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I snuck out for an hour between thunder storms to the old hotel site I have posted finds from a couple times....did not disappoint. I can say I have never dug a quarter cent before, but here is my first cut half cent, 1835. Right next to the old pump well, like 6 inches from the platform and only a couple inches down. Most of the old coins have been 8 to 10 inches deep. Probably the dirt there has been dug up a couple times in the past years for maintenance, etc.

These are all from woods and yards in eastern Massachusetts. telephone technician's badge, 1910s shoe buckle Pocket watch case. Never heard of this brand. patent match safe, 1883 ladies' shoe buckle clip, Edwardian demi-tasse spoon, plated

Got out for a little bit today before the storms were expected. I was hunting an old home site (late 1800s through early 2000s) with a custom program built off of fast. Lots of iron, so I increased the reactivity to around 2 to 2.5. The old pocket watch is unfortunately missing the back, so I have no idea the age. It was giving me a weird double signal with a fairly solid 72. I decided to dig it anyway because I kept getting a good tone at certain angles. Once I removed the new nail from 2 inches, the signal cleaned up to a good 72 and so did the tone. The watch was another several inches down. I recovered a piece of the cover glass with it. This is actually the second pocket watch I have found with the D2 this year, although neither one are in great condition… Not too far away was the 1914 WHS medallion. I am guessing it comes from a high school and the only one locally that matches would be Woodward. I plan to contact them to see if anyone can confirm if it is truly a class of 1914 medallion. The old car is a matchbox lotus number 19 from around 1966 to 1967. I also found the hammer for a cap gun and an auto city products company (Detroit Michigan) key. All the coins were modern. I’ve been experimenting a little bit with large tones – especially large iron tones when I can get a fairly decent good tone from one discrete area (preferably not the end if it is an elongated iron). If I can get a discreet good tone, I dig the tone even if pinpointing pulls me off to the side due to the larger signal. This has resulted in several coins including today’s nickel. However I did get fooled on a large iron bolt. Thanks for looking and hope you’re having fun!

I was afraid to go to a certain spot , because i was told all who ventured into that spot where met by an angry hag, who kicked them out . but it was raining , and I figured I would try it , and I said if that is true , its going to be loaded, so I turned on the detector. And on my 1st swing a quarter , then another and then a dime , just in a small spot , and this went on thru the hole spot , then the grounds keepers showed up , and they Ignored me , No hag, I was waiting for the hag to show up ,and order me to leave, but somthing kept her away , maybe the rain maybe she was not working that day , so I kept nervously swinging, and the coins kept showing up . for me it was an all time record for one day 19 quarters, and some dimes and nickles all in 6.60$ very good hunt glad i went , cuzz the hag never showed up

I took a good friend to The Dragon's Lair to teach him how to find gold with his brand new GPX6000 and within an hour he had found his first nugget with it. He is excited to find more and we are exploring a new area close to one of mine and GoldRyder's claim. After I got him lined out on hunting with the 6000, I reworked my patch that has given up hundreds of nuggets and just pulled one tiny piece of gold out. I couldn't pull anymore gold out when I was getting ready to leave, so I focused heavily on very faint iffy signals that did not repeat, and pulled out some iron tiny trash. I got a non repeatable signal and scraped a thin layer back and heard a soft faint whisper repeating. I ended up digging a .63 of a gram nugget out shaped like a heart. It was about 14" deep maybe a little more. Damn this 6000 is impressive. I got it all on video and it will go up in about a month. I have the depth marked into my pick handle and will measure it soon. What a fine and impressive machine. Hats off to Minelab!

