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Hi there, It was fathers day recently here in New Zealand and as my wife and I have a habit of getting a day to do what we wish on mothers / fathers day I chose to go detecting. Area of choice this time was a somewhat remote but relatively well detected area. As I'd only fairly recently (in the last year) come to get to grips with my equinox 800 I thought I might be able to produce something with it. My good friend accompanied me on this trip and when we arrived to our chosen river after a 3hr journey from home he set about sniping in a bedrock area where we'd found some gold previously. I also had a bit of a snipe but it wasn't too far above freezing so I decided to go detecting. If found about 4 micro nuggets / flakes in the first 10 minutes. Then I crossed the river to the next area of bedrock and got another small piece in a crevice that led under some gravel and boulders in a likely drop on bedrock. I decided on a hunch to clear a little of this material off the crevice and detected it again. Another target was uncovered straight away. This target actually was the start of a concentration of a few dozen tiny pieces along a 1m long shallow crevice. Took me a couple of hours to get get it all out. Thi is what I got from there, maybe 6 grams. After the success from that crevice I found another similar bedrock situation close by and got another couple of grams or so from that. This was a lot more than my friend found sniping in the same time, and I was warm and dry! The rest of the day we sniped and detected various areas and the equinox steadily found small flakey nuggets and my friend got some slightly larger bits and pieces from his sniping. All in all a very enjoyable father's day with a respectable total of 14.9g between us for the day

I've been reimmersed in metal detecting for about 3 years now and sometimes I still feel like a beginner, specially when I see some of the amazing and mind-blowing finds that other more experienced detectorists make. Now I've found some cool things, but I always feel like I still have a long way to go to get to the next level. At first I thought it was the machine so I got two of the nicest machines I could afford. I quickly learned it was not the machines. Then I thought, well it must just be me, so I deep-dived into each machine I had and tried to learn all the ins and out I could and detected evey chance I got. I'm still learning, but I feel much more comfortable with my machines than ever, so I thought well maybe it's not me. Normally, I plod around in my local parks close to me to detect which were mostly built in the 1980s, so there's a limited amount and date range of articles to be found there. Fortunately, this year I've been able to go to some historic locations to detect and have found some amazing things and have begun to realize, as Realtors say, it's all about location, location, location. I was recently lamenting to one of my much more experienced detecting friends, saying how I envied him for his experience and all the wonderful things he has found. I had FE (Finds Envy). To my surprise, he said he envied me! I couldn't even image why. He said that he saw how excited I got everytime I found something that I had never found before and that I was getting to experience my "firsts" of so many finds to come. He said that all of his firsts were behind him now and he missed getting that level of excitement out of each find. That put everything in perspective for me and I remembered that I got into metal detecting for fun of being outdoors, going to new places, and the thrill of possibly finding something new or long lost. This put me back on the path and empowered me to ask for my first permission. I have driven my a large church in my area several times on my way to detect in nearby parks. A few days ago I noticed they had a carnival set up on their grounds and had rides, booths, food, a beer tent, and concerts going on. So on the day after the event ended I decided to go see if I could get permission to detect the carnival grounds. As my father used to say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained". I went into the church office asked the manager if it would be okay to detect the carnival area. Imagine my amazement when he replied, "Sure that's fine just be careful around the large equipment". He then asked if would mind looking for a lost necklace while I was out there that a family had reported to them. I told him that I'd be happy to. As I got out to the field, all of the rides and heavy equipment had been trucked away, leaving a clear field of play. I fired up the Deus II and began the search. I started hitting good signals right away and cleared a whole lot of trash in the process. I gridded the area of the rides as that was supposed to be where the necklace was lost. As I took a short lunch break, the manager came out and told me that there had been other activities in the grassy areas and I should check those as well. So after clearing the carnival area, I searched all the lawn areas as well. By the end of the hunt, I could feel the weight of my pouch which was unusually heavy. Unfortunately, I didn't find the lost necklace, but I did find over 90 coins and tokens, some junk jewelry, and a nice Stainless Steel ring. I showed my finds to the office manager and he was amazed at the amount of stuff I found and trash that I cleared and I gave him the ring in case he could find the owner. He was most appreciative and said that the next time they had an outdoor event, he would ask me back to search the grounds again. So while my finds were nothing extraordinary, my FE (Finds Envy) has turned to FP (Full Pouch) and I'm good with that! 😎 Some of the unsorted trash... Some of the more ineresting trash... That D2 sure loves round objects!

