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Had the day to work a beach with the GPX and the AQ. I used the GPX for 5.5 hours and dug every target in the dry sand. I know there is deep silver at this particular beach, and it did not disappoint me today. The Standing Liberty quarter was measured at 18” and the Walking Liberty half was at 20” This is the maximum I have found silver with the GPX. You do not always get those depth, depending on EMI in the area. I can regularly get 15” on most coins. Another good target was a gold grill, probably 9 or 10K. You do not see those every day on the beach.😄 Partials sometimes, but grills never. It was nice to get out and dig like crazy. Beaches are very trashy, but I need the exercise, so I dig it all.

Got a chance to try the AQ on the wet slopes at one of my beaches. I spent most of the day waiting for a low tide so I could see how the AQ performed for me. This beach is generally protected, so the beach does not get ripped up very often from storms. The first part of the day was using my GPX for the dry sand. Late afternoon I spent 2 ¾ hours on the wet slope with the AQ. I ran mute exclusively with 7.5us. It ran very stable with almost no end of sweep falsing. Really nice and smooth. I am still learning, so I dug everything I heard (and even a couple of nulls) which ended up being a quarter and a toy car. The hair pins and long thin wires all gave a double beep, I will be passing on digging them from now on. I will probably live with digging the bottle caps as there are not as many on the wet slopes as there are on the dry sand. I did find 2 rings and was hoping for gold but stainless 316 and aluminum is all I could muster up. They did come in very strong and were in the 10-12” range. All in all, I am happy with the performance of the AQ and I am sure when I get some hours under my belt, I will be more confident in what to dig. I rarely give up on digging a target once I start, but I had to leave a nice deep small target. The water was filling up the hole and the sides caved in so many times that I gave up on it. This area of the beach has a layer of fine sand followed by a layer or small pebble and shell. The next layer has larger rocks locked together tightly. A small target was located somewhere in that last layer. Using the edge of the coil vertically as a pin pointer on the AQ works excellent. What does not work at all is Garrett's pin pointer in water. Even balancing it to the water does not help. I think if I had a better pin pointer, I would have located that target. Also, I am really liking the ease of using the AQ. It does not take you long to get used to how it works or how it sounds. I think it will work well for my type of beach hunting.

After I read Norm's account I've had a bit of a thought about mentors. I'll have to say I've paid for some of the best and each of them has added a little bit to my thick head. I grew up in flatland Florida and don't have a natural affinity for gold ground. No matter how much I've tried to have a 'break through' of sorts it just seems like You are going to find more than me. To that end of not feeling confident I'll work backwards on who has contributed to my gold nugget chase. Last year I spent some time with Reg Wilson. Prior to meeting up with Reg I took a class from Gerry McMullen, et al. Prior to that my wife and I took private lessons from Lunk. Prior to that we had taken a two day course from Ray Mills. When I got my 2300 I got lessons from Bill Southern. My wife and I got lessons from Jon Kishi. Prior to that I took a private lesson from Mike Furness. When I got my 5000 in 2010 I got a short lesson from Chris Gholson. I'm keeping the training industry alive it seems! haha Thank you all. With all of those trainings (I might think of one or two more) under my belt I will still have to agree with Norm that Rob and Roger D. gave me some training in Gold Basin that sticks with me no matter where I go. They showed me how to find small meteorites and small gold that I could not find before. Thank you Rob and Roger. I've had other hunting partners that are better than me also and they have taken their time to help me but there are too many to name. Norm is someone I like to check in with from time to time himself. He normally has a nice poke that he lets me look at. Mitchel

https://codan.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/FINAL-INVESTOR-PRESENTATION-20-Aug-20.pdf Metal detector sales up 30% (Recreational 11%, Gold Prospecting 42%) - Africa is the largest market by far (due to gold prospecting detectors) - New gold prospecting model coming GPX 6000 - X-Terra and Safari discontinued - Thirty million invested in Engineering / R&D. No wonder the competition can't keep up! I found it interesting that even with the new Vanquish and Equinox, sales growth is heavily weighted to the gold prospecting models, illustrating the relative size of the markets. The big money is in gold prospecting detectors, as further evidenced by sales in Africa in particular. And although a new GPX model is specifically indicated, there is no such hint about a new coin detector release soon. FY21 OUTLOOK Well positioned for FY21: • Strong start to the year and in line with FY20 • Demand for our metal detection products remains strong • Minelab will benefit from a full year of Vanquish® sales and the release of a new gold detector • Current travel restrictions may impact Tactical Communications business development • Minetec is expected to return to profitability • Strong balance sheet allows us to explore strategic opportunities Business update at virtual AGM on 28th October 2020

