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This is an excerpt from the old Gold Fields TV show, now being posted on YouTube over six years later by the GPAA. Fun little gig. I have not seen Kevin in years, guess he has a new show chasing Aztec Gold. Geez, I look like a fresh faced youngster - gained a few pounds, wrinkles, and gray hairs since then! “GPAA's Kevin Hoagland meets up with detectorists Steve Herschbach and Chris Ralph at Rye Patch, Nevada searching for gold nuggets with their Minelab metal detectors.” Here is the full episode which actually features Chris Ralph a lot more than me:

So, I went back to a club claim that had been pounded for years with virtually all detectors imaginable, including countless times with the GPZ 7000, and that was essentially left for dead. It was a beautiful day, around 60 degrees but with fairly strong winds. There was not a soul out there, something that made the majestic landscape even more impressive. I decided to use my GPX 6000 with the NF 12 x 7 and to do some slow scanning of an area where I recovered quite some gold over the years (mostly by using the GPZ). My settings were: Auto +, normal, threshold on, with ML headset. I was pleasantly surprised how stable the machine was with these settings, something I would not have expected in this area. I should mention that I did the audio fix as well, which I now believe contributes for sure to the overall improved stability of the detector, even when just using BT. One of my first targets was a thin flat piece that was obviously pounded by the force of moving mass including lava rocks. Always nice to see it at first all dirty in the scoop, a feeling of joy that never seems to go away, doesn’t matter how many nuggets you have found before, small or large. After some "spit cleaning", the shiny yellow came out. I am actually surprised that this nugget was not picked up previously. I would certainly expect that most detectors would have been able to see it, also considering that it was fairly shallow, about 2-3 inch deep. So, the day started good, and I continued to scan the close vicinity around my initial find. One thing that I noticed was how incredible sensitive the machine is, something that I was of course aware of having used the 6000 quite a bit, but that again came to my attention. One challenge is that the whole area is littered with bird shots, and I must have recovered at least 20-30 within just a few hours. This is clearly less of a problem with the GPZ 7000, even when run at full bore. I then decided to change tactics and once a target was heard to remove about 1 inch of surface material with my Hermit pick (one end with wide blade), and to only recover if the target would then still be there. This actually worked quite well, and my next “piece” was a super small, tiny flake at about 2-3-inch depth. The flake was so tiny that it was almost impossible to pick it up with the fingers, and of course it did not register on the scale. But the fact that the 6000/NF12 x7 picked it up with a clear high/low signal at about 2-3-inch depth is truly remarkable, and shows once more the power of the 6000, combined with the excellent performance of the NF 12x7 coil. Would the 11-inch stock or the Coiltek 9-round have picked it up, perhaps. But I did not make a cross comparison of all three coils, as I wanted to focus on detecting. But I really have to say I am super impressed by the NF12x7. It is highly sensitive, not a bit less than the 11 stock, but with a more balanced response signal, smoother and it also appears more stable. All targets that I recovered that day were high/low signals, with only some hot rocks or areas of high mineralization giving a low/hi response. I picked up two more pieces, always by using the “1-inch scrape/discard technique”, something that really worked well for me and that I can recommend using for bird shot infested areas. Can you see the one in the next pic? 😊 I picked up four in total that afternoon, and I am sure there is more on this claim, considering that I only focused on a small area around my initial nugget and thoroughly scanned only in the close vicinity. Overall, a great day in the desert. There is something magic about being out there, and every time I come back from it I feel I have been on a meditative retreat. Finding gold is an added bonus to me, and even without any I enjoy my trips every time! Here is the general area where I hang out. Go get some. 😉 So long, guys! GC

Well, two of my claim partners and I headed up to obe if our claims to see how close we could get to it with the UTV's. We made it all the way in to it. We had to hike about a quarter mile of the last stretch as we always have to but we made it. Still a lot of snow in our dig area but the four of us made it work. I picked up in the spot I stopped last fall and since I could start at the face of the bank, I decided to move rocks on the surface and cut and dig straight down through the grass. I worked my way towards the bedrock and my hard work was rewarded with five nuggets. My hole was about four feet by three feet and right around three feet deep. It is very hard to see the accurate depth in the pictures. It was very muddy at first but then I broke through the wet layer and it became a little dryer. Three pieces of iron and five nuggets. Not bad. The first nugget weighed 1.39 g and all total 2.35 g. Not a bad day as this gold is selling for $100 a gram. Video will be coming very soon.