Hurricane Kay was wonderful to me! Prior to Kay I was having a very slow year for gold finds but she changed all that in 1 week. I know that Kay was not so good for LA County beaches but, as Strick pointed out, a few beaches down south had massive amounts of sand movement making for some ideal hunting conditions. I think I hunted about 6 nights in the last 8 days and even though I encountered several other hunters, there were enough targets to go around. I found an amazing number of gold jewelry items but most were below 2 grams and nothing even close to being a "honker". Many targets were hiding in and around the black sand making them more difficult to find, even with my pulse detectors. On one hunt I used my Equinox but the black sand was making the Nox so chatty that I was getting a headache. My Nox's TID's were pretty useless as virtually all targets registered as negative numbers until I got them out of the holes. I am helping a couple of friends who are getting started in metal detecting and, fortunately, they were both able to experience hunting in a target rich environment. However, every time I went to the beach this past week I did not know what to expect - I either anticipated the beach to be sanded back in or full of holes from hunters who got there before me. GL&HH!

Wow nearly ½ ounce in a day from those teeny, weeny NZ nuggets. I think they weigh more than Simon pesky little bastard pellets... 😀

May 19 1937 Yesterday John and I dug until nearly dark. We found nothing deeper at the last treasure location and moved to the next untouched area near the rocks. By the time we stopped we were a good seven feet deep and had a trench twice as long. We were dog tired and ready for our supper. We had hoover stew and crackers and it never tasted better as we stoked the campfire. I broke out a bottle of Bushmills and some cold Lucky’s and we all sat around the fire. It was a cold and clear night and every star in the sky was visible. Once again our peace and quiet was disturbed by gunfire far up on the mountain. It lasted on and off for over an hour. We couldn’t figure out who these hooligans were or what they were up to. John suggested that they may be what was left of the gang we had just dealt with. He said they were probably conducting night raids on various miners and prospectors up on the higher and remote locations of the mountain. All I could think was those poor prospectors who were probably being robbed and killed. There was little or no law out here and it was up to every man to take care of himself or pay the consequences. I wanted to kill every last one of those thugs. After the gunfire had stopped it was close to midnight. Will and Hudson were asleep in their tents and Sarge and Ben were on guard duty as usual. John and I had a few more drinks and talked about everything that had happened so far this year. John said he hated this place but there was something that wouldn’t allow him to leave. The mountain had a hold on him. I agreed. Most sane men would have taken their treasure and gotten the hell out of here yet none of us was willing to leave. I secretly hoped we weren’t making a big mistake. TO BE CONTINUED ...........................

Military Relic hunting is probably my favorite type of metal detecting. The thrill of doing the research and then actually finding the long lost camps gives me a felling I just can't explain. But I thought I would share a few pictures and thoughts about a few relics hunts I did this year. I have kind of held off with a public post and will not be able to share any video at this time as we are still doing a bunch of research and don't want to chance giving away the location. Although the main part of this camp location is known, many smaller unit camps have not been located until now. The fact that these camps are located on farm fields only allow us to hunt during certain times of the year, Spring and Fall. Also, many years of hunting deer, elk, rabbits, etc. make it even more challenging sifting through all the generations of modern spent cartridges. First hunt in the Spring of this year was in the infantry camp and we are probably only on the edge with the whole camp still left to hunt. The $2 1/2 gold coin was found 30 minutes into the hunt down by a small creek. Here are a few of my pictures from the 5 hour hunt this Spring. First Hunt this Fall gave up some more good relics. This time in the Dragoons Camp. The $1 gold coin was actually the first signal I dug and was 20 feet from my truck on a freshly graded road. We will be hunting more in the coming weeks until the weather turns and ground is frozen. By November we will have to give it up until Spring. I will be doing a bunch more research through the Winter and hopefully be able to find the location of more camps they used for the few weeks they were camped in this location. I will be giving the landowner $1 gold coin next week in a display case we make up for them. I feel like it's the least I can do for them allowing us to hunt the property.

