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Was lucky enough to find an 18 k chain and pendant on my second time out with the Manticore. Chain has a silver pendant and a gold pendant , looks like there was a second gold pendant that has come off. 33 gram with the silver pendant. I have been told that the gold pendant most probably holds a portion of someone's ashes. Found in the wet sand around 25 cm deep. It was the silver pendant that I heard. My guess is that most beach detectors would have heard the silver pendant, but it was nice to get some gold with the Manticore. So far I am really enjoying the Manticore on the beach and in the water. Haven’t had it in fast moving water yet, but it is working great in tidal pools.

Ok, spur of the moment decision. Erin and I have just decided to head to northern Nevada/ Winnemucca area for three or four days. Weather in Idaho sucks but might be ok to the south of us. Anybody want to meet up just to say hi?

Here are some finds from an early 1700s Tavern site that was very active from 1750 to the early 1800s. Ive been detecting it for a couple years now. Found with the Equinox 800 and Deus II. I live in Hanover County VA. Nice to be here. 🙂

A Story Not In My Journal : Part Three Jim and I sloshed through the cold water flowing through the little creek and went over to where Vern and Jacob were standing. We took a look at the pans contents. Jim let out a soft whistle and I stood there shaking my head in disbelief. The pan was loaded with pickers and coarse gold. There had to be fifty colors. Jacob was nodding his head as he told us this was exactly what he remembered of this area. He said nobody knew it was here. He also said he thought the source of the gold was not too far away. We were all surprised and couldn't believe what we were seeing. We did several more test pans both at the creek and higher up above the creek. The pans higher up were close to what we saw on the bench as far as values. The pans down at the creek were nothing special. I told Jacob it would be worth it for him to file a claim here but the mining would be tough because of the remoteness of the area. It would be difficult to set up a camp and keep it supplied as everything would need to be carried in by hand over very rough terrain. It would take a very determined crew to make it work. Jacob said that back in his younger days he wouldn't have worried about all that but at this stage of his life he was too old to make a go of it up here. He had taken us up here because he wanted to show us this place. He had done it for us. Then he dropped a bombshell on us. He gave us a kind of long, sad look. He said that before he had come out here he had been to a doctor. This is where I have chosen to stop this side story and is the reason I never put this in my journal. Things will unfold as my journal of 2002 continues so I will now get back to posting the rest of it. There is much more to tell about Jacob and the mining season of 2002.

Made it back to the beach this morning. More trash targets than friday but still managed a decent hunt. Best find of the day was a pandora charm that was an eyeball find in the parking lot. Ended up with just over 3 dollars in clad, 4 pieces of junk jewelry and a button.

I for one do appreciate all that you do on the site, and I also know that it is harder than one might think to take care of the spammers and scammers. Thank you from all of us.

Yeah I did say I would, and got sidetracked by my efforts to thwart the spammers. By end of tomorrow, I promise.

Mystery solved it is a civil war era Smith carbine!

