on a 8 mile hike into the bush (although I have done that shouldered with the GPZ.....). I could also imagine that more coil options would become available for the GPZ as the GPX 6000 is rolling out. Like a product refresh cycle.

I was concerned you were JP and am happy to hear that’s not the case. Hopefully you are able to round up some stock soon.

Lol...this thing was a huge chunk of gold.

My Apex shipped yesterday and according to UPS I will have it on Tuesday. Depending on which driver has my route, the deliveries sometimes don't arrive until after supper, so I may have to wait until next week for a chance to try it out. Glad it's finally on the way though.

On the first day of wearing the eQ800, I dug through 20 to 22 values and found a 23-gram solid gold ring. After half a day, I went to the surf zone and used Beach 2 mode. I found it too shallow and had no signal, so I decided to buy a White Surf PI to deal with the surfing area

Using the V3 in Correlate for Gold Rings After programing the V3I in many different settings for gold jewellery i finally come up with using correlate & coin & jewellery. Well you would think by using 22.5 single frequency you would be on a good thing with gold jewellery. The problem is it just goes bananas on trash. The readout on your screen is showing you a good pattern with the camel humps or the 3 bars Your main objective is finding gold with the least amount of trash. When you are detecting non ferrous say gold with non ferrous aluminium & you are getting a good reading on both targets then its no advantage. That’s where the V3I comes into its own with its multi frequencies mode small gold has a distinct footprint than small aluminium. Small gold has a larger volume small aluminium trash has a lot less. 22.5 will be the same readout on both. The 2.5 kHz will show you a total different picture. Telling the difference of a small target from a not a tiny target in respect to 22.5 good target 7.5 some discrimination & 2.5 tells you volume. Correlate using 3 frequencies is best used to dig all targets that give you a repeatable ping Correlate takes the strongest frequencies to 7.5kHz. Where as high conductive targets are looking at the 2.5kHz. reaction and the 7.5kHz. reaction, low conductive targets are looking at the 7.5kHz. To the 22.5 kHz. So i use 3 frequencies coin & jewellery correlate mode having your span first off at one with frequency offset at +5 At 1 you will be able to get a lot of low conductor gold rings but almost all aluminium tabs will not respond. At 2 on the span you will increase the gold ring acceptance. But you start to increase your rubbish. Its a matter of using your frequency offset into the minus and plus -5 to +5 look at it setting span as your ruff setting & the offset as your very fine setting. Span & offset till you get best settings. One other thing. I use my disc. starting at - 35 through to vdi 19 your Nickle, Recovery around 35-45 gain & sensitivity gain cut back so you are in grass roots depth settings like filters is up to you which ever suits your area. One other thing is coils. You need a very small footprint to be able to get the best results in getting through the trash. I have the 4X6 shooter which is very good in heavy trash but the 5.3 concentric with the cone just gets a little bit deeper and is far better as the gold gets smaller. Here is a range of gold ring vdis 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 17 18 19 23 25 27 28 32 34 35 39 41 51 52 62 75 Pull Tabs. 18 21 22 28 30 35 36 38 39 41. Once finishing the grid pattern i have on the ground i move back to the start and introduce my second program which starts at 20 through to 75. It takes a lot of time but you can go home with a clear mind that you have covered the area to the best of your ability. I had a lot of help with this from Mike Hillis he really is switched on in programing the v3 & v3i. Thanks Mike you are a legend.

This is why I don’t post much here anymore🥴, being constantly fine tooth combed, my NDA comments were in regard to GPX rumour threads etc. I haven’t looked at the NF website for a fair while and noticed they expressly say 12” which is quite a detailed number, whereas all the photographs I’ve seen show the coil in a lot of different guises, so I think I’m right to take all pictures with a grain of salt, this also coincides with the couple of variants I have actually tried but am not inclined to discuss for the exact above reasons. 🤔 Not trying to rub anything in anyone’s faces just that until you either actually hold a finished coil in your hand, or see the dealers with one or sight the dealers order list it’s still in development, why they keep putting teasers out there is anyone’s guess but I’d say it’s because of COVID19!! This is the last I will post on this subject until more concrete information gets released, members can read between the lines all they like, I for one am done for now!!