While I understand some of these asks, I think Master package users should temper expectations that XP is going modify the WS6 closely replicate the features provided on the full remote. The 00 notch on/off should definitely be fixed because it can affect micro target detectability, but some of the other "want changed" nice to have features that would bring the WS6 closer in functionality to the remote are likely not going to be addressed from a pure XP business perspectiive. The Lite Master package provides an economic advantage vs. the full up D2 package and even the D2 with full remote and the "dumb" WSAII wireless phones or just wired phones. With that economic advantage (WSA6 vs. Full Remote price delta is about $400 US so identical D2 configurations wherein the only difference is the WS6 puck is subbed in for the Remote are always going to be at least $400 to $750 cheaper) comes compromises in features. And with the puck's smaller factor that limits the user interface, I am certain XP will make some arbitrary decisions to permanently leave features off the WS6 (even if they are technically feasible to be included) just as Minelab did to "create" the value alternative to the Equinox 800, the Equinox 600. So if you can live with these relatively few compromises, the WS6 master presents a huge value alternative. Personally, I am not willing to give up on any of the remote's features because I extensively use custom program switching on the fly to do target interrogation and the puck's interface is too clunkly and lacks the ability for me to group adjacent custom programs in the customized sequence I prefer. But I am willing to forgo the WS6 puck altogether and sub in the dumb WSAII puck or wired phones to save a couple hundred bucks. The bottom line is that this package and the the other XP dumb wireless headphone options illustrate one of the most underrated features of the platform which is its modularity and vast reconfigurability.

It’s nice having so many configuration options.

Yep, read all of Hausel's stuff long ago. Definitely a lot of good information to get started. Most of what he wrote about was just field investigating stuff in the WSGS files or old various reports to sent to them though, near as I can tell, so I've found it's best just to locate those original reports directly and sometimes therein is information there which Hausel didn't publish, which leads to other things, which leads to other things, etc and few people have found that stuff. Here's some pale blue sapphire in vermiculte/mica that I discovered in situ in a place you won't find in any writings today. As far as I know, I'm the only person who has found this area in modern times, though there is an old prospect pit which appears to be from the 30's so I wasn't the first. This is mostly reaction rims, with small pale blue sapphires buried deep inside each one. You can only see the reaction rims in the photo mostly, it takes quite some work to get the sapphires out, and unfortunately they are usually fractured (much like the more well known red rubies of WY). I plan on working the dry washes under this deposit for placer sapphires to see if it's easier to recover a lot of them that way. So far nothing I would consider gem grade though as the Wyoming Craton contains among the oldest rock in the world and has undergone a substantial amount of both tectonic movement as well as various stages of metamorphism or just plain old chemical/weathering alteration for billions of years, and so a lot of stuff tends to change or get shattered unfortunately.

I will add a little more. Just recently a Dues 2 ended up in the hands of a VERY experienced detectorist. He noticed that the "discrimination" worked more like a threshold than discrimination. Personally, on my last beach trip there was some very nasty Black Sand. So, I decided to run discrimination at 27. Several things happened. First> The effects of black Sand were mitigated much more than running the machine in the factory beach discrimination of "8" Second> So every target that was deep and was difficult to identify, I switched back to the factory Disc. mode of "8". In three days, not ONE TARGET was identified in a different way or was identification easier. [it was not harder at "8" or "27" either] I know three days testing on deep targets is not definitive proof. But in my opinion so far, there seems to be no difference in detection ability where the discrimination is set at. HH

Amusement tokens are really collectable. Thats a good haul.

pesky little bastard pellets.... sounds familiar lol. Hatters teeny weeny nuggies are huge compared to what I've been digging all season. My pesky little bastard nuggets are about the size of Simons' pesky little bastard pellets! LMAO! Nice gold Hatter......

YES^^^ Double YES^^^^ Exacerbated by old eyes and large sausage fingers. 😃

Thanks to all those regular contributors who’ve help me master the Nox, I’m hoping to understand the Montisarous better. Some questions re 2d trace, 1) the horizontal line is conductance, how does it compare to the NOX VDi readings? I assume it starts at 0 and goes to 99, is that equivalent to the Nox 0 and 40? Or Nox -10 to 40? I’m assuming the former as the ferrous negative numbers are plotted on the vertical scale. 2) I get that the vertical scale is for ferrous cantered around a zero line in the middle, but what is the basis for above or below the line? I see Iron nails above, and a beer top below, but how is it doing that?

