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I've been a PI guy for most of the past 10 years when detecting on the beach. Yesterday, I went down to the beach not expecting much but wanted to test some new headphones anyway. I started off with my beloved TDI Beach Hunter but late in the day came across a section of wet sand with lots of targets. However, a vast majority of them were trash so I decided to break out my new Manticore. Prior to this I had only used the Manticore in a couple of parks and some back bay areas. I wasn't sure how well the Manticore could handle the black sand on several of my local beaches. The wet sand at this particular beach was moderately mineralized so I was a little skeptical as to how the Manticore would do. The mode I was using was Beach Low Conductors and I believe that the Sensitivity was around 25. At first, the detector was chattering quite a bit and I could hear quite a few ferris targets as I swept the coil. But then, a clearly repeatable "high" tone turned out to be a coin followed by another and another. The black sand was having an effect on the detector, for sure, but I was still scooping out good targets at surprising depth and getting pretty accurate target ID's as well. Besides coins I was finding silver, including a Tiffany key chain, and several lead fishing weights. I did find trash as well but nothing like I was before with my pulse machine. I might have found gold if it wasn't for the incoming tide but I did get a small gold pendant earlier in the day with the TDIBH. I wound up with 24 quarters, 28 nickels and 49 dimes. The 28 nickels was as surprising to me as the number of dimes and I don't know how much credit to give the Manticore. Maybe being in Beach Low Conductor mode was a factor? Most of the nickels were reading about 26 on the TID scale. This was one of the most memorable and fun hunts I have had. It's a minuscule sample size but very encouraging for the future. I never warmed up to the Nox 800 on the wet sand but I think the Manticore does the things that I wanted the Nox to do.

Two hunts, two 18K rings-this could become habit forming!!! It is hallmarked 18K and 14K. The yellow gold test 18K and I assume the white inlay is 14K as well as the sizer that is soldered on the inside. The inside of the rings is nice and smooth, but the outside has clear signs of being in an active sand movement area of the beach. I just thought that this one was interesting enough to post. It also rang up a 53 on the Manticore (15 X 12 inch coil). It was one of 11 rings yesterday. Three silvers, one titanium and the rest junkers.

Three days worth of digging from a site that had a very early fur trade era habitatation and continued through the gold rush until probably the 1870's? And was again occupied in the 1920's and 30's and was then heavily polluted with an enormous amount of modern trash and iron.I didn't see any reason to post photos all of the junk. The two earlier buttons. This super tiny one has a clear glass with what appears to be a silver floral design underneath? I was a little disappointed with this second button as I thought it was military.Even so it turned out to be a pretty cool pictorial of what I'm guessing to be a duck hunting scene? Blow up below. One and only coin of the dig...1924 Buff. You all know by now that I am a bit of an iron head.I feel that the bullet mould is worth showing off with a few other pretty cool pieces also. The lead was dug real close to the mould but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are connected they could be from different time periods? I like the horse bit. I'm unsure about the square piece a buggy step or maybe a boot jack? And a wagon hub wrench? The center piece in the photo below looks like some sort of puller? Maybe just a tap? A small portion of yesterdays trash.

What I like about Nugget Shooter Journals is even though he's a dealer, he's not spending his time on the videos trying to peddle his wares or promote products he sells. He genuinely just goes out looking for gold and showing his failures more often than not, the man finds as many pellets as I do 🙂 He's done some informative videos from time to time on equipment too.

