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Hello Friends, Since joining this forum last year, I really haven’t posted any of my finds, aside from a few pics here and there. I’ve lost a lot of my free time this year due to taking care of family members, so a 3 hr hunt is my upper limit. When I’m able to hunt with my Nox 800, I’ve been pleased with my results. For the past few weekends, I have met up with some buddies to hunt one of our old (135 yr old) parks in our locale. This park has been pillaged for so many years by so many hunters, it’s amazing that we can continue to find older targets at the 7-9+” range. This park is loaded with non-ferrous (and ferrous) trash targets; it’s your typical, century plus, blighted inner city park that poses additional EMI challenges that can really impede your ability to hear targets. The EMI at this park has worsened since I started hunting it back in 2007. Over this time, I have dug well over 200 silver, close to 1000 wheat pennies (at least 50 of these wheats were the early teen “S” mint semi-keys) , a large handful of Indians (3 of these were 1908 S mint), some V’s/Buffaloes, tokens, and other interesting relics from this park alone. A few weeks ago was my first hunt at this park in quite some time. I ended up finding 7 wheats and an 1892 Indian penny for a 2 hr hunt. Last week I returned to a different section of the park and dug a pocket spill of 2 Rosies and a wheat penny, a 3rd Rosie, and 13 more wheat pennies. This morning, I met a couple of my buddies at the same park and had more success. My first dug target turned out to be a pocket spill of 3 mercs. I couldn’t believe it...out of a thousand plugs over a 14 year period of detecting this park, I can’t ever recall digging 3 mercs in one hole...the mercs were down about 7 inches, but my Nox produced only a tiny “high chirp” sound due to the EMI messing with the signal. I could only hear this chirp from one direction too. The ID of the chirp was in the high 30’s. After finding just a couple wheats over the next hr, I then dug the sterling bracelet at 7”, which also produced a short/choppy high chirp. The ground at this park is like digging thru bricks this time of year (we are in a drought here and many of our blighted parks are not getting watered). I decided to start walking to my car (while keeping my machine on) to say goodbye to my other buddy, who ended up with a goose egg for oldies today. About 30 ft from my car, I dug two faint signals (jumpy ID’s between 21-31) that the EMI was really messing with. I circled these targets so many times while wiggling my coil over the signals with different cadences, and finally decided to dig both of them to see what I was hearing...the first signal turned out to be a Rosie, my 5th silver of the 3 hr hunt. The 2nd signal was the button, which after a quick google search seems to be a WW1 German Imperial Prussian Crown Tunic button. (If this button is something different, please don’t hesitate to share any of your expertise). I really don’t think I could have hunted any longer today, even if I had more time. The heat/humidity paired with the hard ground wiped me out. Pictured are my finds from this morning’s hunt. HH, Raphis

Broke mine in today and got my first ever hot rock containing gold.

As many of you know, we have been having some good tide swings for the Summer Solstice full moon! Also called a "strawberry moon" here! I went out to one of the renurishment beaches to look for some good sand loss! This particular beach has a limestone shore that "they" feel the need to cover with unnatural "beach" sand, for the "skin roasting" tourist traffic! The ironic thing is, most tourists come to explore the craggy limestone beach!🤯 Luckily for everybody, the sand mostly disappears fast on the lower beach! That, coupled with the extra low tides, makes for fun for most everyone! It's always a tough choice to pick one or two spots to hunt in such a limited timespan! I was hoping to get some old silver, or jewelry from this area with my limited time! But forgot my all important screwdriver, for prying out the older targets from the limestone cracks! I improvised with what I had, but it increased my recovery time, as i was having to pry most of my targets free with a piece of aluminum junk I found! I did not find any silver or jewelry this time, but I did find a nice bronze spike, stuck under a ledge, that had to be worked out of it's sand and shell wedged cubby hole! And some more modern coins that were practically grown into the cracks! Sorta reminds me of how some of you all recover nuggets in a river or stream area! Gotta have the right tools, or it's near impossible! Anyway, if fishing lead were gold nuggets, I'd be doing a seriously silly happy dance! But as is reality, I'll just add the 15-20 ounces to my lead bucket for other uses! Some had been lodged in the rocks a long time! My best find was that spike! As I've never found one in that area! Also a few small pieces of copper sheathing! So the source may someday give up something more precious!👍👍 ***Note to self,😵 and others: Never use your scoop as a prying tool, or a hammer!🤬 I broke the handle, although not fully; so I was very careful for the rest of the hunt! If I didn't already have a replacement at home, I would get one of Steve G's carbon fiber ones! Well; next one!!😁