The swollen battery is probably my fault. This is the situation that led up to the swollen battery: When I got off the beach and in to my truck I plugged the spare battery in to the charger running off an inverter. Later in the day I hooked the charger up to the battery was still on the detector while still in the truck. Even later that day I had to drive up north to take care of some issues, the detector was still hooked up to the charger. Yesterday's detecting session I detected until the battery died- it ran the normal time about 3 hours. when I swapped batteries I saw the one I took off was swollen. Some facts you may not know: The batteries don't get much more than lukewarm when I charge them I notice that once charged if you cycle the power on the charger on and off that the battery will charge 10 to 30 more minutes. My charger is electronically noisy, if I use it next to a fm radio tuned to a weak station it will inject a lot of static noise in to the radio audio. The other battery is just fine. This is what I think happened to my battery: The battery could well have gotten hot charging in the truck, sometimes its sunny here. the battery went through multiple charging cycles that day because every time I started the truck the power cycled to the charger and the battery charged just a little bit more. I think in this scenario that I abused the battery, it got hot and the case deformed. My takeaways are that I will not charge in the truck anymore and I will not let the power to the charger cycle when I am charging batteries. I have not opened the battery up to look inside in the event First Texas wants to take a look at this thing. I'm dying to open it up and look inside, If I do I will post the pictures for all you inquiring minds. One last comment; I am extremely happy with the detector and this very unusual way the detector ended up getting released. It is amazing that we are able to interact with the inventor and his design team, and the chief engineer for the whole company. This just doesn't happen in the real world and we are very lucky to be in this situation. I appreciate it very much. Thanks Rick, Alexandre, Willy, Le Jag and Geotech Carl. Cheers, Tim

I have had a few along the way, My first and still one of my heroes is Klunker. At the time, he had two GPX 4000s and he invited me to go with him in search for gold He was kind enough to let me use his second machine, he showed me the basics and turned me loose. He invited me to go on several occasions. He was finding gold on a regular basis and I wasn't. That frustration only grew on me but inspired me to get my own machine, my first nugget came soon after, He has shown and taken me to numerous places to find gold that I would neve have found here in the Northern Sierra Mother Lode area on my own. My second hero is Bill Fletcher aka Bill and Linda's Prospecting. He took me under his wing and showed many things about detecting in the Nevada and Arizona deserts. I will be forever thankful for his friendship and guidance. In my search for coins and jewelry my hat is off to my good friend Rob. Given the fact that we live about five hours apart, we usually manage more than one hunt a month. One of his first hunts here after he got his 800, we had been detecting in old schools and parks several miles from home. On the return trip, the conversation turned to the possibilities of finding gold with the Equinox and he was ready to try. I suggested we stop where I found my first nugget. This 78 year old body had had enough, I sat on the bank of the road above the area and gave him the pointy finger. The bank is very steep there with a very small flat spot on the was down to some tailings out of a tunnel where i got my first gold. He made his way to that spot and turned his machine on and started detecting. He was only about twenty feet from me, he said I have a nice signal. Well that nice signal ended up being a nice Merc dime, he started to swing again, I've got another good signal, he said, another Merc. I had been over this place numerous times as well as several other people with GPXs. The trash is never ending. Well he wasn't done yet, another Merc and a 40 nickel. By tis time we were past the time we told our wives we would be home for dinner. Rob always seems to put himself in the right place for a great find. More to learn from him! Norm

I got out for nice long hunt with the AQ. I found quite a few targets to keep me busy. Five of the rings are junk and the other two silver. One of the silvers has real diamond chips. The gold ring came towards the end of the hunt and weighs 4.7g. I have found 5 gold rings with the AQ and a small pendant, so not too bad. Thanks for looking and happy hunting.

