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We had a blow over the weekend and I was there. A huge cut was formed at the beach. I had new personal bests in total rings (10 for a day), gold rings (5) and quarters (64). I took a break to eat during the evening so I have two 'sessions' at the same beach. It was good enough to return with my sore back. It was a target rich environment. The total for all change was $24.03 which is also a personal high for change. I have found $20 bills on the beach in the past. These are the rings by session. More after I went back and the tide went out a bit than the first go. The L ring was the first ring I found it is 14k/3.2g. The other ring is 1.3g/18k. The green ring is 1.9g/14k. The black ring is 5.5g/titanium Legend of Zelda ring. The crusty ring is 3.5g/.925. The yellow stone ring is 3.8g/18k. This is a little 'old' ring and a cheap 'love' ring. The ring on the left is 16.9g/18k but I question it. The ring on the right is silver and is the last ring I found. The reason I 'question' it is that it had some green corrosion on it you can see in the first picture and now when I go to clean it the pocks appear even with the gold color. Perhaps that means it is a high copper ring? I also think it is 'old' but some of the edges don't look like it has worn that much in the wet surf/sand where I found it. Comments are welcome. Mitchel

Big day at the lake today. I found the cross first then all the pieces to the chain scattered out in an area about 4'x8'. The cross read in the low 20's, the pieces hit 6-8. Went to another spot, found the stud earring, then the silver ring and finally the 14k ring. All found in the dry beach area with Nox 800. The 14k ring hit at a solid 10. Running Park 2 Recovery 6 Iron Bias F2 0 Sensitivity 23 GB 0

After my success at the beach the night before I was ready for another 'bite' of it. Conditions were almost the same with all new sand and targets minus a few I found the day before! haha Now that I knew targets should still be there again I went with the tide down as far as I could go until near the hard pack. As you can see it was another productive hunt. This time someone showed up and 'infringed' on my hunting style but I adapted. I still got 47 quarters, 55 dimes, 19 nickels and 28 pennies in addition to a couple of the most unique finds for me ever. I was on a slow grid to get everything that sounded with the 15" coil. To do that the coil speed has to be slower in order to get the 8" plus 10s to be loud enough to dig. This has been part of my learning curve with the 15 on the beach. At one time I thought of it as 'finicky' but now I know that was mostly my impatience and not the coil. Any way here are the finds. As you can tell it was another 'good' ring night as far as the count goes but most silver and only one gold. The silver rings total 8.5 grams. The gold items were a Jesus pendant at 4.4g/14k and the 1.3g/14k ring. Now for the 'unusual' stuff. Early in the session I had dug a deep mostly negative target. It was down 14-15 inches. It turned out to be the rust covered crescent wrench. Later on while working slow I got a little 10ish signal and it kept dropping through my scoop. When I looked at it I could hardly believe what I was looking at. A tiny crescent wrench! It is not a working wrench but who could believe I find a .84 gram wrench by itself. Another thing I found was a silver chain that weighs 6.3g. To top off the session I had gotten another '10-11' and it was dropping through my scoop also. When I finally got it in my hand I couldn't really believe what I was looking at. It was a gold nugget! How could I explain this? Was it a part of a jewelry piece? No, it wasn't solid and then it hit me. It was gold and it was from a tooth. It also had the hollow on one side. The waves had kicked out a 'nugget' that weighs .73g and I found it with the 15" coil. So those were two really odd finds with very similar ID. I attempted one more hunt on the beach but there was a squadron of detectorists on it. I consider this session to have given up 7 more rings for a total of 17 in two days. It is my best beach. Mitchel

Weird. My Apex device runs very well under high power lines... but with two bars removed from maximum sensitivity. No issues at all. But I was heard about some problems with chattering and unstable behaviour from two guys... few days ago. interesting topic. About target locking... is not perfect and that is true. If you narrow your sweeps on target it stay locked if item is coins or similar round shape.

It's a made up name which is a mash up of the words Quick, Bungee and Double (double adjustment point). It describes another innovative product from Doc that makes detecting more enjoyable and helps save your arm, shoulder neck and back from undue stress. Just add your own backpack or Hydration pack. This amazing Bungee Support System provides absolutely instantaneous adjustment so your detector is always at the proper height off the ground, even when you are in mid-swing. We use super strong Marine Grade bungee that is stronger than 3/8ths inch bungee that is commonly used for tie-downs.

I have no information which would rule out a gold pinpointer from FTP. How’s that for noncommittal?

