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...hits a big silver chain in his first beach hunt! In baseball a batter has hit for the cycle when they get a single, double, triple and home-run all in one game. I sort of hit for the cycle on a recent hunt by finding an earring, ring, bracelet and neck chain (all sterling silver).However, on the previous day I took a friend along for his first real beach hunt and set him up with my old Whites Pro PI. That day I found 5 rings, all junk save one small silver but my friend scooped out a 26 gram, badly tarnished, sterling silver chain which I took home to clean for him. He hasn't seen it yet but I think he will be pleasantly surprised.My friend's chain is the one on the outer perimeter. My "cycle" finds are inside of it. As much as I would have loved to have found that big silver I was honestly thrilled for him and think that he may now be hooked on the hobby.GL&HH!

https://www.pbs.org/video/gangsters-gold-pa78zu/ As part of their ongoing series (18th season?!) titled "Secrets of the Dead", PBS just released an episode on the (supposed) Dutch Schultz treasure. You can watch online (link above). In a nutshell, Schultz was a Prohibition and early Great Depression Era mobster/gangster in New York (city and upstate) who met his demise in 1935 when he bucked the syndicate and set out to assassinate a powerful federal government prosecutor -- Thomas Dewey (same guy who 'defeated', well almost, Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election). Supposedly Schultz had hidden (possibly buried) a steel strongbox with several million $ (1935 dollars...) in diamonds, gold coins, paper currency, and WWI US government bonds. As is typical with PBS, the historical components of the show are well done. As far as the treasure search (and searchers)..., well, at least they don't keep talking about a curse. I'll call them 'optimistic' and leave it at that. (As we all know, treasure hunting isn't the proper activity of pessimists. ) Basically three pairs of treasure hunters are featured along with a couple freelance researchers (one of whom joins one of the teams near the end of the show). All teams have metal detectors. Also used is Ground Penetrating Radar; fortunately no hocus pocus snake oil LRL's -- take that Gary Drayton. I was able to recognize some -- Minelab Equinox, Garrett Treasure Hound (2 box), Garrett AT (one of the VLF models), White's Coinmaster or Treasuremaster. Two of the teams (boyfriend-girlfriend and father-daughter) admit to being amateurs and one team (two guys ~mid 40's?) call themselves professionals. Those familiar with treasure hunters in the NE USA may recognize the so-called pros, or not. (Let's just say I wasn't super impressed with their professionalism, but they are a lot better than those two brothers -- supposed professional miners -- from Arizona who had a show last year on cable looking for a different major lost treasure every week.) Spoiler alert: a find is made which would excite most of us, but whether or not it has anything to do with Schultz is just wishful speculation at this point. Bottom line, IMO, is that this is more/less typical of these kinds of shows. If you like them you'll like this and if you're a disser, well here's more ammo for you. Oh, and sorry to disapoint Simon, but the find was made with a Garrett.

Back out today (Wednesday) trying out ElNino77's recommended settings (well, sort of). I accidentally set up Field 2, not Park 2, but otherwise what he suggested. (I used Recovery Speed = 7. Oh, and I was swinging the 6" coil.) I'll take a picture of my 'finds' in the next couple days and post them. Summary is that I found lots of spent lead bullets and quite a few spent casings. Some are 22 calbier but others are larger (I haven't measured yet). Only dug a few pieces of iron. I've found a few bullets and casings plus one cartridge in this park previously (including several shotgun shell butts) but nothing close to the quantity I found today. I'd say roughly half that I found were 12-13-14 TID's (USA nickel sweetspot is 12-13) and I tend to dig all of those (except sometimes signals with 14 -- lots of modern pulltabs hit there). As mentioned before, this trail has been part of the park since the 1930's. Were they allowing hunting in the park or were these shot prior to that? Times have certainly changed so maybe many decades ago they allowed hunting in the park, with warnings or even bans to other visitors during those time windows (hunting season). Seems odd since there are so many places people can hunt around here. Why allow it in a municipal park? But like I said, people thought differently in the past. I will say one thing. Recovery speed 7 and recovery speed 5 are very different. That higher recovery speed allowed me to pick up these non-ferrous targets. There were so many (I could have dug more if I wanted) that I surely had my coil over some previously but apparently they were masked. A majority were close to the surface. (Note: I've hunted with both 11" and 6" before.) But there's a price to fast recovery speed so I'll only be using it on these iron loaded type sites. In 3 hours searching I only found one penny (think it's a zinc) on the trail and one Wheat penny just off the trail in some soft ground. I found no pulltabs today which is also surprising. (I wasn't digging all in the pulltab zone, but way more than I usually do. I get tons in the nickel zone normally.) Maybe this trail has been searched by other detectorists.... No way coins haven't been dropped over 8+ decades. (My Wheatie find is proof.) Or they are still hiding behind the mask. If previous detectorists were here, did they not dig the bullets or just leave them after recovering? I plan on going out again tomorrow and finish up the trail. I'll also play in the creek. I found a large pulltab (Pringles can size) and an old beavertail aluminum can lid in the creek today in only about 10 minutes, but no coins. Where are the damn coins? Edit: I've attached a photo of the finds. Top are iron, middle are general non-ferrous, bottom are bullets and casings. The small casings look like 22's (no printing on them that I could find) and the larger are 25-20 WCF which were popular 1890-1920 according to this Wikipedia article. So maybe they really were deposited prior to the park being designated as official Muni property. Most of the bullets measure in the range 0.30-0.32 inch (~7.6 mm) diameter which doesn't seem consistent with 25-20, though.