Been searching in an old sand pit. First time there( testing a new detector) I had found 2 pieces of gold and silver jewelry and oddly some pennies wrapped in aluminum foil. Can tell kids play there, dunno what they are thinking. But I go there in the evening for a quickie and maybe find more jewelry? Last night I start finding pennies again but now they are painted gold? Then Bam! I find a literal cache of them about 10 or 12 inches down. So dense I just reach in with my hand and pull out fists of them. After I feel I got them all I start searching nearby for more and the next signal is a gold broach(?) but like the previous jewelry turns out to be plated junk, but in very nice condition. Now my best guess is the kids must be making "pirate coins" and what do you do with pirate treasure? You bury it! And hey, lets bury some of mommy's jewelry. LOL So I have found my first buried pirate cache. Somehow not what I had dreamed it might be though. And kids if you are reading this.....does mommy have any good jewelry you want to play with? Or Dads Rolex?

Hey Guys, Great reports. I managed to get just a bit of time on mine this weekend, but made sure I ran it across some ground I hit pretty good prior. I managed to find 6 small gold nuggets I missed with prior detectors. I didn't even read the manual, just took the unit out of the box after the battery charged and winged it. I might have been running it wrong ..... LOL, but still managed to find 6 dinks. First impression, super lightweight, extremely sensitive, like the fact you can use the external speaker, headphones (wired or bluetooth). The unit does compact down very small, perfect for a quad, quad box and such. My GPZ 7000 won't break down small enough, have to always take break it apart to travel in my quad box. A few things I have to get used to, the 3 piece shaft seems to be much more flimsy than I'm used to and hope there is a headphone jack conversion to 1/4" as I prefer other headphones (wired). I should have another batch soon, the first batch was pre-sold and gone the moment they arrived. Wishing you all much success with your new GPX 6000's! Rob

NZ tourist shops sell canned air to the tourists for as high as $143 a can. They buy it too, a lot of it! now that Covid is around they're probably paying a lot more for some fresh air 😛 https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/87066936/fresh-nz-ar-selling-cheap-in-china-at-44-a-bottle https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/canned-nz-air-hit-china Would you believe it was a hot selling thing? forgot chocolate bars, kiwi fruit, wines, stuffed toy kiwi's and other things, the tourists wanted the canned air 🙂

Rob, yes me too on using my own headphones. The Equinox headphone adaptor is compatible.

At Rye Patch Nevada training customers and 15 minutes into it Lunk scores 1st gold. Yes we compared signal to GPZ-7000 and the 6000 heard it better. A trained ear on 7 could have heard it, but much easier on 6000.

Mowed the top of The hill over the river I call Mason Jar Hill because of all the Mason jars I have dug there. I beat the heck out of this area with my 11" standard Equinox coil. Today I went back to see if the 10x5 would make a fool of me. It sure did 😀 1932 female dog tag, lucky watch fob from GRIT Family Newspaper in the 1930s, thimble made of aluminum, B&O railroad button, I think a grommet ring, .32 ACP live round, harmonica reed fragment, belt buckle lock. The ring was a solid 13 and pretty much right on top of the ground. It was gold colored when I picked it up, and cleaning it just made it more and more gold. It's probably not pure (10k) as a bit of tarnish came off when I tried silver polish, but it just got even brighter. The inside is highly polished and smooth and the outside appears to have a casting seam surrounding it. I thought it might be a pipe cutoff but it is smooth and waxy feeling. No purity marks, the story of my life so far. 😵 It is small, according to my wife about a size 5. Here's a pic of how the GRIT good luck charm was used: Here is a pic of the reverse: Like I wrote in another post, I may not take this coil off. 😀

