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We used to have detectors with selectable soil timings and lots of other stuff to fiddle with that allowed you to adjust for changing soil conditions. In this area it's not uncommon to go from Serpentine to Shale to volcanic ash to washed gravel to clay to forest soil made of all the previous in different mixtures thereof all within an hours time. I'm much too lazy to change coils and too cheap to buy them and I had to work for a living today so I'm grumpy.

LL !!!!! Please have the X rock returned to the exact spot you found it. It marked the precise location of the geologic center of the earth. The magnetic poles will began shifting according to the location of the X rock so it must be returned quickly. Send me a map and the rock and I will do it for you.

Nope. It's all about what is done with the amps and volts that maters first.

If she's naked and under a bridge -- -- -- -- she aint no lady.

Sorry but you guys are all wrong. It's Nuggetiorite and the black is a fusion crust. Very rare. And priceless.

Now is the time for major decisions. Do I hang on to my gold in hopes of higher prices or sell before the price drops. And if I did sell What would I do with an extra $9.35 Life is always full of tough choices.

I believe the answer to both is yes. Be sure to have a way to prove your date and time of posting such as date stamped photos or GPS points and a witness or two. Then be ware of some one predating an notice and posting elsewhere on the claim.

Shut the dozer off before detecting so you don't get interference from the alternator and avoid skidding one track to turn and you will shed less detectable steel off of the grousers. An excavator with a thumb may work better if there are large boulders. Hope this helps.

yes.

Your absolutely correct Reg. Needs to be 20 ozt to be a monster nugget. 19ozt is only huge.

You all might have a point but I invented adult A.D.H.D. (Attention deposit Hyperactive Disorder).

Well, let me do a little comparative analysis to see if we can definitely answer mn's query. A beach is rather flat. My country is rather straight up and downuallar, A beach is nice smooth sand. I work in hard bedrock and boulders. A beach has no White Thorn brush or Manzanita to fight through. A beach lacks disgusting things like Rattlesnakes, Mountain Lions, Bears and the U.S.F.S to deal with. A beach might have several lightly attired ladies for pleasant distraction. All I get is Sourdough Scott. A beach has jewelry made by man. My mountains have jewelry made by God. Yes. a beach is easier but I'll stay in my mountains.

The brilliance displayed on this forum is stupefying! Not only do we think out of the box but we think out of the warehouse.

I'm all in. The mine superintendents (Mr Herschbach) first priority should be to see that the boundary lines are in the proper place. Not the claim boundaries - - - - the state boundary. It needs to be moved a bit to the West.

Neodymium magnets will stay by themselves just fine inside a metal ring. There is a magnet sales company that will sell direct. I think they are called something simple like Magnets Dot Com.

The fable is a helluvalot more fun.

Be careful of what you wish for. If gold went to $3000 I would be out full time nugget hunting and I wouldn't have the time to contribute my insights and wisdom to this forum.

I have left instructions for my 4000 to be used as my headstone. A 4000 used with an audio boosted 5000 battery makes an excellent detector for loaning to a guest or for corrupting some one by getting them addicted to nugget hunting.

I would like to present you all with a dissertation on global economics, the functions and purpose of central banks, fiat money creation, government monetary policy etc...... BUT I'm going mining.

Why Mr. Gerry! I would like you to know that in all of my years of participation on this esteemed forum I have only composed one post that wasn't 100% true. Mr. 2Valen. See what you have done. You should have said "paradichlorobenzene" instead of "moth balls". Now you have unleashed the latent degenerate side of what are normally well behaved prospectors. Expect Mr. Herschbachs discipline to be loving yet severe.

Ah yes. The McLeod. I remember it well. in my youth I worked one summer on a fire crew and I loved the McLeod. Then I liked the McLeod. Then the McLeod was OK. then I disliked the McLeod. Then I hated the McLeod. If my memory serves me correctly I recall single handedly scrapping a fire line the entire length of the Sierra Nevada foothills. However it did teach me that telling someone to get the McLeod and start scrapping fire line was better than doing it myself. A fine tool, the McLeod.

I still frequently "see the elephant" up here in the Northern Sierras.

Mr. V.A.N.P. Sir; We must keep this within the realm of detecting/prospecting. All sessions must be held while nugget hunting.

I was out detecting yesterday with the 7000 and found a 69 caliber musket ball. By using the carbon dating app. on my smirk phone and measuring the depth of my dig hole and evaluating the oxidation on the musket ball I was able to determine that it was fired in the Spring of 1857, probably on a Tuesday. I then did science to it by using negative integers of Avogadro's number, exponents of pi and ice cream, calculating sine, cosine, deer sign, tangent and mandarin and entering the data into the 7000s GPS I was able to determine the precise location from which the ball was fired. I entered a track to that location and sure enough I came to an ancient, hollow cedar tree with a limb at the perfect height to rest a musket on for better aim. I then perchance stuck the GPZ into the tree hollow and, not surprisingly, found an 1851 69 caliber Harper's Ferry U.S. issued musket. There may be one or two of you that have doubts about the whole truth of my story but let me assure you that my arithmetic is rarely wrong and the GPZ 7000 is a very capable detector AND Sourdough Scott took photos which I have provided here. I have put a hefty charge of powder in the old thing and hammered the ball down the barrel and I'm waiting for Sourdough Scott to show up so he can have the honor of being the first to fire this piece of history in over 160 years.

I'll give you folks my method of ground balancing with the ferrite. It works well for me but maybe not for everyone. Start by setting the ferrite ring on the ground where you are certain there are no targets. Stand the ferrite on edge and orient it North and South (Australians and New Zelanders may have to orient it South to North). Step away from the ferrite a few feet and ground balance the detector. Now your ready to go find gold! Don't forget to pick up your ferrite ring at the end of the day. I would love to have anyone come here and demonstrate that ground balancing with the ferrite ring in this area makes any significant improvement.