Hello! The area I found these two nuggets in is actually a known and producing patch that I have been exploring and observing. I personally have found just over 10 nuggets from this deposit ranging from multi-gram to sub-gram, and I am also aware of a few other detectorists who have pulled many nuggets from the very same location. However! I am not completely convinced yet as to what type of deposit this may be... Sometimes the gold and the ground suggest it is a high and dry ancient channel that has been concentrated over time on this hilltop and in a nearby gulch. But other times the gold alone says it isn't far from its original source. Maybe it's both!!! I have yet to completely explore the possibility of a nugget producing lode on this hill of mine because there is plenty of placer for me to exploit currently. Between detecting and drywashing, I can assure you this is absolutely a Gold Deposit! Like I said originally though, I have much exploration still to do! 3 acres can sound relatively small, but when trying to thoroughly explore a very remote 3 acres by yourself, that relativity scale certainly tips towards the large side of perception. Here's a little more confirmation that this is indeed a Gold Deposit:

I don't know what sources you are referring to, but it's in your best interests to keep an open mind. The reactions to the Minelab Equinox here (going on 3 years) have been mostly positive (and that may be putting it too mildly). Not every detector matches up to every detectorist, though. I have (and like) a Z-lynk system for use with my other detectors (e.g. Fisher F75) but the Eqx 800 comes with proprietary transmission/reception which is ultra fast. Unfortunately ML has chosen to charge an outrageous price for the WM08 receiver which is included in the 800 package but not the 600 package. The good news is that you can find them for less than $100 (with shipping) on Ebay, sold be Eqx 800 owners who choose a different audio path. (I bought a backup -- that's how much I like it, but you still have to plug in your corded headphones to the WM08 and many people find that inconvenient/annoying, particularly since cordless Bluetooth options are available.) There are tons of posts here on detectorprospector.com regarding Bluetooth options for the Equinox (works the same for both 600 and 800) and also some for the WM08 (ditto).

Thanks kac, Maybe I've just been luckier this year and luck does play a part but I think that other factors are also at play. This year I hunted more because I am fully retired now, I'm getting more used to my Equinox (lakes) and TDI BeachHunter (beaches), slowing down my swing speed when I get into promising areas, digging more of the small and questionable signals and getting a better feel of where and when to hunt. I'm guessing that I have found 20-30 chains or pieces of chains this year but many, if not most, have been junk.

With the settings (from ElNino77) it's pretty quiet so I don't think increasing the discriminator threshold will bring out more targets. I'm using my custom 5 tones (although one of those is for subzero ferrous and thus wasted when discing). My ear is well trained for that. I mentioned there are more bullets but even those aren't so plentiful as to cause problems. The real problem is the iron masking which thanks to ElNino77 I'm doing better handling, but there is a limit to unmasking as most know. (I'm sure I'm not yet optimally tuned for that.) BTW, I've added a photo to the original post plus a bit of explantion. Yes, the creek is shallow and easily searchable with knee-high rubber boots. I'm going to do some more test searching today but no way I can cover it in one day (3-4 hour) hunt. If I find any old coin you know I'll be back again!