At this stage, there seems to still be a big difference in what comes out of an AI based on the skill of the human operator. Even in just 3 or 4 days of learning about AI, the outputs I got towards the end were much better than I started with. In many cases, it still took a certain amount of understanding on certain topics in order to really get the AI to do what I wanted correctly - and to understand when what it was doing was wrong. I can definitely see AI replacing some jobs now. But I can also see a world where many traditional jobs eventually get replaced with "human AI operators" who are both trained in that field as well as trained in prompting and directing AI effectively. This stuff is "here" now, I'm convinced of it, this is the cusp of it starting as a real, useful tool now. It's not just the AI, it's the ability to so easily interface with AI now too. And it's going to get easier. I can't overemphasize how fast this stuff is moving. Just in weeks(!) the tools I've been looking at have gotten better or new ones created. What I'm seeing is still 2-3 models behind the actual cutting edge GPT models they've created too. There is a lot of discussion about taking a pause and not releasing GPT-5 yet, spending time figuring out just how powerful it is first and making sure it's safe and what the implications of bad actors (from hackers to spammers to militaries to anyone looking to use it for ill intent) getting it would be. When I started learning this stuff, I thought that was a silly idea - I don't think it's silly anymore. These are some real, new, ethical issues that the world should probably be aware of. What I'm trying to make clear in my posts is that even the weaker AI's seem to be able to get around certain rules/restrictions written into their coding, and this is both amazing and scary. I shouldn't be able to do image analysis with a text AI, and I shouldn't be able to scrape web data from an AI that is restricted from accessing the wider internet, nor should I be able to access real time pages on the internet beyond it's hardline data training cutoff date of 2021. Yet with the right prompts, it appears even a person with 3 days experience is able to do that, even as the AI is saying it's not doing it and it's not allowed to. I don't get what's happening there yet, but it's odd. I thought it was lying to me and not really doing these things, but it actually is doing them - to some extent. AND it's lying to me too, to accomplish it's goals sometimes. So, while I see a lot of cool futurism here, I also see some problems, and I think in a year or two these discussions will be more in the public eye. But it's here, now. And now I'm convinced of that.

It’s already being used for that. I use it for emails or answering information requests. Should the AI be credited or me who actually pushed the buttons to make it work? I never credit Google for anything. I look at it in the same concept when it comes to that. AI works for me and therefore in the end, right or wrong, the credit falls to the user. As of now AI needs human user input in order to start its job that I tell it to do. If someone challenges me, I can’t say that it wasn’t my fault, AI did it 🤣

So just to refresh everyone's memories - this is what we're discussing when talking about the old crew's dig site of 1936. That was the first one and the area of the big strike before they moved to the south kettle 1/2 mile south. There is an old road there where they trucked the buckets down the mountain to the creek to wash them at the tom. That road is not passible for anything but a 4 wheeler or Jeep now - & that's after we worked on it with a skid steer.

Ghostminer - I've had a great time reading your stories the last few months. Thank you.

Thanks Steve. Also appreciate how much effort the never ending wave of internet crud takes to deflect.

Lets start here, I do believe there are advancements that make differences. Just from my eyes I can not say the M-core is that much better in depth or target ID Than other machines (sorry). As for the 800, I do believe the 800 was and has been hyped. Its a good machine no doubt but to be honest it sucks in iron. The 800 hundred when near iron has a tendency to go blind on really good targets. Only when you run the 6'' coil and two recovery speed will it start to shine. Is the 800 or 900 perfect no. Can you find a bunch of cool stuff with them emphatically yes. Another question is if I hunted along side of you with the 900 or lets say a Tesoro could you guarantee that you would out hunt me with the M-core? Deus and Deus 2 are both good machines and also have issues with iron. The reason why they are so pricy is because of the wireless coil technology. If they were a cabled machine they would be more in range with the 800/900 and others. I've hunted along side of a few D2's, And being able to ask to check their targets and vice versa, I noticed no depth or target ID that I couldn't match. I like simplicity and quick changes and I believe it's more complicated than it needs to be.(sorry) I'm certainly not bashing a $1600 detector!!! I would certainly pay that if i thought it would give me an overwhelming advantage, But I don't think the M-core does that. Complications in a fine watch like an A. Lange & Sohne or a Metal detector like the M-core are just some added features that blur out the real purpose. Oh and I like fancy watches and fancy detecting shafts. Simon, You are correct sir !!! The 900 is a bit bouncy, except in low recovery speed (2). Once you get your tones worked out in the programs it makes for a better day. I'm a tone hunter and will use ID's for validation. The tones on the 900 are quite a bit different than the 800, but I'm learning slowly. Still for me the shaft, extra coils and pod design change made it a no brainer. The 900 is pretty much an 800 with a bigger learning curve and EVER so SLIGHTLY deeper. I doubt I would talk anyone out of buying one. Lot to be said for a Minelab that lets you swap coils between detectors!!!!

Found Gold first time out with my detector. But I was allowed on a great claim where they were into a old river channel.