My friend, UtahRich, had some issues with his new Apex at the coil cable connector. He contacted Garrett, they sent an RMA shipping label. he sent it in but received a brand new Apex. I have two Apex devices an one has a 'noise' issue at the cable connector. I have it boxed to send in, they will send me a brand new replacement. The advantage I have is I am still able to get out hunting with my first Apex until the other one is replaced. My reason for 2 of them, like other favorites where I own two of the same, is to keep a different search coil mounted full-time. That way I just grab the detector / coil set-up I want for a particular site. I just need to determine which two coils I'll use most often and be good-to-go. Monte

My real frustration with limited pinpointer range is not finding the gold but finding the 25 small fragments of lead and birdshot that I dig before getting a small nugget.

Brand new Apex +MS3 on the doorstep this morning. Cudo's to Garrett.

The police found it! https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-police-find-rare-four-billion-year-old-meteorite-five-years-after-it-was-stolen-five-years-ago/29ef3c3a-bec6-4337-af84-31336bbfdc4d

Heck of a day! Big Congrads !! On the 18k I've seen a few fakes similar in design, never seen a 18k that bad but that being said. With so many possibles conditions that can be encountered.... I would say its gold until you get it tested. Keep us informed, really be interesting to see if it is possible 18k could bleed copper like that..Seen 10k do that but not 14 up.. Thanks for sharing and get back out there! Wow!

Hey everyone! I recently managed to get my website launched that is dealing primarily with providing LIDAR to prospectors and detectorists. I will say after taking almost a month to build i appreciated what Steve does here now even more!. The website is directed at LIDAR for prospectors and detectorists, but my eventual goal is for it to be the go to source for prospecting research as well, this is because i am slowly adding to the Document Library that i been building there, and over the coming months i will be adding all the various prospecting and mining related documents that ive found in my research. The overall plan is to make the document library the a one stop place for all gold related documents, that way when a prospector is doing research he doesn't have to scour the web for obscure hard to find articles. After you look at the site please leave feed back here as this is the first website that ive built and it was learning process to say the least! Well here is the link! https://theprospectinggeologist.com/

I am still learning the ropes but my thoughts so far after testing in a few gardens and a full fledged relic hunt in hot ground: Ergonomics - weight and balance - very good. It is well balanced and a joy to swing. Like it better than my Equinox in this regard. User Interface - OK, but a little quirky. No intuitive logic to the menu system but everything is at least on one screen, no diving into multiple sub menus like Deus. There really are not many settings anyway - Frequency, Volume, Threshold Disc, Tone Mode, Sensitivity, GB, Salt level, Tracking & Black Sand. Use of a highlight box to show the active parameter being adjusted works but is sometimes hard to pick up. Just takes a few outings to develop the requisite muscle memory to do the keypress combos without having to think about it. Setup - Turn on, pick your frequency, adjust volume, sensitivity to lessen chatter, adjust disc as desired (I reject all ferrous and use mix AM + Tones > this clearly differentiates ferrous from non-ferrous), set threshold, and the GB (single pump while holding GB button and release at the end of the vertical stroke), finally set Salt and Black Sand Preferences (this is a bit of trial and error on land vs. the structured beach setting methodology). Performance - In very hot dirt the Tarsacci easily outperformed the Deus. I was able to hit a minie ball at 8" in maxed out mineralization as measured by the Deus Fe3O4 mineralization bargraph. Dime at 5" no problem. Deus barely registered the dime as "a target" in Gold Field but no clue as to ferrous/non-ferrous. The Tarsacci locked on as clearly non ferrous but up averaged the TIDs and were a little bouncy. This totally impressed me. Did not have a chance to bounce it off an Equinox. I suspect the Tarsacci would win on the ferrous/non- ferrous ID but not sure by how much. Liked how non-ferrous targets at the edge of detection did not simply default to a ferrous hit. They appeared to maintain non-ferrous tones at max depth. My setup: Disc at 0, Threshold -2, Sense max (+8), Tone Mode - Mix, GB (750 to 850), Freq 12 or 18 khz, Salt in the mid 40's, Black Sand off What else I liked - Excellent Pinpoint implementation. If I got an iffy hit that bounced between ferrous and non-ferrous, I used pinpoint to center the target, went back to detect mode and wiggled over the target, that usually resulted in minimal falsing and a pure ferrous (or non-ferrous) response depending on the nature of the target. Pinpoint also showed the classic dumbell field effect on long, narrow ferrous targets (making it falsely appear like two closely-spaced, discrete targets, with the actual target residing midway between the dumbell targets). I like not having to worry about it in the rain. Wish wireless was integrated, preferably something like BT LL that would enable use of wireless, weather resistant phones. What bugged me: Coil bump sensitivity, ferrous high tone falsing, bouncy TIDs in general (see below), no logic to setting up Salt level (non-salt beach site) and no easy way to adjust for desired effect. Wouldn't use it simply to coin or jewelry detect in high aluminum trash conditions because IDs are a little bouncy and the pure disc-only 3-tone implementstion is audibly limited and does not complement the bouncy visual IDs well. Conclusion: As a pure ferrous/non-ferrous target discriminator in a low-non-ferrous trash environment and for decent detection of non-ferrous at depth in high mineralization environment, I like it so far (as long as you are not in a bed o' nails situation, despite decent recovery). Will be trying to get a comparison against Equinox at a mineralized relic site in the near future. What I'd like to see: More accessory coils, obviously. Wireless integration - I used a BT low latency dongle. Some logical guidance on how to set Salt balance away from the beach. Lower price point. More to come in a few weeks when abenson and I meet up at DIV.