Have you tried cherry picking the area at all? Disc out everything except your coppers and silver, then go back and disc out everything except a slim nickel range and maybe keep ring pulls? Will take a few passes but I don't think the park is going anywheres soon. How deep is that creek? Shallow enough to toss some rubber boots on it might be worth poking around in and even along the banks.

Should pair to both. The Greens will normally receive from the detector, but when you power on the PP, they will switch over to the PP. When you switch off the PP, the headphones switch back to the Detector. At least, that’s how it works with my Simplex/Pulse Dive.

Congratulations on the silver (jewelry) cycle. You had a double win this week -- second one helping a friend, and that paid off, too. Silver takes a backseat to gold here at DP.com, but for me any silver (coin or jewelry) makes a successful hunt. And if my wife likes the jewelry, even better! My (very) modest cycle is (copper) penny, nickel, dime, quarter USA common coins. Better is the old coin cycle: Wheat or Indian Head cent, Buffalo or older nickel or silver alloy WWII nickel ('Warnick'), silver dime, and silver quarter. Best I've done are three out of 4 (I've not had much success finding silver quarters, let alone silver halves or dollars -- big zeroes for me on those last two).

Never owned one. Thought about it a few times. They are made in China. Videos on YouTube Hear they are about as good as a Fisher F2.

The AKA Berkut 5 has both Large signal and Small signal filters. Someday I'll get my hands on one. I think it would make a great gold jewelry detector. If your ears and mind can deal with it, All metal VCO audio can be useful for what you are wanting to do. Shallow signals squeal, deeper signals don't and the sensitivity settings controls the depth of the squeal. So you can set your squeal depth to say.....7" or so for a coin size target, then when you hear targets that don't squeal, you know that if they are coin size, they are deeper than 7". Since most detectors today include visual target id for the all metal mode, you only have to look at the meter for the non-squealers. Works very good in mixed mode as you can both size, estimate depth and conductivity of the target without having to check a meter. Good luck. HH Mike

Would you like to learn how to take your nugget detecting to an exciting and rewarding new level? In 'The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide', author and experienced prospector Reese Townes shows you how to increase your gold recovery with a metal detector through his tips on detecting strategies, what to look for in the field to recognize gold geology and identify gold deposits, and how to expand productive areas to detect by applying his new Townes' Theory. Other topics include modern nugget detectors and prospecting equipment, safety while detecting and camping, how to hunt old mine workings, cleaning your gold specimens, and more. I found this book to be very informative and detail oriented, with a plethora of color photos and diagrams illustrating practical techniques and theory that, at the end of the day, puts more gold into the nugget hunter's poke. I liked the way that the author uses repetition in the text to drive home key aspects to being successful in the field when searching for gold with a metal detector. I met Reese in the goldfields, where he was applying his “layering” technique as explained in the book, and I was quite impressed when he showed me the nuggets he had been finding as a result. He struck me as an avid, experienced prospector, and his willingness to share his hard-won knowledge in his freshman publication is laudable. I believe that newbies and seasoned pros alike will enjoy and benefit from reading 'The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide', and I look forward to Reese's next Goldseeker book.

Hi ive recently brought a equinox800 and upon detecting in the grounds of an old house that has been built on an old mot and bailey. The hose I’m told is at least 1300 ive hit a signal of 15-19 on the screen, approximately 15ft from where the existing brook used to flow. (It still flows it just moved over the years) ive dug down to at least 18 inches into the river bed (the pebbles make this apparent) and the signal has grown to 32+ but I’m yet to find the source! the signal is strong but I’m doubtful the detector is reading true?! the deeper I go the stronger the reading, I’ve detected the soil I’ve recovered nothing! move filled the hole in and shall return with maybe a better tool? any ideas or experiences?