I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been hitting the same old sites over and over hoping that maybe I missed something. Yesterday, for lack of any new sites, I hit a smallish site that I’ve probably hit a dozen times before. However yesterday I took half of a delta9 cbd gummy before I went. Just some background on me: I’m 60, but have had some health issues in the past. Open heart surgery to get a new aortic valve at 49, a bad infection that put me in the hospital for 6 days at 54, then 30 sessions of head and neck radiation for squamous cell cancer in one of my lymph nodes in my neck (yes, squamous cell doesn’t just attack your skin, it can be internal). That was two years ago and around the same time or a little before my sciatic nerve would cause me pain. It still bothers me and has gotten somewhat worse but I deal with it. Believe it or not I’m in very good shape. I either ride my bike or walk to work every day no matter what the weather. About a half mile each way. I also lift weights twice a week. I used to do body weight exercises like pushups, pull ups, abs, etc and did 63 non-paused pushups on my 59th birthday. Got a total of 72 with pauses at the top. I don’t rely on prescription drugs…I take no prescriptions or over the counter pain meds. However, I recently discovered the delta9 CBD gummies for my sciatica pain. They work well, BUT they will get you high, similar to smoking pot. Taking half works well for my sciatic pain but the “high” is more of a very focused mental state. Btw, I’m 5’10” and weigh 160 so if you weigh more you may not get the same effect. That very focused mental state is what brings me to those 8 wheaties. I’m just blown away that I could have missed that many before because I’m pretty focused even when I’m not taking gummies😄! Could it have been my gummy induced mental state? I’m thinking maybe so. Oh, and Steve, if you feel this is an inappropriate subject please delete.

It seems to me both the 900 and Manticore have jumpy ID's compared to the 600/800. It's not just the expanded range, the jumps are far bigger than that. I honestly can use the 800 as a cherry picker, it's ID's were rock solid on my coins, I knew what I was digging, the only better detector is the CTX. The Manticore is not the same, lowering sensitivity helps a lot but still not Nox stable even taking into account more ID's in my soils. Our gold $1 and $2 coins were a 21/22 even at very deep depths and such easy targets with the Nox, I dug hundreds of them, possibly thousands and now with the Manticore even at lower sensitivity they can be anywhere between 60 and 75 and rarely lock on to the 64 and 65 they air test at but even air testing the Manticore numbers are bouncy, and it's much harder to get a solid ID on a coin in an air test, where as the Nox was solid as a rock. I am betting people with 800's or even the Vanquish that bought a 900 are finding the 900's jumpy ID's a selling point and reason to get rid of it, people like me that use ID's a lot would prefer to use their 800 for that very reason. They've taken a step backwards which is disappointing as the Manticore marketing specifically states it has more stable accurate ID's. A load of rubbish that is. Perhaps they may improve this in a firmware update one day, perhaps not, everything else about the Manticore is fantastic but it is annoying taking a step backwards from an old model on a trait I valued so highly. This is a not correct, it doesn't have improved Target ID stability. This guys video runs through air tests on common Aussie coins first with his Manticore, next his Nox 800, you can clearly see the more stable Nox vs Manticore even on his air tests. Add ground into the equation and the difference is even more pronounced.

35-40 detecting days, sun up to sun down, every day. I drove to AZ determined to find a nugget, and not leave until I did. It got to the point where I'd wake up and walk around like a zombie swinging a detector mindlessly all day and just forcing myself through the motions, unwilling to give up and go home though. Couldn't find anyone to help out, spent a lot of that time in areas with no detectable gold as a result. Learned a lot though in all the failures.

After reading all of (what little) had been published at the time (1983), and spending several hours practicing in my backyard with my Garrett Groundhog A2B, my first piece of (really choice) high-grade ore came off a tailings pile in Dayton Nevada after 20 minutes detecting. Totally ruined my life...

Worked very well in bad ground, lite weigh housing, Auto ground trac, pinpoint, three tone options, visual target I.D. and depth reading down to 10". I may take this one with me to the After life.