It is what it is, I’m used to Product Development pathways and the hurdles that get in the way of finishing dates. I spend the bulk of my time trouble shooting issues that flair up, these can be very time consuming to isolate and sometimes require a redesign, it what it is and I’d rather things be held up and done right than quality/performance be compromised. Simon I dabble in lots of things to do with gold detectors and hardware etc and especially with Minelab am bound by NDA’s. 🤐 Since my last visit I see NF have updated their website and have specifically mentioned 12”, so until I actually receive a price list and a date when stock will be available I will be considering everything I read and hear to be very fluid and open to change. JP

Using other materials that Jason mentioned can be used on small coils where the coil is wound around a small core. Small AM radio antennas use a ferrite core to great advantage. Some pin pointers and metal detector probes use ferrite rods to reduce the size and concentrate the magnetic field. But the cores weigh more than the wire wrapped around them. Any material used must not dampen the high frequency positive and negative transitions of the ZVT waveform. Which is much higher than any VLF frequency. I haven’t seen an example of using a light weight dispersed or a ring of material in a method that would work to an advantage in our use. Just for information in the photo of the inside of the Minelab 14” coil. The entire coil assembly is encased in rigid foam and then suspended by soft rubber mounts through the four large holes in the center. As for purchasing a new coil; I have a wait and see what our Australian friends report. It needs to have improved performance over the Minelab and similar sized Russian coils at affordable price to be a good seller.

Thanks a lot GB, I actually have an old hunting buddy who is no longer able to detect. He tells me to keep sending him pictures of my finds because it reminds him of the good times he had metal detecting. Years ago he showed me a hidden safe in his closet floor and you wouldn't believe the amount of jewelry he had taken off the beaches over the decades.

