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Approximately 12 to 14 hours swing time with the 6000 due to the heat.

Recouped from the 4th of July BBQ Party under the new Pergola. I loaded up my truck in the hot driveway and set my sights Eastbound I-80 to the Rye Patch area. Leaving at 1530 hrs (3:30 pm) and looking at my Thermometer on trucks dash bouncing from 99 to 101 for the 1 1/2 drive. I wasn’t smiling but, but eager! I wanted to put my thoughts to the information I received from a couple of my partners who hunted Rye Patch the week before finding 13 nuggets in a day and half, before the heat sent them home. The first spot I hit, was in the shade of the Eugene Mountain, I just hit the area we did best at with the 2300 and 7000’s. No Joy, but a few trash targets! Loaded up and off to the next spot to hunt till dark. This spot we killed the little patch with 2300 and 7000’s. Again, I hunted the heart of the patch! No Joy, with same results! Oh, by now you might be asking what settings was I using. Normal ground, Auto Plus w/Threshold and headphones. Machine was running great with mid day EMI’s down to minimal. I hunted till past dark with no Joy, same results with small trash targets! Putting my partners information together with my current results, I drove off in the Moonless darkness of the high desert to my next location. I’ve been to this area countless times and still missed my turn. I parked on a Patch we camp for the evening. Had some left over Baby Back’s from the party and was enjoying the cool breeze in my face! Up at 0500, boots on and geared up, I hit this patches best spots with no Joy! OK, now to a hottest dirt patch to put our thoughts together! This patch the ground is hot and we never could run the 2300’s on 5, and ran kind of ragged on 4. 7000’s High Yield/Normal was tiresome to your ears and mind to listen for targets! Again, I set my sight to the hot spots of this patch to see the power of the new 6000. I was surprised it would run in the same setting as I was using in the prior milder patches. Running great, in the still cool morning. I swung over to one of the sweet spots of this patch and Bam. Amongst, dozens of old dug holes a nice loud signal. There wasn’t hardly any trash on this patch, but it still had me thinking maybe we dropped something from out trash pouches? A couple boots scraps and looking at the family soil told me it’s not trash. Clearing off the area with my boot so the coil would cover the target. I tested it in different sensitivity setting. Seemed the highest Manual setting was louder than Auto Plus? But, it heard the target down to the lowest setting! Well, time to see what it is, 7 inches down and out, it’s in my hand! A little .549 gram nugget in a sea of dig holes that we pounded. I was impressed! Swung the area well with no other Joy. I swung over to another hot spot of the 2 acres patch. Seeing all the old dig holes, I wondered! I didn’t have to wonder much any longer and I heard a nice sweet little tone familiar to my ears! Couple boot scraps of the fluffy ground cover dirt and down to hard pack dirt! It sounded shallow. A couple more hard boots scraps and the target was out and into my hands a little .152 gram dink. Wow! This 6000 in my mind would be a fresh patch Destroyer! Mild or hot ground, it wouldn’t take long to empty the vault, just keep digging! Ok, the cool morning was evaporating with the Sun well above the Mountains shade lines. I wanted to swing some deep nugget spots on some old patches at Rye Patch that my Partners didn’t have time for. On the Move again, to beat the heat. Donned my gear and swinging on deep nugget ground with 1 bar left on my battery. Machine, still in Max setting and running well with the expected retuning of the rapped rising temperature. No Joy at either of the two different deep patches, I chose at Rye Patch. I didn’t swing the Burn Barrel, but my Partners did and pulled 5 off it the week prior, which they ended their sweat feast 1 1/2 day hunt there! Burn Barrel, will always produce! Well, I agreed with my partners assessments of their hunt to mine! 6000 is not a 7000 killer which Minelab says! But, it’s light weight and deadly and really is sensitive as the amount of little trash pieces I picked up in the heart of several whirlwind patches in this Beat The Heat hunt. I know there is gold left on every patch I stopped at, but I wasn’t there for extended amount of time! So, the patches we want to hit are the ones that gave our 7000’s the most difficult settings problems. My Partners in California, are having a blast in the hot difficult grounds of many Hydraulic Pits where running the 7000 in High Yield/Normal was impossible. So, no your ground with the 6000 for best results. Until the next Hunt! LuckyLundy