My 3 treasure Barons are now for sale, plus I have a 10" round coil. I will pull them all out tomorrow and document what I have

So new to detecting, I will no doubt ask some silly questions, but will search the forum for answers before posting. I would like to thank you in advance for any help I may find on the forum or from answers to any questions I post. Thanks Steve

I spent almost 400 hours in my cold shop this winter. I rebuilt a "COOT" ATV I bought in Utah last fall. When I bought it, it didn't steer. One kingpin was frozen, and the other 3 were very stiff. The engine had a stuck valve. The wheels needed new u-joints at each kingpin, and the worm gearboxes, and transmission needed seals. Wiring was shot, and the body needed prepped and painted. The wife and I decided we wanted to offroad together rather than wrestle individual 4 wheelers, and not wanting to spend big bucks on a side-by-side, and being a handy guy, this is what we ended up with. It's 4 x 4, articulated, 12hp, amphibious, and has a cargo capacity of 1,000 lbs. Top speed is 20, and in low range top end is walking speed. Will climb a 32* (70%) slope fully loaded. Should get us and our gear wherever we want to go, though slowly...LOL Jim

I'm going to get in my weekly nitpick here. IMO the Manticore doesn't show negative numbers. The digital readout is the conductive component only. The ferrous component doesn't show up numerically. Apparently that number is displayed on the Minelab FBS detectors, or at least some of them, but for some reason they left it off the Manticore. However the 2-d screen does show it positionally in the vertical direction -- i.e. location of target trace(s). I could be wrong on this as I know Tom Dankowski has said more than once that iron reads out on the [-99,-1] interval. But that's not what I've experienced when I detect. (I've only used all-metal mode, if that matters.) I have found non-ferrous targets when getting some iron grunt (and red underline and target traces that spill into the gray) but my conclusion so far has been that the iron reading isn't from the non-ferrous target but rather either nearby iron or possibly ground imbalance. In a couple cases I've found the iron but if I get the good (non-ferrous) target out and verify with post-recovery sweeps that there is no non-ferrous remaining I just fill the hole and move on. I think the 2-d target trace will eventually be a big help for me, but it's going to take some experience, memorization, etc. to really extract the value from it. Right now I'm noting it mentally but not letting it determine my dig/no decision. Learning mode all the time for me! At least for my audio settings (for which I've tried to imitate the Eqx 800 5-tones) I'm hearing a lot more richness/subtleties than I did with the Eqx, so that has helped me with discrimination in some cases already.

Thank you for reading. Hopefully you have been here from the beginning.

Found this today along with a flat button and a fired Colt pistol bullet. I'm having trouble identifying it. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Got play a little more today. Because of my area I completely forgot to use a single frequency. Did this and then went back a forth with iron discrimination. Rediscovered that it depends on the target. But pumping the coil tells all. Consistent, low consistent, or all over the place tells me iron or not. If it's close I will dig it because something's are made of various alloys. Thanks for the input . They all helped.

Ethan, your best bet is Tibooburra. Comfy place at the Van park or at the National park camp ground. Walking distance to gold at either spot. Obviously the van park is more amenable, being right in town. Fees are applicable to detect on 2 stations plus a lower fee for the town common. All the fees are payable at the roadhouse nowadays. Your GPX6000 will be the go-to detector, get yourself a 10x5 or 12x7 mono coil and crank it up to auto 1 and try 'normal' mode. Listen for whisper signals. Your 7000 will only be useful in creek beds and sandy flats where its depth advantage will be suited. The gold is generally small <1gram but good operators can often find 1-2 grams a day even on the common. Tibooburra &nbsp;accom

There could be a treasure buried behind old dams, especially those with lakes that were large enough for boats to be on. When I was a kid, I found a heavy 18ct gold women’s bracelet shining in the dried silt behind an old dam that was under repair. My mom kept it after repairing the broken clasp on it. Apparently some woman, possibly on a boat lost it while dangling her arm overboard? One thing for sure though, you’d probably dig up more lead than you’d ever want to dig or see while detecting there!

