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I took a trip out to Rye Patch last Wed. Packed the whole family, CEO and herd of Doodle Dogs, towing the 5th wheel toyhauler with RZR aboard. Weather was awesome on day 2, almost needed a hoody at sunup, but that changed quickly. Day 2 I did some quick recon with the 2 big Doodles riding shotgun. Clearly, Rye Patch had seen some significant rain in early June. The roads were rutted and the gullies showed a lot of erosion, with bedrock showing here and there. I detected some places that had produced gold in the past for no joy. The next morning my big Doodle dog was really feeling out of sorts from a recent vet procedure. We made an appointment for Fri morning, so that shut down my detecting. Fri, we hauled her to Fallon and got some medication, then opted to take the Boss and Doodle Dogs home to Fernley. I drove back out to Rye Patch Fri evening, leaving the Doodles and Boss at home. Turns out to be a good decision since the weather turned hot quickly. Sat morning I got out early and detected a long line of exposed bedrock. Since mine were the only boot tracks, I decided to cover a lot of ground looking for the sitting ducks from the recent erosion. Surprisingly, the freshly exposed bedrock was barren, but I managed to get the bigger nugget in a newly exposed cut in the gully side wall. It got hot by noon so I surrendered and sat out the heat in the trailer with generator going and air con on max. Afternoon cooled down some and I went back out to another gully with exposed bedrock. Again, nothing in the exposed bedrock, but I pulled 2 out of the freshly cut sidewall. Sun morning I was out early. No breeze and a promise early hot weather. I put in nearly 3 hrs of detecting exposed bedrock and fresh sidewalls with not much but trash. I did a complete loop, ending up back where I had found the nuggets yesterday. 10 ft from one of my dig holes I got a faint whisper of target tone. I should mention the atmospherics were jumpy and the 6k with 14x9 Coiltek was sparky, I lowered the Sens down to 5 and that seemed to help. The nugget was flat and way down in the bedrock. I'm glad I kept my Dave' Gold Australian pick which makes quick work of the soft bedrock. I was sweating buckets by the time I got the nugget out and decided to call it a trip. Rye Patch is a tough place to score nuggets these days. All the washes I was working have been detected 1000's of times. The freshly exposed bedrock was never all that deep so my only advantage was I was first to detect the newly exposed sidewalls. If you are planning a trip mind the weather, and as always it's a tire killer out there. I saw 2 trucks on the road fixing flats.

Silver coins have been scarce this year. However, I hit one of my park sites in an area that I had only quickly skimmed over in the past with the nox. Yesterday I hit that same area with the D2 in sensitive ft, sense at 94, reactivity 2.5-3, silencer 1, no notch BC at 0, 40khz max freq, disc at 6.8. yesterday I was mainly digging high tones but also a few solid mid tones for nickels or rings. I got a nice 96-97 and about 2-3” deep under a bunch of pines where the soil was pretty dry, I got the ‘53D gw. Then about 10 minutes later I got a 91 mixed in with some iron grunts. Out pops a ‘64 rosie! That brings me to 7 fty. This site will be my future hot spot as there’s more area to cover and I still have a lot of lower conductors to dig.

Leaving Thursday for two months to Norway. Taking a Time Ranger Pro and an Omega, sharing coils between them including an Ultimate 13". Starting in the high North and then ending up on the South around Oslo. Plan to re-visit some urban parks dating to the 19th century which I hunted with a Whites 4900 and a Tesoro Golden Saber in the 80's. Also whatever fields I can get on to and some documented abandoned farms from the Black Death. I don't expect wonders, and anything earlier than about 1650 is National Treasure - requiring reporting and handing in, and I have no intentions of robbing folks of their heritage. North Norway is especially interesting since pre Viking Iron Age and Viking age settlement there is not well documented by finds. Given my usual luck, I expect no amazing finds, but then...maybe.

