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  1. 6 points
  2. I have been trying to locate a school house site in a small farming settlement that was abandoned by the late 1920's. The settlement had a few houses scattered about, a rail stop/ post office and a 1 room rural school house. Everything was razed years ago. Yesterday I located a privy hole that was cased with an iron pipe so I figured that must be the area. Meager finds that are par for the course here where I live with the exception of the Chinese coin. It is the first I have found, so I was pretty happy with that.
    5 points
  3. I converted my GBP (Clone) to a telescopic carbon handle version. I used an carbon monopod for Camers (Rollei Citey traveller Mono bought for 20€). The grip, coil holder and arm rest parts were designed in Fusion 360. I made the display flippable (first of all to make the screws work). Now it fits in every rucksack. I'll upload the STL files to ThingyVerse next week.
    4 points
  4. Today I had the chance to get out for a couple of hours to do some hunting and decided on a place where over the past 200 years they have had to rebuild the church 3 times. During the time that the church has been at the same spot they have added on to it a few times to what it is today. This church sits on top of a hill next to the original cemetery when the church was built. I remember seeing some of the old photos that showed an old out house near the back of the church and started there. My first good signal was the typical trash that one would expect to find, and so was the next 20 signals. It seemed that I was going to strike out today when I had a very unusual signal or should I say signals on a small spot of ground. As I am digging I noticed what I thought was another piece of trash, and then I saw a round edge of something small. I pulled it out of the dirt and found a nice 3 cent piece. The signal was still on top of the hole I was digging and I pulled out 2 more coins, each of them were dimes. I rechecked the hole again and nothing else was there, so I decided to fill the hole and call it a day. I don't think it was to bad for just an hour and a half. Here are the photos I took in the car of the coins before I can get them cleaned.
    3 points
  5. Wow I can't believe I got out yesterday to dig. It seems like work and the stress of things in 2020 took a toll on my detecting experiences for quite a while. I wanted a new coil for the MK and saw a post Kac made about the Nel Superfly, So I said what the heck I'll give it a try. This coil is 6 grams lighter than my 9 inch. I must say this coil is amazing!!! great depth and way better separation. So I went to give it a spin on a site I hunt that has some modern and 18th century history to it. (ball fields and farm fields). I swung for about 5 hours in the 35 degree weather, and found a bunch of coins,(1941 penny, 46 nickle) shot shells, suspender clip, fishing reel, and a fragmented old bell. I wish the bell was whole, because it was about 2'' in dia. The reel perplexes me because of the lack of water in the middle of a 20 acre field. Overall I had a really nice trip out, I was starting to forget how detecting can clear your mind. PS Joe D can you please send some of the Florida warmth up here to PA.
    3 points
  6. Thanks to forum members for showing me how to clean and cash in my coins, didn't pay for my nox 800, but sure made the wife happy with Amazon credit. We now have some nice new cookware. 😃 ht
    3 points
  7. The best i remember, all three of you are part mountain goat. Great to find some yellow! Norm
    3 points
  8. Hi Rob, The MF5 was discussed here back in November. It is already on the market, and therefore nothing to do with the GPX 6000. The MF5 is a multifrequency mine detector packed in the SDC box. It may have prospecting applications, but that is not what it was designed for. I suspect the unit is an offshoot of Multi-IQ, but since this is military they will not want to mix consumer tech terminology into how it’s advertised.
    3 points
  9. First out for the year, found a spot that has cuts that are over my head. I know how they got there but best I hold on that for now. One thing for sure targets are every where, on the top shelf, down the slope, and in the bottom. Just have to wait for a better tide so I can hunt the whole bottom and not worry about sliding down the slope. Most targets are shallow. First gold was maybe 12 inch's? Going to be interesting to see how long this spots stays intact-ed. I knew something was up and one reason I took the Excalibur for I had no clue on what I would be walking into. I am debating on taking the 8 inch on the "AQ" next trip. Seems to be no trash at all.... Three hour hunt, 1916 Class Ring and 1929 Class ring. 4 Silvers, which are eaten bad by the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Water is just dipping into the high 30's, full hunt I was toasty but Need to make some adjustments to my gloves, left glove is like wearing a sock.. No mobility.