I enjoy Rye Patch area in October and sometimes November before the snow accumulates. My 7 performs best this time of year and the day temps in 60-70s is ideal. What I like most about this region is the variety of natural gold nuggets. So far I've been able to score a couple small Chevron pieces and a dozen or so small .1 gram to 1 gram pieces. My total weight so far is just over 10 grams. No, this is nothing to write home about as for gold weight wise, but one of them is $$$. It's a 1.2 gram collector nugget. I've only found 4 or 5 of these beauties in my 25+ yrs of hunting nuggets. I posted this picture on Facebook and have a couple offers, but I have a habit of falling in love with my gold finds. Does anyone know what something like this would sell for to a collector? Yes I realize there are many variables, but just want to get an idea. BTW, if anyone else has found these kind, I'd love to see some pictures. Thanks everyone for input and good luck on your next swing. PS my phone is acting up and not working half the time so it's hard to promise any replies right away. Thanks for being patient.

I was listening the other day to C-Scope talking about the new Evo-6000. They said they opted for single frequency operation with the coil set for one frequency as it is better as it resonates at it's design frequency, in this case 17khz. They did say there will be option coils to change the frequency higher or lower but this will mean purchasing a new coil to change frequency. Is this truly the best way to achieve the best sensitivity at a given frequency or are they just holding on to old tech. There are other makes of detector that you can change frequency with the same coil (Deus, ORX, Kruzer, Anfibio, Nox etc) do these machines have a set resonate frequency matched to the coil which offers best performance and do they lose sensitivity if you change frequency? Or is there a way of making the coil sensitive to a range of frequencies. Just wondering why they chose to go a different route to others on the frequency selection?

I have seen where you normally set sensitivity on your Nox, Simon. So, for example, if I set my sensitivity on my Equinox above 20 and have the coil within 3 feet of either of my F-Pulse/Tek-Point pinpointers, they will start randomly beeping just laying on the ground, on the toe of my not steel toed boot or just holding them up in the air. If I turn the sensitivity down on the Equinox or any other detector I use or make sure that I put the coil down well away from where I am using my Tek-Point there is no problem. I have my Tek-Point set on full sensitivity and sometimes the highly mineralized ground in my area will set it off too. I just had my original, almost two year old, still under warranty Tek-Point that was the first version, completely replaced by a brand new one by First Texas for free. Thank you First Texas!!!! That Tek-Point had at least 3,000 hours of use and still kind of worked. The new one does the exact same thing if it is anywhere near the coil of any of my detectors I'm using when sensitivity is "in the red zone". This has been a great topic so far. I hope FTP actually will come out with a PI pinpointer that has more small gold friendly pulse delay lengths. Right now, the Whites TRX and the XP MI-4/MI-6 are the best that I have found on small gold. Aussie Detectorist did a Youtube video comparison recently. His gold must be chunkier or less porous than my Colorado/Arizona gold. I do not quite get the same results on the MI-4/6 that he does. My .1 gram, really small nuggets are detected by my MI-6 at around 1 cm. and 1 gram nuggets hit around 2.5 cm. The entire tip and about an inch on the sides of the MI-6 are sensitive enough to get those results. A TRX I tried was just a bit less sensitive. My Tek-Points will not respond to the .1 gram nuggets unless they are touching the tip. They do fine on .5 gram nuggets and larger.