Got out yesterday morning. I had a similar experience. Sometimes the noise cancelling would tune out a plane, but other times, no. There was a plane every 5-10 minutes and sometimes several at a time. At one point there were 3 overhead, I just had to stop and stand there in frustrated submission until it the sky cleared. Another thing I found was that the GM1k and the GPX6k were pretty good at noise canceling each other. However, there was one “channel” on the GPX that the GM couldn’t handle even with multiple reboots. The solution was to repeat a noise cancel on the GPX with the GM nearby. The 3 larger finds here were all very iffy signals in Normal Auto 2 with the 11” coil. I probably wouldn’t have bothered with digging them if I wasn’t using the GM to double check and see what the GPX was saying through the chatter. The largest piece was 1.6 grains of spongy gold under 5-7 inches of dirt. The rest were sub-grain. The smallest 3 were only found by bulldozing with the GM 5” in Manual 10. The weight of the 11” coil and point of balance was very nice.

I see quite a few mentioning EMI troubles with the GPX6. Very likely that the amount of EMI experienced in the States is far more than what I get here in country Victoria but the following may still be relevant. In the time that I have been using the GPX6 I have found that Manual Sensitivity 1 provides a very smooth threshold yet does not really lose much in getting a target response. The response is certainly quieter at Sensitivity 1 than Sensitivity 9 for example, but it is also much easier to hear through a smooth threshold than a noisy one. There have been many times that I can run Auto and Auto Plus without issue or maybe have to put up with a little mess in the threshold. There have been times where dropping to Manual Sensitivity 1 is the only way to continue detecting, but I've continued to find gold. Possibly worth testing a few targets pre-dig in Manual Sensitivity 1 and seeing if they are still detectable. Might give you a bearable alternative for the times that EMI is driving you nuts. The ease/speed of setting changes is one of the little bonuses of the GPX6.

Considering the frequent mention of EMI troubles with the GPX6000 I thought it might be interesting to make a topic specifically for it as it may provide some answers/options for users. The poll might also give us an indication of what users think may be the biggest contributing factors to EMI for their locations or GPX6's. With a little feedback and data maybe it is something Minelab can update for us? I generally don't find EMI bad on my GPX6 in the locations I use it. I was within a few kilometres of the centre of Bendigo (about 100,000 people) last weekend and was able to run in Auto 1 with only a little mess to the Threshold. At another location not far from a tower (NBN or mobile - not sure) I pretty much had to use Sensitivity 1 the whole time if I wanted to use the Mono 11" coil. BUT, this allowed a really stable threshold and performance was still fine with gold found. I actually carry my phone (iPhone) with me and have it turned on. Always in my L) pocket. I have tried turning it off and turning it off and leaving it in the car but don't feel it made any difference at all. I do find the in-built speaker creates a noisier threshold and more frequent noise cancels are required. Since having the Bluetooth receiver and using my preferred out-of-ear ear buds I have found EMI much less of an issue. Be interested to hear others thoughts and work arounds. Cheers, N.E.

I spent about ten hours total detecting with my GPX6000 in Southern Oregon. Got three small bits for 1.2 grams total. Sensitivity is great, ground balance is a little finicky with the mono coil, but holy balls the EMI was bad. The way they hooked up the speaker made it so I had to use headphones. Maybe the amp is too close to the sensitive stuff, but as soon as I switched to the speaker the machine started going off. Lucky for me it was only 101 degrees so I just wore the nice black headphones. The chunkier .7g piece was at least six inches down! The GPX did sound off on some of the andesite and hotter serpentine but the ground is murder for most machines so I am fairly happy. It’s a keeper as long as they can fix the speaker issue. “Just don’t use it” is not going to work for me in bear country. But the second day the EMI was not as bad when I checked the speaker.