There's a part of town I've been hunting that has some older artifacts and everytime I go there I drive by an elementary school that was built in 1953. Since I'm usually looking for much older stuff, I never really payed much attention to this school. Well a few days ago I noticed some workers there and they were scraping off an area of the playground with a small excavator. I figured they were changing out some pipes or something and saw that they were dumping the dirt in the parking lot while they continued to scrape a fairly wide area about six inches down. Well that's probably worth checking out, I thought as I drove home that afternoon, and figured I could check it out on the way home the next evening. They were still working hard at it when I drove by the next afternoon, but when I came back by a little after 6:00pm, the workers, and more importantly, the dirt pile were gone. Well, I missed that opportunity I thought, but I decided to check out the scraped area anyway. I had the D2 with the 11" coil still on from some earlier detecting so I figured a quick run might turn up a silver coin or something old from the scraped area. I started swingin on the excavator path going in and out of the scrape and started pulling quite a few older ring pulls. At one point I pulled what looked like a foil milk bottle top that was folded in half and threw it in the trash pouch. A little after getting into the scrape and finding more ring pulls, I hit a '71 copper memorial penny. That could be a good sign or so I thought. I did manage to hit a deep dime, but it turned out to be a 1970. After 3 or 4 passes on the scraped area, I decided to explore the path to the parking lot where they had dumped the dirt from the scrape. I noticed a section of side walk that had also been pulled out and found a 1968 quarter and a 1973 Dog Permit tag from Ventura County, California. When I reached the area of the dump pile, I could tell it had been mostly small gravel with some dirt mixed in and there was a much smaller pile of wood chips still there, which I assume had been on top of the gravel. It had only a few foil targets in it, but the area where the gravel dirt had been dumped started giving up some good targets and a few surprises. One surprise was a small brass skeleton key, and a small brass ID bracelet (without the chain). The other was what I thought was a very encrusted, but high ringing zinc penney, only to find after cleaning it was a 1935 wheat penny! Oh, and the folded foil milk bottle topper that I almost threw out with the other trash fooled me too. I unfolded it and saw "Gold Circle Coin" imprinted on it and thought well maybe it was a gold foil candy coin wrapper. That's when I noticed the phrase, "For the Prevention of Disease" on it and thought what does that mean.... Oooooh.... then I remembered that was commonly imprinted on condom containers in the 40s and 50s. I had never heard of Gold Circle Coin condoms before but I looked them up... there's even one in the Smithsonian Institute, LOL! So I ended up with some older clad coins, copper pennies from 1960 to 1975, a 1935 Wheatie, a brass ID bracelet piece, a skeleton key, a 1973 dog tag, a few mystery items, and a 1950s era condom wrapper. You just never know what will turn up at school! 😎 Mystery item: Another mystery item: And the trash:

Legend is a good choice if you do any salt water hunting or water hunting for that mater. My Kruzer sprung a leak, I was able to repair the machine, replaced the internal battery but it leaked again. Turned out to be on the front panel where the keypad rubber meets the acrylic face. Something to be aware of. I believe the Legend housing is bit more refined and haven't heard of any leaks on that. I still use my MK but just on land for coin shooting for the most part. One note though, if your Kruzer or Anfibio battery seems to run out faster than it did when new make sure the thermal sensor is on tight against the battery. I had to wipe down the outside of the battery housing with IPA until it wasn't greasy and put the sensor on and secured it with clear packing tape.

Garrett sponsors the shows, which is how I made the connections. Garrett calls me like a few days ahead and says "wanna go" and I say "sure!" So the hat stays, but "Alaska Mining & Diving Supply" and "Johnson Outboards" get blurred out. Kind of funny on the Johnson Outboards because the brand no longer exists. Thanks for the screen shots Simon. I'll have to watch, mainly to see how it gets portrayed out of the footage shot. The true story on this gig is the miner thought his tailings had big lost nuggets, but if you look at the gold he is actually capturing, pretty unlikely. It was no surprise I did not find one, more like it would have been a surprise if I did, especially given the limited amount of time involved. I remember it enough to know that would have been the Surf PI Hawaii Edition that I had, very limited edition. Kind of regret selling that one so good on you. I kept quiet about the details but now that the show is about to air, this was from the Hoffman operation 80 miles north of Nome....

So last week I'm watching Freddy Dodge's Gold Mining show and he calls his friend, a "nugget detecting Expert" to come check out a claim to see if there is any large gold to be found. She takes out her Garrett Apex and proceeds to find close to a 1/4 oz nugget. That's it, I'm selling all my other detectors and getting an Apex.🤣

Thanks for all of the input. I ended up getting a Nox700 today for just over $600 total. I did a ton of research on these machines and in the end thought this made the most sense for me. The Legend looks awesome and I really wanted to try it out but I was a bit nervous since I am a beach only detector and it seems like they are still working out some beach kinks. Looks great and I might still pick it up at some point just for fun. I love that they seem to be updating it and working to make it a great machine. If it was my first multifrequency, I probably would have went legend hands down. I decided against the nox 900 for the same reasons I went with the 600 vs 800. The 700+900 have the same internals, its just settings that are different. I don't need a gold mode. I hunt 0 Iron bias only, etc. Money was a big factor here too. Cant see the extra $400 value for me at all. I'd rather just get a nox 700 + legend at that point for almost the same price. I looked at the Deus 2. It looks awesome. It looks light. I just didn't want to pay for it. It would be over 2x what I paid for the 700. Manticore looks great as well. Again just way above what I'm willing to spend. I just don't think its going to add much value over the $600 detector I just bought.

