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I have a big Foot for my MXT. Everybody knows that the Big Foot is only good for a few inches, guess they never tried it on an MXT. Silly depth. I was planning to sell the Bigfoot, but now the Arrow has spoiled the premium market...but now I don't care, with the MXT it is amazing.

Leaving Thursday for two months to Norway. Taking a Time Ranger Pro and an Omega, sharing coils between them including an Ultimate 13". Starting in the high North and then ending up on the South around Oslo. Plan to re-visit some urban parks dating to the 19th century which I hunted with a Whites 4900 and a Tesoro Golden Saber in the 80's. Also whatever fields I can get on to and some documented abandoned farms from the Black Death. I don't expect wonders, and anything earlier than about 1650 is National Treasure - requiring reporting and handing in, and I have no intentions of robbing folks of their heritage. North Norway is especially interesting since pre Viking Iron Age and Viking age settlement there is not well documented by finds. Given my usual luck, I expect no amazing finds, but then...maybe.

Wonders of AI...notice how it mentions NOTHING about actual alluvial gold.. so, I tried again... that's very interesting, but that seems to be "lode" gold, gold in rock. I am asking about alluvial gold...free gold deposited by action of water or ice I apologize for the confusion. Yes, the recent gold finds in Greenland are lode gold, not alluvial gold. Alluvial gold is much rarer than lode gold, and it is also much more difficult to find. Alluvial gold is typically found in stream beds and river beds, where it has been deposited by the action of water or ice. It is also sometimes found in beaches and other areas where there has been a lot of erosion. There have been a few reports of alluvial gold finds in Greenland in the past, but none of these finds have been large enough to be commercially viable. However, there is still potential for finding alluvial gold in Greenland, and several companies are currently exploring the possibility of doing so. Here are some of the areas in Greenland that are considered to be prospective for alluvial gold: The Nanortalik gold belt The Isortoq gold belt The Kangerlussuaq gold belt The Julianehåb gold belt The Upernavik gold belt These areas are all located in the southwestern part of Greenland, which is the region where most of the gold exploration activity has been taking place. However, it is important to note that alluvial gold can be found anywhere in Greenland, so it is possible that new discoveries could be made in other parts of the country. If you are interested in prospecting for alluvial gold in Greenland, you should be aware that it is a very challenging activity. The weather can be very harsh, and the terrain can be very rugged. You will also need to be very experienced in prospecting techniques. If you are not experienced, it is best to hire a guide or join a prospecting group. Google it

Notwithstanding Steve's having told me years ago that alluvial gold in Greenland is probably scarce due to glacial activity...I keep look around to find encouragement. Google's new Bard, AI assisted search engine is fun to play with, so I had some fun just now. So I asked.. is there any notice in the last 3 years of finds of alluvial gold in greenland Yes, there have been a few reports of alluvial gold finds in Greenland in the last 3 years. In 2020, a team of prospectors from Canada discovered a large deposit of gold in the Kangerlussuaq region. The deposit is estimated to contain over 100,000 ounces of gold, and it is the largest gold find in Greenland in over 50 years. In 2021, another team of prospectors discovered a smaller deposit of gold in the Isortoq region. This deposit is estimated to contain over 10,000 ounces of gold. These discoveries have renewed interest in gold mining in Greenland, and several companies are now exploring the possibility of developing these deposits. Here are some of the details of the recent gold finds in Greenland: 2020: A team of prospectors from Canada discovered a large deposit of gold in the Kangerlussuaq region. The deposit is estimated to contain over 100,000 ounces of gold, and it is the largest gold find in Greenland in over 50 years. The discovery was made by a team of prospectors from the company True North Gems. The team was using a helicopter to explore the Kangerlussuaq region when they spotted a large area of bedrock that was exposed by erosion. The team landed and collected samples from the bedrock, which were later assayed and found to contain high levels of gold. 2021: Another team of prospectors discovered a smaller deposit of gold in the Isortoq region. This deposit is estimated to contain over 10,000 ounces of gold. The discovery was made by a team of prospectors from the company Veritas Gold. The team was using a ground-based exploration method called induced polarization (IP) to search for gold when they identified a strong IP anomaly in the Isortoq region. The team then drilled a series of test holes, which confirmed the presence of gold in the area. These discoveries have renewed interest in gold mining in Greenland. Several companies are now exploring the possibility of developing these deposits. However, it is important to note that these discoveries are still in the early stages, and it is not yet clear if they will be commercially viable.

If the cover is missing or the plugs which fasten it are missing or broken, you can make a simple panel with appropriate holes to line ump with the holes on the case. Then you can get some of these - Amazon has them. I also have them because I needed two of them and they come in a bag of 20!

Problem solved. make a simple panel to cover the opening, drill holes to match the holes in the case, insert 2 of these.

It lost its battery door somewhere on the way. I will send a silver dollar to anyone who can supply me with one. I suspect all the large plastic box underarm Tesoro's used the same box and battery door. Thanks, it looks so silly with scotch tape over the opening.