Welcome, OneAcre! There's quite a bit of desert gold within driving distance. Get out there and get some of it! You likely will get some tips on using your MXT from the following articles, most written by site-admin Steve Herschbach: https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-reviews/whites-electronics-mxt-metal-detector/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-guides/whites-mxt-engineering-guide/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-guides/steves-guide-whites-gmt-versus-mxt/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-mining-journal/minelab-gp3000-whites-mxt-fortymile-gold/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-mining-journal/garrett-infinium-whites-mxt-ganes-creek-gold-nuggets/ https://www.detectorprospector.com/magazine/steves-mining-journal/colchester-uk-metal-detecting-fisher-f75-whites-mxt/

There have been many areas pushed at Rye Patch. Some legally and some well ... at times when there was no one around to do anything about it. I remember one of my first trips there about 10 years ago and there were 'pushes' all over the place for some reason. They were not very big but ... I didn't know. I was told that someone from a University was taking samples. I very much doubt that story years later. Other sections that are owned by the mining companies have been pushed. Claims can be 'staked' and permits can be issued for pushes as long as you put up a bond to put the place back in order. This was allowed by the BLM in the past but the nominee for BLM now may not issue such permits. There is also something proposed called the 30x30 plan which may put many of our patches off limits. Get your gold while you can ladies and gentlemen.

Valens, You have to know your ground! Vast majority of Northern Nevada’s nugget patches are shallow. Now, don’t get me wrong! I carry a shovel in my truck or Side X Side and have dug a few holes a little over 2 feet to retrieve deep nuggets. I’m sure back in the Hey Days of Rye Patch with many multi ounce nuggets some where deeper than mentioned with my shovel. But, normally, a foot or less deep. So, scraping a few inches off could make a difference. If you’ve pulled several nuggets out of a patch a foot or more it could be worth the expense of the equipment, fuel, permit, reclaiming push and seeding! For the most part, most gold detectorist search for the next patch instead of rolling the dice on hopes of deeper nuggets. Rick

I think it really depends on the perspective and expectation what to find, LL. I am fine with smaller finds as long as I learn something about the area and my machines. Now, if you go for larger gold patches with the potential for higher return then this is a different story, and I am with you completely. I just hear way too often that all gold is gone from a certain place while I (and others) still find some. But as I said, it all depends on the goals you set. For instance, on Friday I will be back at Big Bear to hunt an old patch with the 6000 at mild temps. My goal is to have a pleasant hunting day without heat and perhaps find what I did not find with the 7000 before. So, I have rather modest expectations and little can make my day 😁

I can state with 100% that I will never get rid of any of the metal detectors that my grandfather gave to me. They both work just fine for each of their capacity to find what is in the ground. Should I get another detector it will be in a couple of years as I want to learn everything I can with what I have right now. Once that is done I will look at what is in my price range and decide at that time. I really don't think I will spend $6,000 for almost any detector, unless I see a real need for it.

Was on a football field today using the 15" in park 1 and hit a jumpy signal. I decided to dig it because it was loud and chaotic sounding... probably like was said about it by the parents of the teen who owned it originally. When I got it home, I checked to see if there was a tape in it. The tape cover popped off and emptied a full load of wet sand onto the floor...still being obnoxious. This is the first one of these that I have ever dug. Bucket list: cassette player...check.

I have very little EMI trouble with the 6K, do notice it is more amplified when using the speaker, at times it goes unstable as the sun rises and sets more so then the earlier VLFs, PIs and Z did but I have simply learnt to stop with coil on ground until it stabilizes (couple of secs usually) then re auto cancel in MDs with that capability. I carry my mobile phone in pocket turned on with no ill effect. Turning mobile phone off makes no difference, I use Auto+, difficult mostly and patch hunt in threshold off (Bogenes) clean up with threshold on and in normal. Solar Cycle 25 Is Here. NASA, NOAA Scientists Explain What That Means | NASA Press release above explains the suns natural EMI increase as the sun cycle heads to max in approx 2025, also because OZ is in winter and the US is in summer effects may be more amplified in the US currently. Those of you who are inquisitive google the Maunder Minimum for a wee more understanding of the suns cycles effects on life on earth. Could be this has naught to do with detectors/EMI, but is food for thought for all our modern sensitive electronic equipment especially now as we approach a maximum sun activity period from the minimum in 2019..