    2 points
  10. This book (apparently currently out-of-print) talks about and shows photos of nuggets (in the neighborhood of a few pennyweights) that the author, Chuck Lassiter, has found. I don't remember if he used a metal detector to find any of these but I know he talks about metal detecting. The two places I recall him finding decent sized nuggets are in the Wabash River (probably dredging) and in coal, stone, and gravel pits/quarries where the heavy equipment has reached ancient bedrock. Update -- Here's a photo and caption from P. 78 of the above book:
    2 points
  11. It's a countermine detector so won't be available through Minelab retailers. They won't sell you any without Government military approval. It runs on Simultaneous Multi-Frequency (4 frequencies in the range 5 kHz to 75 kHz) so to me looks like an Equinox with a higher 75kHz frequency in a SDC housing. You'd be better off with the EQ800 IMO. Minelab wrote: I think some people are getting thrown by the above statement believing that it actually combines Pulse Induction & Continuous Wave but all they are saying is that Simultaneous Multi-frequency combines the advantages of them. Edit: The "prospecting store" that the info came from is an Aussie prospector who sells maps & occasionally used gear. He's not a Minelab dealer or anything like that. The info on his website is basically his own blog/opinion not gospel news.
    2 points
  12. That's the way to do it ! Grandpa will be proud.
    2 points
  13. Some of those surfers are wearing the gift or an inheritance of a grandparent. They would never take them off so they wear them in the water. Just this past year I heard numerous stories of lost jewelry that fits this exact scenario. I zig zag the wet slope looking for any line of targets then start gridding. Towel lines are obvious depositories but with a lot of hunters too.
    2 points
  14. Interesting, thanks. Young and careless perhaps. And I am thinking you are right about competition too. Imagine how many brand new Vanquish Christmas presents are going to be swinging around on the beach. Great point. I remember now that you have said this before. Trash may lead me to treasure. As Geof indicated this should be the Back Beach exposed to Bass Strait. I will do some looking later re: a website that has lists energy in the profile. It is unfortunately unlikely that we will return at Easter between work and the fact that we don't make many beach trips. Would normally avoid the beach this time of the year due to the crowds but have been offered a free house for a week by someone my wife works this. Silly to say no to an offer like that. Thanks for the advice so far 😉
    2 points
  15. Guess they don't smell like rancid whale oil? Those are excellent finds, and quite old! None is a low mintage but the conditions are really good, especially the 1829 dime. That one has some numismatic value due to its condition (looks like a VF-25 (probably) or VF-30 (maybe) to my eye. You can grade it yourself here. Definitely don't do any cleaning. Just soaking in water will take off the dirt clods remaining. Don't rub with a cloth -- that will leave micro-scratches. I bet you can't wait to get back out there (probably detecting right now as I write this).
    2 points
  16. Glad you all were able to find some yellow metal. Kind of sucks when only 1 guy finds it, so great for you all. GPZ-7000 is hard to beat in many situations.
    2 points
  17. Hi everyone. I have a Gpx5000, Based your experiences, which coil is the best between the 2 Nuggetfinder 17"x13" coils. The Solid coil or spoked? Thanks in advance for your replies. Nigel M.
    1 point
  18. This picture is 3 weeks old, I 'm waiting for a today update. My grandson discovered metal detecting "for treasure" on tv. He's watched countless videos of how to and getting big finds and then my son told him I used to detect. Next step, using my old Whites spectrum in the back yard....he keeps finding stuff I've missed after 15 yrs of "cleaning it out". This Christmas his parents and I got him a basic set up with all the tools; pin pointer, shovel and belt with a trash bag. I gotta work on his making a smaller hole and leaving no trace But, damn I'm proud of him.
    1 point
  19. https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqduyupj0vGd3S0_52FsbHTbPjYr0sZQUj Meeting Registration Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Microsoft (Outlook) Topic UCLA Meteorite Gallery Lecture Series Description Title: Clocks in Rocks: How to date a solar system Lecturer: Dr. Sara Russell; Natural History Museum, London Our solar system was born over four and a half billion years ago, from a cloud of dust and gas called the protoplanetary disk. Examples of the first solids to be formed - calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) and chondrules -have survived in some meteorite samples to learn about these ancient times. In particular, we can determine how old these components are using lead isotopes, which places constraints on the formation time of our Sun and planets. Finer details can be provided by the isotope 26Al, which is a natural clock because it is radioactive and its abundance declines by half every 3/4 of a million years. By looking at how much of this isotope was present in each object when it formed we can therefore tell how old it is. However, this chronometer depends on knowing how much 26Al originally existed in the disk and how it was distributed. If we can work these details out, then we can use these data to determine the length of time it took to make CAIs and chondrules, and from this we can work out how long the dusty disk took to start to form planets. Time Jan 17, 2021 02:30 PM Feb 21, 2021 02:30 PM Mar 21, 2021 02:30 PM Apr 18, 2021 02:30 PM May 16, 2021 02:30 PM Jun 20, 2021 02:30 PM Time shows in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
    1 point
  20. I know they exist because i I found a 1.3 grain piece south of buffalo panning. I heard of a 1.6 gram piece found with dredge in the Finger lakes region.I talked to a geologist in Buffalo who was sifting glacier material in a certain spot and found a nugget big enough to have in his wallet.He did not have it with him at the time because he was just walking his dog.I did find a .5 grain piece with my AT gold checking all the material that was around my pan from all the cracks we had cleaned.I would have not got it if i did not have my machine since there was to much sand blocking it from view.I guess that could be counted a tailing pilings piece since I was competing with a buddy in all those cracks.