Wooden ship spike, and copper sheathing! So based on area probably 1700's-1900's! 👍👍

So, I managed to spend a few hours in the desert until the temperature hit >100 deg C, which was at around 10 am or so. Let me tell you, this machine is incredible. I charged both the battery and headset over night and paired it in the morning without a problem. I followed the manual and held the 11 inch coil steady over the ground while turning the machine on so it could do it's start up cycle. The first thing I noticed is how quickly the cycle completed which was less than 10 sec. It started in Auto 1/difficult which is the default setting. The first thing I did was to turn on the threshold (hold ground mode button for about 3 sec) followed by noise cancel/ quick track. The quick track is best done by first pumping the coil with QT button pressed and then swinging from side to side at the end, close over ground. This does a very good job in ground balancing. There was still some EMI noise remaining but it was manageable. Switching from difficult to normal did not make the EMI noticeably worse, this was a nice surprise. For most of the morning I was running in Auto 1/normal/ threshold-on without a problem. What I did however was a noise cancel fairly regularly as I moved along, probably every 10 min or so. I highly recommend everybody to do the noise cancel often during detecting, it can really make a big difference in keeping the EMI in check. One observation I made was that right after the completion of the noise cancel the threshold was rock stable, but after 5 sec or so the EMI noise slightly creeped back up (without any movement of the coil). Not sure why that is, but it was no big deal. Overall, the noise cancel works very well and allows to run the machine at higher sensitivity or Auto1. I was even able to detect in Auto 2/normal, something I would have never thought possible since this area is known to have EMI issues. The 11 inch coil is incredible sensitive and picks up very small targets at good depth (4-6 in) that would otherwise fall into surface GM territory. I now know why ML gave it a 5 star rating for small gold, it is just incredible what it can pick up. I do recommend that you turn off all electronic devices, like cell phone and GPS units, while using the machine. Just airplane mode on the cell phone won't do it. Also, metal free boots is really recommended as the coil hears everything, similarly to the 7000 when running in HY/Normal at high gain. The 11 mono works very well for pinpointing, with the max sensitivity somewhere around the 12 o clock position, where the ML sign is. But this is just my first impression. You don't need a pinpointer at all with the 11 inch. In fact, when you turn on your pinpointer an EMI concert starts that is so horrible that you never want to turn on a pinpointer again, ever. So don't even bother. This might become an issue though with the 17 inch coil when you dig deeper holes and a pinpointer would be needed. The 7000 you can turn away from the hole and using the pinpointer is then not too terrible, but with the 6000 this appears to be a bigger issue, at least with the 11 inch coil. But as I said, you don't need any pinpointer with this coil. I then played with the sensitivity and noticed that you can go all the way down to the first level without loosing much. The threshold becomes rock stable but you still hear small targets almost without any loss. This has been reported by others as well and I can absolutely confirm that. I suspect though that you take a hit with depth (something has to give...), but I need to experiment with it further. One thing that I can highly recommend is to pay close attention to coil control and speed. The 11 inch will miss targets when you swing to fast, so take your time. Slow steady swing speed will not only ensure that you pick up targets much better, it also overall seems to be of great benefit for managing ground mineralization and even EMI (for whatever reason). So, swing the 11 slowly and you will get the most of it. Overall, the 6000 is an incredible detector and all the reports by others who praised the 6000 are absolutely correct. It is almost like ML opened a new chapter for metal detecting. This detector is a quantum leap away from all other detectors that I have ever used thus far. It is light weight (with the 11 inch coil it feels easier than swinging a GM-I kid you not!), ergonomically designed to perfection, ultra sensitive while at the same time being easy to manage. I do not miss at all the settings that the 7000 offers and it almost gives you a good feeling to just run in Auto1 and let the smart electronics do all the work for you. It shifts the focus more on the ground and on your being in harmony with the detector, instead of constantly having to think about adjusting settings. Really, guys, this detector is outstanding and will blow your mind. After just one day of detecting I almost feel that I never want to swing any other detector again, ever. I am absolutely in love with this machine and I applaud ML for their unmatched ingenuity. I managed to pick up two small pickers in a heavily hunted area before a heat stroke was looming. Many more will come with this machine I have no doubt.

