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The weather has been slightly cooler, and dryer here this week! (85 with about 75% humidity!) And my sore foot is manageable now! So yesterday morning I went on a sunrise beach hunt with the Nox, and 11" coil! Conditions were very sanded in, and I only found a few coins, a junk earring, and a lead weight; among the usual junk items! I didn't stay long, as I wanted to do a park hunt too, and not reinjure my foot! I didn't actually get to do the park hunt till about 4pm today! And decided to use the Vanquish and the V8 coil! I was really only wanting to dig some shallow recent drops of quarters and dimes, on the edges of the park's "weekend soccer field", in a small area, before dark! and avoid most of the trash that is there! It's not very groomed, and is full of short weeds and various grasses! When I drive by, I see the players and family's gather, like clockwork, every weekend! So there is generally a constant supply of easy clad to find, under the nearby trees, every few months! Today was really no different than any other day I've been there, other than the detector and coil I used this time! I really enjoy the V8 coil for obvious reasons, and in no time I had a decent amount of clad! I had a few iffy targets that I kept track of, and went back around to, after the initial run through! A few were mult-coin spills of a quarter or dime, mixed with some pennies, and maybe an additional quarter or dime! Those were found rechecking the hole, and I knew by the V8's response, that there were others nearby! One particular target gave me some aggravation, as it was under some weed block, and there was also a mat of small roots to dig thru! This was in a dug out area of one of those exercise stations! I initially got a very clipped "quarter" signal on my first pass, and came back to it later, when the quarter signals got to be fewer! So back to it a second time, and not wanting to dig a big hole, it took a while to locate some targets through the obstacles, and small hole! I knew I had some iron mixed in, when the first pinpoint was a rusty nail! These "targets" were roughly about 5 inches down, and being a "dugout" area, actually got me down about 10-12 inches below the sod area! So detect, dig, pinpoint, a few times, and finally locate the "Beautiful Sight" of my dodgy target! A Bright Smiling 1951 Silver Rosie! 😃 Very satisfying, as the only silver I've found here before, was a nice money clip, and some cheaper jewelry! The silver coins where "all" vacuumed up years ago, and any left have gotten deeper, or totally out of reach!! My main theory though, is that all the rusty nails had masked this one! And with my small V8 coil, and the added depth I was able to get, in this "low" spot! I found one of the few that were missed! When I got home and washed off my coins, and set them out to dry and examine! I got another nice little surprise, in the few pennies I picked up! A 1920 Wheatie (And yes, looks like i nailed it!! 😔) That was probably even more rare here, as it predates the park by about 30 years! So, nothing earth shattering by most of the standards of what you all find elsewhere! But for my area, and the start of detecting season here, this is about as good as it gets! Short of private permissions, which are hard to come by here!! The pictures include my previous day's beach finds in the upper right! All the crusty nails where around the immediate area of the Rosie! And the Wheatie is near the Rosie in the picture! I have no clue which hole that came from! That was just a bonus!!👍👍

It would not be needed if the public could read. 😊

Let me check my notes to see exactly what I used, might be a day or two. I may have extra correct pots on hand to save you the trouble of ordering at higher prices than I paid. Have been building Pi's for the past 10 years.

Hey Guys/Gals, I agree, when you're searching for gold nuggets or even pockets of gold, you need to understand the origin of gold, how it's formed and the deposits it makes. Many gold districts throughout the US, some of the richest ones never probably produced a piece of gold bigger than a grain of salt. However, targeting free milling, pocket type lodes is where most electronic prospectors will have the most success. It's a needle in a haystack either way, but I would rather spend my time researching and looking in places where massive eluvial pockets have been found or historically large gold nuggets. See if you can find similar geology of these known gold areas further away and prospect and explore them for potentially over looked lodes, pockets and gold nuggets. The only true gold vein that I can say I located, with a friend was in a well known copper and silver area. There was no mention of any placers or dominate gold mines in the area, but a "foil gold" vein was located. If you could introduce some of this basic information in gold training, which myself and other do, it can be very helpful. Jim Straight, long time person friend and mentor was noted for his amazing knowledge in this area, especially in the California goldfields. Just my thoughts, Rob

Fridays hunt including the tiny specimen. 3.3 grams/50 bits. Beautiful fall day today, couldn't be better..... Hope tomorrow is as nice!!!!