A friend took me to one of his spots in NJ he’s been finding seated silver dimes and quarters at. I dug my first gold coin an 1876 young head shield back 1/2 sovereign in excellent condition and 1854 1877 seated quarters the 77 is cc. Still learning the manticore but it’s starting to click. Good luck everyone. Thanks John

From: "Record of American Uniform and Historical Buttons - Bicentennial Edition" by Alphaeus H. Albert

Now getting back to posting here about what Jacob had told me about our minesite being cursed. Of course we all know what happened to Jed back in 1936. He was murdered for his gold and that story is completely true. His brother Jacob was run off the claim in 1937 and was lucky to escape with his life. Others in the crew were not as fortunate. And Whisky Jack died from a rattle snake bite to the face. That is probably enough to get you thinking about the place having bad karma. As far as my own experiences go, I have witnessed some things and some of the people that have worked there have had some problems. One group next to our claims at the lower area of the mountain had a really nice gold strike one season. However, they got themselves into problems with the law and were arrested. I used to visit this crew now and then and they were a rough bunch of outlaw types. But they were good to me and I learned lots about mining from them. The fact that they got arrested did surprise me though. Curse? I don't think so. There was a really good guy that worked with us on several ventures on the claims. He was very smart and was a good miner as well. We had many long conversations about our claims and gold mining both in person and on the phone. One day I got an email from one of his partners. He told me he had died but I won't say how on this forum. He was 50 yrs old and I was shocked. Curse? I don't know. There was a crew who worked on one of our claims, hit it big, then lost it all on another venture on another area of our claims. Curse? I doubt it. That's just gold mining. High risk. I've heard voices out of nowhere and so have my partners. This kind of thing you can't explain. One of my partners was run off Jed's digsite of 1936 by gunfire. He had his young son with him. I don't think anyone was shooting at them but just trying to scare them away. It worked. Is that a curse? Doubtful. We've had our share of highgraders or what some would call claim jumpers. I look at that stuff as just a part of mining on a gold bearing claim. Cursed? Nope. So there you have it. There is always something weird that happens every year.

You guys are all spring chickens. I'll be 83 the end of this month and continue to old coin and jewelry hunt everyday for 4 hours or so. Not as difficult as walking hillside and washes, but currently hunting a golf course closed for renovations and log four hours of slow steps and up and down bends each outing. Anyway, John, good luck with whatever has you down and your prospecting endeavors when back up and about. HH Jim Tn

At 999.oo and knowing there would be No more, I would buy a third unit.....but not 2G🤕 For sure the machine has issues but after using mine, one for 3 and the other 2 years, as a PI, all metal only..seeing what they can do and the gold they have found for me, I would miss them alot if something were to go wrong with either. Is this the end of the AQ line? Maybe do a Poll ? One of many test video's of the AQ with my buddy Mike, a few years ago... Look 👀 close...

Definitely was a bucket lister lol friend dug a holed 1853 $1 gold with legend not sure what it rang up on his machine. The 1/2 sovereign rang up a 34 or 36 on manticore in ground was about 5” deep after I seen that gold shield staring at me when I popped the plug I couldn’t remember if it was 34 or 36 lol adding photo for size thanks John

Pumping the coil....50/50 found if there was halos or iron close it would grunt..bummer...won't stop experimenting So! Tried these audio settings and radical reduction in pattern (I opened it up to 8, -8 in field) So much iron around this (we found out yesterday it's not virgin, heavily hit last year) 1840s house, pinpointing is quite impossible. Sens set around 22, 23, a bit higher than previously possible. Get a possible target, slowly reduce the swing, turning a full 360 to pinpoint. If I could get a repeatable tone matched with reasonably steady bid for half the circle, I'd dig Had an hour, hit the likely path from back door to privy The silver bracelet, catholic charms... one's stamped 1830. That's how it was in the hole no sht. I brushed off the dirt, but that's how they lay, check the nails, the big one was OVER the center of the cluster. Previous detectorist missed it, vdi was 90s..mixed in all the iron squonks The gilded 1870s naval button ..roofing nails everywhere...vdi mid 40s, but the tones were the huge difference for me today We'll figure this out lads 👍 I do wish they'd run a patch, and speed up the coil release....