I found this coin on top of a hill in an area where I have found lots of relics. Both Confederate and Union items have turned up in this general area. The coin looks to be made around the mid 1800s . I would like to think it was carried by a soldier but I'll never know. The obverse side where the state, lodge# and individuals name would have been has been intentionally wiped clean the rim around the edge is still intact so I don't think it's normal wear. Maybe he was trying to hide his identity.

For the past year, I have been predominately spending time in areas where I know there are coins to try to teach myself how to use my detector. In my part of Ohio, there are no clubs close and I didn’t know anyone who detects, so through information gained on this site and trial and error, Ive tried to teach myself. After finding several hundred dollars worth of clad last year, I decided this year I would focus on older homesites to try to start finding older items. Couple days ago, a friend and I went out to a mid 1800’s permission and I found a bucket lister, a civil war box plate. There are very few civil war locations in Ohio and those are protected so I figured the chances of finding anything civil war related, was very thin. I also found an 1874 Japanese 1 Sen coin, about 10 feet from it. Although the box plate is a little beat up, its easily the best day detecting I’ve had so far. So, thank you to everyone for all the expert help and advice.

😵 Thing will probably shut off my pacemaker 🤣 of course I might find the 90 million dollar hoard that might be buried at one of my permissions... 🤔 Thanks TJ! XP, we need a 10x5 elliptical!!!

There’s an old ww2 POW camp in the town I live in in Oklahoma. German prisoners were housed here on what is now the county fairgrounds. I’ve been going over this place for about three months now, found quite a few 1941-45 wheaties and an American coat button with the eagle. I found this last week and just got it cleaned up enough to see it. Can anyone tell me more about these things? Thanks for any information!

Simon it is a lot better when it gives a error on the dial due to the nugget being too heavy. 😉 As far as which coil to take to W.A. and Tib. NSW it is not the size of the coil it is the size of the gold and the depth of the gold. W.A. from my experience the gold is mostly under a few grams and shallow due to the fact that most of the light soil has weathered away. I would be lucky if I have found a dozen or so nuggets there over and ounce, but a few thousand under 5gm. Only 1 large nugget was deeper than a foot, it was a large specimen with well over a pound of gold in it. So the best coil is the one that will get the size of nuggets that you are chasing and depth, that you can use for the full duration of your day, with no over exertion by you.

Im not going to lie... I think you do loose a bit of depth on larger gold with the NF 12, but it's worth it in added sensitivity. Conversely, you should find plenty of smaller bits at depth than any other set-up out there (Phrunt will make a good case for X- Coils here, most likely a 15" concentric). Think about that last sentence for a minute.... That revels a lot of smaller bits in known spots that GPX's have missed over the years. Even 6K's (They just don't have the umpf to get all the small bits at depth in mineralization). I have the 19" and, but it's an absolute battle axe to swing all day... But in the mostly flatness of WA and lack of brush, its an option if you want to look for bigger nuggets. It is also surprisingly sensitive on small bits for its size..... Theres the newer NF as well and I've met 2 guys swinging it out in the fields here in Arizona and California, one praised it, the other had buyers remorse over it. I never used it so cannot comment on it, but I will say Im considering getting it next. Bogene's Settings came from a guy named Bogene on the Finders Forum that used these settings on his 3500 to deal with bad EMI from thunderstorms in the area. Some have been using it ever since on their GP's to get more sensitivity at depth in bad ground. I feel that it is an awesome all around setting for the GPZ.... But thats were I hunt in the Western USA, not OZ🤷‍♂️. Here are the Bogenes settings on the Z. Sensitivity at 20 (max) Threshold at zero or near it... 5 max. Volume at max. Semi Auto Audio smoothing on low or high High Yield Normal Locate patch as a second to last resort in noisy ground You will have some chatter to listen to but the depth and sensitivity at depth is remarkable. If it's too squawky for your ground, then I would first up the audio smoothing to low... then high.... after that start backing off the sensitivity one increment at a time. But when you start getting below 17 your depth and sensitivity really start to fall off... At least where Im hunting. If you need to go below 17 in sensitivity then I turn on the "Locate Patch" and back the smoothing back down to low and try to go back up in sensitivity. I run High Yield & Normal. I never go to General or Difficult as you loose the magic with either on the Z.... In really bad ground, like you'll most likely be in, I would keep backing off the sensitivity... I wouldn't go to General or Difficult first, but only as a last resort. I would slow the swing down and keep using your balance button as you move slower to dull the ground noise... Nuggets will still pop with that sweet mellow Whohoo sound saying "Im gold and I'm down here". I know a lot of people in western OZ run their Z's in General, Difficult, Sensitivity around 12 and no smoothing. These are completely different approaches to the machine's architecture. In Bogene's you have it wound up and then dumb down the chatter with threshold & smoothing. Then sensitivity. Lastly, Locate Patch.... In the normal approach in OZ you start by dumbing down the machine and then try to amp it up, if that makes sense. Give it a go next time out. And as I said, it pairs well with that new NF12 your going to be getting. 😉 Just my 2 cents.