Chris Ralph’s book Fist Full of Gold is a pretty good training guide. Next DP forum past and current post research is quite comprehensive in learning the in and out of prospecting with a variety of detectors. Once you have read all this information you should be ready to get some detecting time in with very little problems. After a couple hundred hours of detecting you should be quite efficient with your detector. If you’re not finding much, then It’s all about better research on where things you would like to find were found before. 😎

Every gold detector has it's strong and weak points and knowing what your machine is best at is great. Knowing what kind of gold your detector is not good at finding is just as important. Bottom line. No gold detector from the major manufactures is worthless and not one of them (no matter the price) is the best at all kinds of gold in variety of soils. Me personally for the areas I like to hunt and the kinds of gold I find, I still feel an Equinox 800 is TOPS. Now when I want to hunt more solid nuggets that are out of reach of the VLF detectors and deeper, I need a bigger detector and will usually grab a GPX-6000. If I go back a few years before we had a GPZ-7000 or the new GPX-6000, then yes I would grab a GPX-5000. Pics are of my customers and success they had back in the day with a GPX-5000. I'll never tell anyone their GPX-5000 is not a good gold detector. I'll inform them and may even show, different kinds of gold it's not good at finding though, so they realize not 1 is best for all.

Never even knew we had diamonds like that here in the states. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/09/30/Crater-of-Diamonds-State-Park-Noreen-Wredberg-yellow-diamond/6331633032710/

The big problem with the 5000 was people not understanding them enough to know how to set them properly. Instead, they would get canned settings off the internet, and run those. That led to people in the U.S. running settings designed for horrible ground in Australia, and which actually hurt performance in milder ground. I generally hunt milder ground, and smaller gold, so Sharp and Sensitive Extra were my go to settings. A GPX 5000 running a Sadie coil and Sensitive Extra should be hitting nuggets 1-2 grains in size with no problem. Fine Gold I only used in bad ground with tough nut hot rocks. It was the go to setting in Australia around the ironstone dikes. They really named that setting wrong, leading people to think it was the setting specifically for small gold when it is not. The setting names were created ad hoc over several generations of models, and in general ended up being a misleading mess. They would have been better off simply numbered in order of application to ground, with salt set aside as a special setting. Long story short the machine got a lot of blame, when in fact it was the operator not really understanding the tool. But PI detectors were made to go big. My best GPX 5000 find..... Minelab GPX 5000 With 6.5 Ounce Nugget At Dig Location

Hey Guys, I have to agree with many of your comments, including Phrunt & Steve. The GPX series, including the 5000 are some of the most versatile gold detectors on the Planet. Like Steve mentioned, if you were just dropped into a random goldfield, the GPX 5000 would probably be one of the best detectors to use overall. There are a gazillion aftermarket coils and accessories for it and it has 8 timings, allow you much more flexibility on ground and gold types. The last person that told a few of my friends that a Minelab PI was worthless and a VLF is just as good, as there are specimens and crystalline gold that a PI will not find, I wacked out a Trophy sized, solid gold nugget featured in Minelab GP Extreme ad. The nugget was 3/4's of a pound, solid, crystalline in nature. I tell people to buy the best detector they can, then go out and learn and really use it to it's full potential. You can't worry about someone showing you a piece you might miss, but rather focus on what you can find and give her hell! I would need a dozen detectors to cover a patch if I was worry I might miss a specimen, a piece of cornflake gold, a small .05 gram of gold or whatever. Just my thoughts, Rob

Yea, Steve i did and won an XP ORX detector with the 9.5x5 elliptical coil. That's why i've been asking questions about it. Jim