I was just about to pack it in tonight and was making a pass through my ring honey hole for the 2nd or 3rd time and this beauty popped up. A LOUD solid 62 on the deus 2. It was 2 or 3 inches down but sounded like a nickel right on the surface. This is the highest ive had gold ring up on the d2 so far. 14k with 10 little tiny diamonds. If i can't find the owner it will make a nice christmas present for my mom who tolerates all of my non stop babble about this hobby! i think this is my 6th or 7th gold ring since february. Inside is stamped "cas" if anyone knows what maker that is...

Been using F350's Relic Reaper with just a few tweaks to suit my specific site conditions. Last couple of hunts were similar to the previous hunts using the Reaper. I've been digging lots of buttons and pewter and lead bits. These are sites that have been heavily hunted. First pic from my previous hunt shows 24 buttons from 1 site. This site had given up over a hundred buttons to my D1 but I hadn't hit it with the D2. The second pic is from another worn out site that I had hit with both the D1 and D2 over the years. I was surprised I dug that many non ferrous targets from this site this morning. But the Relic Reaper is no joke. Lodge

This button is from the New York Legion, also known as Stevenson's Regiment, The data from the button books is incorrect. Soldiers from Stevenson's Regiment were mustered out at SF, Sonoma and Monterrey just as the gold rush began, and these soldiers were the first among the first to hit the goldfields in 1848 and were responsible for many early gold discoveries in the foothills of the Sierra. There buttons turn up in gold camp generally from El Dorado county south to Mariposa. Very historic button. Google Stevenson's Regiment and you will see the vast history and importance of the regiment to CA.

I still love my AQ, even after the few times I've had to send it in for warranty repair (potentiometer issues). Pulled loads of gold with it and has paid for itself many times over. OBN's big boy battery is still working great as well and allows me to spend as much time as I want on the beach without worry. I definitely think they need to source more reliable potentiometers, seems to be a common issue with these units. On a side note, I still love my Sovereign GT as well for beach hunting, I have no need for a screen, just let me hear those sweet mid/low gold tones and I'm happy...😁

F350, the thanks go to you for turning me on General and Full Tones. I hardly dig any trash mostly because these are older colonial sites out in the woods with almost zero modern trash. It's either iron or it's a keeper. Or sometimes it's both iron and a keeper. 😉 Like you say it is easy enough to ID the iron by just turning on it. The reason why I am digging mostly mid tone targets is because these sites have been pounded for years. Any easy high tone and even most of the challenging high tones have been sniffed out. There are still some left for sure but they are heavily masked. These sites I hunt have a lot of iron even away from the cellar hole. Iron that's 200 to 300 years old gets very crusty and is very prone to falsing, especially in Full Tones. But those mid conductor tones just stand out even when next to a falsing piece of old iron. This last hunt, I had the Reactivity set at 0.5. I was amazed at how deep it hit on some of the small buttons and bits of lead. It is a tombac killer. That silvery button is a tombac, just at the right angle to reflect the light. I had pounded these sites with the HF coil with the D1 (and every other coil). But the D2 is just that much better. GB Amateur, I find that pewter buttons can come in anywhere in the 40's and 50's with the Deus. It does make a difference what frequencies you are hunting with. The lower the frequency band the lower the VDI.

Out with the Geo Highbanker today. I hit a pay-streak.....got all this gold in only three hours. My riffles were bleeding with gold today!

Steve: I live in Phoenix area, 75, retired and bored. Decided to get out and learn something that is enjoyable, challenging, outdoors with plenty of exercise. With at least a 1000 steps a day. Searching for gold nuggets has always been a bucket list event. Researched gold detectors and wanted to achieve better odds of detecting in areas in Arizona that have been prospected over and over again. Research, limited by my knowledge, led me to the new Garrett Axiom and found that you are the best advocate of testing and tweaking this new detector and have read a lot of your post while doing my research. Minelab seems to be superior with the 7000 I felt the Axiom was my choice and less expensive than the 6000, plus offered more advance features. I decided on the Axiom and bought the package with 11x7 mono and 13x11 DD and added the 16x14 DD. The 16x14DD in the event I can visit the Mojave desert. Plan to learn how to detect using the 13x11 DD. Not doing this to make a living. But would like to find what others may have passed over due to the limitations of their detectors. Just want the exercise, be able to enjoy seeing parts of the state that everyone misses out on. Looking forward to this venture but going to start by learning how this detector works. Joined a local prospecting club to access areas where I can legally detect and meet others that have detected for a while. Plus plan to detect more often than others that can only go on weekends. Also, not really interested in dredging or panning. Just joined Detectorprospector as a new member and will continue to monitor your research and others who have also bought the Axiom. Really appreciate your insight as you and others with updates about your findings, also. Wish me luck.