I agree .12 is large but suprised the profind is edged bout by a $60 pp. The PF will just start falsing for no apparent reason, this is my 3rd and probably needs to be rma'd again. Updside on my BEII is I put a toggle switch on it, just flick it on and search, thats it, no calibration sequence, no fancy alarms, bells or whistles. Never falses out. Wonder why they never put a discrim knob on a pp so we could eliminate bits of iron?

Shelton, I appreciate your post. I have two (2) of the new Apex devices. One of them had a 'noise' issue near the coil cable connector/control housing connector. If I had th connector nut finger snug and nothing got moved about, all was well and I could hunt away. My first Apex didn't have that issue. The folks at garrett, as always, were quick to take care of the problem. As for 'other noise' such as EMI, my Apex devices run very quiet most of the time. I always have them start-up at Full Sensitivity, and in my Custom Discriminate mode that 'accepts' all notch segments from '20' on up I DO, on occasion, end up in a noisy environment, like here in my den. But when out hunting, I can be under most phone-pole power lines and even close to some of the metal-box power units on-ground and have very little if any issues. But a lot depends on the power source and who know what because I can relocate to a different area and be close to a power-pole line or transformer and get some EMI instability. Usually I drop the Sensitivity from the full '8' setting to '6' or sometimes'5' and that takes care of the issue Location, as always , can be a key. Monte.

18k gold should be easily distinguishable from pure copper (or bronze or brass) in a specific gravity measurement. (See this useful table.) Still, 4 gold rings and 3 silver ones -- just wow!

Thanks for your post Shelton , From the posts I have seen in this forum up to now , for sure I am not the only one having this pb ... However I am not sure that the pb is related to power lines ... Now it would be interesting to have the Garrett's US support answer on this ... btw I will try to recontact the French Garretts local support on this issue tomorrow ..

With .12g of lead my Whites Bullseye II will sound off on it steady when touching. The ML Profind 35 will just blip and go silent. The Whites runs at 36khz. I use it more because it doesn't interfere with any of my detectors and doesn't randomly start falsing. I also prefere tip only. Not sure if there are other pp's out there with similar or higher frequency.

Last week I was looking at 14" of the white crap and below zero temps. This week snow all gone, sun shinning, and 60+ degrees so I headed out for more cleanup work on some gold. Anyways...had fun, got some sun, and outta the shack!!!! The big 6 had a whopping weight of .270g...!!! Big or small...I love em all.

Well the crescent wrench is probably a sign that in the beginning of the season you were adjusting more than you are now. Now you maybe entering a new level of detecting, may the low tones be with you! 🤠

That's so Ca. for you, good job scooping the beach Mitch. 😎 ht

Wait till I show you Day 2! haha

Great to hear! Through the years I've seldom had a need for Garrett service, but when I did it was simply exceptional. I have a set of the MS3 headphones for each of my Apex devices and they are terrific! Comfortable, block a lot of outside noise, nice ear protection this time of year, and best of all the audio is great for this hearing-impaired old guy. Keep us posted on how things go with you and the Apex. Monte

I have an aftermarket cuff on my 800 - and had one on my Etrac and Explorer as well. But it is due to the factory cuffs being too small for me to use when I wear a sweatshirt or coat during colder weather. I'm pretty sure you could pad the cuff with foam or something to raise the arm away from the cuff area and steepen the grip. Not sure how to go the other way without completely removing the control housing on a detector and slapping it on a search rod / grip that you liked.

Fantastic hunt and a whole lot of nice items to boot! Keep up the good work.

Way to go Mitchel- congrats on the stellar hunts! I liked that yellow stone ring as soon as I saw it- really unique looking.

Yes, I have a coin dealer that shoots my objects when I bring them in. I think the 18k stamp under without a trade name is indicative of the fake also.

That hunt is a 2020 winner! Great job! That ring looks like a copper alloy! It still may be old, even though not that worn! Let a jeweler test with a spectrum analyzer, when you take that other beauty to get the stone identified! Great Job!👍👍

Excellent. My back is sore thinking about the digging. Please do let us know results if you get the big one tested.

What a hunt!!!!! I'm still looking over that yellow stone ring you found. Most times it's topaz or citrine, but I keep thinking it's yellow sapphire or if you feel real lucky .... yellow diamond. Just has that expensive look to it. I'd have that one checked out for sure. Super hunt, Congrats!