The first photo is a WW2 German/Nazi Wound Badge, it's the equivalent of the USA Purple Heart. https://www.militarytrader.com/militaria-collectibles/german-wound-badges https://www.icollector.com/BLACK-NAZI-WOUND-BADGE-HELMET-SWASTIKA-CROSSED-SWORDS_i11346704 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30078864

These devices you gave links to all are junk rip off devices so I deleted the links. Please don’t post any more links of this type as a new member or I’ll assume you are a spammer. A house is full of metal so a metal detector won’t help you much, if at all. You will need to either remember where you hid them, or methodically search until you find them.

Out on an old local pasture in the UK, that's off the beaten track and has been heavily detected by myself and others. I had the Manticore on All Terrain General - Low Conductors, sens 27, stabliser 3, the ferrous limits opened up a bit top and bottom. I hit a scratchy but repeatable 35, not a belter of a signal but enough to make me dig, so glad I did, as at the bottom of a pinpointer deep hole this beautiful gold ring appeared! There are no date or makers marks on the ring so I'm unsure of it's age, it has a nice weight to it. I've had a look through UK National Antiquities database but can't find anything that matches it. The British Museum in London is currently looking at pictures of it to ascertain what age it is to see if it should be taken under the Treasure Act. One specialist has indicated he thinks it's medieval and a couple of people have suggested it may have had Niello inlayed into it. Still a bit of a mystery, but if anyone could help with an ID i'd be very grateful. Kind regards Stuart

Rained me out of work close to the f.o.d. so I manned up and went swinging! Wooded area super thick but never explored by me. Super hot alabama humid and rain led to complete run through of h20 and my everything. Had a rain coat but upon putting it on realized sweat and rain do the same so wore the hood to protect my ws6 and tied arms around my chest! Lol 😆 haven't swung 1.1 much except 1 baby outing so kept filters high so nail bit didn't cause me to fight a tree or worse! Happy with results and bc really can help with flat rusted tin like stuff ( usually run it 2,3 but less then 5 those things sound amazing). Happy 4th fellas be safe

yep, when people say they found gold so small it shows up as 0's on their scales I tell them to buy some decent scales 🙂

I just ordered a .001 scale so I can be more accurate.

As always, we all have our preferences. As I said several times before, for me the NF12 has been a game changer, and it is a significant upgrade for the 7000. The coil is more stable, more sensitive, lighter, better built and has practically no depth loss compared to the 14 stock. Most grounds I hunt are highly mineralized, so the coil configuration is a perfect match for me. I can highly recommend it. I use Bogene's setting from time to time and find it beneficial in some but not all circumstances. As reported before, general/ difficult works well for me in volcanic hot rock infested grounds that I often face in the desert. In fact, it is the only setting that produces gold that is in close proximity to hot rocks. I wonder how the 15CC would perform in these difficult grounds. I also use the SP01 religiously, and I find it a great combo for both the SDC and the 7000. So, is $1300 a wise investment? Absolutely in my view, and I like this coil ever since I mounted it, just as much as I like the NF12x7. Again, guys, we all have our viewpoints and the only thing that matters is the rattle in the pillbox at the end of the day, however you get it. 🙂 GC

I have a big Foot for my MXT. Everybody knows that the Big Foot is only good for a few inches, guess they never tried it on an MXT. Silly depth. I was planning to sell the Bigfoot, but now the Arrow has spoiled the premium market...but now I don't care, with the MXT it is amazing.

