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  1. The weather may have turned for the better in Northern Nevada. It was time to get out and check how my GPZ 7000, would handle the moisture/salt from the Winter Storms. I pulled into the Burn Barrel to camp, but it was like pulling into a KOA. I unloaded my trusty RZR and hit the trail to find a nugget. I ran into several folks out trying their luck, all had smiles on their faces and enjoying our outdoor hobby. I was told that Gerry was having his training at the Burn Barrel which explained the crowd of RV’s. I did get time for a short visit with Gerry and Lunk, before heading out. The soil, is a little noisy with High Yield/Normal. Using Difficult settled it down perfectly, but not my preferred setting for dink nuggets. Anyways, I hunted in Normal and ground balanced often to give my ears a rest from the noisy ground. I didn’t find any dink nuggets which are the Bread & Butter to any poke, but did find a couple of Steak & Lobster nuggets before loading up and heading home from the short Dirt Recon Trip. There’s gold out there, you just need to get your coil over it, I need some Bread & Butter Nuggets to complete my meal. Talking about meals, my Dog Marley refused to eat his normal dog grub on this trip, and only wanted what I brought “Fried Chicken”. Until the next Hunt! LuckyLundy
    14 points
  2. If you have technical information to tell me, do not hesitate to send it to my address Alexandre@frsttx.com (for research and developpement) I would take them into account. I have already taken into account many remarks for the Worlwide series. Of course do not send me messages concerning the after sales service or the commercial service, I could not do much except forward the mail to info@fisherlab.com - Pulse Delay modified, 7us, 7.5us, 8us, 8.5us, 9us, 10us, 12us, 15us, 20us, 25us - Standard clamp replaced by a quick clam - Coil connector modified, elimination of the capacitive effect around the connector, new coaxial crimping - 8'' searchcoil - Headphone, the most powerful on the market on IMPULSE AQ audio frequencies - Removal of battery cables - Removal of the battery under the detector - Lithium battery inside the tube, 3500mAh x 4 PROTECTED PANASONIC/SANYO NCR18650GA - New sourriau type connector for the Heaphone (same as coil connector but with different pinout.) - Passage of the headphone cable along the rod with anti-tearing to exit under the armrest
    10 points
  3. FINALLY got out on first hunt of the season! Snow capped mountains, plenty of sun, and the temps were cool enough the bugs weren't out yet. The take isn't much (.980g) but FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!!!
    7 points
  4. Don't give up on the VLF's. Lunk & Gerry on this forum encouraged me on the vlf's and I've been trying for 3 years now and have approx 1.5 oz of tiny to medium sized gold pieces and am having fun with it although 70% of my days I'm skunked. I love the mountains and being out there - the bonus is the good days when I find a piece or two. One thing I've discovered is that extreme moisture content in our soils definitely limits the depth I've been able to find targets, especially the small and flat nuggets. I was going to go out this weekend, but decided it's still too wet (even some snow this morning) so I postponed my first trip. I'm just north of Cd'A and have quite a lot of research on areas to check out south of Moscow- have driven in and looked around at some, but my buddy and I decided to wait for drier weather so haven't hiked them yet. Lunk has encouraged me to bring a rake and shovel - sometimes it's been very helpful to have along. First photo here is 2 pieces found during a dry fall day - no shoveling, approx 10" down. The following photos are the same exact spot three weeks later - very wet detecting each inch by inch layer both raking and shoveling carefully. I'm sure there's more nuggets there, but 4 hrs only produced the tiny flat one less than 12" from the previous two which were both very audible; last one was barely heard at 1/2" depth - yet quite sizeable compared to dozens of micro pieces I've found at greater depths. That's when I cleaned my gear, put it away for winter and started making plans for places to visit this coming summer. Mike
    6 points
  5. Best production headphones I've ever used....., So much I recommended to Fisher they sell them as aftermarket headphones.. they are that good. Blows away every aftermarket and private set made for use at the beach and diving. Thank You Alexandre !! And for the details above...On the New World Version Impulse "AQ"
    5 points