I change coils more than most, in fact I've changed coils 10 times in a day when testing out various coils on bits of gold, by doing this I'd caused myself some lower shaft wobble, it turns out I'd cracked part of a clip on the shaft, the clip with the little rubber pad had a crack in it, so the shaft wasn't holding on tight. I suspect the people that had upper shaft issues where it wobbles a bit have either got the same crack on the pressure pad or they've just worn the little bit of rubber out. Fortunately it's a very easy and cheap fix. Here are the part numbers for the clip mechanism X2 8008-0056 Pressure blocks X1 8008-0072 Camlock lever X1 4308-0033 Pin The part I'd broken was the pressure blocks. They come in a twin pack for replacement and are very easy to replace. You dismantle the clip by removing the pin, I used a small screw driver to push it out of the clip. You then just use a small flat head screw driver to lever them off, pushing each side of the pressure block away from the camlock lever as pictured below. This is the shaft with the clip removed. You can see the grooves cut out of it where the pressure pads need to slide into so when reassembling made sure they're straight so they fit into the groove. You can see the little circular lump on the left hand side pressure pad, it's what goes into that dug out groove. This is how the rubber pads look, I guess they can wear out over time and if they do your shaft would be wobbly. Minelab sell all the parts individually, so you can just order what you need for the repair. They were very helpful with me, and had me solved by the next day using express shipping. I bought a heap of the little parts so I have spares seeing I change coils so often. In my case I just needed the pressure blocks, the pin and camlock lever were obviously fine. So if anyone's putting up with some shaft wobble, it's cheap and simple to fix.

I typically wouldn’t do consecutive noise cancels...I pretty much trust the noise cancelling algorithm built into the Nox. It’s soooo much faster than the noise cancel on my Explorer. Along those same lines, I don’t bother manually changing the noise channel (up or down), however I used to do that on my Explorer because I didn’t like waiting for the machine to do a whole NC cycle. “I’m doubting you gain anything by putting your machine in all metal before doing a NC. I believe the audio is the only thing you don’t hear when you notch respective ID’s...you still see the actual ID number on the screen, even though it is notched out, which means the received data from the coil is still being internally processed by the Nox...you simply don’t hear it. “ ^ ll Correction to my above statement: The ID does “not” show up on the screen for Notched out ID’s when the coil is swung over a notched piece of metal. But I’m still uncertain whether you gain anything by making sure you go into all metal before noise cancelling. I don’t hunt with notching, but I do lower volume/tone for ID’s -9 thru 11 when trashy park hunting. If I had the ability in 50 tones to hear the nickel signals at full volume and still be able to lower volume and tone on 15-17 ID’s, I’d do that....I think I can do that when in 5 tones (5 bins) but then I lose the ability to hear the difference between a quarter and a dime tonal wise (unless I look down on the screen to attain an ID)...I’m a “tone first” hunter...

Let me put it this way ... we can thank Garrett for maintaining the repair and service of Whites detectors .. ,, and that will go on with the production of the new GMT 24K "Garrett" confirms one thing ..... that Garrett can bring it back into production the best detection technology from Whites ... I would also like to thank Steves for testing the new GMT24K...👍 ...To continue the production of other Whites models, Garrett has his point of view..and me right ... This report is a strong coincidence ...just yesterday I returned from the road /350Km/ from the Golden Forest ... I tested, among other 7 Top detectors in strong mineralization / 6-7bar Fe3O4- Siderit type / in the Golden Forest, also the MXT Pro ../ 13 "ultimate coil / detector, which in tests on 2 extra Deep targets / 1gram of gold24k at depth8"....and 23mm -4.6 gram Silver coin at a depth of 9" / showed that have extra strong claws ..👍.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Only 3 detectors were able to detect all 6 tested targets. ..This is how we evaluated it together with my colleague Prymek ... who has been detecting this strong mineralized forest ... for 20 years... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spare Parts..... ... As for spare parts, I recently bought ... from the Czech whites dealer pinpointer Bullsee II and a straight middle rod for Spectra / MXT.. and I thank him very much / Mr. Chládek - Czech dealer Whites / for solving this thing ..👍 He also mentioned Centerville electronics..where it is possible to buy parts ..or parts of the detector if there would be a situation of replacing some electronic part of the detector ... in case of a major repair .. or coils .. which, for example, are no longer available on the European Market ..