I decided to hunt the woods of the property where I work. I’ve probably mentioned this before, but the property dates back to the early 1900s as a resort/vacation destination for folks coming up from the lowcountry area of South Carolina to the higher, cooler mountain air of the NC mountains. I was hitting the occasional shotgun headstamp when I came upon an area with a ton of iron signals. The old lock was about 12” deep and was ringing up like a silver half. Also found were two old pocket knives, part of a kerosene lamp, a button (probably from bib coveralls), various shot shell headstamps, a junk ring (probably more modern than the other finds as this area is pretty close to a walking trail), a clad dime and copper memorial. The 1903 dime was found on property about a quarter mile away from the other stuff. I also found a 3 merry widows tin near that dime.

I have a site where I have a clad dime buried at 8", which is on the edge of detection in this soil for the Equinoix 800. I can get a faint high tone in one direction in Park 1, Sens 22, Rec. 4, IB 1. Yesterday I took the MC to this site, which has really corrosive ground and deep targets. The iron is very rusted, and even the pull tabs are corroded. Bottle caps are completely gone, with only the foil liner and rust staining remaining. I tried the MC in AT-LC, Sens=22, Rec.=6 and got only the occasional high tone pop every couple of swings. Switching to AT-G I got a good repeatable high tone with VDI ranging from upper 70s to lower 90s. In AT-HC I got a very nice high tone with tight VDI ranging from 79-82, all other settings the same. So I started hunting in AT-HC, but quickly ran into the falsing issue that many have mentioned. I found that the best way to avoid this is to pinpoint and then check the target again with a very short sweep over the exact spot. If the signal is not confirmed it is a nail. It is interesting that this site is more prone to falsing than others that I have hunted. It may be the degree of corrosion on the nails. I hunted mostly in AT-LC, despite the better depth on high conductor targets, just because it slowed me down so much. I did find lots of pull tabs at 8" that were missed with other detectors. I also have found that the MC is better at unmasking than the Equinox. The key is to look for what I call "spongy" signals. What I mean by spongy is the signal is not solid but intermittent. When I trun on the horseshoe, these signials have both iron tones and nonferrous tones, but I like to hunt with horsehoe off (i.e. so that iron tones cannot be heard). Anyway, if the intermittent tones are mostly in the 70s to 90s I dig. I have found a couple of nice Barber dimes digging these kind of signals.

I found this iron bar in a Confederate camp in Rockingham county Virginia when it first came out of the ground I could barely make out the x marks on it through the rust after soaking in electrolysis overnight this is what I found. Could this possibly be a CSA made iron ingot there are several Old Stone furnaces in the area that supplied iron to the South during the Civil war. But they produced pig iron not such a well refined bar to the best of my knowledge. What do you guys think?

A wife of 41 years departed. A son growing up while Dad spent most weekends detecting. Missed a few of his home runs. I found it all ,no doubt. But at what cost? There is a silver lining to every dark cloud. We are still connected as a family and I have 2 grand children .I will spend every minute to be happy with them. If I could only go back 41 years................

Hello fellow members I went to an old haunt on Thursday for a few slow hours but I did manage to find a few nice buttons including this early one piece eagle.I have the Warren K. Tice Uniform buttons 1776-1865 book but cannot seem to locate it and i'm hoping that one of the experts out there might know something about it.I apologize for the poor quality photos as I am learning a new camera.If you look closely you will notice two letters below the eagles perch V T or V I ? The Back-mark is not that legible either as there is a lot of wear and I did not want to clean it very much. Thanks Everyone!

Same detector. Although it says available with an 8” or 12 1/2” coil previously only the 12 1/2” was available.

Congrats on Reaping the goods, Lodge Scent, well done! 😎

THE JOURNAL HAS REACHED ANOTHER MILESTONE. IT NOW HAS 300,000 VIEWS. MANY THANKS TO ALL THE READERS.

I would not say rambling, I would say being truthful and honest. The way a man lives says a lot about his character and what he stands for. People learn from their mistakes sometimes and the ones that don't won't achieve what they want in life. Good luck and thanks for sharing your story.