I haven't been on here in a little while. I got talked into leaving Meadview and Gold Basin for Franconia Wash area by Havasu City. This area is far worse off than Gold Basin and Meadview for hitting on gold. My first week there was a solid skunk. Just 50 cal. and 30 cal. bullets. I had a trainee come down for some training and I took him out to show him what I do at times to get onto gold. I led him out into an area that was heavy on my mind every day when I got back to camp and we stopped to give an area a swing. My hunch payed off as I found us a patch of nuggets. Video of that hunt will be in the works a few weeks away. We went back the next day and only one nugget was found a little ways away from the patch. The next day after we hit a wider area and couldn't get onto any other gold and then I went up a short feeder wash and found another patch with my Gpx5000. I had my trainee (Gold Dozer) come in with his 6000 and showed him how I work a spot like that with a dig and detect operation. I had pulled 3 nuggets out of this wash and he got 2 nuggets. It was a great time. We had three F-35's fly over us at very low altitude and that was way cool. The next day an F-18 Hornet flew over at very low altitude for another spectacular show of fighter jets. My time here is done and tomorrow morning I am pulling out and heading down to Quartzite to detect there until the Gold Show. I will have a table at the show again and possibly will be sharing a booth with Dr. Eric Melchiorre - Geologist, again. We will see what gold I can squeak out of the ground there. Jan 1, just before we headed out for Gold Dozers second day of training, I had gotten a call that my father had passed away at 10:27 that morning. It was not good news right before training. If anyone is down in Quartzite and wants to say hello at the Gold Show or before get ahold of me. It was good to get out and do some detecting with BMC as well. He is in the picture with Goldie the Roadrunner.

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Steve, The best video content would be on the type of ground your Audience would swing for Nuggets on. As we know, different Countries face Metal Detecting Obstacles that another Country affects aren’t as severe. Australia Metal Detector settings differ from American Goldfield settings. What’s the best settings Nenad or Jonathan use in Australia soils are not optimal on my Nugget Grounds. I watch a lot the Prospecting videos on YouTube they beat re-runs of I Love Lucy!

August 13 2002 Part One Washing Tailings We weighed up the gold this morning. From the 425 yards of washed gravel we got 2.5 ounces of gold. We were disappointed. As mining goes. It wasn’t a total disaster but Jacob and I were hoping for much more. Jacob just shook his head and said it is what it is and we need to keep washing gravel. He encouraged me by his thinking that we might very well hit a sweet spot in those tailings. Also, if we dug far enough in there might be some virgin ground hidden in there. Conor and Bill headed back up to the Hidden Mine and Jacob and I got to washing gravel. The one nice thing about working in this lower area is the mining is relatively easy compared to some of our locations. The creek is close and the digging is not hard. The gravels are fairly loose. We have been setting a steady pace and the trommel has been churning along without any issues. Jacob did make a few adjustments on the sluice angle before we started up in order to capture more of the fine gold down here. I haven’t seen any coarse gold to speak of. We broke for lunch and Conor and Bill came down as well. They weren’t having any luck. They did turn up some bits and scraps of metal here and there. All junk. Conor was still rambling on about a buried casket of gold. It was all I could do but I kept my mouth shut. After all, he was Jacob’s nephew and Jed’s son but I couldn’t bring myself to like him. He was cocky and brash. Maybe I wouldn’t have liked Jed either, who knows? TO BE CONTINUED ..................

The key here is that it is your responsibility to know the status of the ground you are on. Ignorance for any reason is not an excuse, otherwise lots of people would be proactively ignorant. I suspect some people throw corner posts on a hole just so they can say they did not see them. Penalties incurred can be facing charges for mineral trespass, and in Alaska at least looking down the wrong end of a 12ga shotgun. There are some people out in the bush you don’t want to get sideways of. On the flip side, I know of people that bluff people off by basically squatting on a location and running people off telling them it is their claim, when in fact it is not. Knowledge is the only solution, and that means learning how to visit the local recording office to pull up claims information. In general online information is only good to the quarter section and often runs late, so the recording office is your best bet for staying out of uncomfortable situations. I’ll be making a visit to mine very soon.

Not if she was detecting.