A New Learning Curve My son and I loaded up our blue mule (Dodge 3/4 ton diesel) and headed for the mountains Friday evening.That meant we'd be doing part of the drive in the dark, and setting up camp in the dark, but when we're out chasing the gold, that's no hardship at all.Early the next morning, we did an equipment check: gold pans, a bucket full of sniping equipment, a couple of picks, as well as several detectors. On our way to check freshly uncovered bedrock, we wanted to make sure we had what we needed.My son had his Minelab X-Terra 705, a machine he's got about 600 hours on detecting for coins and jewelry (and he's done very well!), a machine I gave him a few years ago, but he's never used it to look for nuggets, so this trip would be a new learning curve for him.The 705 is a machine that Minelab put a lot of extra technology inside for the price-point at the time, and it had sniffed out nuggets in the past, so I knew it would do the job on shallow to gold bedrock that wasn't super hot.To leave camp that Saturday morning, we ignited the throaty roar of the diesel and left camp slowly, as in August the super-dry roads in camp are blanketed with fine clay dust that mushrooms a cloud of dust that goes everywhere.When we hit the main forest service track, we opened it up a bit more, but the washboard condition of the gravel roads wouldn't let us go too fast without shaking the truck to its core.Next, we hit the paved highway and made excellent time.It was a glorious, windless day. The sky was completely cloudless, the ceiling of air a perfect cobalt blue, the pines and firs a deep green that contrasted beautifully with the flawless blue sky.After seventy minutes, we finally arrived at the mine, this after leaving the highway then slowly navigating a logging road, one heavily rutted from recent haulage. The road included what the locals call "punchouts", places where the roadbed has been pounded through by logging trucks that leave dangerous soft sections. If you hit those sections at speed, the front end of your truck dives down deep and fast and you experience the "punch"! Then you come flying out. If you enter too slowly, and not in 4-wheel drive, you get stuck, so it's an ongoing challenge.At the mine site, the owner was chatting with the vacuum truck crew, the group cleaning the bedrock for the next couple of days. After his meeting, he told us where we could work away from the vacuum crew, but he also wanted us to check their progress to see if any gold was being left behind. We did from time to time, and we directed them to spots where they'd left some gold.To work the bedrock effectively, I made sure my son had a magnetic wand to deal with the never-ending bits of steel from the excavation. Moreover, with the bedrock super-hard once again (like last week), the magnet would clear the surface signals so the softer sounds of gold could be heard.We fired up our detectors. I chose the Gold Bug Pro as I love the digital meter on shallow bedrock as an aid to ID'ing the gold. Moreover, for any iffy signal, a quick swipe with the magnet usually solves the puzzle, or some quick pick and magnet work either tells the tale or requires more investigation. Furthermore, in several cases where the meter read lower than gold, the nuggets were sitting among pieces of magnetite (ironstone) that skewed the digital reading, but once the magnet had removed the ironstone, the gold signal was nice and clear.While I was collecting a nice catch of nuggets, my son was having some frustration with his detector due to all of the bits of steel, but he kept at it and at last he found two nuggets with the 705! Well, the dam burst after that, and he showed some innovation as well. When he'd get a signal that was strange, he'd quickly switch to discrimination, and if he got any positive response, he knew it might be a nugget. He kept toggling back and forth over the next couple of days to verify signals, and it worked out very well for him.The bedrock we worked was often broken in sharp slabs, so we had to be very careful while walking over and through those troughs of iron-hard bedrock as the footing was bad. To slip would be to get a nasty cut, and luckily, we avoided any injury until the second day my son did a nice circular slice around his finger when he reached too quickly into a crevice to check out a signal.In the bedrock, there were slabs of clay stuck to the sides of the troughs either where the excavator had broken chunks of bedrock out or where we used bars to pry apart sections. That sticky clay held the gold! Sometimes, after locating a target, we could see the gold stuck to the clay and only had to pry it out.I scanned a section of bedrock where there was a deeper hole. The excavator had hit a soft spot within that super-hard bedrock, and at the end a bedrock rise, there was a small pile of channel stones. I got a cracking response that turned out to be a six gram nugget! We kept at it until it started to get dark, and by the time we headed up to the mine boss's trailer, we'd caught just over an ounce of nuggety gold.The next day, I let my son go solo, and I only hung around to give him tips if needed. However, he did well fine tuning his own system of ID'ing targets by toggling back and forth from prospecting mode to discrimination. He kept gathering a nice collection of targets in the little orange bucket he threw his signals into. (Rather than take the time to visually ID each target, he'd throw them in the bucket so he could pan them all out at the end of the day.) As well, when he'd get a broad signal under the coil (which often indicates a concentration of flake gold), he'd scoop that dirt into the bucket as well.As darkness closed on that last day, he panned out the dirt in his bucket. He'd caught half an ounce of sassy gold! That included a three gram nugget he'd found through determination. He was detecting a flat chunk of bedrock that held lots of steel signals, but he kept swiping them off with the magnet. Then he got a good sound right on the edge of the flat bedrock where it dropped off into a pocket of water. He worked the signal with his pick until he popped it out, and that was how he found his nice nugget! Without removing the steel shavings that produce such a nasty racket in the headphones, he'd likely have missed the nugget.So, we got a 1.5 ounce bounce for those two days, but golden memories of a hunt together that will last a lifetime.All the best,Lanny

That's a rotary switch with 10 well-defined positions

Actually, the last pulse delay (11.5) is actually 15us. It was a last second change to better accommodate full submersion. But I can add 20us for the next version

They are pretty useful for large scale big picture type stuff. Last year we hired out a company that does these to fly magnetic drone surveys on a commercial project I am involved with. I own the initial claims. It's now 130+ claims. Drone mapping allows us to cover a quite extensive area and get a good idea what is buried and where to concentrate future soil and outcrop sampling efforts. I am limited in what I can say, but this is from a public press release so this is already public and shows how you can concentrate prospecting efforts in specific places in the large scale with mag surveys. The drone surveys are only flown at 100ft or so and so resolution is high. I know the initial post is tongue in cheek, but there may actually be some good use for flying magnetic drone surveys for prospectors who are targetting buried hard rock trends. I would love a little magnetometer that hooks up to my Mavic Pro, flies a preprogrammed grid, and outputs a nice chart like the one below.

