Cal_Cobra

Nice hunt indeed!

About 15 years ago I found a virgin scout/church camp site.  It dated to 1939, but ceased to exist by the 1960's, so it had very little modern trash.  The camp was pretty well over grown, but the first couple of trips there the guy I invited along and I had each dug 10-11 silver coins, 15-20 wheaties, and we each managed a couple of pieces of silver jewelry. 

As the non-overgrown spots dried up, we started weed whacking and moving fallen trees before each hunt, and sure enough we'd find more.  This continued for about 5-6 weeks until the site finally dried up.  By the time we were finished with the site, we'd dug over 200 silver coins (I dug about 120 of them myself), about a dozen or so pieces of silver jewelry and one gold ring.  Also about four pieces of sterling silver flatware and some junker silver plated flatware.   Because the site is a bit newer, nothing older then Mercury dimes, wheaties and Walking Liberty halves were found. 

I always wondered if the site had been just ten years older, would we have been digging Standing Liberty Quarters and Barbers instead.

I'm curious what tone settings your using while hunting in iron?  I want to use full tones BUT I'm seeing most people are using the 2-6 tone options.

That's good to know.  I've seen my iPhone affect my Equinox before, and putting it in airplane mode solves the problem (although shutting it off completely is probably better yet).  

I'll keep this in my while using the Legend!

I see the U.K. has declared a national emergency because it could hit 105F, which would be the highest temp on their recorded history. 

105F is common in many areas of the U.S. during the summer.

On 6/28/2022 at 7:20 AM, klunker said:

San Francisco. results of my research are soon to be revealed.

I dug an 1800's San Francisco dog license and sent a photo to the dog license guru just to see if he had anything on it.  His only reply was "I'll give you $150 for it!". 

Maybe I should've sold it, but I've never sold any of my finds and odds of digging another 1800's San Francisco dog license are slim to none, but ya never know I suppose.

Nice going on the Barber quarter! 

1 minute ago, phrunt said:

Depends where you live, a guy that used to use this forum Davsgold is in Western Australia at the moment for example with his GPZ, he's getting many grams a day and only doing a few hours detecting most days and will come home with many ounces for a month or two away and he's always got the possibility of a multi ounce nugget so for someone in that situation they'd be disappointed getting the smaller amounts, for me however the amount Aureous has done is a great achievement, and I wouldn't be able to do the same in the hours he's spent doing it here with my skill level and places I go to.   I think in many places to enjoy gold hunting you've got to expect you may not make a profit and you do it for the fun of it and the thrill of the finds, Australia in some areas is likely the main exception to that rule.  Coin and jewellery hunting is the one where the finds are easier, without a doubt.

Thanks for the reply Simon.  I've never gold prospected, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around what one considers successful. Everyone's after the whoppers out there, they do get found, but I guess that's mostly a bonus when it occurs for most hunters 🙂  Kind of like when we find a gold coin or rare date/mint silver coin at an old site, but plenty of other relic finds keep us content, and coming back for more. 

On 6/28/2022 at 9:39 AM, JCR said:

... I am curious if the new adjustable Iron Filter & the Stability settings effect the FerroCheck response.

I'm more curious how they'll affect depth? 🤔

Love that they added a mineralization meter!!

I'm really looking forward to this update.  I have a business trip planned in the wonderful month of August, so I'll do a side trip to one of Tom and I's remote back-pocket Spanish outpost sites.  It's been (for me) a good site, but it's getting lean.  Let's see if the Legend with the 1.08 update, and a bit of IF adjustment will open this site back up.  EVERY Nokta Makro detector I've taken to this site have opened it up with some great finds (Racer, Racer2, Impact, Multi Kruzer), I'm sure the Legend will be no different in seeing things differently then other detectors. 

Looks either pewter or iron, hard to tell from the pics although it appears that the shank shows signs of silver gilt.  I believe it's a decorative civilian button, perhaps 1830's-1850's 🤔

That's about $25/hour.  Is that good for gold detecting? Or just good for having gone over it with other detectors in the past?

Super find!!!  Welcome to the club 👍

I've been fortunate to find three in my detecting career, and the last one was with my EQX800.  It was deep and the TID was mainly pegging 36, but bouncing at times to 39.  I figured it was going to be a deep piece of iron, but it sounded so nice, and was mainly hitting 36, so I went for it. 

They probably found more in one episode then all ten seasons of Oak Island 🙂

Thanks for sharing these, definitely added to my "watch list" 👍

Nice hunt, beautiful area!

The last item (ring) is part of an old hand held candle stick like this:  

On 5/3/2022 at 3:56 PM, Bill (S. CA) said:

That's interesting, George.  A good friend of mine on another forum, Bryce Brown, and I used to playfully argue about which was better, the SE or an Explorer II with a Pro Coil.  Bryce swore his SE was better inland and at the beach while I voted for my Explorer II with the Pro Coil.  I'm assuming you had an Explorer II at one point. Ever run it with the Pro coil?

Whatever happened to Bryce?  He was an exceptionally good detectorist with an Explorer, used to enjoy reading his posts on Findmall (RIP).  

On 5/31/2022 at 11:27 AM, abenson said:

I've actually gotten to the point that I only use Park 1 for all my hunting except beaches and gold nuggets. Works for me both park hunting and relic hunting and I don't feel like I'm missing much. Used to use Field 2 relic hunting until I started comparing signals in the field between Field 2 and Park 1. Park 1 almost always gave a better tone and tighter target ID so now that's what I use most of the time.

Interesting observation.   Considering we hunt similar relic sites, I'll have to try comparing Field 2 (my go to relic mode) with Park 1 on some iffy or weak signals to see how it works out. 

During the hot as Hades month of August I'll be hitting a favorite site of mine (it's conveniently located [more or less] en route to a business conference) where the EQX800 bagged a $1 gold coin after we'd hunted the same site for a decade, as well as dozens of seated coins, Phoenix buttons, and other keepers.  I would not be surprised if there was another gold coin there, I believe there may have been a trading post at that site. 

Good hunt, nice write up! 

Love the early barrel tap, and congrats on the largie!

I believe the Shirley bit is part of a suspender clip, find them frequently at western ghost towns, although they usually say Shirley President. 

Nice dig!

I have a Navy Colt cap & ball pistol in my office, it looks similar. 

I had a nice XS2 with mods, it was great at the beach.  I'd hunt in AM mode and do the reverse disc mode to check, it was deeeep.

Nice site!  The mercs dates line up with the date on the spring, pretty cool 👍  Must be a 1916D Merc hiding out there somewhere eh?

Nice hunt!  That square thing almost looks like a mold, but for what?  Always love the mystery finds!

Nice job Simon, that large nugget's a beauty 👍

Nice work!  Looks like you got some shiny too 👍

17 hours ago, JCR said:

Everything that was mentioned for the coming update seems to be well thought out. Mid May time frame from what she said.

Hopefully they're able to adhere to the mid May release time frame, I have a week long detecting road trip in the works for the end of May, would be great to check out the new firmware then.

17 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

... If ML doesn't respond, looks like NM and XP have collectively stolen the new detector thunder buzz from ML and everyone else for 2022.

 

That is until ML announces the Equinox Pro/1000 at Detectival this fall, then the chaos starts all over again 🤠