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I still carry my large handled pick. I use it as a cane at times , at times I hook it around a branch of a tree or bush to get me up. I do have to admit it's heavy and my shoulders feel it. I usually swing it over my shoulder and keep it there while swinging detector with my right arm, at times I drag the darn thing when the shoulder starts to ache. I tend to put on a back pack and wander far from my vehicle so you got to have a longer handle pick for the 2 to 3 foot holes you can end up digging using PI detectors. If your not digging the deep ones you never know what your missing.

Awesome, will do..thanks!

Interesting, thanks for reducing my learning curve. I am going to weld up some steel rods and make some probes and give it a go.

I wish I knew how to locate them. Seems like bottles are buried in these areas, I don't have the experience digging them up . I youtubed some channels and they use like probes. Those fellas are pretty good at it.

Thanks JCR, the area is riddled with old placer camps. The key is to find the flat spots and just dig in all metal in order to find them. I'll be going back that's for sure. Need to get the smaller coil for trashy areas, think it's the sp24 coil for simplex machines.

Thought I would take my Nokta Ultra out in between the rains here in California for a short hunt. I have to say the more I use it the better I like it. Haven't had much luck on gold lately so relics or whatever comes out of the ground is fine with me. Found 3 buttons, the small anchor button is the better of the 3, chinese coin, and perhaps a hand forged crevice tool

So it's best suitable for smaller mono coils, perhaps sdc 2000 challenge Nenad?

As a former electrician I never wore jewelery or my ring do to safety concerns around electricityand being hung up by a finger on a ladder . Got used to it so for me it's no problem. But yes we all have days like that. 😂

Great book and account of a Belgium French man who traveled from France to California after coming ashore in Monterey. From there he joined a company of men and shares resources to trek by foot from Monterey to Mariposa. Great read especially for me as I live in Mariposa where he prospered and mined gold. His accounts of the founding of Yosemite, the tribes of the region and general conditions of that time. One of my top 3 books I have read about the gold rush.

Nice find , great spot to be coming back to.

Thanks guys, it's just that coins just are not found in quantity in the gold fields, so when they pop up for me at least it's the find of my day. You just never know what you'll dig out.

Rain in California is always a good thing, but is it when you plan on hitting your favorite detecting spots. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday called for 80% rain and I had plans...so I found a window where it didn't pour..and started swinging. First swing in a spot I been to perhaps 10 times..and I get a nice 77 on vdi...didn't know what to expect and out pops this nice 1839 silver dime. If this dime can just tell us it's trek west during the gold rush years of 1848 and 1849. You can imagine but I was thrilled, first swing, first target..and a 184 year old silver dime. My second unusual find was also my first branding iron find. Total surprise by it, and struggled to pick which was my favorite, the dime or the branding iron. At this moment they come out even and the stories these two could tell. Third interesting find I am not to sure what it is, perhaps one of our forum members could fanthom a guess.

Minelab sdc 2300...built like a tank, compact, turn on and go machine that sniffes out the smallest nuggets.

Awesome, those are some nice pieces 👍.

Not sure if our forum members have been updated on Bill's whereabouts lately as he hasn't posted much for a while. Bill had a devastating fire on his property is the reason. For those that are interested visit his YT channel at NUGGETSHOOTER JOURNAL. Wishing Bill well.