Not all pyrite is created equal. The more irregular the crystals the more gold there could be trapped in it. https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/invisible-gold-seen-for-the-first-time/

I have an old saying. "All that glitters isn't pyrite"

back to the mill again...working another small steep bank about 50 yards from the last time. This was at the base of the bank, but still about 8 inches down. I had just dug an almost surface matchbox car about a foot from it. I am thinking 1855, 56, or 57, but cant seem to make it out. First half cent at this site.

I use one of these on optical equipment like my cameras and sla printer. It also works well on keyboards etc. Bought it from BH Photo Video, good company to do business with but they removed my 5 star rating because I said my cat hates it. :(

Reminds me of “Spaceballs”

Awesome hunts. Parks like that are a challenge for sure. Same here on this coast. I had a guy that lived near me that was an expert with the E trac which was just released at the time. He showed me that every old park I ever hunted in our area still had deeper coins and silver. I didn't believe it until I hunted with him. It was an eye opener. As machines get better, it's good to know that your park is still hiding many silvers below the 7" range. Just think of what key and semi key date coins are waiting to get unearth. An '09 S Indian wouldn't hurt 😄 Good luck on your next hunt there.

Welcome Metal Detecto! "Chase Goldman" is the stand-in admin while Steve Herschbach, the forum owner, is on walkabout in Alaska. Poke around to see what they post. "Chase" mentored me a bit, we live fairly close. You seem to be a bright young man, great to see someone starting so early. Lots of great stuff going on here, usually on the weekends because most of us work. There are retirees like me who are out a lot. Happy Hunting to you. Hope to see some posts of what you discover out there! It would be fascinating to see finds from Korea.

Without getting political, let's just say the repair shop and the mechanics are not the problem!👍👍

Great hunting and sorry for your scoop getting broke, wish you better luck on your next hunt. Why would you take your truck to someone that would take your tools when they work on it. Where I am at we don 't have to worry about it, because everyone around here knows where the mechanics live and would have no problems going back for their tools. Just kidding and I wish you good luck.

Thanks Bill. So the gloves are are just Walmart cheapies to keep blisters and scorpion stings at bay. 🙂

Not sure who Chase or Steve is at the moment, but on different forums I do get questioned about my identity... for the record, I truly am 13. Josh (and yes, I do have parent permission to be on forums like these)

Bet that Merc pocket spill happened in '44 or '45 based on the similar great condition of those '44 Mercs and because there were two of them in the spill. Great finds and thanks for sharing the detailed back story. Good stuff!

Mine was about a month or two ago if that, so the latest revision if they have even done a revision on them. It's a 50ms delay on the Pro Sonic, which is slower than Bluetooth Low latency. I assume that's under ideal signal conditions too.

That looks like some tough recovery areas. Lots of nooks and crannies to hide that gold in. I've found a couple of those spikes and I'm thinking they are from late 1700's to early 1800's as a guess. It's the crudeness and unevenness of the head that makes me guess that time frame. Cool area to hunt.