We are off to Norway in July for two months. I will have a couple of (I hope) well chosen detectors for the usual run of field, meadow, park stuff. One thing though. there are things older and deeper than my VLF's will find. I detected in Norway a lot in the 90's and found nice stuff, but I didn't have anything which could go to depth on any metal targets which existed. One interesting thing (sadly) in Norway's history is that th eBlack death hit Norway very hard. about 65% of the population died. Unlike more settled village and town settlement patterns in Europe which helps recovery, the Norwegian population was largely rural on individual farm sites. the place names all over Norway are sprinkled with places, now often in the forest - Called ødegård - old abandoned farm. Having a detector which could double VLF depth in all metal could be a really interesting exploratory tool. Mind you, any objects dating from the mid 1600's are National treasure, but I am not looking to supplement my vacation budget and I would fully comply with the rules about that. I am thinking a ML PI with a more modern battery arrangement which I could manage to legally get on the plane. I don't care about small gold - there isn't any - Would an SD be fine, or is there a reason to go to the GP or GPX range. light is better and old lead acid or other bulky batteries are not good for air transport or my old bones. Your thoughts.

Tom, I have a modified IDX Pro and the correct Bigfoot. I plan to sell it, are you interested?

mine is the original. I have no idea if there would be any difference between the various ones. I claim to be shocked and surprised. One big caveat. I haven't tried it in the dirt. One other thing, I live in a tightly built development, there are dozens of wifi routers around, they make most coils nuts with noise. The Bigfoot is deaf to all that, quiet as a mouse

I just got a perfect closet queen MXT. Absolutely like new. On a whim, I decided to try it with my Bigfoot for DFX/MXT. air test only, coil lying on a table. MXT in relic mode with full boost....shock. ID on a dime at 7"+, nicely audible threshold break at 9"+. Whatwhatwhat??? OK, so I try the 14" elliptical DD. 2 to 3 inches less... So I power up my OK DFX in its deepest mode - prospecting...with the same Bigfoot. a bit less than the 14" ... I have searched the forums a bit for experience with the Bigfoot and the MXT. I have found no such results. Need to get in the dirt with it.

Skål og godt nyttår, James. Greetings from Arizona. We will be in Norway in July and August, (same procedure as last year) where are you located?

I have made an offer on the Lobo Super Trac

thanks for everybody's interest...and yes...I am showing off. Some may have noticed my long absence from the forums. Thankfully it was not that I was deceased or even seriously ill. Some things interfered with my enjoyment of the whole scene a few years ago and now, I am over it. Just bought the 1236X2, a Perfect early MXT, and planning my battery to attack Norway for two months this summer...details of the machines to be revealed later!

I am super happy that I just got an absolutely "like New" Los Banos 1236X2 on eBay. It tickles the hell out of me now that I have what might be the only absolutely as new perfect los Banos 1236x2. This one is SN 90272. Likely never saw dirt. Came with unused coils...8", 5" and the rare 10X5 elliptical. I just ordered a new 10.5 coil for it to complete the set. While I was poking around on various forums about the 1236X2, I found this Hymn to them...by Keith Southern. Pardon if I am cross-posting, because I am not sure which forum it originally appeared on...but Keith The 1236-X2 might be the best detector ever built by fisher or any manufacture ..The Machine may not air-test the best or unmask in air-test the best but get it in the dirt where it counts and you will see it goes deep and pulls items out of iron with the best of them..It is a phenomenal detector.... I have pulled some real nice finds with mine and would never be without one...Get the 5 incher for the trash..run it in iron disc pre-set and by all means do not turn that silencer on... learn the language of the machine...If you run the silencer on you are basically running like any other machine out there... Remember quiet is nice but it kills masked targets and iffy deep targets...with the silencer off you will be hearing the targets that are discriminated out .. they will be pop's and sputter's and spit's..but not round sounding if that makes sense to you..what this allows is a good non-ferrous target to bleed through the discriminated out nail's (when set at the iron preset nails sputter big iron sound junky broken like) so you can hear the target with a nice audio response..these type targets will take awhile to get use to but once you hear the target a few times that is being masked you will know what to listen for...Also try to stay with the low ohm headphones like the stock fisher phones they replicate the detector sound so much better than the killer b type phones and such of high ohms they make it hard to discern a target...the audio which can speak volumes to you is best replicated at around 8 ohms or so..Deep targets have a fuzzy type sound that would be completely quite if the silencer was on..I have ran the 1236 against some big dog detectors in my personal test and the 1236 will hear deep targets just like the big machines but it has its own language...Again what is happening is the 1236 hears it all like ground noise and such and can report a target lurking below the mineralization..a lot of machines when canceling out the mineral also cancel the target since it cant break through the extra filtration of the signal going on from the ground reading..but the 1236 just blends it and you listen for the fuzzy round modulated hit.. Now the 1236 loves round targets be it low conductor buttons or high silver coins...I have actually found coins with the 1236 that I thought I would never find one being a 2 cent Piece out of a thick bed of nails that I had pounded on with probably 12-15 machines and the other being a 177? Spanish 2-Reale which is just about unheard of in my North Georgia area and it too was in a bed of nails.... I have found many relics with it also behind other machine's and in pure machine gun type iron... Once you get the language down and listen to some noise the 1236 is one hard machine to beat in mineralized dirt and it just can’t hardly be beat in nails...Remember iron sites are a important for making find's because where there is iron like nails and stove parts and horse shoes and busted kettles and such is the habitation sites and that where the finds are at but it is hard to get stuff out of these sites...and the 1236 is one of the better machines I have ever had at picking through sites like this....There's a couple more that will hang with it and they don’t have a meter neither.. Good luck with one of fisher's greatest