Gotta get my RV ready for a trip to the beach, this month going to Emerald Isle for my annual "Wife's Birthday" trip. It was hot and humid this morning, the deer flies are nearing the end of their parasitic lifespan, so they were ravenous. Despite lots of bug spray they hit me over and over. The trick is to let 'em land and bite, they are reluctant to let go so you can kill them. Left quite a few in the dirt today. Unlike ticks, mosquitoes and chiggers, they don't leave an itchy welt. Went back to the hill for about 4 hours, it's not that big an area but I wanted to get one more dig in before spending the rest of the week doing chores. The hill is about 60 feet above the river, what is behind me is about the same size. There was a house here by old records. The evidence is brick and lots - lots - of nails and junk. Dug quite a bit of trash, some of it masking the good stuff. Didn't find much but it was surprising, due to the fact that I have been over this area a lot of times with the standard Equinox coil. Only dug 4 keepers. Silver plated spoon, 1930 wheat, 1936 dog tag and the biggest surprise, a gold plated mid 1800s to 1900s button (I think). Even the shank was plated, the back says "EXTRA RICH" and the company name. I should mention that it was a 12 in a pile of iron nails, the Coiltek 10x5 "sniffed" it out. I haven't found a button in a while so this made my day. It's the best gold plated button I have found. Next up: Beach Road Trip! 😀

I've been tempted many times in the past at the play-on-words (sort of) that mis-spellings generate, but I couldn't pass this one up, and DoD (play on letters?) is usually a good sport so I don't think he'll be offended, at least I hope not. So, is a guilt button kind of like a mood ring? (Hey, there's money to be made next Christmas if you can convince the gullible public to go along!)

Purple..I had a chance to swing the 6000 at Gerry's class in June..it's a well balanced machine..really sweet! Where did you have success with it? Not asking for GPS coordinates, just county and State. found below with my Minelab..EQ800..not GPX6000.

“have there been any big (say 10g and up) nuggets found with the GPX6000 yet, anywhere?” GB, There is a huge difference between Australia vs Western States soil mineralization. When the 2300 came out it opened all of our old patches from California to Rye Patch area. Sure nothing huge, the old GP/GPX’s did well on those. The 7000, got what the 2300 couldn’t reach and was/is another break through in filling your poke up. Now, with the information I shared in my report. America’s hottest mineralized patches or new grounds will be where the 6000 shines, places where the ground gave the 7000 a problem. Like not being able to run it in High Yield/Normal with no filters on. Like many Hydro Pits in California to Southern California Desert and Arizona, the 6000 is what you want in your hands. Mild ground conditions, you won’t see a wind fall nuggets feast like we did with the 2300 & 7000’s on old patches (if swinging them correctly). But, like what was discussed above there’s always nuggets left in old patches. The 6000, is what you want in your hands...hands down! Now, if Minelab can have a fix to not hunting close to another 6000...my group can continue to share our labors on future patch discoveries! Rick

I have been dying to find a trime for quite a while and seriously loosing sleep on thinking about it. So it's July 5th and after a ton of weekend rain I called my buddy to see if he wanted to take a go somewhere. He wanted to take me to an old colonial cellar hole site that he and another friend hunted a lot. I did not have high hopes of a great hunt but it was better than sitting at home. This place was crazy weird with random broken/disappearing signals, which I soon found out was caused by some very strange sandstone that my detector and pointer would pick up on. So after 3 hours of crap signals and misc. doo-dads, I decided to change locations. I walked down range about 150 meters and proceeded to hit some new ground. Low and behold it was quite chatter free and insect free. I was hunting near a small blown over tree and saw a dig hole,so I drifted about 5 feet away and got THE first solid tone of the day a unwavering 19 on the 800. Well jeez louis, I don't care what it is. Expecting a copper button or such, I proceeded with the dig. The plug was a 0 but the hole was coming up hot. I scraped away 4 inches of dirt and the hole went blank. The pointer nailed it and out popped a what I thought was an aluminium snap button. I snatched it up gave it a rub and Holy S**T I found a Trime!!!! I consider myself a pretty tough guy, But I have to admit I shed a little tear. This is a coin I have been chasing for a long time. Well my poor close up vision and my death grip on the coin clouded my brain. I called my buddy over to look at my trime and he proceeded to tell me I did NOT repeat NOT find a Trime but a 1857 seated 1/2 dime. Well being in love with the trimes I was highly disappointed. I Have this seated coin on my bucket list but a little lower on the scale. My buddy thought I was nuts, maybe I am? Another hour and a half yielded a 1864 and 1865 indian head and some other cool doo dads for me, And my buddy rolled out with a beautiful 1874 shield nickle and 2 1864 indian heads. Happy yes, But I can't get the trime thing out of my head.