  6. That’s a couple great posts Chase, we think much alike, and I have a similar attitude about getting too deep in the weeds. Despite all the tech, I will still lean on a good location, and getting my coil over the target. Sometimes we make it sound like metal detecting is rocket science, but my reality to this day still looks a lot like beep-dig! Lots of people really question and obsess over updates. But my training from prototype testing basically says “update good, load ASAP” and get on with it. The only question usually then is how to improve on that update... not on how to go backwards. If an update comes out, I wait just a couple days, then I load it up, learn it, and move on. People sometimes forget the engineers actually are genuinely trying to make our lives better, and a lot of work goes into an update to make the detector better. They’d never release an update, unless they really believed it made the machine better at what it does. I work with these people, and I do trust that they are a million times smarter than I when it comes to this stuff. That trust tends to make me more comfortable just grabbing the latest updates I guess, as it really surprised me that anyone would feel differently about them. No detector is ever truly 100% done, and this ability to keep tweaking and tuning after release is one of the best things to ever happen in the industry. Twenty years ago, the only way to get any update was buy the next model, because that’s where all updates went In this industry, for a long time, the first genuine new model was often a finished prototype, and it was always the follow up model that was best tuned and tweaked. I saw this for ages with a Minelab in particular and still do. You can bet second generation Multi-IQ is to die for. Equinox just proved it has potential, and now the real work begins. Same with GPZ 7000. Just proving ZVT works. The next gen will be what we were really waiting for. That’s still the pattern but updates help smooth the process, and keep the first time efforts a little safer for purchasers. I feel way more comfortable getting something hot off the press if I know it can be updated. Knowing what I know now, I’ll not get another detector unless it can be updated. The cutting edge is too complex, and the chances of new machines getting to market and needing updates just too great. If the machine does not have an update facility, they won’t even be trying, and in fact are more prone to play down faults. A company with a good update facility has less to fear from a major bug, that would have the other company doing a recall. Lotta blah blah blah to say I always thought original FE was deficient, and F2 is just what it should have been all along. That’s the power of being able to update.
    5 points
  7. Test garden and general usage. First of all, I am not really into science experiments and exhaustive testing. I still have a day job, so my swing time is precious and I would rather get to it and find targets rather than spend countless hours collecting exhaustive data in test gardens and plastic boxes full of hot dirt. I appreciate the folks who are willing to do that and share the information with us but the fact is that the variables are many and unless all possible combinations of conditions, targets, detectors, coils, settings are tested, then I take all test information with a grain of salt for my situations and how I hunt and make general conclusions - I don't obsess over results because we are using a crude detection instrument in the first place and like I said, conclusions are suspect when you are only testing a miniscule subset of possible variabilities. That being said, I do have some reference non-ferrous targets that are intentionally placed near iron and iron that falses and I see a definite difference between FE and F2 in the way the target signal behaves and I prefer F2 because the signal seems more crisp, don't see any significant downside to running at the default F2 setting, so I mainly just leave it there, and really like how it cleans up all types of falsing iron from small nail heads to large pieces of flat iron. The falsing mitigation is stark and huge for me and is worth a lot more than worrying about the extreme low probablity of masking that might ever occur. Let's talk about potential downsides to using iron bias - It doesn't do what it says it does - makes iffy iron targets or falsing iron targets sound "more ferrous". I kind of felt that way on FE - felt it wasn't worth the trip vs. the possible downside of "masking" or whatever you want to call it. F2 - completely different ball game. As far as I am concerned, ML can do away with FE now that they have F2 but that would probably cause much consternation to folks who have convinced themselves that FE is better. Turns a non-ferrous target into a ferrous target - Never seen this happen. I don't think I have ever dug a target with the Equinox that I thought was 100% ferrous that turned out to be non-ferrous. There are iffy targets, to be sure (even with F2 engaged). But if F2 shifts a falsing or iffy target to full ferrous, it IS full