Enjoyed the articles and books Karl Von Mueller and H.Glenn Carson had published that inspired me to metal detect, prospect and search for treasure. I was fortunate to meet them both in the 1980's.

Ok, i have a few! Of course, besides Steve H., and many other Forum members here! It started more for me with Mel Fisher, And Charles Garrett! Also several Treasure Coast hunters have done a fair share of keeping my interest detecting, even before i found this Forum! Thanks to all!👍👍

I assume this is the article you refer to: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/buried-treasure-forrest-fenn-rockies I just read it. I guess 'rest in peace' is something some people choose not to respect. Is The Guardian the British equivalent to USA's National Enquirer? If that article qualifies as journalism with integrity this world is even worse off than I thought.

This is my "field expedient" really low budget Connector Protector. My original plan was to simple add a piece of 3/4" pvc to the end of the shaft to protect that frail looking little connector in case a fall. That done I thought if I add a 90* elbow and a "tee" them it sorta kinda protects the battery also. If you decide to try this, the only little trick is the 3/4" pvc doesn't quite fit over the end of the detector shaft. You need to make sure the black end cap that has the connector is flush (may require a tiny bit of sanding). you need to heat your piece of 3/4" pvc with a heat gun and when it is soft slip it over the end and let it cool. It will be a very tight slip fit. You are good to go. Up next my pregnant battery. Tim

Bit of low water at the town water supply, can't wade there but had some shorline to poke around. Tough with all the rocks they added to combat the erosion taking my time payed off. Should be more to pick out amongst the sinkers, miserable 22 casings etc. Used the Makro Gold Racer for this hunt. I like the stable id's and smooth threshold, ground is all over the place from 20's-80's and lots of natural iron.

From Minelab 2020 Full Year Report: Minelab GPX Series - NEW RELEASE FY21 - New GPX detector

I tend not to "name names" because invariably I'll leave someone out who belongs on the list. I hate hurting someone's feelings. So many here who have helped me will remain nameless. Four (never members here) are deceased and I'm giving them credit (is that the right word 😏). I've always associated treasure hunting with getting something for nothing. Not only is that an oversimplification, but it's not true if you consider time and effort as more than nothing. Maybe a bit better is "treasure hunting is finding something of value which you get to keep but never had to pay for". (Again, an oversimplification and an inaccuracy.) When I was six years old I was introduced to coin collecting by my mother and two of her brothers. To them (and me, even to this day) "coin collecting" meant paying face value for a coin worth more than face value. We went through pocket change and bank rolls to find the scarce and valuable coins. Buying coins is also coin collecting, and not counting metal detecting and going through grandma's dresser drawers, that's about all it is today. There are exceptions but they are so few and far between.... But we didn't really get excited about that. I wanted something for nothing! When I got interested in metal detecting (late years of high school back around 1969-71) I started reading anything I could get my hands on. Eventually I found my way to the Ram Publishing books -- turns out a subsidiary(?) of Garrett Electronics, but apparently no longer in operation. (Glenn mentioned one of their authors -- Karl von Mueller.) Charles Garrett was not only an electrical engineer and an entrepeneur, but also a treasure hunter and a writer. I don't know if he is considered an expert at any of these by the top people in those fields, but he tied all of them together in a complete package. One book in particular I remember from 1979 he co-authored with Roy Lagal -- Electronic Prospecting. It took me over 35 years to convert that from an armchair hobby to a real one. I give Charles Garrett the credit for that.

Got in 4 hours Tuesday AM, started out with rough water but by 11 am things were calming down. Took me about 30 minutes of messing with the controls before I got it to run stable and under control, then I slowly adjusted the setting as the water calmed. Started out with the settings ....delay 11.5 (15) Sensitivity 6, ATS 8, All metal , volume I ran high the whole time with the threshold just audible.. ( The settings that really seem to calm the AQ in rough water is the delay and ATS ) And by end of day I cut the delay down to 11, sensitivity 4, ATS 6, all metal, volume 9, and threshold 4/5 just audible. It was purring like a kitten. Dug a lot of nickels, no silver coins, one nickel / silver ring (my first marked that) and one 1.5 gram 10k.. This spot I have passed thru with the excalibur a few times of late, I've yet to find targets the way the AQ does. Shallow targets here are trash so I keep on walking on those..I only dig faints here...and the ring was maybe 12/14 inch's? The AQ loves the small gold rings. First time out this year with the drysuit, It was 60 degrees with winds early am. I hate being cold...Plus on one of the other forums some one posted about some flesh eat bacteria and I had cuts on me from working in the yard Monday so best to be safe. All worked out good and glad I went that route. Video of..........cam has been on the blink of late, I think the problem is moisture inside of the Go Pro. As you can tell by the frosty video. I checked to see if i got the gold ring on video, it did, then I stopped the recording..... then it would not restart. Once home I checked and it started to work again. I just dropped it in a bag of rice to see if that will draw some of the moisture out.