    1 point
  21. These are from CA, found several years ago on an isolated high bench. There were nuggets everywhere, despite having been detected by others who didn't know their machines or were swinging too fast. My detecting partner found 3 with his GP Extreme. Found with a GPX 4000 and 17" elliptical NF coil. The nuggets are 4.8 grams total, the speci is 5.6 grams:
    1 point
  22. Actually his name is Raymond Block ( http://leavennotrace.org/ ). He is kind of a one man band when it comes to the environment and trash pickup on Coastal 101, beaches and roads throughout the state. You can usually see him single handed along all those roads picking up trash and depositing the secured up bags of trash along the roadside for the municipalities to dispose of. When I took the picture his whale was only partially built and was quite a lot filled in when New Years Eve came. On his website you can see it being torched and being pulled out to sea. I did go down and do some detecting with my Impulse a couple of times after the first but did not come up with much. A small metal cross, pieces of it's chain, some coins, sinkers, somebodies keys (old, not from this event), lots of nails all in the lower wet portion. The sneaker waves and rolling logs in the surf made it difficult to concentrate with one eye on the ocean and one on your target. Got soaked twice from the surges of rushing water which are on you in a second. Never turn your back on an Oregon beach wave!! GaryC/Oregon Coast
    1 point
  23. NICE, Here in my part of PA. the coinstar machines went the way of the dodo. I think they got tired of the pocket lint clogging the machines. Now I have to count and wrap and drag to the bank, which is good because they can't see how bad those coins look. Great haul, now just don't show that receipt to your better half. HaHa
    1 point
  24. From memory around 100grams difference in weight. The solid one is more popular here in our neck of the woods because it glides smoothly along the ground.
    1 point
  25. Good job!!!!!!!!!!!!just my 2 cents when i did mine i realised the XP arm cup was 50% lighter........i havent work on mie for a while wanted to put the battery in the stem and remove the speaker RR
    1 point
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  27. Great job on the finds!! My holy grail is a trime, I just can't seem to trip over one yet. As for other things to try, they are the clothes line areas. Look for rope scars on the tree's or if you find oddly placed iron pipe in the ground try and find another and hunt all around.
    1 point
  28. Condor took my brother and I out for a hunt in what was a new area for us two to detect and let me tell you it was some of the toughest walking I have done in quite awhile , it did put the hurt on myself and Steve my brother not so much but he is part mountain goat anyway. The good part was everyone found some gold Steve got one, i got one and my brother a couple pieces the gold seems to be very spotty in this area and very thin with a quartz matrix also stained with what seems to be manganese . Here are the pieces my brother and I found.All gold was found using GPZ 7000s.
    1 point
  29. For the type of beach that you described I would use the method that Geof has described. He has found a lot of items and I plan to use some of his ideas on a local beach. Good luck and good hunting.
    1 point
  30. Been Using this one for awhile. This is a Promotion Frisbee from Home show. Deeper than most. The Hard Drive magnets are a lil Tuff to separate. A chisel between straight down will move them. (Some are Glued). They are Thin & Strong! Taking a Young'un is Almost as "Catching" as Learning to Fish! Went with Pops. "Digger" O'Dell... He was great. MD'ing & Bottles! Ocean to the Mountains. Finding things and Some of the Fun was trying to Figure Out what something was. I remember 1 Find..... He brought it to me... after looking at the slashes on the side & slight Roman Numerals, Size of a Pocket Watch.... Had some metal with type of hinges criss crossed....... Well I Got'it! it was a SUN DIAL POCKET Watch!! The cover was Gone. after careful cleaning..... POP! The angled hand would stand up. Type of compass to get heading and the Sun would tell time.......... Not sure Where it is?