ferrous in my experience. I have played with F2 on or off in the field and haven't run into the situation yet (see below for corollary). Masking of non-ferrous targets - This is a hard one to prove outside of controlled conditions. I can see how this might happen in theory - IB is a filter that takes some finite signal processing time, so it IS possible it could affect recovery or the ability to separate targets (e.g., perhaps a recovery of 6 turns into 5.5 when IB is engaged to max effect - making these numbers up for the purpose of illustration). My personal experience tends to counter this theory. I have dug plenty of iffy signals that turned out to be mixed ferrous and non-ferrous targets in the hole simultaneously or turned out to be purely non-ferrous. And rarely I have pulled a huge ferrous target and have subsequently found a non-ferrous on a subsequent scan. What I can't tell you is whether that target would have been masked regardless of the F2 setting. However, I don't recall an occasion where I have ever engaged F2 on a falsing ferrous target to make it sound 100% ferrous, dug the ferrous target and found a non-ferrous. If I ever did do that, that might be a case for F2 "causing" masking. I have not encountered it but I have also not dug 100% of all 100% ferrous targets indicated with F2 engaged. So my experience says it is rare but not impossible. To be frank - I would worry more about whether I am covering every inch of ground with my coil than the whether F2 could ever mask a target. I am generally pragmatic, play the odds in my favor (or take chance out the equation - i.e., dig everything that beeps). Bottom Line: I simply like how F2 mitigates ferrous falsing, genuinely notice it's absence when I am working single frequency, and simply don't lose sleep over any potential downsides because I think they are insignificant IMO. Cheers
    5 points
  8. "I did the mash....I did the M-O-N-S-T-E-R mash"...... (didn't even fire up the poor old SDC....YET). Raining today unfortunately.....
    5 points
  9. Northern Idaho has good gold to detect. Hit the creeks where bedrock is exposed, hit the hillsides in the vacinity of old workings. The monster will work very well in heavily wooded regions in Northern Idaho. Contact Idaho Geological survey and get as much publications from them as you can on the placer and hard rock production journals as you can. Also my book will talk alot about detecting in heavily wooded mountains. The gold is there and the monster is capable of finding it.
    5 points
  10. Reports of the Mineralogist for the state of California. It seems fake news has been around for a long time. https://books.google.com/books?output=text&id=13POAAAAMAAJ&q=217#v=onepage&q&f=false
    4 points
  11. QUOTE "Don't give up on the VLF's. Lunk & Gerry on this forum encouraged me on the vlf's and I've been trying for 3 years now and have approx 1.5 oz of tiny to medium sized gold pieces and am having fun with it although 70% of my days I'm skunked." Now that shows what can be done in 3 years, a gold monster paid for and 1½ times the detector price in your pocket. The first 2 years of the Aus. gold metal detecting rush when gold was so called laying everywhere, I had not paid for my detector. Now however I have had a few days where I could of paid for the top today's detector twice over.
    4 points
  12. You did awesome “for the short dirt recon trip”, as per your usual lol 😄. I’ll be heading out there next month after I get back from Florida...can’t wait to get in the wide open spaces again!
    3 points
  13. I forgot, adding clips to hold the searchcoil cable along the shaft. (new clips special Fisher)
    3 points
  14. Other tests for setting Iron bias F2 vs FE this time it's original Monte Performance Nailboard Test ..
    3 points
  15. Some People had talked about a house in the woods near one the lakes near me and no one could find it. they were looking for a traditional dug out cellar but I looked at the land and realized if it was near the water it couldn't have a basement or it would be flooded. Barb ware lead me to the area and near one the rock pile posts I found an old pocket knife and a ww2 zippo.
    3 points
  16. I agree, but electric fences are right out. 😀 The other thing to consider is the barbed wire indicates a desire to keep people or animals out, so it's protecting something. It would be a sign of traffic, but I would try to get inside where it was to start looking for foundations. Ridges, rises, and level areas. When you hit lots of iron you've found a barn or farmhouse! I mentioned it once before, find large old trees that are on field boundaries. Search where the shade would be after mid day, if there is any grass it will be greener than the other areas. I've found old coins and buttons there. Picture someone taking out their handkerchief and flinging their pocket money!