I've hide things before going on vacation, and have come home not remembering. Best is not to panic, which will make your memory worse. I found by going on with my life things showed up. One time I came home after a crazy 10 days away, I had hide some gold away that I normally would have taken to the safety deposit box, but I was running behind so me, I'll put it some where no one would think to look. I get home and it hits me after a few days where did I hide the gold.. I looked every where and even cleaned house hoping to find it. At one point I swore someone had came in and taken it, ... but nothing else was missing so that could not have been it. A few months passed, and it showed up. I had hide about 2 ounces of gold in one of my winter gloves. that I had packed away. Lesson Learned. Another story. My Ex-wife calls me wanting to borrow a metal detector. She got married to a guy who lives in a big house, whom his wife had passed. Her new husband tells her there is a stach in the house of jewelry his older kids had hide. AS far as I know, they never found it and the detector never helped.

Ethan, the 6000 and 7000 in standard form are more than capable machines. Accessory coils can add certain enhancements for a specific task, like a longer coil is going to give you more coverage, smaller coils are going to be lighter and better in thick scrub etc. Are they a must have, no. Is it good to have a selection of coils, yes. If I was taking my 7000 to tibooburra then I'd definitely have a 12" Z search on the end of it. Don't forget a concentric coil doesn't cover much ground per sweep, so is better used as a patch cleaner, rather than a patch finder - where ground coverage is king.

I just joined the website today. I'm a long time prospector and I write for the ICMJ Magazine. I reside in the heart of the California Gold Country and have a hydraulic pit within 10 minutes of my house. I currently run a Garrett Goldmaster 24K and an Axiom. The more I learn about detecting the more I realize I know very little so I'm here to learn all I can! I'll attach a shot of my most recent little nugget. I found it last week exploring a pocket deposit in the American River Canyon.

I think its really cool they've come out with a product a bit different, and in their market there is obviously demand for it, pretty useless for me, but good for those in places that could use it.

Yea, but they'd be Minelab branded scales and if the same engineer makes them as made the Manticore or Equinox 700/900 the scales numbers would bounce around all over the place so you'd find yourself estimating the weight of your gold.

Beach sensitive is a clear winner of the beach programs for gold chains. If you are going to use a program out of beach modes make sure you are not handicapping your ability to find gold chains

Thanks yes they're my go-to settings, we don't really have too much EMI around here compared to high noise places like the USA I would guess. I have the volume down as I run with the Steelphase SP01 Audio enhancer which boosts it right up again, but I do run higher volume sometimes. It will feel different as they're lead pellets, tiny gold responds better than lead pellets in general because of the round sphere type shape of the pellets I believe, flatten them out and they respond much better so I'm just using difficult to find targets to demonstrate the sensitivity, I've done it for most coils I own on my Youtube so you could see the difference with the 15"CC if you want here and if you snoop around my videos I think you'll see where I do similar testing using small gold nuggets (flakes) comparing the coils too. I will try it again with a lower threshold and higher volume at some point and see if I can see any difference. I use the little lead pellets to play around and test settings and sensitivity on all my coils and detectors to work out which I want to use for which task.