I’m 100% sure it is not 1802 or 1982 Perseverance = Nice saves

I'm not letting my V5 and three coils go anytime soon. I don't think many V5 or V6 units were sold after the V4 fiasco. Don't think, from what I have seen over the years more than 2 or 3 each of the V5 or V6 exist in the US or Canada. I believe you and Paul in Ca have two of the V6. I know of one other V5. With a couple changes in parts (pots), my V5 now has a finer more precise GB tuning range than the stock pot to get GB spot on. I switched to a RV6 precision pot. The stock pot is a cheap one. Between setting lets say 5-6, adjustment range is like 5- 5.5-6. Your GB can be off at either settings. With the precision pot you adjustment range between 5-6 would be like 5.1-5.2-5.3-5.4-5.5-5.6 and so on. A lot more resolution. Gain pot was changed from a linear to an audio taper, more usable range than 0-2 usually recommended, which is now spaced over a wider range 0-5. And you get a bit more range at max. Gain. See picture. Just those two simple mods make a big difference in tuning and stability. Makes for a much more fun detector to use. Fast set-up and can be a turn on and go detector. I love it with the 7x9 coil for coin and jewelry hunting. Anyways, you may want to keep the V6.

Chuck (GB_Amateur) is definitely a coin expert. I have had the pleasure of spending a day hunting with him and "talking" detectors. He is also a super nice guy that I would hunt with anytime. Everyone on this forum has different physical abilities, hunting environments, target preferences and at least in my case......addictions (gold nugget prospecting). So, there is absolutely nothing wrong or lowly about hunting for US clad. If it makes sense to hunt for clad, it can be just as fun as hunting for anything else and it pays for the experience immediately. The Equinox you have with its single digit notching and simultaneous multi frequency operation, makes cherry picking for US clad, specific denominations of coins, silver coins and gold jewelry super easy and accurate to do. Since the Equinox rarely up or down averages target ID numbers in normal to mineralized turf (black sand infested beaches are another story entirely), notching will be extremely accurate even on deeper targets. Sometimes when I am in a sea of aluminum trash where my other detectors refuse to go, I just set up a simple US coin pattern and see what I can find. I have found some really nice gold and silver jewelry by doing that too. Conversely, not digging pull-tabs which can hit between 11 and 19 depending on what kind they are on the Equinox, WILL result in missed gold jewelry if there is any present in that target ID range.........So cherry picking compromises are good sometimes and so is hunting for aluminum/gold.

My money is on it being real. Hope it is. Great find either way!

I find it quite a light detector too, especially after converting it to a full carbon shaft and seeing I'm anti cords I first started using the DD leather cover with battery mounting on the side which I still found light compared to the GPZ. I've since gone to a lightweight lipo battery on the side which weighs next to nothing. I then have a JBL wind speaker on it to give me nice loud cord free audio with the speaker cord just running on the detector across to the side mount battery but also have a Bluetooth low latency transmitter if I wanted to use any other bluetooth cordless audio options. These are all quite cheap things that Northeasts friend can do to "modernize" his GPX" to get it cord free and wireless audio for very little money. Especially just mounting the battery on the side using a DD leather case and getting rid of the big heavy curly cable and using a short battery lead. They were the things I didn't like about the GPX and easily fixed. I do mostly find small gold around here, under a gram is 98% of the gold, with a good 50% or more of that under .1 of a gram. For me the GPX has found 0.05 of a gram nuggets with the 10" round X-coil which I think is quite respectable. The GPZ obviously finds smaller as I've regularly been getting 0.03 of a gram and sometimes even smaller depending on how solid and round the bit is and the GPZ is certainly deeper on the smallest bits. Yes, the GPX 6000 is possibly the best on small gold of the high end Minelab options in their stock form, other than using a VLF but is it wise for your buddy to sell his free 5000 and buy a 6000 for the purpose of finding a bit smaller gold when he doesn't even know if he's going to stick with it and is finding that small gold really that important in the cost vs benefit ratio? It appears we don't have specimen gold around here, so I'm not all that concerned about that side of things but that's what Gerry was talking about, knowing the gold in your area so you know you're not using the wrong detector for the job. A cheaper VLF like the Equinox. GM1000 or Garrett 24k combined with the GPX can be a reasonable cheaper remedy for that. The GPX 5000 with an anti interference coil (figure 8 windings) is just crazy how good it is in high EMI areas, you can take it places you'd never expect a detector to work well and still have PI performance, my 11" Coiltek AI coil seems to me very similar in performance as the 11" DD Commander, but with virtually no EMI anywhere showing the versatility of the GPX. This anti GPX 4500/5000 stance triggered something in me as I find both of them to be excellent detectors and I'm sure your buddy will too Northeast, once he gets over the small learning curve he'll be fine with it and I'm sure he'll start finding gold too. Just don't let him get lost in the settings as he really doesn't need to. Advise him to bury a few nuggets and experiment with the settings to see what he finds suitable.