Great post Reese. This was a remarkable trip for me. Always wanting to get more field time and learn as much as I can. Truly enjoyed your and BMc's company. Learned a lot from the both of you and look forward to having our paths cross again in the future. This is a trip I will remember and I was pretty excited to see you post about it. It was quite unfortunate with the passing of your father. I wish you the best in that endeavor. I have yet to experience that myself and often think of how I may react when that day comes. In my experience finding gold isn't easy and it does take work. The fact that we found some gold is a plus. The picture below is what my take was from the first patch we found. Nice chunky gold by my standards. 1.4 grams in one day, my personal best to date.

Deep mode in general or low conductor...swear I was pulling coins out almost as deep as my tdi pro...this was at Pismo last Summer. I was using both machines one one day and the other the next... In Santa Cruz last year after the storms I got into a big patch...couple other guys detecting far off were eyeballing for a long time then finally they had to come investigate...at that time nobody else really had a Manticore as there were few out...It is for sure a salt water beach machine in the least of things... strick

As a retired geologist I'd say that two toes has the best explanations of stream/river hydrology and associated where to detect.

I not big on a lot of hype, but love the comparison testing side of performance detectors and tips on settings, so it's testing side; Phasetech Nenad Brass Medic Benny Prospecting Complete Prospecting Smithsgold/TwoToes -- Outback Gold Fever -- Bill Southern, fun to watch their adventures.

Went back out to a spot where I dug a nice 1/2 oz nugget last year , had to go home a couple days after so never got to finish the dig anyway got back out today and dug up the rest of the rock and dirt a got another 6.25 grams out of the hole the small speci piece on the right came from a spot further down the wash. so all in all 7.87 grams today , a good day out in the desert today.

Good caution, especially for water and beach hunters. Sinclair posted about this earlier. He uses a sticker cut from a roll to cover the speaker grille to prevent this. Even though I haven’t started water hunting, I have started doing the same thing since I see a lot of black on the beaches that I hunt. I bought a roll of clear T-rex repair tape on Amazon for about $14 and cut a swatch to cover the grille holes and the door edges. So far so good.

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Really depends how and where you're hunting. I use the WSAII as a receiver with Audio adapter and cabled sports headphones. I am used to those heaphones for years - for me the perfect balance between noise reduction and still being able to hear what's going on around me. I hunt throughout the winter - all the other headphones are no option for me, because they're not comfortable together with a hat and headlamp. Sadly they don't get produced anymore and I didn't find any substitution.. so I bought 3 pairs from all over the world for bad times .. 😄

The normal popular sizes like 17" round give little benefit on the 6000 to justify the extra size and weight, you have to go to extremely large sizes to give the GPZ a run for its money even though it's on a DOD coil and not a big round mono. The 19" GPZ coil even gives the 30x30 GPX 6000 coil a run for its money. Then when you factor in the ground the 6000 is going to struggle with those very large coils. The 6000 coils do not work well on the 5000. You've been very busy Chet, I do like the idea of your 6" round GPX 6000 coil. I guess your focus is now on making yourself a big GPZ coil for your big deep gold hunting goals. Thanks for your results.