    3 points
  17. I like that the beaches have a lot of detectorists (as long as they are not PI detectorists) That leaves the deep stuff available without digging the shallow stuff. The sanding quickly part I do not want 😄 I do.... I wish sometimes they would come out like dirt silver does - Nice and shiny 🙂
    3 points
  18. mn90403, What are you specifically asking ? To see pictures of beaches in the old days, versus now ? I've taken a bunch of pictures in the last 10 to 15 yrs, whenever I've been hunting erosion events up here where I'm at (Monterey bay beaches). And sure, if you took a picture now, the "cut" (or scallop or slope, etc...) is now gone. I can show you pix of some erosion event lay-of-land, but unless I went and took the same vantage point now, you wouldn't really know what you were looking at (ie.: it wouldn't be a before and after pix, unless I went to the same spots today with camera). I regret not getting pictures of the 1982-83 El Nino (6 ft cuts that stretched for blocks long in some cases !). And I regret not getting pix during the 1996-97 El Nino. But go figure, that was before digital cameras. I'm sure you can find google images of erosion on CA beaches (including So. CA) during past heavy storm years. From what I hear, a lot of So. CA beaches, are so enormous like you see them now (where the water is seeminly a 5 minute walk from the parking lot, doh !), Because in the 1940s and '50s, the army corps of engineers made scores of jetties all up and down the So. CA coast. And those "trap sand", making enormous beaches. I guess to protect against erosion. So if you ever find old pictures from, say, before the 1940s, of your So. CA beaches, you'll notice that many of them were quite a bit narrower. Such that, back then, high-water storm events might bring waves all the way back to what is now parking lots and beach side streets and cliffs. But today, you could never in a million years imagine the water reaching that far back. Eh ? A micro-example of that, in my area, is Santa Cruz Main beach (the "Boardwalk") : In the mid 1960s they made the downstream Twin Lakes Yacht harbor jetty, so that the pleasure boats could come and go through the channel that the jetty protects. That had the affect of "backing up" the sand, for all the beaches north of that (since wet sand "migrates" with the tides and swells). So if you look at 1950s photo of Santa Cruz main beach, versus now, it's pretty sad. And it's the reason why silver and old coins is rarely found now on those beaches. Even after storm erosion. Because it's simply never getting down to yester-year levels anymore.
    3 points
  19. Chase, I appreciate your thoughts on FE versus FE2 as I think we both hunt the same kind of soils with clay and hot rocks. I keep looking back to both Your and Steve's past threads on this. Steve you are right on the money with the thoughts on the software upgrades. We're long past the days of hardware being the main method of getting newer better capabilities. The 600/800 is a very capable hardware platform and I'm glad to see ML making adjustments to the software to enhance their capabilities. You wouldn't get these free enhancements in a hardware only environment. I suspect these are coming from ML's development of other similar platforms that they are developing. Frankly you wouldn't generally spend cycles on further development of a stable platform and provide the SW updates for free, unless they had that post launch dev costs considered in their original business case for the platform. I just hope they keep it up. //R
    3 points
  20. Well kinda (but that's another story) 1 clad dime and 3 memorial pennies , a fishing sinker , an unfired 22 pellet rifle round . 2 1/2 pull tabs and a bunch of tinfoil balls one of which looked like it was turning back to aluminum ore! ( or maybe it was just BBQ sauce ?) and a few odd pieces of iron I haven't washed off yet????? About 3 hours in park1 sens 22 , f2=0 disc = off., the 6" coil on the fully updated 800 Swinging in an old campground (it was root city) I watched being built 60 years ago when I was a little kid 200 yards across the cove through mom's binoculars cuz I was too young to row that far ......somewhere in the wilderness that is the southern Maine coast..I was surrounded by old growth white pine that were protected by the King of England for ship's masts for exclusive use of the Royal Navy....My fave site 30' straight up a cliff from the water ,,,and only covered 1/10th of it. , (It's overlooking "my rock" , where I've been fishing for striped bass since I was 2. It was low tide 2 clam diggahs on the flats , one arrived by boat.........) It was sunny On shore S. <5kts 62* No pics.. I am unworthy. UH AYUH yup yup
    2 points
  21. We headed out Saturday morning to the camp. Wife has given up on the Vanquish because all she digs is square nails. So we swapped detectors later in the day. She then found an ax head and a big chisel. I scored the dime and other stuff with the Equinox before the switch. We bought a curio cabinet to house our growing collection of history so I will include a photo of it. Hope everyone is doing well out there.
