oneguy

Not me....  Been at it for 29yrs, 2 Tesoro (sold), 3 Minelab (soon to be a 4th Minelab)...........

30 minutes ago, Aureous said:

As Geof suggests, Ground survey paint is the best and easiest. Spray a circle around your target but if you're moving away from an area and cant see the paint for bush, scrub, sticks etc then a plastic orange tent peg helps too

IMO...  I don't need to pack around or keep replacing cans?  The discs fit in my pouch without taking up space and after I find my 10 targets I just pick up the disc when I retrieve target and put it back in the pouch. Wash, rinse, repeat another 10 targets. I also found the contractor flags with the metal stems don't stick in bedrock so I had to just lay them on the ground anyways? Tent stakes will have the same problem imo....  I'll go with a disc....  jmo

Last season I started hunting with my SDC and would mark 10 targets with those construction flags, then fire up the Goldmonster, scrape off a couple inches and chase down the target with the Monster.  I found this helped me PP faster and also be able to use the discrimination on the Monster and help speed things up for the way I hunt. Wash, rinse, repeat.  I've actually lost sight of those construction flags laying on the ground a few times and wasted some precious time looking for my target marker(s).  I found these packs of 10, in many colors, heavy duty markers, 7" diameter.  Looking forward to using something I can see next season.  I went with the "passionate pink"...lol  If you mark targets before you dig check em out.....

Here's the La Oneguy current weather situation in western Montucky...... 6 degrees currently and blowing with about 4" new snow. Power out once today already, possibly again(?).  Long term forecast: Below zero tonight and it'll be quite awhile before anybody dares to leave the warmth of their shacks!

Man I was pulling for ya...but now we know!   Bummer.....

Sure looks like gold in the pic?  You're the boss and if you say it's copper then it's copper!  If it were mine and it looks in real life like it does in the pics I'd take it to your local coin dealer or jeweler and have them do a quick acid test on it....but that's me?

I've dug 7-10 burnt silver dimes and 1 silver quarter that'd been thru a fire. Some come out full sized with blisters and pitting...some come out almost paper thin, especially on the edges and some bent.  One thing they all had was pitting and blisters exactly like your "coin".  My bet is gold coin that's been thru a fire.....

Go down the the hardware store and get some Muriatic acid and soak it for a day or two.  Sure looks like a gold coin with river crud caked on.....Muriatic acid should clean it right up!  Cool find!!!

PS...looking at how pitted the "coin"(?) is makes me think it's been through or very near a fire? Gold usually doesn't get all pitted like that sitting in the ground or water.....????

1 hour ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Introduced about 1992

That was my first tector and I bought it new in '92.  Dug a lot of coins with that machine and used it exclusively for 22yrs. Sold it 2 yrs ago and it's still working fine.

2 hours ago, VicR said:

 does anyone have experience using noise cancelling headphones while detecting - especially for gold? 

I've used Seinnhauser 280 Pro (?) noise canceling phones for EVER, maybe 11-12yrs now on same set.  I used them in my coinshootin days with the Tesoro and etrac, currently use them several times a week during my drum practice.  Have not tried them for gold hunting although I did plug them into the Goldmonster to see if they worked as several folks posted problems using "off brands" of phones with the Monster?  They worked fine and silenced the external speaker on the Monster like they are supposed to. Phones come with both the 1/4" and 1/8" gold plated jack, no volume switch, very light weight.  Not familiar with their wireless phones.  I'm just basically saying I love my Seinns and you might give them a look...????  jmo

Trash pouch (please pack out your trash), pruning shears for cutting roots, extra scoop (if you loose a scoop out in the brush it can really ruin your day so have another in your rig just in case), swiss army type knife with a saw blade for BIG roots, PLASTIC vile for gold (glass will break), small crevice tool..........