Hey Ethan Tibooburra is where I'm planning to go, It's the nearest one for me that would have warm weather in winter, also there are a lot of options, the gold fields are spread over a wide area and most people find gold, however it's not known for having large nuggets. You may have more chance of finding SOME gold than in W.A. this may be disputed by West Australians, but I grew up in W.A. and have done a lot of prospecting there. I'm not suggesting W.A is no good, obviously, it's one of the best places on the planet, but the gold fields are spread out over a large area and without local knowledge or contacts, I believe Tibooburra is easier to find gold. As to where to go there, go to Min View put Tibooburra in the search bar, look in Add Layers go to mineral resources and then click on mineral occurrences. Change the base layer to NSW base map, bingo your own treasure map. As Dave said for a small fee you can get access to the common an area close to Tibooburra, but you can also get permission to camp and prospect on Mt.Stuart station for a daily fee, from memory its not much $/day. It's way easier than the permissions you need in W.A. also Adelaide to Tibooburra 847klm. Adelaide to Leonora 2,400klm.

All I care about with this frequencies mumbo jumbo is if it works and if it works better than my existing detectors, I don't care what frequencies and how many, I care that it finds the targets I want regardless of how it does it 🙂 I'll leave the finer details up to the engineers, after all they're the ones that really understand it, to me they're a number that I know very little about. If it finds tiny gold and claims its using frequencies up to 80kHz to do so, that's fantastic, if it uses some other frequency but still finds the same tiny gold I desire I'm just as happy. If it can shift off 5kHz and 12kHz I'd like that, they're the two most troublesome frequencies for EMI around this area. I'd like a multi freaker that has the ability to adjust it's weighted frequencies to offset EMI. If it is weighted to say 5 10 and 20 for it's coin mode I'd like if a noise cancel would adjust 5 to 6 if it sees 5 is loaded with EMI and uses 6/10/20 instead, now that would be a great noise cancel method. Frequency shifting really works well When do you see a modern noise cancelling detector work as well as this

That pretty much describes me during my first 3 years (2015-17) back into detecting. $1000+ sounded too expensive for a detector but I didn't mind 'investing' $800 three times, all for more/less similarly performing detectors (as I later found out...). Damn digit counting.

Maybe a couple of hours before I found my first nugget in a dry washers tailings pile. A Garret Deep seeker worked. 1985

That's a slew of early finds with some decent relics to boot.Would love to see the bottles that were and possibly still are on that site or at least some of the shards.

A Story Not In My Journal : Part Two. We spent the morning on a long, slow hike up into no man's land as Jacob called it. There was no trail and he was right about the going being tough. To Jacob's credit, he made the hike all the way to an area where the little creek narrowed. We could tell that there had been some alteration in the ground up there. When Jacob saw the area he determined that the creek had shifted over to the east a little. Sure enough there were some logs laying scattered about in the area. That was what was left of his dam. Jacob let out a few cuss words and then started to laugh. He said he really didn't expect the dam to be as he left it many years ago. He started rooting around the western side of the creek. He waded through two feet of water to get over there and Vern joined him with a pan and a shovel They started to test the gravels along a little bench where the creek had once carved out an area. After a few minutes Vern told us to come over to their side of the creek and take a look at the pan.