    2 points
  22. Was getting my last digs in on some state property before they sell it off for housing development. The areas have been picked cleaned for quite a few years now so takes a bit of patients to squeeze anything out of them. Yesterday ran my batteries dry on the Multi Kruzer with external lithium pack and half way down on internals only to find a pewter figuring. Top and back are gone but was interesting anyways. Today I didn't spend as much time out because it looked like it was going to rain and I was using my Tejon with the 10x12. Hit a hill that I had picked up a reale on few years back and got this nice 1887 IH. The other thing is a piece of brass enameled on both sides, maybe a decorative tab to something (junk). Buddy and I went to another field where I snagged the degraded 1880 IH and this silver clip that looks like it went to a strap. Says Patented OCT 16 1888. Think it was on a carry strap to a tool of some sorts, maybe a gun holster? Did some research on items with patents granted at that date but the machines didn't show this part.
    2 points
  23. After following EQ's progression I decided to buy the 800 hoping for a "simpler" detector than the GPX5000 which I sold. Part of that decision was based on one of Gerry's posts along the lines of "I've found more with a sub $1000 machine than all the more expensive ones ". My 1st time out proved to substantiate the claims made that the EQ will find small gold and larger as I found what I classify when dry washing as a -20 and found a 4.29 gram nugget! This while not fully understanding how to operate the detector! Using the "quick start' and owners full manual I was able to succeed. I hope there are some comprehensive videos out now that I can access?
    2 points
  24. I’d say a lot of the Bismarck coil gold found back in the day could have been found with the later SD2100 with a standard 18” mono coil on it, with today’s grunt in the GPZ the standard GPZ14 would have easily pulled those big slugs at depth. As electronics have improved there’s been a converse reduction in available BIG targets, these available targets have correspondingly decreased with each model release. The other thing of note is when a target gets to that 3 foot mark (which all the PI’s from start to current day and now ZVT are quite capable of achieving) an inch is a massive difference relative to the inverse square law, at 3 feet an inch is akin to 6 inches extra depth at a foot and so on. The other issue is the detector is reacting to those deep slugs but you the operator is either not reacting to them because they are so broad or writing them off as ground noise or after having dug at a few only to have them dissipate then not bothering to go through the painful process of scraping back and trying to get a signal to improve to an identifiable definite response, when a target is at three + feet it can take a lot of digging before the signal becomes the real deal!! I went to Georgetown Far North Queensland December of 2019 and was amazed by the local stories of all the big deep gold that was found with VLF detectors in pure granite country! All sluggy heavy gold, yet everyone up there these days is hitting the red oxidised diorite, weathered Gabbro and metabasalt contacts where it is more mineralised as the granite areas stopped producing long ago. I was amazed, I would not give that pale looking granite country a second look as I’ve spent the vast majority of my career chasing the high iron mineralised areas. Generally the more mineralised areas are also shallower so its a double whammy for modern detectors, the tech allows us to work the nasty ground and pull even tiny little bits of gold but due to the shallower nature of that type of ground large big slugs are less likely to be at depth, back in the day the VLF machines when venturing into those areas would have scored the bigger shallow signals. JP
    2 points
  25. Alexandre’s details apply to the “Unlimited” production version I believe. The AQ Limited now being sold by Fisher is shown in Arturo’s email as “IMPULSE-AQ-NIMH” - I take that to mean that it is the AQ Limited.