Hello all, I went back to the lake where i found a 1935 Walking Liberty Half, at the beginning of the year! I believe that coin was a fluke find, as none of my other coins found there even come close to that date range! Today, i went to another shallow water area where jet ski's tend to hang out, while people rest, or work on them! I had no expections of this spot, other than it has been on my "to detect" mental list for awhile! I was there about 3 hours, and only worked about a 5x20 foot area against the shore, but the targets were layered and plentiful! I unfortunately did not get any old coins or gold, but the amount of targets in this small area kept me plenty busy! I used Park 1, with sensitivity at 23, in a depth from few inches to about 2 feet! I was digging most every signal, and got very good at telling what denomination the coin targets where! And for many, i used my pinpointer for the final recovery, as most where under four inches in depth! I was really hoping for some lost jewelry, but no luck this time out! It seems that no one has bothered to detect this spot, due to the amount of targets i found in such a small area! While these are not very worthwhile targets, they are typical of my area, and provide some good practice with the Nox! I'm sure i can get a few more good hauls from this spot, as there is still quite a bit that is still unsearched! Maybe a little gold the next time out!🤞 👍👍 ** I wanted to add my thoughts on the bullet below! I'm a hunter, but by no means a bullet expert! So you ballistic's guy's, please chime in!! I believe that this bullet was fired in the air, and landed in the lake intact! I'm almost certain that there are rifiling marks around the base that show it was fired! (two are visible in pic)! Not sure of the caliber, but it's on top of a quarter for scale! Let me know your thoughts!👍👍

I received my AQ yesterday afternoon. I put the battery on charger and about an hour later it was fully charged. After some scrambling around to get out of my apartment I hit the beach on an incoming tide. I went to an area where I had seen beach PI holes before and decided to give it a try. As you can see it was not a productive location except for the eCig cartridges which I got 3 of them. They were deep and the sound was high. I started out in everything preset as the Quick Start suggests. I didn't know what it was going to sound like but it is a higher pitch than I normally listen to. The waves were making some noise as I was mostly in ankle deep but sometimes knee deep water. The headphones were comfortable for the 3 hours I was out. I didn't have a coin for the first 1.5 hours. I've never had so many bottle caps but I don't hunt this area of the beach. My deepest target was about 20 inches and was the bottom of the can. I couldn't find one target at 24" and still digging. At the end of 2 hours I decided to 'experiment' with going down a notch on frequency delay. Then on the way back to my start I switched to tone mode. That was when I heard a 'weird' low tone and when I dug it it was a dime. When I first started I had put my cell phone in my top pocket and on the 3rd dig hole it dropped in mud. Now I have a finicky cell phone that doesn't want to charge properly. I ordered another BLU phone to replace it. When I put the two shafts together and tried the length I thought it was going to be too long. It would be if it was a heavy unit but I was able to use the first notch with the push out pin but this would not be good for my wife. I would suggest that the pin be moved on the lower shaft and also make it shorter. It is going to be a learning curve to find a beach that is PI 'friendly' which means that it holds deep jewelry/gold and not just deep trash. Mitchel

If you mean can you open it and charge them separately.... not normally. It’s a sealed pack. However, it can be opened... see the video below about the NiCad pack. It does use separate cells internally, but they are wired together. Doing anything with them would require some cutting and soldering.

Thanks, guess I have to train my brain to figure out how to get it to pair to the headphones. Took the pp out today and love it, very smooth operating, not too noisy and really great build quality. Far cry from the frustration I have had with the Profind falsing on me all the time and interfering with my machines.

Chains are tough, some barely pick up if at all on many machines, gold that thin is so close to foil and the shape if its sprawled out or balled up I imagine is what makes them so easy to overlook. Takes a good ear and good degree of skill to pick them up.

Enjoying this investigation thread immensely! Particularly amused with the mental image I have of a bunch of prohibition drunks discharging weapons at the dance hall parking lot; then the WPA re-uses the contaminated gravel on the creek trail! But seriously I'm closely following the various settings adjustments, and your result reports, as someday soon I hope to afford a Nox 800... I agree: 'Where are the damn coins?'

Compass, That is a nice collection. Well done. Mitchel

Thanks GBA, Yes, I don't usually get too excited about silver but I do like big silver, designer silver and silver chains. When I used to focus on coinshooting it took me forever to find my first silver half- a Franklin and I still haven't found a silver dollar.

Nokta also makes CF lower shafts as an accessory for Simplex. https://www.noktadetectors.com/accessoire/simplex-lower-shaft-carbon-fiber/

Really nice, only chain I ever found was a piece of a silver one. Congrats!

Thanks Geoff, The beach didn't look too promising yesterday so I had the time to do some documentation of the finds- mostly to give perspective on the size of the big silver chain. 😉

Mounting the handle on an S-Rod would raise the control pod about 5 inches. All it would take is some drilling and installing a grip if it doesn't already have one. You would then hold the detector by the S part of the rod instead.

You have displayed those silver finds spectacularly, I am really impressed with your layout.