I've been a bit slack with doing adventure posts for a while now, no real reason for it, just lazy I guess! 🙂 Today was a beautiful day, perfectly still and not too hot, not too cold, the ideal day to head up one of the mountains and fire up the Manticore. I quite like the Manticore, while I don't find it's target ID's as good as the Nox in a way its helping my detecting, I focus a lot on target ID's coin hunting cherry picking coins so I dig as little as possible so I don't cause damage to the fields, but when at the ski fields they're wild rocky soil places so digging a hole isn't as damaging and easy to fill it back in like it was never dug so using the Manticore with it's less accurate ID's doesn't overly matter as I tend to dig any non-ferrous. The ski fields aren't overly loaded with junk, for the most part the junk is accidental rather than people throwing rubbish down, for example I found no pull tabs at all even though people often drink out of cans while skiing/snowboarding. The drive up the mountain takes about half an hour once you get to the bottom of it, it's quite a steep drive and many cars overheat trying, it's said to be one of the most dangerous roads in the country, I think it's fine in summer, but winter lots of cars go off the edge from slipping in the ice and snow or crash in some way or another, especially tourists. They should all take the shuttle busses and it'd save a lot of grief. Made it up to the base of the ski area, I wanted to detect where I've never been before, so I went up to the top of a beginner/intermediate lift which took me over an hour to walk up there, but figured the most likely people to fall are beginners going up lifts for the first time so it had the most chance of decent finds. The base magic carpet areas where beginners not capable of using lifts go are always a little over-detected being the easy area to get to right at the base and an obvious place people are constantly falling over. They must still have juice running to the snow guns, these pole sort tended to cause much worse EMI than the other larger guns, not sure why but the Manticore really didn't like working near these ones. The ground is mostly rough broken up schist. this hole to the right of my control pod was a bit of a weird find, a golden knife. Not sure if it's gold, it's not magnetic, quite heavy and comes up as a solid 10 ID on the Manticore. I found this silver ring shortly after the knife. It was in this hole to the right of the control box. It's marked silver, the knife has no markings. This is the area I was mostly detecting, in the distance they set up snow jumps along the trail where the snow guns are for beginners to practice jumping, another good place they constantly fall over. The foreground here was most of my finds for the day. No sign of any surface stuff, far too late in the autumn (fall) for that, if I wanted surface finds I'd have to go just after spring while the snows still melting away, by now people have been wandering around all summer exploring so all of my finds were digs. Go earlier and some quite good stuff can be found without a metal detector, mostly phones and wallets. The ground here is quite variable around the mountain and required reasonably frequent ground balancing when I moved from one spot to the next, there were of course hot rocks too. I thought I'd head back down, my wife and daughter came along and they went to the lake, yep, lake, there is quite a big lake up here. it's straight ahead in this photo in the top right corner. This is it, nice clear water, perfect for a drink refill. I think the lakes around 2000 meters above sea level, something like 6500 feet. It's the first time I've seen it not frozen solid, I mostly am up the mountain in winter and spring when it's frozen. And my total finds Mostly bits off clothing and branding stuff off skis, snowboards and boots. See how none of the junk I found looks like something someone would throw down? I'm quite happy people treat the place with respect and don't throw rubbish around. I have no idea what this thing is, I'm not sure if the 1923 is the age of it or a model number, I couldn't find it on a quick Google search. $10 in current currency NZ spendies on the right, the gold $1 and $2 coins, and the left is oddly all old 20c coins, with one 5c and one 10cent. All pre-1980s coins. The goldies were mostly all from the 1990's except the shiny one which was a more recent 2020 coin. 5 cent don't exist anymore, 10 cents are now different and junk cupro coins and the 20 cent coins now are small rubbish cupro things too, the cupros are made in Canada, these older ones give a nice solid signal. The $1 and $2 are about the easiest coin to find, nice solid signal, never corrode, they just get a bit dull with age but clean up pretty good. The more unusual stuff, looks like an Aussie was littering the coin, a 2002 year of the Outback special edition coin. The left one is some Chinese 100 coin and the right one I'm not sure, some UK 50 pence coin that I've never found before, unusual shape. The Aussie looks like it's been run over by the snow groomers a few times over the years 🙂 So, a fun day out, probably my last detect at the ski areas, it was only 2 weeks ago the area was covered in snow, but the snow was too soon and melted already, the next lot probably won't melt. Happy enough with the Manticore, in fact it's excellent other than it's target ID's, when it comes to Cherry picking coins in the fields I'll stick to using the Nox and especially the CTX, I need the more stable reliable ID's so I dig as few holes as possible.