    1 point
  31. Research is part of the method my grandfather and people on this forum has taught me. I don't think I could have found them without the people here and the advice from them. That's the most important thing as it has given me the desire to get back out there. They don't smell at all and the only cleaning I plan on doing is the ultrasonic cleaner. Thank you I am just happy that I was able to find these coins, the trash was starting to get to me. Thank you I could not believe how good they were, and since there is a possibility of gold I go with the feeling of dig everything because of that. Thanks
    1 point
  32. Congrats Joe! Lovely old pieces there... Hopefully Monday I'll be free to go again at the beach...But the wind will be tremendously bad...I'm however happy cause this fu....g lockdown is boring and I miss the "sand control"...
    1 point
  33. Nice condition on those. Coins in that period you many want to start checking any low aluminum hits, might be a chance on a gold $1 Trimes always amaze me how thin and small they are. Congrats!
    1 point
  34. It’s always a pleasure to see those old rings Joe. And as always, I’m amazed at what still lies under the water. Well done 👏
    1 point
  35. Welcome Private Ryan, Great movie!!🤣 Glad you found the forum! And thank you for your service! This is a great place to fine tune your detecting skills, and learn new ones! Wish i lived in a place with so much history! Good luck finding some goodies! Keep us posted!👍👍
    1 point
  36. For my style of hunting--parks, baseball and football fields--I keep the 15" on 99% of the time. It finds things so small at times that I have issues locating the item even with a pinpointer. It really doesn't go much deeper, but it allows me to vacuum much faster. When I use it along with 7 recovery speed, it picks through targets very well. Would I use it downrange at a trap shooting range? Probably not. I have used it at the beach before with mixed results; it found nothing good just like the 11". The negative that I have experienced at the beach is when the coil gets wet and then you start detecting the dry sand. The extra weight of the sand can be a bit much until it dries enough to shed the sand. In addition, the drag in the water makes swinging it for long periods of time a killer to my joy of detecting at the beach. Some finds are attached to show what the coil has found in the last year. It is no slouch when it comes to the thin rings.
    1 point
  37. Adam, Don't over complicate the settings. You will locate most things in the standard Beach 1 mode. I use 23 here mostly as the sensitivity. Use F2 at 0 and keep it in all metal. Now, the zig zag is the way to find a line. Don't go too fast. When you get a target then do a circle. Go down your beach 30 to 40 meters and dig everything. The clues can be trash also. You want to know if weights, hair pins, hooks, caps ... anything will give you an idea of what the waves are doing as well as the tide. You want to know how deep the targets are. You should be getting down 10" and with the right technique a bit more. When you connect your digs with your eyes you should or could find a line just above the black sand line (if you have one) where the larger objects were tossed up a bit before the tide went out too far. You have already done some research. Does your beach profile include ENERGY? Look for a website that does. Also look at your wind waves. The tide, swell and wind will provide the energy to PUSH your targets along the bottom in high tide. They will stop at some point because of rocks or a reef as the tide goes out and that is when you find them at what you said would be the waist deep areas. Try in some rocks if you have a beach like that. All of this technique is for a beach that has energy and waves. If you can find a good sheltered swimming beach that generally gets no waves and there is a big parking lot near it then it might be your best beach. Take your Nox into the water or wait for the low tide.
    1 point
  38. Great hunting in such conditions, and I know that you will be ready to go again soon. Good luck on your next outing.
    1 point
  39. Very short but very productive year for me, seeing as I only got to prospect from Oct. - Dec. and only about 8 days during those months. I'll post a few more photos later of my 2020 finds. But enjoy this semi drawn out nugget discovery to recovery 😂
    1 point
  40. Can't help thinking that most hunters would have a much easier time if they had done some time with a pulse. I think that's why you do so well with the Excal--you have learned to run it like a pulse--and assess your targets with a wider set of metrics. By pulse hunter standards any discrimination spoils you. There's just as much info to be got from the context. Its true though a narrow deep pulse signal is always going to be non-ferrous--simple physics. The TDI is bad for one ways--jury still out on the AQ certainly seems more consistent in that once its "caught" a target it keeps it. cjc
    1 point
  41. Gold Kruzer would be nice if it had notching.
    1 point
  42. Good to get gold for your efforts. All three of you survived for another day. You also got another reward. Every time you see a less challenging hunt you will think of it as 'easy!' Mitchel
    1 point
  43. The area is not particularly known for gold production, mostly silver and lead with some copper. The canyon we worked is a classic slot canyon with lots of bedrock and high steep walls. Unfortunately, there's lots of trash from an old silver mine way up the canyon. We were stuck with working only shallow bedrock, too many deep trash targets. It's easy to lose your vigor after walking a mile or so and digging a couple 2' holes for pieces of wire and rusted tin cans. I wish I was about 15 years younger and able to hike up and around the little feeder canyons.