I've been a long-time White's users, since the summer f '68. I currently have my 38th XLT and have owned one since June of '94. The XLT is not an Eagle Spectrum circuitry in a different housing, it is a unit unto itself. The first XLT software Version was the 1.0 and not too long after they made a few mode changes and it became Version 1.1 .... and that was it. Those were the only 'Version' changes made to the XLT. There were some other changes along the way as some components were no longer available that White's used, such as the Display Back-light brightness. Originally it was a very noticeable increase from Off to Low to the Brightest (highest) setting, but there came a time when what they didn't produce as bright a back-lighted display. So there were a few changes along the way. like gong to a different brand tire on a vehicle, but the 'Version' would have been a 1.0 or 1.1 and that's it. Monte

Great hunt and your friend has a lucky streak in him for his first hunt. Very nice finds indeed. Good luck on your next outing.

Thanks very much Skullgolddiver, checked online the ACQ 908 delivers 0.12 MPa pressure with 150 L/min. And the ACQ 910 0.12 MPa with 160 L/min. Thanks very much for your info and help!

First off, hello all! Great reads here, and a big thanks to Steve for all of the generous work put in for the lay-detectorists. I have gold fever. I’ve had it since I first dug up my own gold in 2013 and I’ve learned that it never goes away. It just gets worse as it sinks it’s claws deeper into its poor host. My summer job this year really hasn’t left me much free time for prospecting. Mostly a very brief opportunity to pan some gravel in the Feather River for flood gold. Much of the time for prospecting it has actually allowed me has been in the form of Google Earth prospecting the reminiscent values found in old patches and pure fantasy of what’s left to be found elsewhere. All of this imagination mixed with the ungodly lack of personal time has really flared my case of gold fever to a boiling point... no, something more closely resembling a nuclear reactor nearing criticality... yes. But, ah! Finally! After 3 months of work with only 10 days at home to take care of personal matters, another 2 days off without the chance of being bothered. An opportunity to go prospecting! In all the time I’ve had locked inside of my own head with my thoughts and stupendous ideas. There was one idea I had been diligently working to manifest into reality; I was going to use a mountain bike to subtract the amount of physical exertion it normally takes me to hike in and out of an old, arduously located patch! Well, my imagination is quite the steadfast optimist! And it kept being so, no matter how hard each and every contour line of this rugged desert terrain attempted to beat it into accepting the reality of the situation. Until finally, I submitted. My idea did not work. It was not smart, to try riding a mountain bike for my first time on the equivalent of an advanced, single track, rocky bike trail, with a backpack full of sustenance, plus a detector on my back. I had travelled 2 miles from where I parked and ridden the bike for maybe 500 feet... That translates to pushing the bike along in front of me with its front tire in the air for over 10,000 feet, not to mention the elevation gain involved! It was 8 o’clock in the morning, and I looked like I just got out of the shower fully clothed in Georgia during an August heat wave at 3 in the afternoon! Without shame, I laid the bike on its side next to the trail and proceeded on foot without looking back. I dried off quickly and was pleasantly relieved at how much easier it was to just hike after the whole bike ordeal. Eventually I made it to the old patch, where I had another plan thought up to explore the ground conditions for some future drywashing. This plan however was much safer, much less chance of failure. And I pulled it off without a hitch! It simply involved digging up a 5x5 foot area to see how deep the residual deposit laying over the area was. Of course more future exploration is planned, the purpose of today was just to have little teaspoon of medication for my fever. But I didn’t bring that detector for nothing!!! After dreaming of nuggets all summer, you bet I was gonna listen to what the dirt had to say today! I threw my old SD together with my trusty stock 11” DD and in two minutes I had a beautifully screaming target that stayed faithful after scraping away the surface. I couldn’t believe it happened so quickly! Soon I was looking at my first nugget after a 2 year skunk streak. A beautiful little half grammer! In another 20 minutes I found its little sister about 20 feet side slope to the left at a quarter gram. After exploring another one of my ideas without anything to show for it, I decided my day had been good enough and I’d head home and continue enjoying my short amount of time off. Plus I still had to push that dang failed plan from earlier back as far as I had pushed it in... but now with a Whopping .75 grams of extra weight of gold in my pocket

The GTI 2000, later the 2500, was the first top end detector I ever used (top end at the time). The surface elimination function works ok but it's basically a screen for targets detected at the selected depths. The GTI will simply mute most any target, except large can slaw and the like then it just chirps a lot, and attempt to give positives to deeper targets however its not an inverted audio. Targets will still be masked using that function so its not something I used very much. But it does work. The only audio inversion I have ever come across was a coil for my GP3000. I still have it but its been so long I cant remember if its a nugget finder.... any rate it was called a phase inversion coil, it was around in 2005 I believe. It had a switch on the coil that allowed one to "flip" the transmit and receive of the DD design making shallow targets sound like deep ones and vice versa. It worked rather well, mine was the 16 inch, and the inversion function also helped deal with EMI. Other than that I cant recall anything else aside from audio boosts like the affor-mentioned gold bug. My thoughts.