Great going purple. That’s some prime stuff, and I’d take a bucket full of nuggets like those over much larger nuggets when it comes to being able to easily sell them for a decent price. I can say that I’ve found well over $6000 worth of gold now with my GPX 6000, so anything additional I find has me into gravy land. Not all that difficult with $1700 gold as long as a guy has the areas and time to work with.

Let’s assume I was going to be dropped randomly all over the world into a hundred different gold detecting scenarios. Which Minelab non-VLF would I take, if I could only choose one? There will be locations with gold of any potential size, including very large nuggets at depth. There will be extreme salt lake ground. There will be extreme iron stone ground. There will be really trashy ground. In short, any possible scenario you might imagine looking for gold. Which detector do you take, not knowing what you might get hit with? I’d make a strong case for the GPX 5000 with a proper coil selection. It currently comes stock with 11” round DD and 15” x 12” mono. Add a Nugget Finder 8” x 6” mono “Sadie” coil, 14” x 9” mono, and 18” round mono. For the extreme depth package, add a Nugget Finder 25” X-Search DD coil and Detech 32” Concentric coil. This detector will probably find a wider range of gold types in a wider range of ground conditions than any other detector made. The only genuine lack would be very small or specimen gold, and so a good VLF in addition would make it complete. But many serious prospectors will tell you that specking for tiny gold is no way to make a solid income. It’s all about weight, and staying in gram plus gold is the way to put that weight in your pocket. The GPX 5000 Fine Gold setting will handle areas with so many hot rocks you will toss your GPZ 7000 or GPX 6000 in the trash heap. The Salt settings will handle salt lakes with ease. Cancel and a DD handles EMI very well, and adding a figure 8 wound cancellation coil will kill EMI and salt conditions like they do not exist. The GPX 5000 has a reasonably good tuneable discrimination system by PI standards for places that will have 6000/7000 users tearing their hair out. You can even coin, relic, and beach hunt successfully with a GPX 5000, and many would say it is the best relic detector made for highly mineralized ground. Long story short, I very much hope Minelab continues to make the GPX 5000 for a long time. It’s a bargain priced general purpose powerhouse, and in the right hands targeting the gold and locations it excels with, it will still produce the goods, and then some.

I've heard a few "urban legends" of people putting them in the can after opening, (both kinds) and getting them caught in their throat!!😬 But at least they didn't litter!! 😁👍👍

Locator, Funny you mention the nails!! When I finally got the Rosie out, and kept looking for more, I couldn't help but think that this was almost a classic Monte's nailboard setup in 3D!! If it hadn't been for the weed block, and roots, I would think that i was being "Punked" by some joker detectorist!!!🤣👍👍

Great job, Joe. Looks like a lot of digging so you deserved the two collectables, I think.😎 Thanks for sharing. And by the way.... a man can't own enough nails.😉 May be you can sell them on a card-board?? (handcrafted nailboardtest $$ 🤑)

Hey Steve, I agree with you. The GPX 5000 is still a great unit and for the price you can get it at now, $4000 MAP, Minelab don't even have any in stock and the demand for them is now higher than it was when they first came out. This kind of reminds me of the GPX 4500, it was around $3999 MAP, then dropped to $2699 and I couldn't keep them in stock and if they were still available, they would sell like hotcakes even today at that price. Figuring now, the price structure is $4000, $6000 and $8000 (GPX 5000, 6000 & GPZ 7000). I also agree, to compare a Equinox to a GPX for hunting gold on moderate to high mineralization is just someone speaking with very little experience in my opinion. I love my Equinox 800 also, but to hunt the majority of the goldfields with it over a GPX is just a good laugh. To conclude my final thoughts on the GPX 5000, it could be considered the most difficult PI to figure out, or give someone the most anxiety trying to figure it out, reason for many DVD's on it, DOC's timing stickers and Quick Start Guides. However, once you can get a decent handle on it, it's like an equalizer where you can find tune adjust the timing and settings to various ground conditions. Wishing you all the best, Rob

Texas is 95.2% private property so out don't a lot of open public land and need to get permissions. Most State Parks restrict detecting. Also, most grade schools I have come across so far have fenced and secured playgrounds. That said, I have not had any problems so far detecting city or county parks. I just make sure my recovery efforts leave the area looking undisturbed as I normally do. Monte

I did that with my V3 years ago… it wasn’t so bad. The buyer was happy. If and when I’m able to upgrade the V6 I’ll get my brother out with it… he has a hard time with the typical pinpoint buttons on metal detectors because of RA.