    2 points
  26. I've detected three different former fencelines with nothing to show for it. In one case some of the fence wire had been left afterward and buried, driving my detector crazy. If people sat on the fence (or boundary wall) then maybe things fell from their pockets. I didn't find those, though. I agree that anywhere humans have been there is a chance they left something behind for us. And three instances, all busts in my case isn't much of a sample size. I'll try again, but you better be right, kac. And if I find a post-hole bank I'll give you a royalty.
    2 points
  27. WTG! I'd take any multiple nugget hunt right now too.
    2 points
  28. I agree you sure have the ability as Flakmagnet said " Nice work! If you're finding pieces like that, you won't miss the big one." Big ones are a different game and are missed because they gave a large JUNK signal or a mild GROUND NOISE by most beginners.
    2 points
  29. Another machine to consider is the Garrett Ace Apex. It has much better audio than the older Ace machines and it is very light and has a slew of coil choices.
    2 points
  30. Really? I thought just some old minor lode mines, but nothing to speak of. Funny, I look at Mt. Diabolo every day from my house but I never prospected there. It's about 10 min away. Any placer gold?
    2 points
  31. Barbed wire is usually used along property lines. Like stone walls people go along them and may dump their yard clean up etc. Basically like a higher traffic area than just open fields.
    2 points
  32. The door is open as far as I know for the Limited version, I would contact them ASAP. I know of three who ordered/purchased last week. Arturo Barrientos.................... service-fisherlab@fisherlab.com We have more of the Fisher Impulse now available. If interested to purchase please let me know. The pricing is below. IMPULSE-AQ-NIMH $1,499 PI-BATPK-NIMH $199.00 *Only if you want more than 1 battery pack 8COILPI-AQ-PK $299 Regards, ARTURO BARRIENTOS Sales Support First Texas Products 1120 Alza Drive, El Paso TX 79907 USA | t 915.633.8354 ext. 1002 | c 915.248.6609 | f 915.633.8529 |WhatsApp 915.248.6609
    2 points
  33. I never get tired of beach black toast silver 😍
    2 points
  34. The metal box design is actually great from a practical perspective. Certainly easier to make. But they were also very well balanced, easy control access, and did not roll over when set down. New is not always better, and the risk with plastic is you end up with toys. But I am a forward thinking marketing type, and it is obvious to anyone that electronics get smaller and more powerful. Whites was trying to hold back a tide that is unstoppable. Yeah, that 20 something with the cell phone wants a detector that looks like a mailbox. Not. Apex is really sweet, just a tight little detector package. Garrett obviously has seen the light finally. Just like it is inevitable that someday a wireless coil will be made that works well with a cell phone interface. There are some things you just know are going to happen, and while first efforts are dull, if XP is not working towards that future, somebody else is. Faster Bluetooth and more silicone in the phone will be enough someday to get something decent. May not be cutting edge, but could eat up the kids and entry level markets easy enough.
    2 points
  35. Nice gold How deep was the dime
    2 points
  36. BTW - I consider the link below to be the definitive iron bias thread. Some of it slightly contradicts my conclusions regarding whether IB can exacerbate masking non-ferrous in the presence of ferrous but it was the thread that opened my eyes on the usefulness of IB F2. I am still trying not to over think it and just keep IB at 6 to simply balance the indisputable upside of IB against the debateable downside of using the feature. IB 6 for me all the way. As Steve said above, the best adjustment you can make when detecting is simply cranking up your ability to get yourself onto a primo site through research and people skills and then efficiently cover every inch of ground you can with your coil while you are there (tactics vary depending on whether it is a one off visit or have lifetime privileges). Much more effective and valuable than any detector tweak.
    2 points
  37. I have now done 2 short tests separation tests, namely 3D separation test and Monte performance nailboard test to compare the Iron bias FE and F2 settings. In the first test-in the deep separation test, the nail is at a distance of 20 cm from the coin .. and Equinox is set in Program Park 2 at recovery speed 7. The first test / 3D test / shows that equinox did quite well with the separation also on the setting of Iron Bias F2 -9 max .... which is a really good result .... while in my opinion the setting of Iron Bias FE is a safe setting somewhere at the level FE1-2 max ... and a higher setting of FE than 2 is already significantly signed on the significantly reduced 3D separation .... However, this test evaluates only one of the two separation situations in detection well ..... I can now say that in another second test of the 2D surface separation type "Monte performance Nailboard Test" it will show how high we can move the Iron Bias F2 setting without so that we do not strongly limit the separation properties of the detector in this type of separation ... I also did this test .. but tomorrow I will repeat it in daylight and load it from Gopro..and you will see the differences in the individual settings ..