So you're saying the honeymoon is over? If real marriages were this tough we'd have even more divorce lawyers than already exist. I wish once we'd have posters wait for a product to get into people's hands before flouting it.

If you will experiment with the other Modes with modest Gain settings(50-70) I think you will find the detector will run stable AND have surprising depth & target resolution. Each mode IS different in how it handles EMI, mineralization, & Iron falsing. When you add to this the selection of Frequency & coil choices it is a very capable detector in a wide range of scenarios.

I am of the opinion that the detector is only of 10% of the yield. I think I will find more gold by searching for a new patch than getting what other skilled detectorist miss on old patches but if I am wrong so be it. But the 6000 may get me the first nugget in a new patch so I would consider a GPX 6000 over my two GP3000 as finding gold is more important than DOLLARS to me. Sorry if I don't leave much for you fossickers, but what you find you deserve. 😉 😉

I hope my grandkids have the same attitude as you.

Good digs you found there ! Put an X on the map..

Hello to all.... After using a variety of detectors since the late 80's (BountyHunter BFO, RedBaron, IB1OO / Whites 4900d to name a few) I moved up to a Whites MXT E-trac in 2002 from Rick at Desert Outfitters hoping to do a little nugget shooting... sadly life happened and I haven't used any of them for the last decade or so. I now have more free time for metal detecting and look forward to some nugget and meteorite hunting. It's nice to learn the MXT is still a contender. Before purchasing I called Jimmy Sierra for advice. He insisted it needed the 6x10 Eclipse DD and sent a free coupon. I also have the 5.3 eclipse in addition to the stock 9.50 coil, each on their own stems. I found this forum as a link on the Nugget Shooter forum while looking for information on my MXT. The above intro is posted there as well. Thanks to all. .....OneAcre

Welcome (back) aboard the crazy train...you just hit the mother lode when you clicked Bill's link. Ask all the questions you want , somebody here will know...........

Good job, Lucky; way to persevere and beat the heat...and the 🦨!

Great reporting on your hunt and thanks for sharing it. Glad to see you came up with a couple of pieces of the golden joy. Could someone use a bulldozer to turn to ground over to uncover more gold? Is that possible or am I wrong about that? I am new at this and am trying to learn everything about prospecting out there. Good luck on your next hunt.

OneAcre, Welcome to the forum and I am sure that people on here will be glad to help you and give you the advice in which you are seeking. Please post some of your finds once you are able to get back out there and know that we will enjoy the hunt with you. Good luck and happy hunting!

GC, I’ve been going to Rye Patch for years! Have we ever met? I know you own a 7000 & 6000. I’m not saying all the gold is gone at Rye Patch! My group has over 40 patches there, that we’ve been swinging on for years. I didn’t swing the entire patch of any of the ones i visited, in the story above. Just the sweetest spots! It was 101 at Noon when I left. There’s gold on every patch we know there waiting for a 6000 to find it. Now, would it be enough to put a smile on my face? I’ll find a spot, that will if it ever cools down 😂 LuckyLundy

Hello OneAcre, Glad you found the forum! This is the perfect place to get reaclamated to detecting! Many of us did the same thing! Good luck!🍀👍👍

I thought it might have been a soda bottle cap! Wow, that's a lot of gold...