GPX 5000, GPX 6000, GPZ 7000, Coil Air Tests In pursuit of large gold I have experimented with winding some test coils and did some air testing. Results are with my poor hearing and varying EMI conditions. But the measurements work for my personal comparison testing. I selected to use a USA $50 dollar 99% gold coin and a 4 inch square flat aluminum sheet that was cut from the side of a soda can as test targets. They are much easier targets than large gold nuggets but I wanted solid consistent targets for comparison purposes. The measurements for the GPZ -34”x 17” are preliminary and will be finalized in Nevada this spring. I am working on a new GPZ 7000 coil and a new GPX 6000 coil. Since Litz wire is expensive it is reused for the next brainstorm that wakes me up.LOL Detector and Coil Description Air test in inches 1oz gold coin Aluminum 4” sq GPZ 7000 Tests GPZ-34" x 17" EMI cancel mode OFF, 3lbs To be tested in Nevada this spring GPZ-35" x 17" in EMI cancel mode 24 40 GPZ-19 Minelab DOD 25 45 GPZ-14 Minelab DOD 20 36 GPX 6000 Tests 30" x 30" = 34"RND 1.86mm flat spiral Litz wire 27 42 24" x 24"= 27"RND 1.86mm flat spiral Litz wire 27 37 23" RND 2.3 mm 14T 3 vertical rows Litz wire 26 36 17.5" RND 2mm Litz, spiral flat wound ID 14" 22 36 17" RND Vertical Wound 2mm Litz wire 21 34 17" x 13" Minelab GPX 6000 coil 18 36 11" Minelab GPX 6000 17 32 14" Minelab GPX 6000 DD Coil 14 22 6" GPX 6000 DIY flat spiral close wound 11 21 GPX 5000 Not modified 39" RND Flat Spiral Wound, spaced 0.5” 23 36 25" Nugget Finder mono coil 22 38 27"x27" Flat Spiral Wound, spaced 0.4" 20 34 18" Minelab mono 19 34 24" x 24" flat spiral close wound 19 30 30" x 30" flat sq spiral close wound 17 32 17" Vertical Wound 2mm Litz wire 16 30 34" x 17" figure 8, 13t, 1.8mm litz wire 15 26 GPX 6000 17" x 13" Minelab mono using GPX 5000 14 26

There is nothing current that I think has significant content. Dan Hurd occasionally says something useful, but his time is past. He was great while he was teaching high school, but since then, his material is very weak. Two Toes was full of good info early on, but now he is only rarely informative. I'll watch these guy only because there is nothing else I want to watch. The other channels rarely have anything to say, and they spend lots of time saying it. If anyone out there wants to publish something, I strongly advise that you write yourself a script. Don't dither, don't babble, and don't follow distractions. Steve, if you wan't to try publishing a youtube channel, I'd look forward to watching it.

I'm very confident in saying the Manticore is as deep as my GP3500 in white beach sands. I'll put this to the test soon. The Manticore with 15"x12" DD v GP3500 with 14" DD coil is going to be very interesting indeed. The test will be my 18K wedding band buried in a length of PVC water pipe....probably in damp beach sand.

I've had both the XL and the Quest ones. I liked the Quest ones the best. The XLs are comfortable but the audio sounds scratchy to me through them.

Break for bedrock, two toes, nugget shooter journals, pioneer Pauly, ask jeff Williams, and chris ralph. I've also seen a handful of garrett videos, with a guy named Steve, who seems to know a thing or two. Some are more educational than others, but they all give you the fever. None of them claim it's easy to find gold, so they are at least honest about that.

Nice hunt and a "25" for the sensitivity is most impressive, especially on any type of black sand beach. My sensitivity is good to around 22 and that's on white sand beaches. I've still yet to do my beach depth tests between the Manticore and GP3500.....too darn hot at the moment.

I'm not a big video watcher, I do enjoy the odd NuggetShooter (Bill Southern) video. NUGGET SHOOTER JOURNALS - YouTube

Two Toes and Bill Southern

The best thing to do is have a lat/long on the notice on one of your claim corners with boundaries and distances measured out from this point, so you can prove where the boundaries were if someone takes or moves the corner markers. Problem solved legally by basically having it surveyed on map. This well also help the new locator in avoiding your claim.

🥶I’ve experienced winters like that in many different places of the world. That’s why I live in Florida. 😊

I used the puck before the XL II became available. As soon as the XL II hit the market I bought 2 sets(one for each of my Deus IIs) and never looked back. Now keep in mind 99% of my hunting is on a noisy beach....wind, surf, people etc. The full cover of the ears is a very functional and comfortable set of headphones. They turn on an off with the remote and the tone quality is really excellent. I've used nothing else since I bought these. Just the view from my foxhole....