Thanks Tony. They don't own themselves ...they owe us, the ones that have waited this long and still hang on. The ones who bought Limited AQ's in hope of helping make a machine that would become a game changer. They know what the issues are but still offer a machine that is 5% away from being worthy of the name, Fisher. These video's are only to show the AQ's performance..Not to convince anyone to buy the model KellyCo offers. First is 5.3 gram 22k, 18/19 inches..And this is a newer model AQ, not the original Limited. Second video is same ring..22k 5.3 gram.. same performance ( 18 plus inches ) but the first Limited model ..sorry about the settings, and the threshold.. one of my first times out with the AQ.. Also I learned so much about the AQ testing I know it helped my hunting when using it. Third video shows the Limited does very well on small gold. I think the ring was 10k under 2 grams. Hit it at 14 plus inches. And I have dug deeper golds, just sometimes I wonder if they were not a second target. Me digging up the first and not knowing I had dug it ..still hearing a target in the hole. And digging over 20 inches thinking it was the only target. Which a few times with both the Xcal n AQ I have found targets on the shoulder of the hole.

Limited , Unlimited , Gold....no thanks. I'll wait for the Platinum model ! A couple buddies have them and I'm not impressed. Even at a $G , I wouldn't buy one. I'll stick with my $600 DF thank you.

I did a search on this for you, maybe the results will help you. https://www.bing.com/search?q=GOLD+panning+IN+ITALY.&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=gold+panning+in+italy.&sc=1-22&sk=&cvid=2EA526FEE0A64BD29C4656680B5B368C&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl= I found that this site had the latest info and covered most if not all of the locations that have gold in Italy. https://howtofindgoldnuggets.com/italian-high-country-finding-gold/

I got it from this place in Newcastle NSW https://core-electronics.com.au/polymer-lithium-ion-battery-1000mah-38458.html so long as the measurements are 50mmx34mmx6mm it will fit, so the numbers on the battery 603450 represent the size in dimensions the 60 being the thickness the 34 being the width across and the 50 being the length

I ordered an Equinox 900 from Gerry a couple of weeks ago and took it out for the first time today. Although I’ve never done it before, I decided to try my hand at nugget hunting. This will be a bit of a travelogue of the trip. I live in NE Nevada close to some old gold mines. I headed to Osceola this morning. Gold was found there in 1872. There is a great story of a laborer working in one of the washes one night who found 20+ lb. Nugget. He initially wanted to steal it, and rode some 30 miles that night to Ward, NV and had it melted down. He had a change of heart and confessed to the mine owners what had done and returned the gold to them, and they forgave him. The cemetery gives you a good idea of how picturesque the view is of the valley below. Most of the gold in Osceola was placer, and the banks of the creeks were really hit hard, as well as the underlying gravel beds. There were, however, several holes dug. Since this was my first time out with 900, my expectations were low, and I met those expectations. I didn’t find anything, but was up and down hills and creek beds, and swung the Nox for some four hours. I’m quite sore, but loved every minute of the outing. As you can see, this corner of Nevada is very pretty.

Hello John, I'm pushing 70. I can't imagine how I would be if I did't get out. At first it is tough on the joints. When I am done I just about crawl to the car. It does get better, as I am out again the next day or so. Nothing else I would rather be doing. Good Luck my friend!

US nickels are 63-65, Zincolns are 80-85, depending on crust, but I've dug them in the 50s if they're really nasty. 😵 Older nickels, like Buffalo and V come up as low as 58.

I can finally say that I am satisfied with the volume output in my headphones. Using the same connector and cable as the bonephones that got destroyed, I simply reconnected to an old pair of Grey Ghost cables and got this....😎 https://youtube.com/shorts/-N1jnp4beNk?feature=share

I’m not hating on Fisher but I checked out the latest Fisher user manual for the AQ (Revision 2)……there’s about two or three typo’s in the first page alone…..could they at least get this bit right by proof reading the layout before publishing. The rest of the manual is littered with mistakes…..it’s just careless and rushed……there’s a pattern here 😖😖😖

yep, you should be finding down to around 0.03 of a gram with surprising depth, 0.02 if its the right shape bit. The 15" CC has become very popular in Western Australia in particular. Here are a couple of big lumps found in the past week both with the 15"CC in WA. This guy uses his SDC 2300 as a pinpointer 🙂 Good way to keep the holes smaller in hot soil. And his nugget. And the next guy was also a 15" CC Also about 500mm down, both nugget found in the past week.

