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    Winter Solstice

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    Delnorter...  In '74 I fell redwood down there for a short time, guy got killed and boss shut us down while the Osha did their thing, came back home.  I'd cut tan oak and madrone on Fridays after work for drinking dough on the side.  NICE Doug you got there!!!!

    Jim... Spent one season falling timber ('84) on Chicagof Is. up there...wet and miserable but some big assed Spruce up there!!!

    Keep on going till the wheels fall off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    How Many Of You Would Jump On A CTX If Minelab Dropped The Price To 1200 ?

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

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    On 12/25/2020 at 5:22 PM, phrunt said:

    I'd love to own a CTX.

    You might consider an Etrac instead?  Pretty much the same good depth, pretty good id capabilities, a little lighter (but still a boat anchor with terrible ergonomics), and lots of easy to understand options to set it up for most types and situations you'll encounter coin shooting. If I remember right about $1000 us less than a CTX.  I love mine for coin shooting.

    Winter Solstice

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    Heat 100% with doug fir and lodgepole pine. Got sawdust in my blood from logging most my life so making sawdust cutting firewood is just something I have to do?  Love to do it but the body needs a few more breaks...lol  The shack with a puff of smoke out the chimney with wood stacked nice and dry behind the shack.  Doesn't get any better than that imo. Keep on going till the wheels fall off...!!!!!!!

     

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    Big Silver Detected With Equinox :)

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

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    3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

     Want to find gold coins?  Are you better off searching in the Eastern USA or the Western USA?  

    Definitely western US for gold coins and that's partly because the folks headed from east to west didn't care to pack heavy bulky silver dollars but lighter higher value gold coins instead.  I was reffering to silver dollars in my previous post not gold coins....

    Big Silver Detected With Equinox :)

    in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics

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    4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

     

    The wear on the Morgan dollar shows how popular these coins were in the mining/ranching towns of the West.  

    Actually these coins were not popular at all with the public back in the day. They were bulky and also heavy. The bulk of the silver dollars ended up sitting in bags, many uncirculated, on the bank floors.  Then the meltdown came.  Even after the mass meltdown of many silver dollars came and went there was still a ton of them "out there".  In the numismatic arena....that's why there are so many MS60+ quality silver dollars out there. That fact there are so many silver dollars out there is also a big reason they are such a popular coin to collect.  They are a very cool and affordable coin to collect because there's so many out there and quality ranges that people with a low budget can afford a "slider" and/or common dates to start and move up to higher quality coins in the future.  Bottom line is there are tons of them out there because they were a very unpopular coin.  The Barber coins were the workhorse of a lot of that era....and you'll notice it's a lot harder to find high quality Barbers because they were actually being used and not sitting in the banks in bags....

    Do You Do Detector #2 On A Hunt Or Only Stick To #1

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    19 minutes ago, geof_junk said:

    I take 2 PI The wife carries and uses one and I the other. As for backup if mine breaks down she has to give me hers😁  if hers breaks down she has to REST till its starts to get dark and we return back to camp. This works out OK for me as I only to carry ONE detector.🤪 

    No doubt the wifey has to pay rental on that tector with greater portion of gold she finds per hunt....?????

    Do You Do Detector #2 On A Hunt Or Only Stick To #1

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    I added an SDC last season and glad I did so now I always pack 2 detectors as long as I'm not too far from the quad.  If I have to pack straight up the mtn on foot then maybe only take one depending on the site and and/or how much trash?  What's important to me is how I can best manage my time per hunt. Sometimes I use the Monster in an area and follow up with the SDC and sometimes vice-versa.  When I use the SDC I "usually" find a target first and flag it until I've flagged approximately 10 targets, then I'll grab the Monster and work the 10 targets.  It's a real time saver imo. 

    Always nice to also have a backup just in case.  Speaking of backups....loosing your scoop can really mess up your hunt especially with a VLF (don't ask how I know...lol) so don't forget the backup scoop.....

    Detecting Boots

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    19 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

    Well if you wear those with an SD, GP, GPX or GPZ, I don't think you'll find much, as there is enough metal in those boots...  But at least they'll last for years as they are quality built.

     

    Not sure if an SD is the same as an SDC?  If it is, so far I've had no trouble finding gold while wearing these boots alongside the SDC as long as I keep the coil out front?

    Detectors & Headphones

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

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    On 8/12/2020 at 6:34 PM, Bash said:

    If I'm understanding this thread correctly, the problem that needs to be addressed is the "natural" reproduction of the audio signal input into the headphones.  It seems most headphones produced for the listening consumer market color the sound by favoring bass frequencies.  What detectorists are looking for is essentially the same thing an audio engineer/producer is looking for - accurate reproduction of the input signal. An audio engineer would never mix down an album using "boom box" speakers. They would insist on a quality studio monitor with a frequency response that didn't favor any particular frequency and reproduced all frequencies as given. 

    If I was unhappy with the audio quality I was finding in consumer headphones, I would start looking at headphones specifically made for mixing accurately reproduced audio, as opposed to headphones made for casual listening.

    They will cost more... 😉

    I somewhat agree.  When I must use headphones I currently use Sennhauser 280 pro (I think that's the one) for my Etrac and they'll also fit the Goldmonster with the adaptor that comes standard with the phones.  They'll fit both 1/4 and 1/8" plug.  I also use the long corded, noise canceling, audiophile phones for my drum practice. Phones are about $100 if I remember right, and have been using the one pair for at least 11 yrs now.  Never had a pair of Minelab equipted Koss phones I liked?

    What Gold Detector Are You Most Thankful For? Me, The Mightly...

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    Hmmmm?  I guess the two I currently use for gold as I quit coin shooting...but still can't seem to part with my beloved coin shooter the Etrac.  Swung a Tesoro Golden Sabre for coins for 22yrs and I was very happy with it.  The old coins were starting to disappear after the 22yr run so I bought a Tesoro Tejon that had better depth.  The Tejon had good depth but no real info and I noticed real quick I was digging a lot of deep trash, I NEEDED INFO.  Sold the Tejon and bought the Etrac and trash/ treasure ratio did a total 180.  Good bye Tesoro and Hello MINELAB!!!!!  Got tired of old coins and last 3 seasons have been  dedicated to gold bits and nuggets.  29yrs now detecting and my guess is my 2 Minelabs I currently use for gold will probably be my last detectors?  I really don't like switching machines once I learn them....

    Remounting Pick Handle (advice Request)

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    Is this intended to be used or a wall hanger?  Either way...only thing I can think of is to firmly smack head down on cement to force head on handle as best you can then soak in a light oil like hydraulic oil to expand what little the old shot handle has left?  Doubt it'll be usable but who knows?  Soaking in oil it won't dry out and shrink back as fast as water does and any petroleum product eventually rots out wood but the handle is toast anyways?

    My falling axe handle has shrunk and the head has been loose for years now.  Being I'm cheap, no longer fall timber for a living, and only firewood once in awhile, I just soak my axe for a couple hrs. in water before I go out to cut wood....  Been limping along like this for years...lol

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