I bought the WSA II headphones to give me the option of using the WS6 headphone puck as the remote. Amazingly modular detector, and since it lacks a coil cable, it folds up so fast and easy. This lightweight configuration is perfect for backpacking and travel.

Fantastic hunting, wish I had some good beaches to hunt at. All I have here is 2 small beaches that don't allow detectors unless someone lost an item and tells the staff about it. I find more gold in our creeks around here than anything, but have also found some silver in them also. One of these days I hope to make it out your way and maybe have a meet up with some members to learn how to do the beaches. Good luck, good hunting, and stay safe.

Welcome to the forum and glad to have you here. I am sure that everyone here will be looking forward to reading and seeing some of your hunts. You have quite a lot of history in your area to dig up with a lot of stories behind them. Good luck and stay safe out there.

Welcome from Virginia Choprdoc. 🙂 I've been going to Tybee Island every year for the last 15 or so, almost moved to Savannah area but like where I am. Love Georgia. I started with a Garrett Ace 400 myself, quickly upgrading to an Equinox 600, and lately a Deus 2. I also got a Tesoro Vaquero to get a feel for the "old school". Did 10 years in the Army myself, mostly National Guard, but we were federalized in 1982 and a lot of my unit ended up in the middle east. I got out to pursue a career in 1991. Had an offer to join the Helo corps but didn't take it. 🤔 Don't be afraid to ask questions, this is the most informative site there is. Looking forward to your exploits.

Welcome from W Tn. Go through Ga 2-3 time a year going to St Simons Island. Like Ga, except when they play U T. HH jim tn

Yes, hands down no comparison, Axiom slays the 6000 when it comes to EMI. The Axiom is good enough in that regard I’ll be playing around with it coin detecting in urban environments.

JW and I went for a bit of a gold hunt a couple of days ago, he managed to do well considering the area we were in and found three pieces, two of which were decent size. JW used the 15" Concentric coil on the GPZ as he was hoping for some deeper gold in the deeper ground. I was in the mood for exploring around and having some good ground coverage so I used the 12" Spiral coil rather than my usual smaller coils also on my GPZ, although this area is quite suitable for larger coils with minimal obstacles to cause problems. Here is JW's gold for the day. 0.70 of a gram. I didn't do near as good but in fact we were both pretty surprised to get anything where we were so we can't complain and at least it means there is gold there to be found, although a lot of it probably disguised as pellets 🙂 I think my focus was too much on smaller targets as I spent a lot of time digging and recovering pellets. The 12" spiral gives the typical good double blip on small shallow targets so surface pellets are easy to ignore but if they live past a scrape or two I tend to recover them just in case but the 12" can give a double blip on quite deep little pellets. I think in this case I probably should have ignored the double blips entirely and aimed for the deeper targets and not wasted so much time on the pellets 🙂 And this was ignoring the surface first scrape or two pellets so really, I ignored 3 times as many pellets as I recovered, at least. My only nugget of the day, better than a skunk! It was down a few inches. It sure wasted a lot of my time that was probably better spent looking for bigger deeper stuff, but then I may have had a skunk as the one piece of gold I did get could have easily been dismissed for a pellet. That's the advantage to less sensitive detectors and coils I guess, they fly blind over a bulk of the pellets, but often miss the smaller gold too. JW being smarter seemed to deal with the pellets a lot better than I did, he didn't get too many at all, and got more gold so his method clearly worked better. If anyone has suggestions for dealing with spots like this loaded with pellets that potentially have gold that would be helpful, probably a less sensitive coil would be a good start I guess. On the plus side, I'm helping clean the lead out of the environment.