Bet your glad you didn't fleabay that beast for $450 now huh? 🙂

To say a 5000 won’t see gold a VLF will see applies as much to the GPX 6000 and GPZ 7000 as the 5000. It’s always been that way with PI units, although the gap has closed tremendously. That still does not make the 5000 worthless, as many would happily attest. Is still put a 5000 up against either a GPZ or GPX 6000 on larger gold (equinox not even close), just based on largest available coil sizes, and it will handle ground conditions/hot rocks that will completely defeat a GPZ or GPX 6000. It still has a place in the Minelab lineup for good reason. That said, for most people on most gold in the U.S., buying now, not five years ago, I do think a GPX 6000 is the best choice going. Much as I love my Equinox, I’d not give up having a PI if the 5000 were the only choice. Even if the Equinox had existed five years ago.

I would love to see Minelab make a real nice pair of wireless earbuds. That would be my go to all the time over the headphones. They are to hot normally

This topic comes up a lot, and there are many opinions. Site and user dependent? 'Yes' and 'yes' are the typical answers there. Target goal dependent? Another 'yes'. AFAIK the main advantage to faster RS settings (i.e. 6,7,8 on the Eqx 800) are ability to separate close targets. (Well, coil swing rate must be adjusted, so some might say being able to swing the coil faster is an advantage of higher RS settings.) BTW, there was a long post by Tom Dankowski on his forum about RS = 3 on the Eqx 800 being the optimal setting from a design standpoint. Don't remember if he said how he 'knew' this. His post had a link on our site, and it's probably still around. I'm too lazy ("in a hurry" sounds better 😄) this AM to try and dig it up. You could try RS = 2 on your Eqx 600 and compare with RS = 3. I would be very careful detecting with RS = 1 if I were you, but it never hurts to experiment. I'm still annoyed that Minelab didn't use the same scale for the 800 and 600. They could still leave out the intermediate values with no loss of 'marketability.'

Todays results (thurs.)..........

Thanks. That's quite a bit of loss due to wear, consistent with what your photo shows. Some coins (Buffalo Nickels and Standing Liberty Quarters being good examples) lose their dates with not nearly so much wear as your Barber Dime. Mercury Dimes hold their dates well, also. Just so happens I found a Barber dime today. I haven't discerned the date. When detecting I make sure to see my shoes clearly, not my wristwatch. 😄 It did appear to have all four digits showing clearly; I didn't clean the reverse enough to look for a mintmark. I'll do all that and post results (and photos) along with a report on what mine weighs so we can compare. Busy tonight so give me a day or so. (And I'm going back to the same spot detecting tomorrow, hoping lightening strikes twice!)

How many of us would walk right over that thinking it's junk? Pretty sure I would.