Here we go! 🥳 We had a big rain yesterday while the rest of the Northeast got a big snowstorm. The last few years we have had mild winters here, I'm hoping the trend continues. Yesterday I rolled my brand new remote and one pair of WSA II headphones back to V0.71 to prepare for this test, I ended up using my old Relic Reaper program that was very successful on V0.71. I put it on the older remote that is on V2, it was difficult because I had to turn off any parameter that didn't exist previously like Audio Filter and Offset Full tones, I set them to 0, so the program was as close to the same as it could be. My methodology was fairly simple, I grid searched a portion of the field out in front of my house. My first pass was with V2, I flagged every target that produced a tone other than mostly iron and recorded the IDs. I then went back with the other remote and a second pair of headphones on V0.71, digging each target and noting its ID and depth. The soil in this field, like nearly every other permission I have, has no mineralization. There is little sense in telling anyone what my settings were, it was my old successful relic program based on General, today I needed moisture subtraction especially because it rained yesterday and the field was muddy. I will give up a couple settings however, Sensitivity was at 98 and Reactivity was 0. Maybe extremes for some places but here the machine runs quiet, both remotes ground balanced to 78. There is no EMI. I flagged 9 targets, and got tired of it. I figure that was a pretty decent sample and it wasn't getting any earlier in the day, rain storms passed by frequently. Ok, here's the spreadsheet of results, and then I'll give my impressions. Here's the stuff I dug: All junk at least to me. Tack studs are everywhere, as are percussion primers, shotgun shells, lead and can slaw. I know how old this area is. 🤣 My post in another thread mentioned that Id be looking for ID changes, increased sensitivity overall, and bump sensitivity. Previously I tested my new unit and my old unit with the same V2 program, so I'm confident that no hardware was changed perceptibly, and I used the 13" coil both times on the same shaft made by SteveG, just swapped the remote. ID CHANGES ID changes can be seen above, IDs are definitely tighter on V2. The scale is different, observations of myself and others here are that some coin IDs changed, but for this I noticed/noted a difference overall. It's right there in the table. 🙂 ID is a hard thing to nail down, with V0.71 there were way more unstable spreads, I took the spread that was repeatable - what any detectorist would use to decide whether to dig or not. INCREASED SENSITIVITY I'm very sure sensitivity was increased across all programs, again the table reflects weak and unstable ID's. Sometimes the target at the same sensitivity (98) was strong with V2 and not with V0.71. the next observation takes this a step further: BUMP SENSITIVITY The last thing I noticed between the two versions is a definite increase in bump sensitivity. I'm detecting in corn stalks. Under V0.71 it was barely perceptible, I found today I could hit the ground and stalks, and barely/rarely hear bump tones, either high or low. Under V2 bump sensitivity is much greater. At Sensitivity 98 which is what I used to use all the time here, you'd be like "well, duh", but it's there all the way down to 87 which is about as low as I'll go. CONCLUSION I am really glad I have borne the slings and arrows of upgrading to V2. With the addition of High Square Audio, Audio Filter and Offset Full tones, Frequency limiting, expanded range on Audio Response and other improvements, there is no reason for me to hold onto the past or my old programs for that matter. The bump sensitivity may be a concern to others, but with increased overall sensitivity and tighter ID's I'm sure it can be worked around. I don't bury coins in my yard, so someone else will have to bear the depth mantle. The D2 has always hit stuff as deep as a VLF will go. These are live objective results in a live environment - my environment. Take this report for what it's worth to you. 🙂 What did I get for all this work? When setting up my grid flags I dug this snappy button: Cleaned up: HTH, GL, HH 🍀

I like Victorian Gold Hunters and Detrackozi both are long term prospectors and know the history, geology and detectors. There are some others mentioned here that are what I consider commercial YouTubers and while they may have a big following don’t know one end of a detector from the other. You’ll often find the best channels don’t have a big following- they just present stuff in a non-commercial form.

Hi Byrd. The Score models have the same hardware as the Legend. They have a little bit of a different look, and less features / settings. They were introduced due to the demand for a simplified Legend.