I have a TDI on loan to a friend and I don’t care if I get it back. I have a Equinoxs and waiting on the elliptical coil and the ORX with both HF coils that I plan on keeping both VLF detectors. I do have a Simplex with a stock coil and a elliptical coil that I would sell . I have the money for the 6000 that’s burning a hole in my pocket but holding off doing so . I just don’t get to nugget hunt as much as I would like. I do have the Tarsacci but I don’t see me nugget hunting with it like I would with the other VLF. It’s great for beach hunting but that’s as far as I go with it. Like a friend told me sometimes it’s just the joy of owning something. I’m not so sure that picture fits me. Chuck

You're welcome and I try to provide what help I can for others. Both by sharing my experiences afield or pointing out things for folks to learn to better understand how different makes and models work .... or don't work well, based on the hunting type and site challenges. None are perfect. As for for finding those elusive desirables, it can be interesting to reflect on the past efforts we put out. For example I consider my Seated Liberty recoveries. I have found them in major-size towns Igave hunted such as Portland Oregon and Salt Lake City Utah, but the majority have come from ghost towns associated with railroad activity or gold mining era activity. My all-time favorite Ghost Town produced an average of 30-35 Seated Liberty coins for each 1 Barber coin. That favorite town, which I named 'Twin Flats', I concentrated my efforts on starting in July of 1983 and it rewarded me with my one 1856 Trime as well as my nickel-type 3-Cent pieces, 2-Cent pieces, numerous Indian Head Cents, an 1851 Large Cent and my only Flying Eagle Cent. Frequent 'V' and Shield Nickels and my only Capped Bust coin, an 1836 Half-Dime. My Seated Liberty coins ranged from 1838 Half-Dimes and Dimes on up to 1891's, with the bulk of the Dimes, Quarters and Halves dated in the 1850's, '60s and '70s. One old high-traffic use RR and freighting-point ghost town that produced hundreds of coins for me. Enough to put in 2X2 cards and fill four binders with some leftovers to clean and card. And the surprise to me from decades of hard hunting is that I have never found a Seated Liberty coin from the 1840s. Earlier and later, but nothing from the 1840s. To do so is one of my bucket-listers more than finding another Trime. Just hang in there and keep trying by working the most probable sites you can, and I wish you all the best of success Monte

was deer hunting with a friend once in the higher elevations of Utah...we jumped a nice buck and to run forward about 20 meters through thick aspens for a better view and in the process my buddy takes a stumble with his Wetherby 7 mag that had an intricately engraved wooden stock...his elbows looked like hamburger but the gun did not have a scratch anywhere...despite his misadventure he was quite happy about the gun...the buck was even happier as we never did see it again. strick

Norvic/goldcatcher.... Thanks guys for the EMI and threshold info.... Today I moved into the other side of the canyon and wearing my Romeo slippers (no metal) and running lowest sense and sometimes higher a click or two I had little threshold crap and things were fairly stable today. When the treshold did go whackamo I'd turn down the sound and noticed damn near every time the very stable threshold would start to stray I'd hear a MF'ing plane overhead! I'd noticed this before but this is the first time I started looking for and listening to planes. Thought I was out in the middle of nowhere. One of my saying is "there's an idiot behind every bush nowdays" now I have to add "there's an idiot behind every cloud nowdays". Unless I get something substantial I'll probably quit the pics for awhile (?). Think everyone has a pretty good idea what the 6 does and how good it does it. That super sensitive sob will take some getting used to but on the flip side the benefits more than make up for that. Got in 4hrs today before the heat....biggest bit was .944g at 10-11" range and total for the 5 bits was 1.851gram..... PS....at the end of my hunt I'm headed towards the quad with the mini-monster, pick, and the 6. In my slippers I stumble on some scree and down I go. As I was going down I had enough geo-sense to sacrafice the pick and mini-monster taking a hard hit and kept the 6 from taking a hit. Get it...geo-sense...Oneguy cracked a funny, Oneguy cracked a funny.....enough of this!

Chuck, I think one of the bigger issues is the R&D needed to develop such a coil. He is busy with his machines ( maybe a second generation Tarsacci ) as well as promoting, building and selling two other coils as well as the detector. He is only one man and, if I understand correctly, the Tarsacci was built around the coil, not the coil built for the Tarsacci. So it is a bit difficult to start over so to speak. That is one of the reasons it took nearly two years to put out a 12” coil. JMHO.