Try it yourself the way it was shown to me and a bud.  Find a clean spot in your yard and toss a 12" cresent on the ground, take your coat hangars bent in an L shape and rest them against the palm of your hand and over your fore finger about 12-14" apart, holding them parallel and straight out.  Walk over your wrench and those rods will either cross over each other or spread out away from each other.  Rock gently back and forth over target and watch the rods move back and forth as you move closer or farther away.  My guess is 50% will say it don't work...50% will say I'm a believer....????

Try it yourself.......

PS....Jasong,  worked floors and some dericks on Exeter Drilling Rig #24 during '80-'82....  LaBarge, Evanston, Vernal, Big Piney, Pinedale, etc....  good country down there!!!

Don't know about gold or water but if you throw out a 12" cresent wrench in 2' of snow and I happen to walk over it with a couple coat hangars I'll find it...every time!  Old logger showed me and a bud how they used to find chains, j-hooks, tools etc. that got lost in the snow with divining with rods.  We laughed but followed along with it and then we both tried it.....it works.  

I also found an old iron city sewer line for a contractor that was tearing out old sewer line(s) for new.  There "map" and info was about 3' off where the line was supposed to be.  It works for me on bigger metal stuff....

1 hour ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Great topic!!!!! 

I had to have a little fun here so, sorry for including a copper item which is actually from an earring so it isn't really a coin. Out here in Colorado there aren't too many old coins so finding an 1857 half dime was pretty exiting. Finding the miniature Lincoln penny was pretty fun too.

All were found with the Equinox in moderate to high mineralization and all were deeper than 6".

Nice half dime!  Your mini lincoln reminds me of a mini indian head penny I found that was a VERY good reproduction of the full sized IH penny.  It's buried in the treasure box, I'll try and dig it out and take a pic...????

A couple of canadian silver 5 cent coins found with the etrac back in my coin shooting days.  

It's funny when that happens to somebody else....lol  BTW...nice can!!!!  Sorry, couldn't help myself.......

All I can say is that I can swing the Monster a lot longer than I can swing my SDC.  Weight and ergonomics alone, imo, make this new tector worth a serious look?  More coil time...more gold.  I try to manage my field time as best I can with what I currently use.

Both you guys got me beat...zippo for me until about April/May?  Bout time you made it over here Josh....!!!!

2 hours ago, Northeast said:

And jf Minelab is listening - how about sticking an Equinox chip in both of the Gold Monster coils so that we can genuinely use the Gold Mode of the Nox in bush environments without sticks getting stuck in the current 11" coil spokes? 

I would have also used an Equinox version of the GM 10"X6" closed coil at the beach on the dry sand.  

Happy to field test them for you  😁

Just get a piece of plastic and glue it to the bottom of your spoked coil with some Shoe-Goo or zip-ties? Or maybe just use some duct tape on the bottom of your coil...????

Has anybody given up the weight on that puppy yet...?????

WOW....!!!!!  How bout "The Golden Trashy" nugget..........

I like Phrunts Monster PP'er idea.....

Gold Monster Pinpointer Conversion - Minelab Metal Detectors - DetectorProspector.com

Damn it....I want one!  NOT Reeses' garbage can lid, one of those 6000's.........

rename your post!!!  Been avoiding reading your post because of the "23 cents" part but I got bored so took a peak and damned glad I did!!!!!  NICE hunt. Looks like a silver 3 center(?) and you top it off with a sweetie of a seatie, and a capper ta boot?  I envy you guys back east with the real old stuff....  go get some more!!!!

On 1/7/2021 at 5:14 PM, longbow62 said:

 I personally think the Etrac and CTX are probably still the top notch machines for strictly searching for and identifying silver coins.  My guess is their sales have decreased dramatically since the Equinox was released.       

That equinox sure seems to be a winner whether it be coins or gold.. a true do-it-all machine?  Being biased towards my Etrac, I have to add that it does very well at id'ing all the other non silver coins usually found in the turf.  Etrac is also a nickel knockin sob!  IMO...the Etrac still holds a top rung in the coin shooting arena....jmo.