I have been detecting for over 40 years and the last two days gave up two bucket listers. I have been hunting a farm field for the last 6 years that at one time was a picnic grove. The grove was cut down about 100 years ago and has been tilled ever since. Yesterday I hit the Morgan dollar. It gave a whisper 39 40 and negative -9 numbers. I about gave up on it thinking a large iron item very deep. This was at no less than 12 inches. I run Park 1 will full sensitivity, five tones, no discrimination, speed 4, little or no iron bias. And then today the Seated Half with my Deus. I use the deep program and just doctor it up a bit. In my 11th window I run x-y 12kHz, in my 12th window horseshoe at 8kHz. I was running the x-y pattern when I received the very weak signal. The x-y line was broken so I switched to my 12th window. 93-95 with never a left hand horseshoe. Only right hand. This was about 8 inches down. The field is freshly combined and then shallow disked. We had a drought here this year so the ground is like concrete. The Equinox 800 and the Deus complement each other well. About all I have left on my bucket list is a gold coin. Still hopeing.

If that isn't your find-of-a-lifetime I'd like to know what is. Just beautiful, IMO. (Excellent photo, too.) I don't expect to ever match or beat that, but I guess I can hope, and thanks for proving it's possible. Reminds me of strick's 1918/17-S quarter find. I would be giddy for a month (at least) if I found a rarity such as either of those. I suspect Whitman (authors) are working on a new edition and this one (6th edition) is out-of-print. The 5th edition is available for a much more reasonable price, and if I'm right the 7th edition will be, too. If it were I (and I didn't already have th 6th) I'd either wait for the 7th or maybe pick up the 5th, possibly a used copy. Of course there are always new entries but most of the valuable/interesting ones don't change from edition to edition other the estimated value and possibly survivability estimates. (Always exceptions, though.)

Hi everybody we came up with some cool stuff this weekend and froze our behinds off! Winter is coming! Here’s the latest

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Joe D. I'm glad to be part of the gang. Have a great day and hope to hear from you again.

I compared Pinpointer Minelab Profind 35 and in-line probe Sun-ray DX-1 for Mxt .. Both pinpointers were tested on the sides of the probe - because they had the highest sensitivity and range there. the sensitivity setting was to max ... Profind 35 sensitivity max, and Mxt to Gain +3, GB 50-lock .. and threshold to the limit of readability .. For Spectra Vision I used a stable setting of 1F 22.5 khz best data,7.5 hz Band filter.. rx Gain 6, Ds 88 ..., because Dx-1 is not optimized on the spectra Vision... In Test: mikro 2.8mm -0.07 gram 18k gold Earings,... 0.02 gram 24k gold,.... 0.1 gram 24k gold...

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. The nickel on the right in the first photo is the 1885. Very poor at best. I also found the photo of the 1918/17D saved in my computer. I sent it into ANACS and came back graded F15. By the way Steveg, I have your shaft setup with the Herke cuff. Love it!

A short shaft for underwater work would be nice. As configured from Fisher, the stock shaft is longer than I like for my type of detecting.

Yes,thats exactly what i use,not cheap but i was lucky someone bought one across the pond to the UK and never used it so it was brand new without the additional shipping cost and i mean it was cheap.