I've found small brass relics in the 40's, but yeah, its mostly going to be modern junk down there if hunting a modern site, maybe the occasional micro jewelry bit (earring stud). 49 to 69 I pay attention to for buttons, nickels, and gold jewelry. Deus makes it a lot easier to deal with modern trash in this range because full tones distortion really reveals the irregular aluminum junk in this range, if Orx had full tones well...you know. If you get your hands on a Deus target ID chart off the internet, pay attention to the 18 khz column because Orx normalizes all TIDs to 18 khz operating frequency for all coils (including the White HF coils - even Deus doesn't do this) regardless of what frequency you are operating the coil at. For relic hunting, minie balls fall into the high 70's range otherwise, not much there. Then its your IHPs and Zincolns in the high 70's, low 80's and purer copper in the high 80's silver and clad at 90 and above. Orx/Deus likes to up average deeper targets and down average non-ferrous adjacent to ferrous (use of Disc set at around 7 to 10 tends to alleviate the latter). HTH.

The Fisher Impulse AQ "Special Edition"uses NiMH not lithium cells. Nickel metal based batteries and Li Ion batteries are susceptible to damage from exposure to extreme hot or cold conditions during use or excessive charging and it usually manifests itself as swelling or rapid loss of capacity. If the battery was used and charged in accordance with AQ specs, it is likely that it had an underlying defect that hastened the failure. They should not be used or charged further once swelling occurs and should not be shipped . Fortunately, NiMH cells are not as unstable and susceptible to fire as Lithium cells once damaged, but the cell should be treated as if it is a potential fire and material hazard and disposed of at the proper battery recycling facility. Contact your Fisher AQ point of contact for warranty replacement and whatever documentation is needed (e.g., simple photogrphs) for them to honor the warranty. I can't see shipping it back as a prudent option, but that is all up to Fisher.

I would have to say my wife, I was right in to gold panning,dredging and sluicing but not detecting. The wife thought that detecting would be easier and wanted to go to the golden triangle in Vic Aust. So off we went, she was hooked so I had no option but to buy her one the best detector available Garrett DeepSeeker. She found it harder than the Whites 6000D that she tried so I got her one, and ended up with the Garretts. Well Carol found a 1 Oz nugget the battle was on.😬

I really don't have a hero for metal detecting, however this forum is a great mentor for someone like me. I am a newbie in this area, and have been reading a lot about the 800, and trying to learn what to do with it. At times I just want to beat it against the trees, but I know I have to do my best to continue through the learning process. The people here are kind, knowledgeable, and helpful to the max when anyone needs their help. So I guess this forum is not only my mentor, but also my hero. Thank you all for your help.

When I got into detecting back in the 60’s it was just me . I just wanted to be a treasure hunter and as soon I could get my hands on a detector I haven’t stop. I’d hunt everyday after work and the major part of the weekend. On vacation I’d hunt every day I was off . This guy confronted me wanted me to go hunt this place. The trouble was he said we had to make this hurt at night. I knew I was about to step off in deep something but I said okay. That day came and it had to be the darkest of darkest night. It was so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. He had me hunting around this big tree. I’d been at it a while without a signal one . All a sudden I seen a light and darn I couldn’t been over 10 feet from the wall of this farmhouse. I told that guy let’s get out of here before you get my butt shot . I never knew where that place was in the daytime and I really didn’t want to know. That was the first and last time I done a stupid thing like that. Chuck