Yup. Agree. Some good perspective here. I agree the Manticore is overpriced for what it is (I think the D2 is also similarly overpriced), compared to the incredible bang for your buck that is Nokta Legend. The Mantocore should be priced where the 900 is now and the 900 should be reduced to the 700 price point and so on, consistent with ML's Xterra Pro newly established low price point anchor. Of course, none of that is going to happen as long as people are willing to pay the asking price for the Manticore and Nox Mark II. However, that all being said, I do believe the Manticore is more refined than the 900 and has things to offer over and above the Nox 900. I too have the 10x5 almost permanently bolted to the 900, the 6" on the 800, and will be looking for a "gently used" Manticore from a future "box of chocolates sampler".

I look at it this way Strick, New machines always come out claiming to be the best but after a while we find out they are about the same as the previous great detectors. I have not tried the Manticore but I have watched a lot of video's . I know you'll laugh at that statement. That said, my 800 and 900 have located silver dimes at the 13'' plus mark. Thats not to shaby for old detector technology HaHa. As for the price of $1600, Sorry but for most guy's that's just way too much to take a chance on it being WAY better than older models. This inquiring mind wants to know if you sold your CTX because the manicore is that much better?? It sure is lighter. I'll give the Manticore a thumbs up on the beach because it looks like it has an advantage. I'm not earning a living off of detecting, I do it for fun. Last note I ran my little compadre a few months ago and found a few silvers I missed. I asked myself was it luck or the machine? Honestly I could care less, I'm only in competition with myself.

As a Florida boy, I'd say my favorites are Siesta Key and North, up thru the panhandle, on the West Coast! Do ask about the "Red Tide" conditions before booking West Coast though, as it is a respiratory irritant, especially in older folks, and individuals with a history of breathing problems! South of there are still recovering from the hurricanes, if I'm not mistaken! East Coast (I'm in Melbourne) I'd say Vero North to past St. Augustine, but before Jacksonville! This time of year, ask about the seaweed conditions, as it can get messy if not removed! Disney Vero is a pretty safe bet for clean rooms, manicured beachs, and large pool area! And it is right in the center of the 1715 Treasure Fleet Wrecks! You might get lucky! Then there's always the Savanna Ga area, and Hilton Head SC area; both very nice also! 🍀👍👍

I half suspect he might be reading posts here actually. 😅 Or at least aware of what the 6000 fix was. Because later in the video he literally says exactly what I said here and have been posting for ages: lower the noise floor, you can boost RX gain. And this is how you can get better performance out of detector tech most people say is now at it's maximum already. My assertion for years been that we don't have a power problem, we have a noise problem - people say we can't go deeper because of the X^6 exponential decay issue with TX power. But we don't need more TX power, we just need to lower the noise floor and there is a lot of RX boost to be had still. We listen for incredibly diminishingly tiny signals in astronomy by using tricks like receiver arrays. There is a lot of room to improve with detectors here too - up to and including using actual physical arrays of "coils" if someone really wanted to make a sensitive professional level detector. There is room for improvement still. I can't believe no one has tried to seriously experiment with coil arrays, either stationary on a ground grid, with a central pulsing TX coil, or arrays within a single detector coil. You could achieve both X-Y-Z positional data, gradiometry, and differential noise cancelling. FPGA's are more than powerful enough to deal with the amount of data computation now.

Here is the second part of the video Some may find it interesting, others probably boring 🙂 I quite liked it, showing the noisy components on the board and he's working on mitigating noise to improve performance rather than increasing gain. The next part will be interesting, comparing side by side a modded and standard GPZ.