Joined a local prospecting club to find those who do detecting and have found that everyone I have met are not using detectors, but weekend digs. I told them what I bought and was where my interests were. When to new members event and was told that they are mostly weekend warriors and don’t really get into detectors. Mainly weekend digs. Was invited to a dig yesterday to see what they are all about. Pretty much a backhoe trenching and sitting on 5 gallon buckets sifting dirt. Friday through Sunday sitting in the sun and drinking beer. Don’t get me wrong, but no interest to me using a detector. Also the dig is mainly old tailing areas and what they mostly find is what they call “Flyshit” gold. Most of them found nothing. one found a small nugget with a detector and nothing from the dig. Tried out the Axiom and agree it’s easy to used with what has been discussed here in setup and a 13 DD FC coil. had many hits and only found some scraps of metal and a 22 shell casing. Going to go on my own quest and I’m sure will be better off. Like I said in my original post. Not doing this to strike it rich. Mainly exercise and the scenery. The Axiom will give me an edge I’m sure. Thank you guys for the encouragement.

I've been busy with some other detecting lately out in the deserts. I like those nuggets and meteorites. You can kind of target those and know what you'll get. When you go to the beach (just like a park) you can get coins, relics and jewelry. Today's best finds were a couple of rings. The first was a stainless steel ring found after a couple of hours of mostly nothing except those tent stakes. My beaches have been very stingy the last few weeks so I was glad to get it. I slowed down with the 11/800 and began to find 'patch' stuff. I like patches. I grid them and just enjoy having a few targets together rather than long walks always. My clues were that I was out on a pretty low tide and things were seemingly deep for the 11. I'm normally a 15 user but the 11 was on and I didn't expect much and was back to where I started when I got the stainless steel ring. It says 316L and weighs 6.7g. I continued on just above the black sand line and found other coins and stakes and then I heard a faint 'penny' or it could have been. I made it down a full scoop (6") and it was still in the bottom of the hole. A couple of more scoops, around 10" I got it out. It was a nice shine for the early morning. This is a 10K with lots of little diamonds. It weighs 7.8 grams. My first gold ring in quite a while and first one with the 11" in even longer. I'm ready to take the 3030 out this week with the 17" and see if I can renew a liking for it and look at some of my old find points.

Yes, I do like the larger ID range of the Manticore as it's moved common pull tabs away from my silver threepence coins like the CTX, the Nox they were smack together. I do really like my Manticore, it's just a shame the ID's aren't quite as good as expected. In saying that, I doubt I'll buy another Minelab detector in the next few years, I'm done buying detectors for minimal improvements in performance over older models. I'm jumping off that mouse wheel.

I know a lot of the history but it would take a long time to write it up. Good references are catalogs and the White's "Discovery" magazines; I have complete collections of both. Most of the catalogs are also available at https://treasurelinx.geotech1.com/Whites/Whites.html. There was a woman named "Patty" who worked at White's who knew every detector model and every date off the top of her head. She ran the literature dept; she had 6 filing cabinets full of historical info and photos, I'll bet every bit of that went to the landfill.

"Wouldn't square cuts also have the same benefit?" Yes, but .... even if you laid the square holes in rows, and offset each alternate row by half a square, you would still end up with a pattern that was not 'uniform'. There would be a weakness in one direction, a strength in another. Compare this to the 'hexagonal close packed' arrangement, that round holes and hexagons give. Furthermore, the internal corners of a square hole are an engineering weak point. They would need to be radiused in the corners. And the same applies to hexagons, to a lesser extent. Laser-cut holes have a rough finish on the cut surface, which is a weak point for crack formation - all cracks start as micro-cracks, and grow. So a smooth cut, polished surface would be the ideal one. Also, consider the fact that square holes have a diagonal dimension 41% greater than the face-to-face distance, so they may let objects through that you would like to trap. A hexagonal hole has a corner-to-corner dimension only 15% larger than the face-to-face distance.