My GPZ didn’t have too many issues with my .40 but it is just under my ribs, higher than a drop leg or typical belt holster. Heavy gun and I’ve only had to fire it once to warn a target shooter that I was down range. Sometimes I leave it at home but if it’s bear or wolf country I take it. Honestly a .22 or .38 would do just as well since it’s mostly to scare, not kill. Regular cleaning is important. My last outing I probably collected a few ounces of dirt and mud in my gun since I was bushwhacking and we had some downpours.

Got invited to pick through an older church grounds so I thought I would brush up on my skills with my Tejon over at the local park. Only spent about an hour and snagged this ring. Included is my trash. Set my 2nd disc to break on a degraded zincoln for quick reference.

Nice Save ....! See it pays to be ....the Pied Piper of the Beach .... Had my Grids jumped so many times do not even miss a beat anymore the minute you loose focus they got ya... Focus be the Best there has ever been Happy Trails jimpugh

Great video and nice finds.' Love Gary and his advice and videos, in general, but not a big fan of Gary's general resistance to using discrimination. Essentially the only difference between Gary's Sonar program and Deus Fast is the use of the Deep signal processing filters and a higher reactivity which makes sense in thick iron and of course cranking the audio frequency of the high bin. Once you make the decision to go to two tones, I feel you might as well go to pitch. You can emulate the two tone ferrous effect in pitch by using discrimination and turning iron volume to on. Why do I like to use disc - two reasons: first it helps to alleviate ferrous down averaging of nearby non-ferrous targets in bed-o-nails situations and second, having some disc dialed in ensures the horseshoe display works as intended (I know that Sonar uses Deep's XY display, but that is not a display I prefer). A better comparison would be to set up Deus Fast and Deep identifically in terms of tone and reactivity to see how the Deep signal processing filter (Version 2 Deus) without disc differs from the Fast signal processing filter (version 5 Deus) with disc (2 tone with the high frequency high tone bin). That way you get a true apples to apples comparison of how no-disc and disc behave and how the two signal processing algorithms (Deep and Fast) compare.

Wow, that is a beauty Mitchel- congrats!

Perhaps makes up for the other night when that guy jumped your patch. I think things even out over time...you win some you lose some. You won tonight.

Well done ... again. This is getting OLD and better and better. Keep getting the bling.

You might want to reconsider that statement, if you expect to have any credibility left. (Probably too late for that, though.) Did you only come here to get answers you wanted to hear? How's the reading of that Washington University webpage coming? You're sure good at asking questions, but so far don't seem too good at answering them.

Coal and coal ash (I think the Brits call the latter 'coke'). Sounds like you're in need of new detector to handle that. 😉 Mark Gillespie has done well in similar conditions with his White's TDI/SL turning up the delay to ~18 us. (He's posted that here -- I'm too lazy at the moment to go find it.) I'm thinking the Tarsacci MDT may do well there, too, but I don't read those posts as carefully.

Congratulations on the 18K and Silver. I have yet to find a ring on a chain. Keep those finds coming. I always enjoy seeing Gold and Silver no matter who finds it. HH Mike

Exactly. I tried the stock settings and dug more iron and junk. Read some sections in manual again and realized why. Changed some settings and sort of “fixed” my issue. Now I want to work my way back, maybe... Hoping for a little more context out of the books. But not just some settings from a guy in UK using beach on land if I don’t understand why! I find it part of the fun with this detector. Some days, I just wish I had the F22 out and some limited choices. I may pick up the Andy book and the Beginner to Advanced books to start and go from there but welcome any other insight on the books. Anyway, thanks. I think it is just the photo. The Mercs luckily are in fairly good shape. Unfortunately I need to work on my digging also. A few of the coins, including the Barber, have some marks from my digging tool. That 1920 Buffalo I cleaned. I don’t know if I regret it or not. Not to get off topic but here are some before and after pics for fun.