NOTHING is wrong with the Beach modes......... First, the ground was moderately mineralized from looking at the mineralization meter in the lower left of the screen. Second the gentleman was swinging fairly haphazardly with lots of arc on the end of each swing and he often almost missed the targets. So, there is nothing wrong with the Beach programs that I can see. 10. Diving is maxed at 14 kHz, so not the best frequency for small gold under 1 gram depending on shape. This by the way, is where at least on paper, the Excal maxed at 26 kHz has the advantage on Deus 2 and its 14 kHz Diving program. Otherwise.......Deus 2 all day for most gold jewelry using Beach or Beach Sensitive. 11. Beach is maxed at 24 kHz. Definitely more sensitive than Diving at 14 kHz but still won't hit hard on sub gram sized gold. 12. Beach Sensitive is maxed at 40kHz. That will hit most small gold jewelry from 1 gram down to .1 gram that is near the surface and will scream on 1 gram and up gold jewelry. The other modes 1. Gen, 2. Sens, 3. Sens FT, 4. Fast, 8. Gold are all maxed at 40 kHz and will have no problem on .1 and bigger gold jewelry. Only the Gold mode hit that .05 piece really well.....VCO audio helped there. 9. Relic is maxed at 24 kHz which is okay. It will scream on small gold coins or 1 gram and up jewelry at relic sites. 5. Park is maxed at 24 kHz plus it has a default notch from 23 to 36.....right in the small gold range along with Bottle Cap reject set at 5 which may also mask small gold targets. So, default Park for small gold jewelry is highly iffy unless some settings are changed. 6. Deep High Conductor is maxed at 14 kHz.....not for gold basically 7. Deus Mono default at 17 kHz. Not the greatest small gold frequency. Deus Mono is not using XP's FMF technology. It is a throwback, holdover from Deus 1. Target IDs may up or down average a bit depending on selected frequency, on target size, conductivity and the level of ground mineralization. I will not be using that mode very much...... So, in my opinion the Deus 2 in its default settings performed about as expected on different sized gold targets laying on mineralized ground. For the modes that are optimized for gold (40kHz), the target IDs were consistent and so were the audio responses for each target.

Hi all. This is my first post. This is a wonderful site with a wealth of knowledge! I have a newbie question so I apologize to those irritated by the stereotypical newbie questions. I live in the Great Basin (Northern Nevada) and am interested in ghost towns and stage stops, which I am pretty close to. I have a Teknetics Omega 8000. I’ve had it about 6ish years, and it hasn’t been used much. I will be retiring in two months and will have then have time to hit these places. Obviously my targets will be coins and relics. I have very mineralized soil and there will be lots of iron trash. The Teknetics will certainly get me started, but technology has marched forward since I bought it. What are your thoughts on a new machine? My budget is up to a Deus 2, but that doesn’t mean I am itching for one. I’m okay with a single frequency machine if there are some that work great for my purposes. Thanks in advance!

I use the Paww Dual Sound 2 earbuds. They are APTX-LL and do pair with the Equinox 800 and 600. They are getting hard to find but here's a used set on Ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/295567843524

I bought 2 bottles of Bushmills just the other day. The store ordered it special for me. I intend to drink a toast to the old timers in this story the next time my partners and I are at our diggins. Best wishes to all! snakejim

That's what I'm talking about JW does it all the time, and I've watched him do it over and over again yet I've never done it myself!! I need to get my act together. Sometimes he spends an hour or more with his VLF on his dig hole from a nugget with the GPX 6000 or GPZ collecting all the tiny bits they miss using his GM1000, GB2 or Nox. I'm a slow learner I guess 🙂

Took my new-to-me Goldmonster to a river not known for nuggets to try and learn it a little before I went to my gold area. Next day I hit the gold fields and popped a 2.3g first day out... I got lucky right outta the gate! PS...second day out found another 2.3g nugg

Big flat iron is always a problem, you know this. How was the silencer level? You could increase it. When I hear iron falses I turn coil around the signal and increase silencer..

I continue to be blown away by this coil. Pulled three today for a 1/4 gram total. Including a .026 at 4". This coil does not miss. It runs so damn smooth that even the tiniest gold doesnt go unheard.

Don't come down in Mexico where I am at. Way too dangerous😉