Thanks, Simon. And yes, I absolutely give you that. You were right, and I was hesitant and not quite believing. I think part of that was my fear to ship it off, considering how many packages I got lost. I did insure it on the way to the repair center, but the return was without insurance, just with a tracking number. Well, thank God it worked out and I am glad I did! Yup, I guess I was a bit spoiled with my GPZ that usually only finds stuff that registers with double digits after the gram. Had I used the GPZ I might have only found the "bigger" one that day, which I am sure was just plain missed (including by me!!). 🙂 I mean I have of course found super small stuff with the GPZ as well, but not with the consistency of the 6k, that seems to find the small stuff all the time. You can of course ask the question (and some do) whether it is worthwhile to dig all that small stuff the 6k will find. In particular, because you can't often times tell by the signal response if something is tiny or bigger, since all sounds pretty loud. But on the other hand, I personally enjoy digging all gold, even that which won't register. But this is because I don't have to pay my bills from it. I think if you wanted to make the most efficient time/gold weight ratio then the 6k might not necessarily be your detector...The scale you ordered looks great. Did you get it on AMZ? Totally agree, the GPS on the GPZ is not very accurate most of the times. I usually do the waypoint averaging on my Garmin GPSMAP 66i, then I transfer it to my Basecamp map. I have a "gold map" of the area I usually go to, but I wish I could make any sense of it as it all appears to be scattered without any predictability. But I am still hoping it will give me some cluses eventually. GC

I don't find many pewter buttons but i do find lots of Tombac buttons, they usually ID in the 40s. 🤔 It's possible that pewter would ID that low too.

Thanks for posting this, LC. I'm really pleased to see the program bringing old sites to life for you! 👍 In the second photo a button appears to be silver, if solid a rare find. Either way buttons are always a good find. I think the base premise of the RR program is to keep you from wasting time digging iron if you don't want to dig it, or to clearly identify it (size, depth) if you do. Even aluminum is identified most times by an upward or downward (or both) mid to high tone, same applies, you can dig it if you want. Always dig questionable stuff for experience and reference. No program is perfect. Once you Master the tones you're going to dig as much good as bad, I'd love to see some trash pics if you have them, you may well be at that point. Great hunt, looks like it's working out for you! 🙂 I'm working on a similar one for Beach, but the variables increase. One day pull tabs were in the 80s after a rain storm 🤣

sweet baby jesus, what boat did they put the coils on ???

I have made an offer on the Lobo Super Trac

Great finds, particularly the trolley button which looks like brand new. Keep that British penny in an accessible spot since it's a good calibration piece when comparing detector performance between different countries. The Aussies have an identical(?) size,shape,weight,composition version, too. Possibly other Commonwealth countries? I am a bit curious as to your recovery method given that you started out by saying digging in city parks was illegal but then you "dug" these items. I was told that Denver city parks (not that I'm trying to guess where you hunt...) had specified a certain blade (no more than 6" long and no more than 1" wide) as being allowed. And a lot of people have perfected the screwdriver stealth method which is accepted in even some of the most restricted public places.

The stones are not real. I have only found one 14k ring with a fake stone but have several 10k rings with fake stones. I was only able to test the main (yellow gold) part of the pendant as the oval part (rose gold) is sort of recessed and the number (white gold) is somewhat recessed because of the stones, to get sample for acid testing. My electronic tester does show slightly different numbers for each of the three types of gold. The number (white gold) is slightly the highest on the electronic tester but only a click or so. It might be the 14K part but I think I need to take it to a jewelry store and see what they say. I think because the yellow gold is the "grounded" part, all three colors will read virtually the same Karat reading. A normal piece of gold jewelry is no problem confirming but Tri Gold is not something I am used to. Oh well, things like this are just icing on the cake in this hobby!!! I love a good mystery. LOL

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.

When digging out trash pits and huts, I've used the Deus small elliptical coil (detached from the detector stem) and the remote as sort of a pinpointer on steroids to cherry pick the non-ferrous. Someone even makes a grip handle that you can attach to a Deus coil and use it to scan the dirt piles or side walls of the pit (see below mounted on Deus 9" coil). This works great when you are dealing with literally hundreds of nails in the dirt piles. Just rake the dirt out and scan with the Deus coil and the remote in your pocket in speaker mode (and/or glancing at the TID screen). I personally would use a high performing discriminating pinpointer if such a thing actually existed that could be used for all pinpointing needs. But I am also married to the XP Deus wireless pinpointer which works great integrated with the Deus/Deus II remote, but it's pulse induction and will never be capable of doing discrimination. The Quest Xpointer that 350 Platinum recommends is the closest thing to a high functioning discriminating pinpointer that I have seen, but there are situations where it is preferable to use the Carrot or whatever you use as your primary pinpointer because it can be less efficient to use if you only have one target in the hole due to its sensitivity and the sensitive areas on the probe.