I can tell you where this is all going. The people who lost a family member hunting for this will now sue the estate of Fenn . Especially if it can be proved that the treasure never was . I don’t know why it is but before a guy pass he was a worthless SOB but after he comes a saint. The more the money involved the more to saint hood he comes. I’ve always said if I get killed out there doing what I want so be it . So many was out there on adventure and living a dream for a treasure be real are not . They have stories to tell that will last them a lifetime. I say they got their monies worth in the dream. You couldn’t ask for more. Chuck

My hero/ mentor is my cousin (second cousin actually) 😄. He was nice enough to take me under his wing and introduce me to metal detecting. That was when I was 7 years old. Now at 58+ I can't imagine I'd still be doing this. I never was one much for heroes in the detecting world, so I guess mentor it is for me👍.

I believe it's backwards - TrinityAU, aka Ray Mills, should be able to find his stuff by one of those two names. Tboykin has illustrated (masterfully) what are known as bench or terrace deposits. I agree it's a likely reason for what you've found. Depending what part of AZ you are in, the situation can be a bit more complex as many of the pediments in which these gold bearing washes are located have been incised, then re-incised many times over, cutting through multiple layers of old wash channels and bench deposits. So, often you will find that one particular wash has cut down into, and intersected an older, buried, gold bearing wash channel, and the small current-day wash is now re concentrating that gold with no apparant hardrock source. No other wash in the area will have gold because the modern day wash has not yet incised the old gold bearing wash channels. It also depends where a newer wash cuts into an older wash, some parts of the older fossil wash channel may not have many (or any) nuggets while some parts may be quite rich. Also many of these old washes are now basically just caliche and some caliche is soft (basically still gravel) while some is hard (false bedrock) and more resistant to secondary erosion, so some erodes into modern washes easily while some is not as easy a few hundred feet away. This is very common in Western Arizona where heavy monsoon rains and a once much wetter climate have created complex layers of washes in the pediment gravels. The situation can be further complicated by the fact that in AZ many of the rich nugget areas were originally fed by lenses/pods (aka pockets), largely surface occurences of very rich ore and not long, continuous veins. Many of these are now entirely eroded away, or buried under the pediment gravels leaving no trace, making the source a "mystery". They can form in swarms, so that you will have one nearby shedding prickly gold and another further up the pediment which is providing more worn gold since it has travelled. So, often you will find both slightly water worn gold along with pocket gold in the same spot, though the gold might have multiple sources. Especially if a modern wash has incised an older drainage. Also, a piece of speci gold that has travelled and then broken up can often have both water worn looking gold crumbling apart on the outside, and more prickly gold on the inside, which can lead to what you have in your hand as that speci erodes downhill and breaks up.

I just wanted to pose a question to all DP user's. Who is your detecting Hero, mentor or person who gave you the detecting/prospecting interest???? or you just plain admired for the dedication and promotion of the hobby. This can be anyone who influenced or inspired you to do what we all enjoy so much. Please share your stories about these people for all of us to enjoy. We do not want their legacy to be forgotten!! I would like to start with Jack Gifford of Tesoro, For actualizing Tesoro detectors. His life and endevors are what we all strive to accomplish. A truly great person in so many ways. There are also many contributors on this forum that have helped me become a better more informed detector. GB, Kac, Chase, Joe D, T Vallen, and so many more. I also have to include Mr. Herschbach for creating the best detecting forum on the old interweb. Thanks to all who contribute to this great site.

Running the Deus today using the Hot program with full tones, i was delibaratly digging out the big iron ,this program is great for telling what kind of iron you have i dug about 12 large iron s , and we know Iron can mask so i was digging it out and then i got a solid high tone that was clean and high 85 solid hit up comes a sterling silver spoon

Thought id throw up a couple more finds from the month. Things have kept me out of the water the past 3 months...... then we had the storm. Seems everyone went home now as well so we are just getting locals and a handful of tourists now. Still busy with hunters with our warm water.....so its getting picked clean. Got more young guys getting into it with the local FB page now as well who are doing pretty well.

Here's my version of Kac's digger! I had an old rubber hand grip i added over some paracord, then coated with Plasti-Dip! Gonna try it out this coming week!👍👍

If you are a real treasure hunter it’s not just metal you’re looking for. Did you know when 7UP came out it was in a short long neck beer glass? Did you know when soda came out it was in a round bottom bottle? The reason was to keep the cork wet so not to leak . Here’s another book written back when.