Great pics and story Joe. That looks like a really tough place to hunt. 👍 Guess everything there is wedged in stone. I wonder what the spike is from, how old it is. Was it being used to break the limestone? 🤔

I've been following this. Not impressed. I really have a problem with using a cell phone as an interface because the cell phone already has too much stuff going on and the last thing you need are sports score notifications and random phone calls messing up your detecting session. Besides, my phone is already doing triple duty as my GPS path tracker for the site and for taking recovery pics. It is not compelling from a performance standpoint (vanilla single frequency VLF) other than to say - "Yay. We did it!" Which, of course, you knew they could. Just didn't think it was going to take 2 years to do it from the start of the Kickstarter when they supposedly had a pre-prod ready to go and delivery slated for November 2019 (it was shown at CES, Las Vegas in 2018 and the concept design was started in 2014). Now it is nearly July 2021. Perhaps the pandemic had an impact on material supply chain or manufacturing, but it sounds like they were mainly working out out design glitches on the material used for the rod/stem assembly and software issues. Then they fell asleep at the switch and allowed Google to boot their app off the Play Store. - oops! Ergonomically, the thing looks uncomfortable to swing and scratching my head on the decision not to center the coil rod. I like the LED flashlight on the bottom of the coil, though. Really no new ground has been broken here in terms of ergonomics (XP already lives here and the Simplex, Vanquish, and Apex are not too far behind on weight), convenience, or performance. Cost is just OK at $300, but frankly that is basically what the Simplex costs. Better hope your phone uses APTX-LL codec or you are going to get lag if you go wireless audio (you already have lag from the coil to the phone, because it is using bluetooth to send the info to the phone). The Kickstarter comparison chart compares it to the Xterra 705, the AT Pro, and the F75. None of those detectors are using cutting edge technology. It basically gives off a "cool" Sky Mall vibe for those not very familiar with metal detecting but with plenty of disposable income. I know I am being harsh, but frankly it will probably end up in most folk's closets after the novelty wears off.

Taskmaster got a "deal" on a DeWalt blower and that little thing came in handy as can be, It worked a treat when we were dry blowing!!!!!! We would use it to blow off the backhoe and it worked great on the air filters---- plus he used it on me a few times too..My lungs show opacity since i have been going to WA for some reason...🤠. I was the dry blowing monkey who cleaned out the feeds from the hopper to the Keenes... but i didnt have the heart to tell the doc.... We used the Dewalt for many different things and were really impressed upon how handy it was. The last picture is my favorite--- all done and dusted and 4X time---- with a brilliant lounger seat donated by Condor!!!! Condor that seat made the Taskmaster happy!!!!!

I have used a Viet Nam era Alice pack for decades. I started with a Jansport frame, but it had a mishap (don't ask), and I recently changed to a Molle frame. That Molle is the best setup I've ever used. Totally adjustable, and fits like a second skin....just awesome. Jim

Thanks for the vid, Looks like great gear! Are you just going to get one of their's? Looks like they last! Here's a few others!👍👍

I came across this bullet the other day, about 10'' down in an old farm pasture. I'm kinda sure this is not civil war but its not something I've ever seen. Here's the spec's (rough) It has 4 Lands and 4 grooves. It mic's at .457 + and - The length is around an 1 1/4'' Weight is 480.5 grains or 31.14 grams I thought it was a.50-70 round, but I think the bullet is to long for the case. Leaning on the side of muzzle loader. Any help would be great.

We have a fellow prospector whose wife passed after several weeks of an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder. He lost his job during the pandemic and has a teenage daughter scheduled to attend Kent State University this fall. He lives in PA, but spends his vacation gold prospecting every year either here in NV or at my place in Yuma. Lucky Lundy frequently guides him around the goldfields to help make the best of his limited time out prospecting. He could use not only our thoughts and prayers, but a little financial help through a GoFundMe page established in his family's name. We prospectors can be a prickly lot, but we pull together for friends in need. Please help make this trying and sorrowful situation a little better. Here's the link: https://gofund.me/9c16aa5c Thanks in advance for all your help.