    1 point
  44. To a degree. The point of my post is to cut through the BS, not to simply repeat what they are telling people. I’ll call out Nokta/Makro here as being a company that has been unusually transparent and honest with customers. They deserve a attaboy while the rest get a lump of coal. I do notice however that even with NM, the larger they get, the quieter things are. Most of the communication has been one person, and I doubt it lasts. We start out being dear customers for new companies, and end up being wallets to be drained when they get larger.
    1 point
  45. Welcome, Michael! Dick Stout's webpage has clubs listed by state. These may be outdated but a good place to start: https://stoutstandards.wordpress.com/club-websites/
    1 point
  46. Week after doing so research with historical maps and pictures of old buckeye az buildings I had 3 sites to check. One was an old house from the 30's now it's an empty field, one a 1890's school house also an empty lot, and the last was an old house from the 40's that burned down in the 90's and is still there. My finds included a 1958 franklin half, 3 wheat pennies, and a 1940s boy scout handkerchief clip. Oh and 2 really old marbles.
    1 point
  47. I almost forgot about one other find is an old token.... Jr quigley territory of montana 1863.
    1 point
  48. I'm not exactly sure where to post this, or really how many people might find it useful. But it's been an expensive lesson trying different ways to get a real-time, cloud connected security camera video feed on my remote land. There is an expensive 4G trail cam that you have to pay a fairly hefty monthly fee for, and are pretty well data restricted. This wasn't working well for me, so I decided I'd try something like a Verizon JetPack connected to a router, and then wiring up a network of security cams with an NVR or wired directly to the router. Ugh...expensive as heck. And if one component needs reset then I'm screwed 1000 miles away. Plus they all need full time AC power and ethernet cables strung. Wireless cams are of very limited range, especially if I secure the jetpack/router or NVR in my metal Conex. On a whim I decided to try the ReoLink Go 4G even though it said it only works on T Mobile networks. There are only Verizon towers out here, but I got it hooked up last night and it works, not sure if it's using the Verizon tower or if there is a new T Mobile tower now? T Mobile prepaid cards are cheaper, and have way more data than the trail cam 4g thing, and the resolution is better. The software is better too. I can see my cameras anywhere in the country now, and even if someone steals the cameras, the video stays in the cloud and I have a face to give to the sheriff. It's also solar powered so it doesn't need connected to power, I can hide them anywhere on my property with no cables, and the panel seems to provide enough power to let me stream the cameras when I want to see what's going on. Anyways, finally satisfied with a product after a year of researching and messing around. Hopefully that saves someone time and money if they too have remote property or mining equipment they want to monitor from wherever they are at.
    1 point
  49. Too bad there is no palm trees and blue water...There is a bottle cap in almost every scoop and sometimes several so it's a challenging place to hunt...the grill is 10K but the bracelet is stainless...the ring came from a small park and it's sterling with a Gold L in it...I like to use the CTX in bottle cap infested areas and the Nox in open fields and not so trashy places..I can usually tell when it's a bottle cap with the Nox but I have the CTX set up better for hunting in trash. strick
    1 point
  50. This morning’s haul at Radical Bay, nowhere near as many silver coins as I’d expected (a total of $9.90) but I didn’t spend as much time there as on the last trip because tourists were starting to arrive and I hate being a preforming monkey (I’m just shy that way).. By far the best finds today were a ring with little diamonds all around it and some nice shells on the beach.. Some odd things were a padlock and a little pulley, just some of the weird things people take camping I guess.. I’d paddled my kayak out there as I’m not a great fan of hiking up and down steep hills.. took about twice as long but paddling around the island is no great hardship (just dodging the weekend boaties is a bit of a pain in the arse).. I’ll be back at Radical Bay next week as I’m sure there’s a lot more there, including ‘old’ coins like the few 2 cent pieces which were in the camping area.. In the meantime I'm off to my home bay (Alma Bay) early tomorrow morning to make the most of the very low tide (1:55 am), this allows me to search where people have been swimming and hopefully find a lost a ring or two.. I think the Germans call this 'schadenfreude' where you take delight in another person's misfortune, something gold detector prospectors never have to worry about..
    1 point
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