Recently saw on FB that in lieu of a general recall on all early model Legends, they will replace the speaker on any pre-'new' speaker unit that goes out even if it is no longer under warranty. Nokta FTW

I think it's really cool you're in these shows Steve, I like the shows, they're entertaining, they don't have to be 100% real to be worth watching and in fact if they were they'd likely be a lot less popular as they're be quite boring. No show would want to follow me on a days gold detecting digging thousands of pellets to find a few crumbs 🙂 They're entertainment, not a documentary. Some happy snaps from the episodes They didn't like your shirt obviously and blurred it out, but were happy to keep the AT Gold hat on display 🙂 It's good to see Garrett getting on these TV shows, Aussie Gold Hunters is all about Minelab marketing, Garrett got their foot in the door once with the ATX when the Gold Gypsies dropped their Minelabs and used them for one season but it caused a bit of a ruckus. Now the Axiom is out it would have been a better time to do it. It's funny they call Steve a gold detector, but in a way I guess you could say he is 🙂 Cool detecting area, I'd be having a ball there. Just a 22 shell! I'll keep an eye out of Hoffmans, It's only up to episode 2 but no sign of you yet.

I make a brief appearance in this weeks episode. If it makes you feel any better I don’t find anything. I’ll be in an episode of the Hoffman show at Nome sometime soon where I do find a lot of gold. Just finished another bit piece with Freddy outside of Missoula last week for next season. Freddy has actually mined more gold than most of us will ever dream of. His show is probably one of the more real of the reality shows, and he is genuinely helping out miners mine more gold. But it’s TV and they have to play to the audience also. For me it’s just been a lot of fun, all the cast and crew of both shows were super nice to me. I don’t make any money doing these. It’s more like little short paid vacations to places I’ve never been and hanging out with interesting people. The funny part was my telling the Hoffmans and Freddy I don’t watch shows of any sort really, theirs included. I’ve not actually watched this one either and only found out it was on because somebody said they saw it. Gold Rush: Mine Rescue with Freddy & Juan S3 E1 - Old Dog, New Tricks Freddy and Juan face a mine intervention at a 30-year-old Nevada claim. https://go.discovery.com/video/gold-rush-freddy-dodges-mine-rescue-on-discovery-discovery-atve-us/old-dog-new-tricks

"....the MANTICORE and EQUINOX 700 & 900 detectors utilise our new proprietary low latency wireless audio codec that is not used on any previous products...." I'd be surprised if Minelab have gone to the trouble of writing their own audio codec (there are so many excellent ones out there already, including the new BT LE ones). I strongly suspect that ML have deliberately made no 3rd party BT gear interoperable, and that this is a deliberate financial/marketing decision.

I hunt iron relics, while not digging nails, with my Tejon. Most detectors have iron larger than a nail, lower in the iron range. Your right though, the majority of hunters do not want to dig any iron.

Great find. Being cut and with date makes it even better.

Great relic hunt. I like seeing an iron relic.

That is a common sense policy & reflects their customer oriented approach to things.

That is certainly unusual and in nice condition too. Somebody was pretty particular about exact change.

The problem with gold around this area, is that it is all flour gold, left behind from glaciers. There is no source. Normally, the gold gets larger in size as you get closer to the source, however that is not the case here. Gold is gold no matter what size it is.🍻

Minelab won't be seeing my money for an 8 inch coil, its too expensive and too close to the same size as the stock coil. I bet the weight is maybe 1 oz different. They missed the mark in my mind, 6 inch, about $ 250, and lighter is what I would want to see. I think the Minelab accountants think they have a 5 star rated detector, it has power, features and build quality, that don't work together and it is not that much fun to use or spend more money on. (and the bleeping headphones....... they screwed us) I think there are still considerable ID issues to address. Sorry I am not happier, but it's not even close to what I thought I was buying in November.

My opinion is the 800 is still right up there as the pinnacle of VLF's, the only thing letting it down was build quality, performance wise it's not been left behind by the Manticore. For anyone that doesn't have a 900 or Manticore you're not missing all that much, better build quality is the major change, but I would not think I'll find much more using my Manticore that I'd miss with my Nox 800. Extreme circumstances like perhaps heavy iron or something maybe, but under most conditions very little difference.

Multi Kruzer and Kruzer really shine with 3 tone mode, 89 gain and 5x9.5 coil. Does have increidble separation. Stock coil is ok in moderate/low trash but sensitive to EMI. Depth between the 2 isn't all that significant. I use the smaller coil for fresh water beach hunting for small jewlery. I'll try 5khz next time out, usually use 14 or 19 unless iron is too much.

I just put my Legend in 5, 10, 15, 20 or 40 kHz single frequency with Pitch Tones and I basically have a Multi Kruzer............