Good subject. I have to agree that Jonathan Porter, then Chris Ralph, Phasetech Nenad are my top 3 but some others mentioned on this page are worth watching also.

Me 2 😂 Sometimes I have literally month, where I don't even find a junker! (even though I'm 2-3 times on the beach per week) Nice one! I can imagine, that the outside is intended to look "hammered".

Two Toes, Gold Seeker Adventures and I Brake For Bedrock regularly, but watch others that too that look interesting.

You Cali guys are killing me! Man......I wish I was there for a week or two. Nice job, interesting ring with the two marks. And heavy!

There's a big difference between informative or instructional... and entertaining to watch. Not many of the US Youtube sites are 'entertaining per se. Pioneer Pauly and Dan Hurd I watch, mainly for the scenery (and Pauly's ludicrous sense of humor) but they are Canadian of course. Bill Southern can be informative, so he's worth a watch. Mount Baker mining is also instructional, but for mining info rather than actual prospecting. The Aussie ones to watch are: Outback gold fever Vo-gus prospecting West Oz Adventures Savage Prospecting Buckshot Prospector (absolute lunatic lol) Rob Parsons Tassie Boys Prospecting Gold Magnet JB Heli-Prospecting

We had absolutely no wind, so it has been surprisingly comfortable to hunt. Wind is key at those low temperatures. We went to a nearby beach, which has been hunted to death in the summer. So I played a little bit with the sensitivity. Settled in at 98 and the machine ran dead quiet at that beach! No jewelry this time, interestingly very few old currency coins, but quite a lot crusty current coins 🤔 10,70€, 2,50DM and two far gone zinc pre WW2 coins. Not too bad! After 2h we decided to cancel - the sand got too frozen.

An 1800’s mariners/seafarers brass picture button? Might be worth some further research. Amazing! Does it appear the person in the rear has an oar with a second person seated forward? The oarsman seems to be enjoying their undersea voyage. The fish a grouper, another sea lion or the oarsman’s knee? Is the figure up forward a female reaching towards another sea lion swimming past the bow? Or is she rescuing a drowning sailor entangled in kelp? Poseidon/Neptune cruising through a kelp bed? Any sign of a trident? Leucothea & Palaemon, according to The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch, both held power to save from shipwreck and were invoked by sailors; jurisdiction of the ports & shores. Leucothea (Ino in the Odyssey) a Greek sea goddess who saved Odysseus from drowning when his raft was shattered. Her murdered son Melicertes became the Greek sea god Palaemon (Portunus to the Romans).

....or deeper 👍

Nugget Shooter Journals, Two Toes and I Brake for Bedrock. The Australian Vids are great, but I can relate to the Southwest and the Sierras plus they are instructional.

The modded 5000 is a no brainer, I reckon, if you want to specialise in big deep gold. The proof is right there. Hands down the best hit rate. Many would have that 18" NF too. So put it to use. No real surprise that the 6000 struggled. Yes, X coil CC's on the 7000 would have to be his next demo. That would be very interesting. D4G

My original purchase was with the WS6 Master mounted on the sports-like over-the-ear mount. I very soon thereafter opted to purchase the XL headphones. My detecting has mostly been on the beach where I find myself almost always using the XL headphones because of the noise reduction (wind, waves, people) resulting in much better audio. I find them very comfortable for at least a couple of hours at a time. Yes they do get sweaty on the hot sunny days but any full-cup headphone will. So I see it as a miner tradeoff (IMO) for the much better audio performance. They are also perfectly integrated with the remotes, turning on and off with the controller. I really find them perfectly suited to my detecting style.

You can get a figure 8 winding to run on any detector. The problem with most is that you will have a reverse polarity front to rear - the tones will literally flip with the winding. You see it in various Bigfoot coils made for the XLT and MXT and other machines. Even with PI detectors running the old Coiltek Salt Compensation coils, which were simply figure 8 windings. Not only great on salt but very near immune to EMI and renamed later to reflect that. The White's DFX was unique in that it was built with Bigfoot in mind and so had built in compensation for the polarity change. An advanced coil builder could probably put a chip in the coil that would do the adjustment in the coil instead of in the detector. The problem is making a VLF figure 8 is a touchy procedure and DeTech went DD just because it is easy to make them.