These are Nickel-metal Hydrides, right? Are the rechargeables from Minelab also NiMH or are they lithium? I've used the Eneloop Pros in my White's TDI/SPP. I like them, and they are well-known for holding their charge during storage, which is rare among NiMH batteries. The biggest problem I've seen with NiMH is their lower voltage (e.g. AA's 'plateau' around 1.25-1.3 V). But for most modern electronics with voltage regulation that isn't an issue.

I go gold detecting, dry washing, sluicing and panning because I get to go to areas that are beautiful and off the beaten path. I get to do research on gold areas and learn the history. I get to learn about amazing technologies used in detectors. Best of all I get to meet great people and have fun. An occasional nugget is fantastic but just icing on the cake.

Enjoyed the story of your adventure, as well as the picture of your captured gold. All the best, Lanny

GB .... the answer of your terrain in the range -4ID, -2D suggests that the terrain is polluted with iron waste ,, iron mineralization would really give higher iron -8-9 ID .. since you are looking for an 11 "coil on the equinox ... so I would recommend you to try to increase the recovery in the program Park2 n recovery speed to 7-8,, and the disk to -1ID ... and to check the signal I would put the program Beach 2 in the user program also on recovery 7-8 and setting iron bias F2 to the value 6-7 which will help you in the control comparison of some signals .... recovery speed 6 is not the final possibility of separating Equinox and at recovery 7-8 you can still detect really good signals .. Most good goals should have the same ID on both multifrequency programs ... while enough bad goals are just reflected in the different ID when comparing both programs on one goal ... He gave Another option would be to use Equinox at a 1F frequency of 15-40khz to try to cross this terrain like this .. at a higher sensitivity of the detector ..

Simple answer: MultiQ is VLF, but uses multiple frequencies and advanced signal processing to determine ground and target information. Think of it like looking at something from different angles instead of just one. A deeper discussion of this requires some mathematics and is above my IQ level.

My finds for the total of this year! At least I got out 3 times...

I will save Mr.H some trouble and self edit my political comments. Here in Northern California the ------ ------ - ----- - --- ---! And therefore ----- -- ------- - ----- -- -, ----- - --- - ------- -- - However we can all ---- - -------- --- - -------- ----- ------- ------ ---- --- but only if we work together by ------ ------- --- ------ ------ ---- ---- and ------- -- --------- ---- - -- ------- -- ---- --. There are still a lot of opportunities here in the Northern Sierras but that is only because it requires a lot of very hard work to take advantage of them.

It’s tough for the new guy for sure I dream of starting this years earlier, no reason not to have just wasn’t on my radar at the time nobody to blame for that except myself. I’ve never asked anyone to give up their hard earned knowledge I feel it’s the same as asking for their ATM card and pin for my own use, besides endless hours picking up only trash knowing exactly where the fruit of the apple tree is when you can’t eat it anyway is it’s own form of torture. luckily feeding myself is not reliant on finding gold and the little bits along the way and the pleasure of the outdoors and the hunt itself enough of a prize to keep me happy, and the dream of finding the one prized ounce or greater chunk still not out of the question someday.

It's most likely a large, very deep piece of metal or hot rock.

Some detectors that Minelab has made 'sell themselves.' I think this was the case for the 5000 and the 7000 in the last 10 years when I was buying detectors that were the best. Others can tell me about the 2200 or 3000 that just didn't have any real competition. You had to have it to keep up with your fellow detectorists or be ahead of them. Some detectors need a lot of dealer help. I would say the 2300 and Gold Monster are a highly dealer driven sale for the right customer. I think this 6000 will be the same way. It won't be something that will change the industry but it will combine knowledge and technology not available when these other detectors were designed. The 7000 still has no real peer. They are keeping it that way for now.