It really has great target separation (meter) when looking for silver in an old ball field loaded with screw caps. The right coil (Round) at 5 kHz, 4 tones is a Beast!

Can someone give an approximate weight on an average 3 Ringer mini ?

Pulled this 3.17 gram nugget at 20" out of our claims with Reese Townes aka Gold Seeker 5000 on Sunday. It pinged real loud. Had a great day with 4.35 grams total in the last hour of digging. Always good to hit a "patch". Worked my hole hard before it finally showed. I absolutely love this coil. Really smoothes out the 6000 and finds little bitty crumbs and big gold at depth. Game changer for digging and detecting our claims.

I've received the same answer. Afaik LC3 needs to be licensed. Maybe they've tried to cut down some costs.. who knows. Everyone who's interested should raise a feature request. If we're lucky, they roll out an update at some point, since the nRF5430 should be LC3 capable without any hardware changes.

I agree, Phrunt. But I don't know that these older VLF's are really going to have much impact. What we are finding here on the West Coast, both inland and at the beaches, is that affordable newer tech has taken over. The Equinox, as you know, was the game changer. It opened up high tech at at a relatively low price to anyone who wanted to get into the hobby. That has resulted in our beaches being very overhunted. Where ten years ago you'd just see us regulars on a busy day, now there are teams of guys 24/7. all swinging multi's. On Saturday my buddy Frank and his brother hit a local beach and found seven other hunters there. Every one was swinging a Deus II. In three hours Frank and his brother didn't have a dollar in clad between them. Even the zincs we used to pass over had been scooped up. Same thing inland though high trash I think frustrates the newcomers so you can still do well if you take your time. Again, though, I just don't see cheap VLF's anywhere. I really don't have a clue who is buying them because I sure don't see anyone using them.

Like most folks I tend to avoid iron. This just shows I'm missing out. It was actually a surface find. I expect it was lost or discarded by another detectorist.

11" x 13" mono (the "medium" coil) the other two being 7x11 and 14x16

This seems to be a common theme for the Manticore since day 1 (actually maybe even before that -- going back to the September European Tour?). Tom Dankowski who seems to hunt almost exclusively in beach sand (aka Florida Peninsula), and I can't fault him for that -- it's where he lives afterall, reported great performance early on. Many posts here from beach hunters in general and dry land Floridians have indicated they've been impressed. Good to hear serious reports like yours. We need more, including (from my selfish viewpoint) more from difficult soils. Andrew (abenson) has me concerned enough to not join in until ML provides us a way to back out of the update.

I have the Legend and think it's great but I still use my Anfibio Multi, often with the Concentric coils.

My buddy and I hit a river today. Sampling gravel indicated maybe 5 specs. The vegetation roots faired much better, so I spent the day only washing roots. Such a simple process too. Just put a chunk of roots with sand and gravel in your hopper, and let the water break it up. I got some great fossils, a ring, and other goodies using my metal detector. I faired OK with the gold too, considering it was not the North Saskatchewan River. "ROOTS ROCK."🍀🍀🍀🍀 (lots of pics)

Although I basicaly agree, it probably wouldn't be multifrequency-ready. So it would be sort of emergency solution, until new HF coil is released. There also can be a new version of communication protocol between coil and remote, that is not backwards compatible. If so, they would have to implement communication with older coils separately -> more bugs, delays. Another thing, that we don't know - hardware transmitter/receiver can be incompatible too. So they would have to add second receiver to RC? If so, it doesn't make sense either. Old HF coils had quite a lot of issues with batteries. I would rather have new, optimised coils with improved reliability, than making everything compatible with old tech...

I'll feel that price in the shanks and resent it. But, I need the M8, and so, I'll take it in the shanks and be unhappy about it. I wanted the M15. But not at that price. I bet they not only don't come with lower shafts, but I bet lower shafts aren't even available with the coils. I'm getting the Minelab Mindset. - Dave

Nice job fellas, that's well earned.

Hey Guys, Coiltek has been around so long, but I have felt they have lost the leading edge on coils many years ago. I'm still a huge supporter, but the sales have tanked, its just the facts. This is nothing I have not expressed with Trevor at Coiltek numerous times. Nugget Finder just seems to be more sensitive, more stable and lighter. Coiltek makes bulletproof coils, but they don't have to be bulletproof to the point they are 1.5 times heavier. When Nugget Finder built the EVO (Evolution series) searchcoils, I felt this was the big seperation from the Elite and other coils from Coiltek. They have continued to push forward even more with the Exceed Series for the 6000 over the GoldHawk series by Coiltek. I would love to see Coiltek take the drivers seat again, so a bit lighter coils might be just the ticket on the next series. Just my person opinions. Need a 100 more Exceed 12x7 Searchcoils Rohan 🙂 Rob

Actually a bunch of pennies! You can bet that even though I was short on time I was digging every good tone regardless because this place is exclusive. The best thing I found that day was probably the two people who run this club and another one owned by the same group further down the beach. I was able to connect with them and the one manager said I should become the exclusive ringfinder for each club! I spent a half hour with the manager telling her stories of finds over the years and every person that came in she was telling them I found the ring from last night's wedding. I kept all the trash and junk from the search and showed her how I cleaned their beach of debris for them. I gave them my card and left with a couple of new friends.