Yes I was able to check off 2 more (now 8 states in the US plus 2 other countries) from my list of, I found gold nuggets with a metal detector there. Some of you realize I was in South Dakota this summer and was able to work a so called cleaned out patch with the new GPX-6000. I already posted the results to DP awhile back. Most importantly on these road trips we had fun and made laughing/lasting memories with customers/friends. These trips are one of my most enjoyable parts of my job. It’s such a treat to meet up with other DP forum members/hunters and share the new technologies in the field on their ground and patches. We don’t know what the outcome will be, if the results are in favor of a new detector or did the old one do such a fine job, it’s all live and unscripted. The end results are what we learned and experienced while in the field using the detectors on their sites. Wyoming, It just so happened that on my way from SD back to Idaho, I’m heading West and traveling through the cowboy state. For a few years now I have been trying to get myself in WY to meet up with previous customers, share some in the field detector knowledge, again make some memories and hopefully find a WY nugget. Well a couple phone calls/emails with their help/guidance I was able to swing in and make it happen. Again, just another reason and part of why I like the followers on Detector Prospector, we all enjoy seeing success, learning detectors (including me) and sharing field knowledge. Wyoming is such a different kind of detecting terrain than what I encounter in South Dakota. It actually reminded me of some of Northern NV with the openness and lack of trees. You can see for miles and as you glance across the plains, the 1st thing a prospector realizes is exposed bedrock in many areas, meaning gold could be near the surface (which is exactly what a detectorists wants). Also, the lack of bushes made it pretty easy for swinging the detector and hopefully if I go back, the larger 17” coil will be in its element allowing for more ground coverage. Working my way across the old patch, I could see scratches and scuffs from previous detecting efforts. When coming across such indicators of nugget recovery, I try to concentrate around them realizing the new technology and it’s capabilities vs the 7000 should hopefully produce a few missed nuggets. As had hoped I started getting target hits. They were not the gold I was after but many small lead pellets. At least I know their machines missed these piece of non-ferrous metals, so now it just becomes a numbers game and sooner or later, one of them will be gold. Yes I could use the scratch the surface and if it moves method (just walk – usually trash), but I was informed some of the previous gold was recovered near the surface. Plus when you are digging lead shot at 2”, you need to check them all. We compared the 1st half dozen signals and it was evident the capabilities of the 6000 was better than the 7000. Interestingly a couple of the targets were not even heard by the 7000. On my GPX most signals were much cleaner and louder coming from it, so we were excited to see the 1st target become gold. It didn’t take long and then it happened. I nice rough narrow nugget only a few inches down. Now we all know once that 1st piece of yellow metal is unearthed, our attention and desire becomes so focused, we are on our A game. That’s exactly what happened, the remaining few hours of detecting and the elusive WY gold started popping more regularly. Notice the difference in the kind of gold from the 2 hunts. SD gold is smoother and dense while the WY gold is rough and porous. Either way the results were the same for the GPX-6000, it was able to find the smaller stuff the big GPZ-7000 missed. I’m not saying the GPZ-7000 is not a good tool, heck it’s a great detector. But as I get older and more wise, I see the comforts of the new design and that’s what this old geezer needs today for most of my hunts. Nothing special but I wanted to share with you all. My Settings for the 2nd half of the trip in WY were SENS at 10, Threshold On and Normal Ground. Yes my detector runs noisy but I have confidence in my ears hearing the differences of a target vs ground noise. Be sure to do a Frequency Adjust way more often than most of us did with the older Minelab PI detectors. I was doing it every 15 minutes in the morning and every 10 minutes after noon.

I took a day trip today, drove about an hour to go hunt a park that I've been to before. Took me a little while to finally hit a nice hot spot. The area was about 15 ft wide and 30 ft long. Every signal was either a deep wheat or a silver. As you can see my ratio of keepers to clad was extremely high today. I'm running the Equinox 800 in my cherry-picking mode, only digging anything from zinc's up. The barber quarter was an oddball, this park wasn't founded until 1925. I hunted for about six and a half hours.

If someone can't work the GPX out they just need to ask their grand children to do it for them. 😄 A joke by the way...

Never a doubt with the Sovereign. And yes I was, and still am not a big fan of the Nox. Hope your well.

WTG Joe! Nice saves.

From what I got "lensing" your photos, it could be Marcasite, a form of pyrite. Morocco is known for it. Is it magnetic or translucent?

Welcome aboard BF. Yes, there are tons of information here and (I think) a great bunch of nice people, for sure.👍😊 The tool for printing was mentioned above via copy/paste. May be Steve H., the site owner, may give a better solution/tool to your hands. Most web browser will give you the opportunity to save a web-site to your computer. So this is for Firefox: In the very upper left corner you may see the menu bar with the pull-down menus. Here you hit /file/save page as/. The next window leads to the download section (you may chose a different) and you can change the name for the download. And for the file-type chose [web page, complete (*.htm;*.html)]. This will save the shown page, not the whole thread. To save the whole thread you have to repeat this for all thread-sites. Hope this will help a little...