Mike - to be fair I think the charger is designed to be able to be hooked directly to a 12VDC deep cycle or vehicle battery in the field with jumper like cables so that may be a source of confusion, but the detector battery itself has an 8VDC nominal terminal voltage.

Chuck has posted a question that says: If you had 8000 dollars to buy one are more detectors how would you spend it? I’m talking about nugget hunting only. My question is: If you already have a 6000 or you need to sell one or two of your detectors to get a 6000, which detector do you own that you will sell first? Which would you sell second? Which detector will you not sell? If you are going to keep all of your detectors you don't need to answer. Mitchel

There is always gold left somewhere. I have not yet seen an area that has been completely depleted by detectorists, with the exception perhaps of very small club claims. But normally, the area ratio of land/coil is just way to big. Even at Majuba placers I find gold most of the times I go there, albeit granted much less than years ago. And this area is probably one of the most pounded areas on Earth...😉

Today I got in 3.5-4 hrs for only 2 bits. First 2 hrs the emi was terrible, I was thinking "well we'll be selling this as it just won't settle down for any length of time and is quite annoying. Last 2 hrs threshold about SDC smooth, just a couple noise cancels and I'm liking the thing again? Then I hear and see a jet and I'm waiting for the 6 to go bonkers.....it doesn't? Then another jet....threshold stays pretty calm? One minute I'm gonna toss it over the bank into a ravine then all is well???? Started doing what Lunk mentioned and just let it go nuts and usually whatever is causing the emi disappears.....?

Great hunting, just wish you had some video on it. Could you please make it interesting for dogodog and hunt in an area where you have a cut up chicken in the water. Just to show him it is not the sharks you have to worry about. Good luck on your next hunt and I hope you find 3 of those beauties.

Norvic in HAM talk; we may need to work out detecting days or hours between countries to avoid generating EMI between us via the Ionosphere Skip during the Solar Max period LOL. This could explain the frequent need to retune our detectors as the Ionosphere is changing between us lol.

For me the 7 is history and no regrets there. Just too heavy. Will I miss a few deep ones with the 6? Ignorance is bliss.

It is an ancient gold earing i did not look at ID just listen and dig.

'dogodog', keep at it and never give up hope. Site selection is the #1 key to success, but a close #2 are the following things: -> Be patient at all times. -> Use the best coil to handle the conditions. -> Work a site slowly and methodically. -> Covder a site well ... that means overlapping and scooting the coil in and around dense brush and debris. -> Usethe least amount if Discrimination you cantollerate. -> Remember, all visual TID is only a 'suggestion' or 'electronicly-generated' 'guess' of what made a beep ... recover all good and reasonably iffy Audio hits and take a look to know for sure. -> Pick the best detector you can afford for the types of sites and conditions you'll face, opt for the best coil for the task, then learn and master it well. I only have one 'bucket-luster' coin to find, but I wouldn't mind finding more of any early-era coin. I have been fortunate to have enjoyed this sport a long, long time and searched a number of very productive places, with 99% of those being "Out West" here in the USA. In over 56 years of very avid detecting, I have found a lot of older coins. Seated Liberty coins have outnumbered Barber coins about 30-35 to 1, Indian Head Cents used to be numerous, I would get about 5-7 'V' Nickles for every 3-4 Shield Nickels depending upon the location. Large cents, 2-Cent pieces, 'nickel-type' 3-Cent pieces, Half-Dimes and more. But in all this time, ONLY ONE Half-Cent, Flying Eagle Cent ... and ONLY ONE silver Trime. But I never give up trying, and neither should you. Monte

I'm gonna bet you guys will have to stay 1/4 mile apart at least....lol That sob is one sensitive mofo.......

Nice Job buddy, Another good hunt!!! Sometimes the god's just smile when your feeling like it will just be another nonproductive hunt.

I think it's a dove and signifies the holy spirit - 1/3 of the trilogy - Father, Son, Holy Spirit (ghost)

Plastic is supposed to last 100's of years. I'm guessing someone will come out with a plastic detector some day after it has been banned. I can just imagine someone 200 years from now cursing all the idiots who threw their plastic bottle caps on the ground.