The demand is such that I have not seen a single unit on the beach so far this year...🤔 There is stock in the distributors and I have already seen a couple of open boxes for around 1,400-1,500€. Here, in Europe, its price is 2,000€. I have not seen a single Nox 700 either, and the two 900s I know of, one (more of a novice) is delighted. He, another, more veteran, doesn't like it... According to his words, too much "sensitivity"... The 10' and 8' coils are also not available for the X Terra. Maybe they thought that this summer I won't go diving... They lose the sale of a coil, it doesn't matter. Today buying ML 85 headphones is impossible. I don't understand...

A modern .58 cal Minie bullet cast of dead soft Lead is 510 grains in weight. A Civil War era original should be the same or very close. .58 cal was the most common size but there were also .54, .56 and even .69 Minie bullets.

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Reese had it and didnt like it and sold it. I have never swung it. I pulled a .026 at several inches with the exceed this spring. Im really looking forward to the bigger coil coming out. We have alot of ground that needs surface prosecuted. Hopefully its as smooth running as the 12x7.

Do you have the Coiltek 10x5? I'd like to know how it compares with small gold sensitivity vs the 10x5", I guess physics means the 10x5" will be more sensitive unless NF have worked some magic. Great work on the nuggets Gold Ryder, very nice and deep too.

Great finds. Thus far, the NF 12x7 has only fans, me included. Simply an outstanding coil, stable but yet sensitive, and well balanced. Just like the 12 Zsearch! Real ceaftmanship and worth every penny. GC

Nokta did it with the Legend, a cut price Equinox but with better quality by far, and proper waterproofing. I'm not sure if the Axiom is better quality than the 6000 but it would not be a hard thing to achieve. It's Minelab's lemon when it comes to quality. There can't be many people left now that haven't had to send theirs in for something. R&D costs aren't recouped on small amounts of sales easily, they need volume to get R&D back and that's what happens when you sell a detector at the right price, again you can look to the Legend, Nox 800 sales must have slowed down a lot over the time they were out, the Legend which is basically a better clone of the Nox came out and sells like hot cakes and you can bet the Legend was selling more units than the Nox 800 up until the Nox 900 release. Garrett may struggle to get their R&D costs back until they adjust their pricing on the Axiom. They need it to be a detector people want to buy, if they came out with the Axiom at $3000 Australian dollars (about $2000 USD) they'd sell so many of the things to people that never even considered these higher priced detectors even in Australia which would be their toughest market to crack I would think. If they did cheaper like $2000 AUD they'd be a massive hit, the casual detetorist that tend to just try buy a Gold Monster and hope for the best would be all over them. The Axioms not taken off as it should have simply because they didn't do what Nokta would have, and come in at a cheap price and grab a large part of the market Minelab miss out on due to their ridiculous pricing. I just hope Garrett are testing the market trying to get Minelab sky high prices and come back to reality when they see they're very overpriced.

A forum member tried to get these to pair up but was unsuccessful. You can read about it here. Regarding whether ML is using BT LE LC3 in Manticore, Nox 700/900, and XTerra Pro, well we don't really know if it's going to be compatible with 3rd Party BT LE LC3 Headsets as has been stated previously in this and other threads but we do know the Manticore and Nox 700/900 wireless headsets utilize a system on a chip that was explicitly designed for BT LE LC3 and that ML applied for FCC compliance certification for a BT LE transmitter associated with Manticore.

Kruzer stock coils is emi sensitive but the machine is fantastic with the 5x9.5. Nearly same depth too.

Nice idea Carolina! 👍 I ordered one from England that did work, it covers both the remote and the shaft holder, even with the antenna I made: It ended up costing me £21 for a £4.95 cover and took two weeks, but it works ok. I have to remove it to charge the remote, I'm considering cutting the fabric to allow the charging port to be opened. https://www.ebay.com/itm/185643161995

Valens Legacy I’ve sold that bridge several times but the funny thing I never owned it . I always wondered who did own it and now I know. Chuck