Hi George! Sov is a classic, but do you mean the Sov audio for bottlecaps is unlike the Equinox or you dug less bottlecaps with the Sov than the Equinox? I ask because, while I have not used the Sov, with respect to bottlecap rejection, I rarely unintentionally dig rusty bottlecaps at the beach with the Equinox. I don't recall how long you had the Equinox, but I do recall you were not fond of it. It has a few rusty bottlecap tells that may not be readily obvious to the inexperienced Equinox user or if you are running it at default beach settings, notably 5 tones with disc applied, so I'm not surprised you may have missed them. Inexperienced Nox users routinely complain of digging bottlecaps throwing repeatable mid or high tones, and if they don't have audio or disc set up right, will scoop those caps. On rusty crown caps, it routinely throws multiple IDs (which is unmistakably obvious audibly if running 50 tones) and with iron bias applied you get a telltale grunt off the edge of the coil if you are running no disc (or if you briefly engage no disc with the horseshoe button). These settings (50 tones and no disc) have zero downside for me when I beach hunt. I scoop the first couple crowncaps just to confirm I have the telltale crowncap audio committed to my brain at the start of a beach run then just ignore them for the rest of the session. It's pretty foolproof. The Coiltek Nox 5x10 maintains or perhaps even slightly enhances this bottlecap tell and I discuss it more here and here.

First off welcome to the forum and glad that you are here. Now if you are following an article you can use your manage topics above where you sign out of. I always copy and paste the information into a word document that I save on my computer. That way I can readily get what I am looking for. Hope that helps a little for you, and I can't wait to read some of your posts and maybe see some of your finds. Good luck and happy hunting.

I dug a 14 k just like that several years ago, it had diamonds. Center front..in the picture. Hope you win this one!

I was signed up to be a trainer for them, but then they booted me and the rest of the old timers. You know…. the people that actually do this stuff for real. That being the case, I’ll reserve my opinions on the current cast and crew. Let’s just say you have better options, some of them members of this forum.

Fantastic hunt and with all the silvers I know that you are one happy person. One of these days I will come across something like that. Good luck and happy hunting.

A recent post offering advice to newbies has inspired me to put in my own two cents worth.. My advice to those wanting to take up metal detecting is: Don’t! You’ll be far better off trying another hobby like banging your head against a brick wall, pulling out your hair in sheer frustration, or crying yourself to sleep at night.. Of course I’m only joking but any newbie has to prepare for the never-ending toil of digging junk, lots of it.. If you can handle this without having a nervous breakdown or flinging your detector out to sea, you’ll be amply rewarded when you finally hear that magic sound telling you there’s buried treasure below your feet.. A hard-won experience like no other! Metal detecting truly is a game where dogged determination and persistence will eventually pay off.. The only problem is that when you finally get to this stage, all you’ll ever think and dream about is metal detecting.. Your marriage will fail and your kids will starve but none of this matters as long as you can get a few more swings in.. In metal detecting there’s no such thing as an unhealthy obsession.. A house filled to the brim with all the latest detectors that you’ll never use is not weird at all.. Just rest assured that there’s many others just like you!

YEAHH... you name it all. But what should I say.... 🙄 ... here we go! 😂

Inland jewelry hunting ……focus on shallow/ recent drops surface to 5 inch (easy digging ) ……. Move fast to the next target …..… hunt only in active sports fields- Tot Lots - wide open areas of the park……. The ORX would work just fine especially with the elliptical coil…….dig all ……..your going to dig aluminum Trash …….hey you just enjoyed a nice fresh outside day with exercise.

good to see how much help one will receive on this forum. I had EMI issues with my Nox 800 and they are history now due to the input I received from you guys right here on DP. Good to know there is a family................

Daniel not only does cow urine mess up a site for detecting, it also heavily corrodes a lot of metal objects, including silver coins. I've observed this phenomenon several times. I just detected a site that has heavy alkali soil. I've done well there in the past with my Racers and Impact, but they struggle, you have to try to coax a signal out of any little tick of audio you get from the detector to try to bring up a signal. Last week I was able to detect there with the Equinox. For about the first half of the hunt, I fiddled around trying to get my go to Field2 to work, but it wasn't cutting it. Finally I switched to Beach1 and what a difference, it started lighting up targets with clean clear audio whereas Field2 was getting tons of falsing, audible ground mineral feedback, and unless an object was practically on top of the ground it wasn't finding much.