I have been wanting to do a little video like this for quite awhile but videos are definitely not my thing. Anyway, I have a contact in the storage unit auction business that lets me know when they win auctions with prospecting equipment. They recently won a unit that they are still going through that had two brand new Minelab Vanquish 540s, a basically new Tesoro Cibola and a brand new Garrett AT Pro. I bought three of them to do some testing and sell later or keep if I liked them. I sold the 540 already since I know what it can do. This short 4 minute attempt at a video is for target ID accuracy and up averaging of IDs in mineralized dirt. This test video is of four 14kHz or higher mid level detectors on a surface US nickel, 4" nickel and 6" nickel under the gray cap, which has been buried for several years. Also there is a surface US quarter and a 6" quarter under the red cap. The detectors in order are the XP Deus, Tesoro Cibola, Garrett AT Pro and the Minelab Equinox 800. The XP Deus is ground balanced at 87 and uses stock Coin Fast at 17.5 kHz with the 9" X35 coil, 90 sensitivity. Please pay close attention to the small vertical mineralization bar on the far right side of the display which stays half to over 2/3s full. The Cibola with the 9X8 elliptical concentric, sensitivity on 8, is set up to just notch out US nickels and hit everything higher. The headphone volume is not very loud, sorry. Notice how the Cibola deeper nickel targets are no longer notched out.......if you can hear the audio and how the Cibola can barely hit the 6" quarter which has been buried for several years. The Garrett AT Pro, 8.5"X11" DD coil is in Pro Zero with discrimination set at 35, no other notching, sensitivity on the next highest setting and ground balanced at 93. The Minelab Equinox 800 is in Park 2. It ground balanced at 2 and the EMI is so bad that sensitivity is set at 14 of 25. I left it in my custom 5 tone very harmonious setting and also did a noise cancel. Otherwise no other adjustments were made. To further handicap the Nox 800 besides using 5 tones (50 tones are more accurate) and sensitivity on 14, I also put the 6" DD coil on the 800. Watch all the way to the end if you can when I do a slightly different test with the NOX! Again, 3 US nickel targets and 2 US quarters with the deepest targets at 6". Thanks for watching and my apologies for this poor attempt at a test video. Turn you volume up and because I am dumb, rewind to the very beginning since it starts about 20 seconds in if you don't. My bad. Jeff

So if not gold, what composition is it? Not silver or copper (core) since the dTID would be higher. Even this shape aluminum should dTID higher than 13 (in my less-than-expert-jewelry-hunter view but rather expert pulltabber view). More investigation required.

I'm waiting for you to rename it "Mason Jar full of Silver Coins Hill"!! Hurry up already! I'm waiting!!😂 Cool finds!! 👍👍

My V3I went haywire nuts near any underground electrical lines …..at the Parks if there’s a stand alone light pole…..there’s underground electrical going to it.

You continue to amaze with your finds in 'hunted out' parks. Beautiful Mercs! Were you running your usual Recovery Speed = 4? I ask because of the chirps since I associate shorter tones with higher recovery speeds for desirable targets. Yes, I get chirps with lower (4&5) recovery speeds but not (AFAIK) for desirable targets. Or was it the EMI that altered the quality of your hit tones? Listenting through EMI is painful, but apparently worth it.

Since the coils are simple to repair and one of them new, it is not a stretch to say it would be a good buy. I know someone with one of those, but it is scratched up a lot from use, and he does a good job on silver at the local parks. He did have to replace the capacitors in it not to long ago, but it just keeps working.

Very nice hunt and glad you found some nice items. Good luck on your next outing.

The complaint has been that the iron tone doesn’t kick in until you’re already right on top of the iron and have been distracted. For those that feel this is the case the ProFind 35 doesn’t have enough range (or depth) to give an early enough warning. It is true that it doesn’t have the range of a TRX say, or the F-Pulse. Given that kind of range (or preferably more because disc reduces depth) an iron tone might be more effective