There are still plenty of treasures out there but the most valuable ones are closer to home than you might think...

He possibly could have set up some kind of trust/escrow with the treasure in it and a 'key' at the location site which could not be hacked/duplicated. Then the finder (if s/he wanted the loot, anyway) would have to turn over the key. In fact that is effectively what Byron Preiss did with his hidden caches (see The Secret). But that's not as historic/realistic compared to typical treasure troves. (Preiss was from the civilized East Coast while Fenn from the Wild Wild West. ) Apparently Fenn claimed to have made two trips to deposit and secure the treasure. Presumably one to install the empty chest and the other to fill it. That doesn't negate your comparison of "would an 80 year old man have done what I'm doing?" point, however. According to Fenn, his goal was to get people outside, into nature. That was accomplished. But ironically the true lesson (hopefully it will be proven true if something goes to court) is that inviduals need to take responsibity for their own actions. That should be obvious, but clearly it's not to some. And to add further to the irony, that is relevant even if the treasure was a hoax!

Lol. That's not something anyone can likely easily, if ever, prove in a court of law...as opposed to the opposite. Fenn's mistake was that he never insisted that the finder come forward and reveal the find and where it was found. That should have been the price of admission. But there would also be no way for Forrest to enforce that rule and would make it more likely that someone who found the treasure would not even inform Fenn (which is probably something Fenn couldn't stomach). As far as those who lost their lives - I have sympathy for them and their loved ones but they should also realize that greed and poor decision making (or destructive behavior patterns) are a detrimental combination that can't be blamed on anyone but the individual making those choices (and it was a choice not a forced decison). A little common sense, preparation, and self awareness make every single one of those situations preventable based on what I have read about those situations. If they simply asked themselves whether an 80 year old man carrying a 20 lb chest could do what I am about to do now?" and answered correctly "No, I suppise not", then 5 people may not have put themselves in the jeopardy that cost them their lives.

Skookum, Back in Jan this year I did a post on several google shots showing the spread of nuggets from a few of my patches in West Aust they are not 3D but a lot of terrain and different spreads can be seen. .....Link.....

Yes red colors, are Pottasium feldspar. dark are biotite or hornblendmaybe magnitite

Great hunt, and you even got some bite out of it! Good luck on your next outing.

I was doing some Deteknix testing when they had an office in the eastern part of Los Angeles county. At the time the detector was coming out but not available but the Wifi and headphones were available. I used the Wifi for a bit with my 2300 because being wired to it caused me not to use it. There is a thread here about some of that or I PMed Steve but Steve knew the lawsuit stories and 'stayed away' from reviews for the company. After doing the testing of a couple of versions and several trips to the office it was time to 'settle up' on the one Wifi that I had and I wasn't even given a freebie ... It's been years now since then. Mitchel

That was basically what Quest's owner said in their defense. The Chinese circuit boards they purchased included the processor which already had some code installed...........which turned out to be pirated FTP proprietary software!!!! Sounds pretty iffy to me.

It looks igneous to me. I have found some coarse grained pegmatite with hornblende and pink feldspar that looks similar with the easily weathered feldspar making the harder minerals (in this case the dark mineral) look more prominent. I have also seen some extrusive igneous rocks that come close but yes it is pretty strange. It almost looks slightly waterworn or eroded from some means. It would be nice to know if the dark colored stuff is magnetic/metallic or not. The High and Middle Atlas Mountains have lots of folding, faults, anticlines and synclines that have brought basalts, gabbros and other paleozoic rocks to the surface........

It is not a reprimand. As I explained, people who are first time posters promoting companies and sales with links are almost 100% of the time spammers. It would not have been an issue had your first posts not been promotional in nature. I'm sorry you got caught up in all that, but you have no idea just how much of this stuff I have to deal with. I've got a great success rate, but am only human and screw up now and then.