I mostly only find small gold, very small gold really, all good advice, the 15" Concentric coil is far more sensitive than the 12" Z-Search on small gold especially at depth but overall tiny target sensitivity too but it's also requiring an adapter and obviously a more expensive coil and Phasetech is right the 15" Concentric has about a 10" coils ground coverage when run in difficult, slightly more I'd say close to 12" if run in normal due to the winding configuration so it's not perfect as a patch hunter although I use it for that as I desire the sensitivity being in a small gold area. I don't mind overlapping my swings as I'd be doing it regardless of which coil I use, it's all part of tiny gold hunting. In standard form off the shelf with no adapters involved and seeing you're considering Tibooburra known for it's very small gold I would say the 12" Z-search is a reasonable option being the smallest plug and play coil but not by much, I barely find it anymore sensitive than the standard 14x13" coil in fact personally I find the 14x13" better overall, but I run in normal, so I can't really comment on difficult and the difference between the two. In normal there really isn't much in it at all and I'd only buy the Z-search if I wanted a lighter coil more so than more sensitive. These videos show the small gold performance by using a small lead pellets as a comparison between the Z-search 12" and the 14x13" Standard coil, it gives you a basic idea of the sensitivity levels between the two of them Yes, they're air tests, yes they're lead pellets but the purpose isn't to do with ground performance, it's the overall sensitivity of the coil to small targets. Imagine trying to recover the same size/weight nugget in a scoop and this is what you're seeing with the pellets. It also shows you the spots on the coil to waive your scoop over if you're recovering very small gold. If it was me, and you were considering buying the 12" I'd consider it more if weight was a factor more so than tiny gold performance, that's in my conditions anyway and being able to run in normal. The "difficult" people may have a varying opinions. I believe in Tibooburra the soils pretty mild, and people seem to run their GPZ with Concentric coils in normal there from memory, I could be wrong but I'm pretty confident I've been told that so perhaps the 14x13" runs in normal there too and if it is I wouldn't be too worried about buying another coil, after all you have a GPX 6000 at your disposal too for the tiny gold and the 11" GPX 6000 coil is fantastic on tiny gold, no need to change that to another coil for finding tiny gold. I should add something to take into account is some people say the 12" Z-search runs smoother than their 14x13", I personally haven't noticed this but it could be a difficult soil thing.

Come on Joe……you need to start hiding the gold in your tub of ice cream like everyone else does 👍

I’ve lived in my town for the past 60+ years. Four years ago I picked up my first metal detector and would detect every local park and over to the beach. Never did I go to the local community center that is walking distance from my home. The property houses several buildings that were built as a school back in the late 1900’s. Well, I went by last week and see that they are scraping the soil between buildings to update the landscaping. I decided to detect the areas that have been scraped and in it I found two 1946 Rosie’s and one 1945 liberty dime, along with nine wheats and 27.12 in clad. Also a few marbles (I thought I”d lost them 🤪) This place is gonna be my go to for a while.

Oh speaking of unlisted I dug a good for 5 Smith community exchange smith ky I cannot find anywhr.. if anyone knows please let me in on it

I do not have a clue tbh. I was hoping someone would though. It has a place for a pin and I kept it thinking it was different. Yeah the token was a 2cent piece for 3 hours while dirty and pocketed lol 😆 pleasant surprise and more personal imo to the Wisconsin soldiers who garrisoned the place.

The Minelab Equinox series is another good option. If you're going to submerge the detector, I'd go with the 700/900 version for sure. It's also the better choice even if you don't use it in the water, if your budget can stand it.

XP would probably sell twenty 6" or 5x9" elliptical coils for every one of these sold. Hell, maybe 50 or more small coils to each two box unit.

Yep thought it would be a 2 box. Wish it were a PI though.

I agree phrunt. I also have no use for it here, but I like the direction they went as far as compatibility with the D2.

So that's it and that's all? Or will there be more to come? At any rate I'm glad that I held on to my deus 1 with the HF eliptical and the Nox 800 wit the COILTEK 10X5!