Top left of my webpage Paul's collection https://www.treasurelinx.com/compass.html

Here are some thoughts and trade-offs that companies may consider on how to reduce the weight of a coil. Use smaller gauge or less copper wire. Bunch wound coils use a little less wire than Spiral wound coils which can reduce performance. Smaller gauge wire in the transmit winding could reduce overall performance. Use less plastic by reducing the overall thickness and strength of the housing and the shaft attachment area. Use lighter weight foam or other material to fill and support the windings within the housing. Some lighter weight fillers break down with age and heat. Consider method to prevent false signals when bumping into rocks and brush. The internal coil and foam mass in the Minelab 13” x 14” coil is suspended in the center under the shaft mount by cushions. It does not touch the surrounding housing. Other standard methods use glue/epoxy to rigidly tie the coils down to prevent any movement. The amount of heavy material vs. foam used can add considerable weight. Provide the coil without an optional skid plate will reduce the weight of a 13” coil by about 120 grams or 4.3 ounces. The final trade-offs must result in a coil that will satisfy the customer.

That is a very interesting V3 machine that you have in that picture,has it been modified by yourself to work in a similar fashion as the Garrett attachment on the 2500 ?? or is it a setup that allows you to use one coil at a time but a quick change over while detecting.Gut feeling is that you have it setup in a similar fashion as the Garrett 'Eagle eye' depth multiplier.

This is a pin my grandfather (2Vlaen ) has in his collection and yours should clean up nicely.

WTG Joe! Love the MONSTER Yellow ring! CONGRATS!

Tom Slick’s V3i BigFoot Coin & Jewelry Program Bottle Cap Reject 6 Hot Rock Off RX Gain 6 to 12 (to remain stable) TX Boost Off Dics. Sens. 80 AM Sens. 60 Auto Track On AT Offset 0 Tone ID On Modulation On VCO Pinpoint On Filters 10 High Recovery Delay 50 Disc. Accept +10 - +36 +40 - +46 +48 - +54 +57 - +64 +68 - +93 Frequency 3 Best Data Normalize On Backlight 6 Coil Selection 5.3 Eclipse Notes: This is a coin and Jewelry program for recent drops. Salt & Pepper to Taste

Hi, I've been reading the forum for a while now and enjoying the depth of knowledge and expertise, and the love of finding things. I started detecting about 30 years ago, wrote a few articles for the UK 'Searcher' magazine and then had a break while working and raising a family. Returned about 5 years ago and still love it. I'm particularly not looking for deep finds, the coins I love are tiny and thin hammered silver, or the thin copper 17th Century traders tokens - in my part of England the low value small coins are far more common that the big ones - only a small part of the wealth from London moved to my area. So the method on the ploughed fields is slow and careful and pick around the iron debris with minimal discrimination, its a compromise I like and it works for me - the Tejon being my go to machine. I find all the normal big stuff of course, but I'll wait for the plough to pull it up. Surface finds are always welcome, and Neolithic flint turns up now and again and later pottery and glass, etc. The US cent for scale of course. The smallest silver coin James I halfpenny of around 1625. The bone dice of GIIIR with its mark to show tax paid. Regards Stu

I should have an Apex in hand by the end of the week. Won't take long for me to see how it performs against a few of the detectors I've got in iron. I've got a simplex and a F19 fitted with the 5 x 10 and a Racer 2 fitted with the 7 x 11, that should be a pretty good comparison for the 6 x 11 on the Apex.

Hey guys, A mega patch? Don't I wish! Nothing so grandiose I'm afraid, merely busy working my summer job; not a lot of spare time to frequent the forum like I do during the winter months..

And an extended range for the pulse delay to maybe a maximum of 20uS 👍

It would be great if the AQ is totally dialed in next year sometime. If not , it's not a big deal to me. Here in So.Cal though , I can say 1 thing. The LAST thing I want to see is a Minelab PI machine on my beaches. Last Saturday , 14 guys out swinging the Nox. I don't need them converting over. The majority don't know how to properly use a Nox , and I'd like to keep it that way !

A strong rare earth magnet glued to the end of a broom or rake handle or mount several on the teeth of a leaf rake.

Mine is on the bottom left corner of the pallet he’s standing in front of.

Bug repellent is usually enough here. Mosquitos are pretty big...