There are no "simple" answers to Skookum's excellent questions, but Tom and Jason have given some really masterful info. Several more thoughts need to be mentioned or repeated. The current geological formations we detect are often far deeper (lower in elevation) than the original auriferous deposits of times past. Thus, erosion at euvial locations, over time, have repeatedly both revealed and re-covered, shifted, dispersed or concentrated, auriferous deposits, making it difficult to precisely locate the original lode gold deposits of times past. The original lode deposits may no longer exist. My favored method of locating eluvial gold: at sites known to produce alluvial gold, walk along the hillside above the wash, looking for the typical "markers," quartz, greenstone, and red dirt. Maybe even manzanita or desert trumpet. Detect uphill, especially concentrating on low spots, wash outs, and small tributaries. One thing to remember is that success at electronic prospecting is more of a "boots on the ground, detector in hand" scenario rather than anything else.

Deteknix first appeared about five years ago. Then, as Jeff notes, Deteknix was caught lifting technology from First Texas. They then promptly changed their name to Quest. Quest 40 Report

I spent about 5 1/2 hours digging in the dry beach area of the lake. My goal was to dig as much trash as possible and it worked out great I was able to nab a few keepers among the junk, silver toe ring, 2 silver earrings and a silver chain with the pendant. Also dug the usual clad and junk jewelry as well. Ran the Nox 600, my settings were: Park 1 F2-0 Sens- Recovery-3 Man GB-4 1-Tone I dug everything from-2 up

Steve, Thanks. Does Codan know where Chicago is located? I don't think so. Look on page 8 of the PowerPoint and you will see that it is located on the east coast of North America ... maybe in Canada? haha I hope the new 6000 GPX is better at finding its targets than they are at locating Chicago. It is interesting to read their full report. I didn't see any new details about the GPX but that will be coming up. It was good to see they have 30 million in R&D so they are working toward the future. They also showed the big sporting goods stores that sell the Vanquish line. Mitchel

And if you get in a car wreck on the way to the convenience store, you and/or your heirs can blame the government for enticing you to turn a true asset of $1 into an expected asset of $0.50!

This is indeed not normal. This could come from the battery cells inside the pack BUT it could also be a problem in the battery charger. When you get in contact with FTP support, you should probably return both of them to be verified.

Well I know why you may feel this way but if you took out a deus with the custom program that you had placed into a custom slot and did not go over a particular good target in a small area but 10 minutes later you turn on your ORX and did go over the particular good target and dug up a 1000.00 diamond ring, would you still fell held back due to the non customized programing handicap of the ORX? believe me and I may be shooting myself in the foot when I put this on here because I am selling my remote here in the classified section, if the deus can hit it so can the orx using the same coil and same frequency on any given target in the ground. the only difference would be between the units is the pitch of the tones between the units whether custom or stock programs and believe me that is all. I have done many test with a deus I had last year against my ORX out in the wild with targets in the ground out in the wild before they were dug in their naturally dropped position or how they landed in the ground relic and coin shooting and also in my test gardens. i personally do not feel handicap swinging an ORX.

Welcome to the forum DW, Don't be offended by the ban. Everyone here knows where the good buys are. We all are a good bunch of people who care more about helping each other and promoting the hobby. I hope you do well with your new purchase and can show us some of the finds. Gold is great but we like relic's, coins, ect. Even trash items can be fun. Looking foward to your contributions to this great forum.

Just click translate. Then you still can't tell! haha

As was already mentioned, their pinpointers and headphones and 2.4 gHz wireless transmitters that go with them are excellent. Their headphones specially made to accept the XP Deus WS4 and XP ORX WS audio modules are outstanding. Their detectors (at least in the USA) have a bad reputation. Not because they are bad detectors but because their top of the line original Quest Pro was proven to have pirated software from First Texas Products Teknetics T2. Whether this was by accident, ignorance or on purpose who knows. Several lawsuits have been settled, refiled and are in limbo. As far as I know there is no official warranty repair facility for Quest in North America at the moment. I owned a Quest 40 for a while and really liked it but something called the Equinox was released a little after that and I no longer needed a Quest 40. From what I have read, Quest still makes excellent detectors that have plenty of great features and can get most single frequency detecting jobs done very well.

Facts are always welcome too (specs listed from the respective manuals): GPX Battery Assembly: 8 VDC nominal, 74 Wh, at 1.72 lbs (includes audio amplifier) GPZ Battery: 7.2 VDC nominal, 72 Wh, at .83 lbs.

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