    2 points
  38. What White's produced was a reflection of what the owners wanted, not necessarily what the market wanted. The Whites loved the metal boxes and, to be fair, White's could build 'em like nobody's business, and all done in-house. I jokingly called it "metal box technology" and pushed hard for modern plastic designs that were smaller. At the time I was not envisioning something as small as the Equinox or Simplex but something more like the Apex. Just before I left they were developing the MX-Sport package. Again, large and heavy, and I opposed it strongly. But they also loved 8-AA batteries and insisted on it.
    2 points
  39. Goldseeker has a great book about detecting in areas like yours, it is a very good reference. Also, Steve and several others recommend raking leaves away from areas you suspect have a good potential for gold targets. Here’s a good article he wrote about using a VLF in a forested area: Be sure to fill the holes and recover your bare raked areas with leaves and duff when you are finished to hide them and also to help prevent erosion. Good luck!
    2 points
  40. Thanks. It's really getting harder to sneak out any silver there. It just involves slowing down and digging more. As for the trashed beach, I'll hit it again when there is a really low tide. This is an old beach, older than my good beach. It's regularly hit by a lot of detectorists and I'm sure they just dig the absolute good signals. I know a lot of Excal's and EQ's have hit it. Not sure about any other brands, but they definitely cherry pick it. Makes it hard to search for the deep targets there. I'm definitely happy for the silvers I found at the good beach, just a bit disappointed that I could not try my method on this beach. It has the potential for Seated coins. If I lived closer, I would clean out sections and go for the deep ones. Thanks. I'm very happy I did get a bunch of silvers. There are days early in the season, that I could not even find 1 silver. It's funny how things work out sometimes. I guess that is what draws us back to the beach every season. You really never know what you are going to find, no matter how well you plan it out. The beach decides what you get 😄
    2 points
  41. Quote...."How can the limited depth of VLF's deal with this heavy mulch layer in these placer/load mine dumps in the forest?" VLF detectors are good for depth in low to medium mineral soil/rock so the mulch will not effect or depth but if it is 50 mm deep then you will be that much further away from your target. Note PI have a loss of sensitivity on small or pin head size gold bits but high frequency VLF are very good. Read what is on this forum about the gold monster 1000 and put multiple size lead bits at a lot different depths to get to know what the size and depth the gold monster 1000 can get. I hope this is a starting point of getting gold but the location that you are detecting in has a big factor on a person success in find gold.