Back in the days of Whites 6000 and Garrett ADS you did not know how to detect on the gold fields unless you could detect one of those pesky little bastard pellet. Once you could you did not waste your time on them and concentrate on ounce plus nuggets. 🤣

I had NO IDEA the 7000 has Ground Penetrating Sonar. No wonder it's so expensive. Where have I been? 😏 On a more serious note, I value the opinions and perspectives Steve shares here on his forum, and not just those that are detecting related, but life perspectives as well. The last several years, as the world around us changes, my detecting interests have also changed. Detecting old homes, parks, and schools have evolved to shallow water jewelry hunting and ghost towns. The last couple years I've dabbled with my 800 out looking for gold nuggets. I've had a great time. It's opened up a whole new avenue of learning and adventure. As for the Axiom, I'm glad there is a PI option out there that is more affordable, light weight and has great performance. If all goes well, the Axiom will be my first PI for gold prospecting. A big thanks to Steve for his equipment reviews, field reports / journals and no nonsense feedback. He sets a tone and education level on his forum unequalled elsewhere. Rich -

Welcome aboard Choprdoc ! You've found a great place to find out just about anything detecting or prospecting. Lots already posted to scan . Definitely check out Steve's Guides And ask about anything in whatever forum it seems to apply to.

Simon, When getting that many targets in the area, you/I and everyone else knows there's still more gold to be had. Yes a less sensitive coil will help but realize gold of the same size will be missed. I suggest listening for the single tone weaker signals, which usually means deeper on the GPZ-7000, but not always. Yes I tend to adjust my detecting style for certain areas and prefer playing the odds and % mathematics to help in my recovery success. Pellets near the surface give the double tone (which you mentioned) so I pass on those and leave them for Simon. Softer single tone signals is my focus for those such sites. Thanks for sharing m friend.

They replaced my 11” coil as well. I finally got to go out for another hunt. The first day I used the coiltek 10 x 5. It ran ok but was hunting in some hot ground...I think the geosense is part of the problem...again if I put slight downward pressure on the coil while resting it on the ground it would sound off even with the 10x5 coiltek...seemed the geosense did not like being in one spot for long...did manage 3 small nuggets that day...second day different location needed to try out the new 11” coil..ground was not as hot as the previous location..the machine ran perfectly that day managed another 3 small nuggets....in conclusion I still don’t know what to think except I like the machine when it runs stable...I experienced no bump sensitivity either day. strick

Here is a link to XP's full manual in English for their WS6 controller. Great information that covers the WS6 as a standalone controller, its settings and what it can do very well. https://www.xpmetaldetectors.com/uploads/files/document/gb-ws6-deusii-userguide.pdf

First nugget, The Africa Nugget, found with the 2100, seems like a million years ago now. Nugget was close to 7 grams--back then it looked huge to me--and I let out a loud whoop when I found it, as I'd dug buckets of trash for days, because the area I was hunting was home to a large gold rush in the 1870's and there was trash everywhere. All the best, Lanny

A 1937 recovery by GhostMiner caught on video. Just kidding but it is buried treasure. The video is good from start to finish but have set it to start at the chest section if liked you can start at the start. ..................Video LINK...........

So, my beach season officially starts again. My first hunt after Labor Day and I couldn’t wait to get out there. A friend text me pictures of silver he just found, and I think I surprised him by walking out on the beach to see them. 😄 He thought I was 2 hours away and didn't know I was going detecting that day. Because he found silver rather shallow at 6-8”, I decided to take the Equinox out and see how midalake’s settings worked out. It took a while to get used to it and I did get a couple nonferrous that read negative numbers, but none were quality targets. I ended up changing the recovery speed to 4 which is what I am used to. Thanks midalake for posting those settings. So, how did the Equinox do??? Well, the Equinox did not exactly hit gold, but it did get me close enough to glance to my left while digging another target and spot a gold hoop earring sitting right on top of the sand. 😍There was some pushing up of targets from the ocean recently and that was exposed. Along with that, I found a silver quarter and a sterling religious medal. A decent amount of clad as well and a greatly reduced amount of junk targets. Not too shabby for 3 ½ hours. I then switched to the GPX and dug my heart out. A lot more clad, more junk, but also a Buffalo nickel and another silver quarter. All in all, it was nice to get back to digging at the beach!

Seems like the Tarsacci is running out of steam in the face of all the new competition. Yeah, I know some of you guys love them. But what buzz they had seems to be about gone. Thoughts?

