Cal_Cobra

Congrats on the gold coin, welcome to the club 😁

Nice hunt, congrats on the seated! Shame that ground is so hard on the coins.

Inline pinpointer as discussed on another Legend thread here. A closed loop elliptical DD coil. Ground mineralization meter One thing that Minelad did was make an updater that was also supposed to be able to be used to create your custom programs as well. A bug free, more USB friendly updater/program customization application would be terrific!

Great hunt, a little bit of everything! The lock is cool, very early combo lock. Might be able to find the patent.

What was your audio setup? Tone breaks?

Nice job, that's a great find and likely paid for a few Legends right out of the gate 👍

It's definitely an entirely different ballgame for sure. I've heard folks say that detecting for natural gold is the most difficult sector of metal detecting, and it's common to get skunked. Still, odds stacked against me, it would still be worth the experience to give it a try one of these days. Not sure I need a PI though haha Maybe when they finally make a discriminating PI I'll get one and I can use it for gold and relics 🙂

Pictures like that make me want to switch from relic hunting to prospecting! Never had tried gold detecting, one of these days I'll like to give it a try with the EQX800.

We'll there's this 🤔

Nice work! I used to average one SLQ a year, but the past few years I haven't bagged a single one.

Love the one piece buttons!! That little cannon is likely a functional toy cannon. The wheels were probably metal and may still be there some place, but the cannon carriage was likely made from wood.

That's a great find! All the relic hunters in California are looking for those and you find one in Australia, nice job!

Exactly, except in this case it would be wireless. The original SunRay probes were attached to the coil wire on the detector via a breakout box with a toggle switch that could switch between the detector coil and the inline probe.

Hi Dilek, SunRay made a pinpointer probe that went inline with the coil. The detectors coil wires attached to a breakout box, and the operator would flip a switch on the box that would toggle between the detectors coil and the pinpointer probe, which is effectively a small coil. This inline probe would operate just like a detector coil, any settings on the detector would also apply to the pinpointer probe. For example, the audio from the detector, so if you're running the probe in the hole to locate the target, the pinpointer would give iron tones on nails and other iron in the hole, but say there's a silver coin in the hole, the detector would sound off on it producing a high tone as appropriate and the corresponding target ID on the display screen. This makes it a lot easier to locate and retrieve the desired target versus iron and other potential junk in the hole. SunRay probes were immensely popular, and still command a high price in the used market for the Minelab Explorer, Etrac, etc. detectors. A probe that had this capability would be a HUGE hit, and it would be a great competitive differentiator as no other vendor is currently building a wireless inline probe. Happy to discuss it via phone if you want more insight.

It's totally doable, and IMHO it would be a HUGE hit (not to mention an awesome competitive differentiator) 👍

Nice digs!! I like the early U.S. Great Seal coat button, been after one of those for a while but no dice yet. Sounded like a LOT of EMI, I assume your out in the sticks?

All good points Chase. The great thing about the folks at Nokta Makro is that they listen to their customers, if we can think outside the box to help them innovate, they may just build it 👍 What I wouldn't give for a wireless inline probe that functions like a SunRay probe on the Legend [or EQX] 😁

I've had SunRay probes before when I had my Etrac and later F75 (was a bit of a failure on the F75 IMHO). Where the SunRay probes shine is on the machines with good audio intel like the Minelab FBS machines. Yes the SunRay probes required motion in the presence of the target to work, but I don't think most folks were as concerned about looking at a TID# as much as they were focused on the tones. You could make it a static non-motion AM metal probe (like a standard hand held pinpointer), but that was dependent on the metal detector and switching to an static AM mode (which was super useful in some scenarios like trying to dig a target out of heavy roots where movement of the probe may be limited). The SunRay probes were in effect a small inline coil, nothing magic about them, but they were great on the right machine.

So essentially you just get the pinpointer beeping through the headphones, but it's in AM mode not utilizing the detector then right? If it was inline like a Sunray probe that would be a home run.

A pinpointer that links to the Legend is in the works 👍 I assume this means a wireless inline probe that links to the Legend, basically working like a Sunray wired probe?

That echo's my EQX800 experience as well. I also had great luck with the Nokta Makro machines, taking them to sites I'd thought I'd beat to death with my F75, only to discover that although the F75 wasn't making new finds at my hard hunted sites, that it had barely scratched the surface at many of them. The NM and EQX800 did indeed bring many old "worked out" sites back to life to varying degrees. My very first deep silver seeker was a Fisher CZ-70 Pro, supposed to be Fisher's "digital" answer to the [then] new Explorer series.

In my personal experience, for the accessory coils that would generate the utmost demand, this is your TRI-FECTA!! Waterproof DD Search Coil - 26x14 cm / 10"x5.5" Waterproof DD or Concentric Search Coil - 19x10 cm / 7.5"x4" Either a 7" or 9" Round Concentric: With these three coils, relic hunters, gold prospectors, jewelry hunters, and coil shooters alike will rejoice with a formidable selection of tools for the tasks at hand afforded by all of the well thought out detecting modes built into the Legend! Build them and they will come 🙂 PS - and some big coils for the go big or go home crowd, you know who you are! I think you have that already covered or in the works though 👍

I grew up in Lakeport, mom worked for 25+ years in Ukiah and Redwood Valley in the wine industry. Was always over in the Ukiah area for one thing or another. Only got into detecting about 15 years or so years ago though.

Thanks for the report Jeff. Hope your Mom's doing better!

I grew up near Ukiah California.