    2 points
  42. Hi there mr popeye,i appreciate the friendly greetings from you all. This site is a Treasure and i sincerely mean that,its so well laid out and expansive coverage of things i could just not know of,beforehand but,are facinating. Lmbo its cutting into my choices decision time as i go gold prospecting or on far off huntin trip with someone else lol even then im learning something. Im amazed at mr steve h,s ability to compile all this into such an tidy format and still be able to accomplish anything else,bless him surely. I couldve only dreamed of this kinda knowledge bein so easily accessible on many of my prior endeavors to perservere👍👍 Add in all of the others input and its somethin else. I see quite a few machines that are really quite reasonably priced even to a greenhorn. Ive been thru and back thru and will b back again to Steves Detector Reviews and followed many of diff forum threads on diff detectors. Thats how i get sidetracked 😁 Ive yet to click a link that wasnt interesting and in just a few days,my boots on ground productivity has collapsed and my dogs mad at me🤣
    2 points
  43. Thnx Dog,i like both of youre mentioned choices. Kinda leanin towards simplex as waterproof but,may yet go with nox600. Thnx for reply an encouragement. Im good with constructive criticism also. Lol 1 time long ago i had an ol capn that was in fact an old an really good experienced capn but as i was new aboard id heard stories of how many were intimidated by his cussin an hollerin 🤣 well even back then i knew for a fact that cussin an hollerin do have their usefulness. So me being the direct straight forward kinda guy i am and to remove any unnecessary confusion in height of battle on weather deck while shortening up , i approached him one on one and just explained,Plz do not concern yourself with scaring or intimidating me,cuss scream,call me whatever you like,just do it in a clear concise manner,so i know wtf your sayin🤣 We became close friends👍👍
    2 points
  44. Im comfy round pirates,the dainty kinda concern me😁
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  45. Yes sir,if i couldve wouldve and lastly,Shouldve found this site 6 months ago or detectin 30yrs ago,i can only imagine the money i spent on other things bein spent on upgrades of detectors 😁 im narrowing it down slightly,actually the nox 600 was my 2nd choice after AT Max. I like quite a few of lessor priced an diff brands,models. I keep comin back to waterproof and all around versatility as with the multi frequency and ease of use digital displays. I "think" something like 3-5 tones would be a lot better than the 2 im hearing now. Ive figured diff way to play with this one but,its kinda clumsy and slow in trashy places. Also an slight upgrade from the meter display that is kinda useless to me. If its pegged it may b a coin or a really nice piece of slaw😁 Tbh i cant put the lil BH Tracker 1V down. Its provided me with much interesting entertainment. I think i can and mean to do better. By that i mean,Dig faster🙈 So what about the Apex,ive read good bit on it,nothin really bad except for few new releases and similar to nox 600,i think the Simplex may fit also. I feel i should go waterproof as i "Know" with myself,sooner rather than later it or both of us will take a dunkin. Most of what id like to water hunt when it warms lil more doesnt wont require scuba or snorkel,at same time that lil silver dime was at fingertip depth with me holdin head sideways so my fresh air intake wasnt submerged 🤣 it was almost magical as i grabbed it 1st try and was my 1st silver,if i wasnt already i was definitely hooked when that shiny presented itself. That was winter an creeks were up but theres many more places to look that are lil deeper. Plus im a all wx and 24/7 type,i went last nite and got stormed out as lightnin got lil too thick. Sooo why you choose nox600 over Apex,if ya dont mind? Thnx for replying by way and im also kinda retired or at least a Long way tween jobs.
    2 points
  46. Keene actually increased prices on much of what they produce going back last year. Gov't says inflation forecast little over 2%..........Anyone who's been to a grocery store or Home Depot lately knows thats BS!
    1 point
  47. If anyone orders, don't order an extra battery. I have one available for $100.00 shipped. I know others had some for sale also. Just putting it out there. GaryC/Oregon Coast
    1 point
  48. My first big find with the Nox 800 was a crumpled up beer can in a civil war corn field. You have done much better. All joking aside, that is a very nice specimen. Can't wait to hear of your upcoming adventures. //R
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  49. 6 - When I say I use the default, I mean I use the default. I have been impressed where ML has set the defaults on Equinox and I honestly don't stray much from them in any search mode other than to set sensitivity appropriately and the number of tones to my liking (usually 50 when relic hunting, 5 at the beach or in a park), perhaps a tweak to recovery speed a tad to calm things down (meaning I usually increase recovery ABOVE the default) and ensure I always noise cancel and do an auto Ground Balance. I either have a Gold Mode program or a single frequency variant of the mode I am searching with stored in the Custom Profile slot to enable quick target interrogation - single frequency target interrogation is where I really notice the comparative IB "ON"/"OFF" target response. I personally do not think IB = 0 in either FE or F2 mode turns IB completely off when using Multi IQ - it simply minimizes the effect - so if you really want to know what the minimally filtered and processed target signal sounds like, you have to go to single frequency. But that's really neither here nor there, I suppose.
    1 point
  50. I’ll be in a colonial field tomorrow and I’ll run it in 18k. This field has produced cut silver for a few of us. Thanks!
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