Anyone looking at starting out on a budget under $500, I think there are only two detectors to consider now. The $499 Nokta Legend (multifrequency) or the $269 Minelab Xterra Pro (selectable single frequency). Both are fully submersible and incredible values. There is little reason to consider anything else under $500 that I can think of. If even $269 is a stretch for anyone, I'd say save you money until you can get the $269, as getting anything less than an Xterra Pro, even for less money, is really a not a good value at this point. Just my opinion.

Extrem Hunter 2 coil fmf

ML should have put a 0.0001 scale into the 6000 box, as a standard accessory...😁 GC

I remember my balance scales in college chemistry. You had to weigh the copper wire and the sulphur before you heated then together and then weigh the product.

My grandmother used to be a hypnotist, and was able to help a lot of people remember where they had placed some items. That is the only suggestion that I have and it does work if you want it to. Good luck.

I can beat that (as posted before). 2 inch down, was a clear signal and noticeable, but machine run full bore and very slow coil swing. 😉

Bandido II µmax is my favourite. But I do find the Vaquero tone a little more easy on the ears.

@F350Platinum I went to Digstock in March and thought that I might finally get a chance to find something Civil War related, but no luck unfortunately. So when I flipped my plug over and saw the U, I was a bit stunned and thought it was a buckle until I cleaned it up. It’s been a good couple weeks, we’ve also pulled an 1865 2 cent piece and a 1833 Large Cent. The D2 has really stepped up recently.

@GhostMiner My two cents: Steve regretted his comments made in the heat of the moment and apologized (several times). I would hope you could accept his apology, move on from your hurt feelings and fire up your writing juices to continue with your story. You have a large number of readers waiting for the next chapter.

Yes, confirm that we need a little elliptical..

I have a Detech Arrow on my MXT Pro and I love it! It also runs flawlessly on my V3i in SMF mode… The coverage is amazing, especially when running 3-frequencies.

Hi @Joe Beechnut OBN thank you for your story. I think in my case, it's a similar story. I have hidden it somewhere else very quickly because I was in a hurry. In the "classic" places I was not aware to find it. If there is no device available, I think I need to start with a very systematic approach and check room by room. This will take ages 😒

I think the probability of this option is very little because there would be a lot of other things that, I guess a thief would take with him. Furthermore, in the house, we have a dog. No one was aware of the hidden jewelry. That's exactly my problem 😅

That is a very unique find. At that time being a Mason could spare your life.

Welcome from Rome Ga!

The first batch of 10 Manticores all sold out in NZ I was one of them, the second batch struggled to sell from what I have seen as they just sat in stock and demand here certainly is nothing like it was for the initial Nox release. Since the first batch there has been no lists and dealers have had stock sitting there. I can't see the Manticore being their best selling detector like the Nox was, If they are trying to say demand for the Manticore is the highest in Minelab's history I would assume that's another lie like their statement about the Manticore having better more stable Target ID's than the Nox which is still on their website even though it's widely acknowledged it does not. Saying things like that though is intended to help sales, if people believe its the best selling detector and selling like hot cakes it makes other people want one too. They have never cared about cols, they're always last on the to-do list. It's all about money and to get the most money they want to sell the most detectors so lets pump out so many new models of VLF that our contracted factories don't have time to make Manticore coils as they're too busy making X-Terra and Nox coils to go in with detectors. It's a management decision like all bad decisions out of Minelab, the buck always stops at the top. It's fine for them, they can sell their detectors with limited accessories and gain more and more disgruntled customers and one day it will come back to bite them when customers just get so sick of it they move on to other brands even if they like their detectors and other brands are coming in with great products now that either are competitive with or in some cases exceed Minelab's products so it's only a matter of time. I would think if Minelab personally can't provide us coils for our flagship detectors, let someone else do it too, Detech would make fantastic Manticore coils, I would be so happy with my Manticore purchase if I could run Detech coils on it, let Coiltek pump out their coils too, they seem to be able to get coils to market quickly as demonstrated with the GPX 6000, once they were "allowed" to make coils they had them to market rapidly in all 3 sizes at once. I think Minelab's a bit too big for their boots.