It looks like I'm late to the Apex Evaluation Party. Sorry, but I've tied myself up with a multi-model evaluation I set out to do with 10 brand new detectors I had bought. At least 9 of them and the other I did some trading to get a new unit. I'll try to keep it 'on-topic' here since this is a Garrett Forum, but I came away from the evaluations quit pleased with the Apex. I bought my first Apex as one of the first batches to be shipped from the factory and it has been working quit well. I haven't had the opportunity to get it out to a ghost town yet, but that's partly because I have been holding off for a smaller-s-size coil to tackle the more iron debris choked areas. Not to mention it has been overgrown with a lot of dense weeds since about June. My initial plan was to fit the Apex in as one of my 'Daily-Use Team' detectors that I keep in the vehicle to travel with me should I chance upon a detecting opportunity. Therefore, most of my detecting with the Apex has been limited to grassy parks, school and sports field sites, and all have been well-hunted over the years. To get to know it as I was learning it after it arrived, i compared it with two of my other ride-alongs, a Vanquish 540 w/5X8 DD and Simplex + w/5X9½ DD.. I know those two well so that made it easier to work with the Apex. The only thing I initially wished it had was a slightly smaller-size coil in the 5X8 to 5X9½ size. There have been too many littered places, mainly modern trash, where the 6X11 Viper was just a wee-bit too long and the influence of the other nearby targets made the audio and visual responses a little jumpier than I wished. But let me touch on that briefly: We learned decades ago, in the earlier days of Discrimination and detectors with Double-D coils, that DD's have more difficulty than Concentric coils when it came to accurate Discrimination, and then when visual Target ID arrived on the scene, the DD's were typically a bit jumpier than a Concentric coil if both were worked on the same detector. Have manufacturers addressed this and improved on TID in more recent years? Yes, but there certainly there can be some trade-offs. I have handled some top-end models that had/have very jumpy VDI read-outs, but they are a really good detector IF a smaller-size coil is mounted. I've tried some other competitor's models that were/are quite impressive with a Concentric coil, but a comparable-size Dd works but has short-comings in some iron nails and other challenges. Sam detector, different behavior. Therefore, even when announced I figured the Apex might be a little more troubled because it is using a DD coil, and in addition it's a longer tip-to-tail size. It's done pretty well for me in the open plowed fields and such where I've taken it, but suffers in the very trashy places. With their announcement of the Ripper and Raider coils, it should help us all out, especially folks like me who hang out in more littered environments and the 5X8 DD Ripper is likely to become a main-use coil that will stay mounted to one of my two Apex devices. Now, one more hunt update from today. I got the permission to work a double lot that was purchased and they went in last week and bladed a lot of it around. Weeds are now 98% gone. I hunted this after a house was demolished a couple of years ago and it was wheat-back Cent haven! Now I have access to a lot more open ground were another house used to be until about ten years ago. Yesterday I nabbed 1 Memorial Cent and 1 Clad Dime, and a few Wheat-back Cents. Today ... NO memorials, NO Clad, and if I counted the coins right, 28 Wheat-back Cents .... but NO Silver! My Apx & Viper Coil will be attacking it again as soon as I can tomorrow. There is a lot of trash in the mix from th two old houses, other structures and whatever litter was tossed there this past decade. Fortunately, I can 'toe-scuff' most of the coins out of the now loosened and softer dirt that's been moved around, and coins were found from about 2" to the deeper ones at 4" to maybe 5" at a stretch. I'm using my 'Custom' Disc. set-up that accepts everything fro'20' on up because I like to hear most ferrous debris that's present. Volume-8, Iron Volume-2, Sensitivity-8. Mainly using 'MF' when I start out but checking out both '15' Hz and '20' kHz when I am over near where there is more discarded iron, bottle caps, etc. I'll save some the question of asking if the Apex is perfect. No, it isn't, and in over 55 years running these devices I haven't ever had a 'perfect' detector. What I will say is that I am very satisfied I made a good choice. I like the very comfortable light=weight, balance and feel for this old phat who's falling apart. It's working well, offers ample adjustment features fr my needs, or those I feel most people might have, and it makes an excellent 'fit' in my detector outfit to complement other favorites I use. And best of all, I have a lot of 'fun' getting out with the Apex, and, for me, that's a main ingredient that has keep me active for all these decades .... having 'fun.' Now, tomorrow I'll head out for more 'fun' but really hope I can chance upon some silver coins. They have to be out there somewhere. Monte

Where have you been hiding this oscilloscope image, EL NINO? How about interpreting it for us. I roughly think I can pick out ~5 kHz and ~22.5 kHz peaks in the lower (Fourier Transform) window. Also looks like higher freq's (but maybe just harmonics)? I mean that one Garrett interview derided the use of higher frequencies in multi-frequency detectors.... What did that engineer call it, 'fluff'? Surely they aren't using those in their received-wave interpretation logic.

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Can’t get any more clear cut than that - thanks for the report!

Great, nice that you are making a few available again! 👍🏼 The Apex might be different than the other Ace models. I do not have any earlier models on hand to compare to, but here is the measurement. It is no different than some other detectors I have sitting around. The TRP/F19 and Simplex are about the same, for instance, while Vanquish and Equinox are longer. Below, it is 6.25 inches from the arm cup to the base of the grip. Garrett Ace Apex forearm measurement

It is a volcanic rock that has been blasted out of the volcano as it first erupted, traveled some distance while still very hot with escaping gasses as it was traveling in the air, cooling somewhat before hitting the ground.

Looks like volcanic basalt, you won't find little holes in meteorites, that is where gases escaped the basalt.

Now you are challenging me:-) Check your email please!