I have recieved some new and mysterious information concerning this gold shipment and where it may be hidden. It seems my grandfather knew what he was talking about and the scope for a possible search may have been narrowed. The person who contacted me is willing to share more info but wants to be a part of the search crew if we form one. He also wants a large cut. I am wary of his offer though. This is an interesting time for me as I am preparing to leave society as I know it next year. I am selling my home and bought a 5th wheel to live out of. My goal is to not only search for treasure but also work my company's unleased areas where I believe large amounts of gold still remain to be dug. I have good reason to believe there is still several million dollars of gold yet to be found at Jed's dig site.

Thanks VL, The reason why I had such a good week of detecting was because Mother Nature gave us a hurricane swell which corresponded with some extreme tides so a lot of sand was moved around. I could go back to the beach tomorrow and not find much of anything and that happens more often than not. Keep us posted if you do decide to come out this way.

If you set the discrimination to say 2 or 10. What does it matter if your just coin shooting?

Nothing....... you can set it to whatever you wish. Now if there is a lot of small pieces of iron and all then you may want to raise it some to get rid of the small grunts in a high trash area.

This little statement from XP's WS6 Master Function/Settings list......."More settings coming with the following updates"..........and a similar one in the WS6 Master manual gives me a bit of hope that XP may be willing to change a few things if enough users request it instead of just accepting whatever configuration XP thinks is best.......... XP have already proven that they are willing (either for competitive reasons or from user suggestions or more likely both) to make on the fly adjustments through updates along with long term product changes like FMF, waterproofing and audio enhancements. Confirmation has already been directly received that XP will add Notch OFF in the next 0.8 update for the WS6.....see, they listen. I can live with no further Notch expert options......one notch is kind of ridiculous and petty in my opinion but, no big deal. I have already accepted the weirdness that XP will never give its Deus users full target ID scale single digit notching with no limits like its competitors have provided. It's just bizarre........It's like building a luxury car, charging a luxury price but the only option provided for opening the windows is with a manual hand crank...... The big one for me and you also are the (arbitrary???) limits placed on the 12 User Profile custom programs. Deus 1 WS4/5 had a limit on how many could be created.......fine, not a big deal. WS4/5 did not have a limit on how many could be created from one program and in what order a user would arrange them. Are they picking up on my forgetfulness and are making it easier for me to remember which program my Custom Program is based on since I can't name it using the WS6? Those two restrictions on WS6 custom programming just seem to me to be another step in the extremely wrong direction and like the inadequacies of FMF Goldfield........a real head scratcher and forehead smacker🤪

Looks like a lot of digging on that hunt, but it also looks like you came up with a couple of pieces of gold in that mess. Good luck on your next hunt and stay safe.

Stoked!

Now GhostMiner has to find a real treasure chest out there so he can post pics !😉

Here is a very crude drawing to illustrate the idea of using granular convection (aka 'brazil nut effect') as a benefit, instead of a hinderence. This is what I'm wondering if Jim experimented with. The idea being this: let's say your gems are on average no smaller than 20 mesh. And on average no larger than 1/4". You'd set your bottom screen to be 25 mesh and your top screen to be 3/8"-1/2". The vibrator on the jig should automate the screening process too. So, now the granular convection "problem" may actual help. Because the gems will among the smallest gravel sizes and thus will not convect up to the top with the larger pieces. The larger pieces should act to keep the smaller gems buried and in the jig. As long as the gems are always smaller in size than the average gravel pebble, granular convection should actually increase the efficiency rather than decrease the jig efficiency. At least in my head that seems like worth experimenting with. I think the key would be proper screen selection for any given environment/targets. Further, there is also the standard jigging concentration effect going on top of that too. Seems like it should work? The undersize could be bucketed and run at home in a sluice if losses are a concern, the oversize should be able to just be eyeballed.

I am jealous here in Virginia. Sand being pushed in by the truck load !!! Even my AQ can’t reach the gold. 😩

Thanks Cal, I think that is one of my favorite finds this week. The color seems a little light to be a sapphire (almost a dark turquoise). Also, I don't if the ring is old or just an old style design. It has very little wear and is only stamped "14K". (???)