Beautiful. Conditions on the coast seem to be working in your favor. 🙂

Not so sure about my ability to be too technical 😊 but in essence conductive signals are salt signals created by moisture in the ground. Even in the desert there is sub soil moisture and particularly in goldfields because gold weathering from host rock involves a lot of clays being formed. The rocks on the land contain minerals, those minerals get absorbed by water after rain, the water then flows to the sea and evaporates leaving the minerals behind, that is why the earths oceans are salty. During rain events in the goldfields the weathered country also has concentrations of minerals on the surface of the ground this is due to oxidation just like rust on your car, when those concentrated minerals get damp the conductive signal increases dramatically and in some instances to the point that a metal detector is unusable or a coil that can handle conductive signals has to be used (like the DD coil supplied with the GPX6000). When conductive signals are present the response they create masks or hides edge of detection deep signals, the detector also becomes very swing speed dependant so a slow Motion filter becomes problematic (called recovery on a lot of coin machines), the GPZ 7000 has a Motion filter called Ground Smoothing when applied you can hear the threshold becoming more erratic and unstable but depth is lost so I never use it and instead focus on my coil control. Conductive signals are made worse by larger coils, this is because the conductive signal is seen from a very long way away from the coil. In wet conditions you can see this for yourself by lifting/raising the coil from ground height to above your waist, you will hear a loud long drawn out moaning sound as the coil is moved through an arc. So a smaller coil is recommended when the ground is damp which does not help ground coverage when patch hunting in wide open spaces. The other issue is damp mineralised clays, those can have a complicated effect on a metal detector, especially a highly sensitive machine like the GPX 6000, or GPZ 7000. They produce a combination of conductive signals and another effect on micro magnetic particles in the soils which are impossible to ground balance out, these signals can sound very target like both sharp and shallow sounding and also broad and edge of detection deep sounding. The wetter the ground the worse they are. A key to identifying these is coil control and sweep speed. There are a few immutable things about a motion detector, if using a consistent range of motion relative to the depth of a target (that’s the amount of distance the coil needs to be swept relative to the ‘lead in’ and ‘tail out’ positions of a target, basically from the point the threshold starts to change from the left to right and the other point going back the other way from right to left), then two factors have a bearing on a “real” target over a ground generated one. One is the height of the coil relative to target, in other words the closer you get to a target the louder it should get (very dependant on ground effect (for another discussion another day)) and the speed of the sweep. If the range of motion is maintained but the sweep speed is halved then theoretically the target response should effectively double. A conductive target like response will not do this and will get quieter not louder. In other words, in damp conditions slow down. The reason we move the coil is because the detectors are motion detectors (coil needs to move relative to the target to generate a response), the coil movement is all about the receive aspect not the transmit, moving the coil allows you to investigate any weak fields created by a target, the receive coil of the detector needs to move through the field created by the target, these fields will be thousands of times weaker than the transmit so require careful coil control to manifest properly. Hence why it’s so important to have good coil control, being prepared to vary and control the sweep speed and maintain a good range of motion when investigating edge of detection targets. Accurate ground balance, consistent coil height, good range of Motion and constantly tweaking the swing speed are all vital skills for working successfully with a metal detector, especially in conductive areas. You get all these things into alignment and deep targets jump out at you. Hope this helps JP

There is no reason why a pdf upload should not work so you might want to try again George. Interesting detector.

I would go for the XL phones. I only have my Deus2 for a few weeks now but those headphones are fantastic.

I love the Avantree Torus and would purchase Avantree Bone Conduction phones if they were available with the same Torus bluetooth receiver.