Oh yes on the surprise part . On one the girl friend lost the guys high school ring, But the good thing it wasn’t a love lost because when I returned the ring they were married by then . Chuck

When they finally get down where they think the treasure is they will find a big sign saying APRIL FOOLS. Chuck

With the fantastic weather in the Rye Patch region during the month of October, I was chomping at the bit to get down there, but my summer job didn't end until the 30th. It still took me a few days afterward to get everything wrapped up, so I finally hit the road and met up with Gerry and friends at Rye Patch the following Tuesday. The detector training class we were scheduled to give that weekend ended up being cancelled, thanks to a winter storm that was forecast to move into the area on Friday. Needless to say, having only two days of optimal detecting conditions before being snowed out and forced to move on to Arizona was a total bummer.😞 Intent on finding a few bits of gold in-spite of the looming storm system and armed with our trusty Minelab GPZ 7000 gold detectors (and one SDC 2300 - also quite trusty, btw), we hit an old patch in hopes of digging up some previously overlooked yellow metal. Only two small nuggets were found after a couple of hours searching with four coils on the ground - not a very good start. It was then that I remembered another old patch nearby that I had completely forgotten about, it had been so long since I had been there. It wasn't a very good producer back in the day, but perhaps we would be able to find a few nuggets that the VLF and early PI machines may have left behind. Within minutes of hitting the ground, my good friend Chef Rusty and I both popped a shallow sub-gram nugget; not a bad start. Soon, everyone was digging good gold! My second target gave an obvious yet deep sounding signal response from the GPZ's stock 14” coil. I imagined it to be a three or four gram piece at a depth of 12” to 18”. Gerry noticed me digging quite an excavation and came over to capture the action on video. At a measured depth of 20”, the target was finally out of the hole, and as I held it aloft there was an audible gasp from the audience that had gathered to watch, followed by cheers and fist-bumps: After a thorough cleaning, the specimen weighed in at a whopping 40 grams - a totally unexpected and pleasant surprise! The nuggets kept biting sporadically for everyone the rest of the day, and the same was repeated the following day. Just goes to show that sometimes the ZVT tech can really ignite an old burned-out nugget patch. Much fun was had by all, and it really made up for such a short two-day detecting trip. Pictured below are my finds, including the 40 gram chunk, a couple nuggets at over 8 grams, and all the small bits, with a total combined weight of over 66 grams.

You did indeed Jason, and credit where credit is due. I'm just finally catching up to you! Official FCC website report on GPX 6000 https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/Z4C-0039/4856998.pdf "In additional to above mentioned documents, pursuant to Public Notice DA 04-1705 of the Commission’s policy, in order to comply with the marketing regulations in 47 CFR §2.803 and the importation rules in 47 CFR §2.1204, while ensuring that business sensitive information remains confidential until the actual marketing of newly authorized devices. We are requesting the commission to grant short-term confidentiality request on the following attachments until: 18 December 2020. External Photos Internal Photos Test Setup Photos User Manual"

Well, in fairness, for those who are really paying attention - I posted the confidentiality document in this thread indicating a release on or before Dec 18th over a month ago. The link I posted goes to the actual FCC database, which for some reason is down today (it was up yesterday). Not that it particularly matters, but Steve the link you included is actually a 3rd party data scraping site that is emulating the actual FCC website. Same info in the end though I guess, just about a week delayed it seems. If that link dies, the product code to search the FCC database for this GPX 6000 is "Z4C-0039"

It does very much, and thank you for the video! So it seems like it's not just the stable ID numbers that the Multi-IQ provides, but also the ability to get those stable numbers with almost no (or at least a lot less) adjusting of settings compared to a non-Mult-IQ machine. Thanks again, you've been very helpful in helping me understand the benefits of Miulti-IQ.

Good gosh, there are many people who are better detectorists than I am! Seriously, I am no wizard. I basically cheat by putting in huge hours, talking about the good days, and forgetting to mention the bad! Good photographers don’t take perfect pictures every time. They take a zillion pictures and toss all but the best ten. That’s my secret to successful detecting. Hours, lots of them. I like to think of myself as a student of metal detecting. The day I can’t learn from others is the day I die. A person simply asking a question I don’t know the answer to triggers my learning process. I don’t have all the answers - I just chase them down when people ask, and then we both learn something. My favorite line at work... “I don’t know, but I will find out and get back to you.” Pretty grand when you think about it. So thank you all - you help me in more ways than you know.