Hi GP, and welcome. 🙂 A short bio/intro is appreciated in the Meet and Greet for first time posters. There may not be an all- encompassing solution for you. You didn't say what pinpointer you have, some pinpointers use streaming WiFi, others Bluetooth, and are generally sold as sets with the headphones and detector. Had you browsed the forum you would have seen many posts on just this subject. I'll offer what I do, It's too hot this time of year to wear over ear headphones so I wear on ear headphones (SoundBlaster Jam V2 - $39 Amazon) and I can hear my pinpointer just fine. Others just switch their Garrett Carrot or whatever to vibrate only and go with that. Seems to me I have never had a problem hearing the Carrot over my on ear headphones, so there's that. 🤔 Used it all winter. A detector so noisy that it interrupts your pinpointing is a sign of heavy EMI, or improper Ground Balance and noise cancelling. Or you're on a bed of nails 😉 While you're waiting for others to chime in, why not tell us a bit about your experience and equipment in Meet And Greet? We also like pics of finds. 😀

I think the biggest mistake made was using wires/cables that would not withstand what a metal detector needs. Instead of using a cable that was over rated, they chose under rated and that makes for a bad perception of the product. All of my issues were wire related. I spent more money having headphones made up and fixing it then I spent detecting with it. I could never give the machine a fair shake, as the times my beach was prime to hunt, the machine went down. I still believe it's a good machine but I'll never be confident it will work when I need it to. My advice if you are going to use it somewhere away from home..... bring a back up detector that you enjoy.

I've noticed no ill effects from having the coil so close to the control box, nor the cable causing any issues, I have my cable tightly wrapped as far from the coil as I could along with a Velcro to hold it in place. I haven't noticed any sensitivity drop from having the metal near the coil, it still appears to work just as it would normally. I used a kids broomstick handle from the hardware shop which was only about $3 and I spray painted it black. It's been doing the job well, I have a webbing strap that I run through the handle that has a easy to unclip plastic clip on it so I hang the Monster over my shoulder on my back so it's easy to take off and use. I've taken that off and can't find it at the moment, it must be somewhere in among my gear 🙂 I'm very happy with the Mini Monster, I originally got the idea from Norvic who did the first Mini Monster I'd seen. It's a great use for a detector I don't really use much anymore for anything else, and it's quick to put it back on the normal shaft if I ever want to.

This was exactly my reaction when I learned about it. The reply came that this pinpointer would bring something different to the table and would be based on customer input and feedback. It would have to be something special for sure in order to get us to give it a look in an already crowded market. For me it would take something with the range of a TRX (people are now shelling out $220-$340 for new old stock on eBay closed sales), either native disc or adoption of the host machine’s disc, and maybe, possibly (curved?) display for settings and information. Many poo poo the idea of disc, particularly since it didn’t work out to customer satisfaction with the ProFind 35, but I maintain it could be helpful provided the machine had enough range to make it effective. It wasn’t all that long ago that old timers were arguing that pinpointers themselves were not useful enough to adopt. Then they adopted them and argued range beyond an inch was not useful. Now nearly every pinpointer on the market gets at least a couple inches on up to several in some cases. Pinpointers will evolve and add new features beyond current configurations over time. Some will eventually have disc circuits. Maybe NM has discovered something they can’t wait to share. Maybe something that will set a new standard for pinpointers. Either way, the PulseDive was genius. Makes you wonder what other ideas they may have.

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Looks good. I always keep a Dewalt mini blower in my truck when traveling on dirt roads. When I get to my cabin and blow the truck off. Since all my tools are Dewalt I have many batteries. Not as compact as the blower you posted but has a lot of power.

A base camp pack with a day pack is the go---- When in Special Forces I carried a base packs that weighed roughly 100 pounds- (plus my medic bag 35 pounds)-so roughly 65 pounds of gear--- but we dumped it as soon as we rucked to base camp and went to day packs with battle belts. For day trips 3 liters of water minimum--- in SEPARATE containers in case of a leak... A few of the regular items in case you get lost--- My point like the post above--for extended stays-- two packs are the go---- Could even be Army style like the Alice pack and the fanny pack (sorry Aussies) Gold Hound Dale got me on to this USA company --Eberlestock-- they have anything you need... We both have one of these--- i believe this is the model-- mine is over WA. still in the plastic (unless the Taskmaster traded it for a carton-!!-) 🤣 If you need more stuff than this can carry .... get a helicopter! EBERLESTOCK OPERATOR PACK