The diving bag shown in the photos works great. There is definitely a market for used Deus 2 remote controls if you price it right and include the pressure plugs, charging cable and waterproof kit as an option. Some people want a land remote and a diving remote. Mine sold in less than 6 hours on Ebay. Sell the remote and buy a set of WSA lls or use a different wireless audio system with the audio adapter. The wristband is humongous by the way.......

You are missing the inexpensive horseshoe shaped audio adapter. Put it on the back of the WS6, put the WS6 in the neoprene stem mount and you can use your own wired headphones or use an aftermarket wireless transmitter and headphones like a Garrett Z-Lynk. You can also not mount in on the staff and just put the WS6 in your pocket with wired headphones plugged into the audio adapter. Or you can pay $150 (something like that) and by the XP WSA ll wireless audio only headphones and pair them to the WS6 and put the WS6 wherever you want. As long as you don't turn on the main RC, the WS6 will automatically be the Master. It has exactly the same display and features used that way as the WS6 standalone being advertised here.

It's pretty cheap for a live instructor for two hours if they are any good. If you don't feel you need a live instructor you can learn this stuff fairly easily and for free. Just download QGIS and follow the extensive documentation and instructions. Here's their simple tutorial on using LIDAR data to create a 3D map. https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/training_manual/forestry/basic_lidar.html?highlight=lidar

Very nice.

I probably miss more gold than I find. The key is being on good ground, usually sites with proven past production, and putting in the hours. I was on good ground. I'm not some kind of tuning wizard either. In general though, when I put my mind to it, I have good technique. The real secret is coil control - getting the coil directly over the gold. People obsess over having detectors that get another inch, then give that inch or more away though sloppy coil control. Be willing to roll rocks, and more, to get the coil closer to the gold. You also want to have a good ear for the faint targets, which many people seem to lack. People pass by targets all the time, due to just not hearing those tiniest of signals. If your pouch does not have a decent helping of small targets on a regular basis, like birdshot or small scraps of brass, then you are passing over gold. If you can’t hear tiny bits, you also can’t hear big ones at the edge of detection depth. It’s all the same - really faint targets. Anyway, I hunt behind the countless others who have hunted the locations that I frequent, and I am sure people can hunt after me also and find gold. Nobody gets it all, though the finds certainly thin with time. Most people simply want more gold per hour than most places will deliver these days. Patience is another strong factor when it comes to metal detecting for gold. I never pay attention to a location having dig holes unless to think that means there is gold there. It amazes me how many people think an area is not worth attention because "it's already been hunted." As long as a single target remains in trashy areas, then gold remains. In that regard, I consider trash to be my friend, and I think the best prospects we have left today in the U.S. are in some of the trashiest locations. The trash drives the more timid away in search of easier digging, leaving good finds behind for those willing to dig every target, no matter how long it takes. And it might take years. Good ground plus hours (patience) Good, properly tuned detector Proper coil control - get coil close to gold Ear for small (faint) targets (a big nugget deep is a faint target) Willingness to dig trash More patience Some knowledge of geology can help in deciding what to detect first, but in general the beauty of metal detecting is the ease with which you can detect anything. Rather than think too much about the pile of dirt, just go detect it. Gold gets found in plenty of places you would think it should not be. Old mine workings in particular, that odd pile of dirt, the berm of the road, the road itself… it all can produce gold. They were excavating and moving dirt around, and over time more than once, so you have no idea what might end up where. Be curious, and give it a go, and see what you find. A little luck is helpful, but by and large when it comes to metal detecting for gold, people make their own luck.

I been waiting as well, don't like the 11 and the 6 is to small. I just wish manufacturers would have the coils ready for us to buy when the machine's are released, even better, let us have a choose of which coil or coils we would prefer when we purchase the machine.

I used to play golf off a handicap of about 9. My set of golf clubs were old and pretty beat up but when I bought them new they they were top of the line. I was at the driving range and the pro shop talked me into trying the latest fancy Driver which I happily took down to the range. Teed up the first golf ball and sent it sailing about 260 metres with a slight draw (right to left flight path). I hit a few more with similar results so I was liking this new club. A short time later I pulled out my old Driver that looked like it had been used for demolition work and actually had a small piece missing from the club face………..teed up the ball and launched it about 275 metres straight as an arrow to the far end of the driving range 😳 ………….reaches for SD2100.