Dances With Doves

In 2019 I found 96 silver coins all with the Nox.I only had 1 by april 15,I switched to 50 tones and the wm08 module plus the Tony E. headphones and this combo clicked for me and I went on a tear. In 2018 I found only 60 silver with the explorer 2 on turf and the At gold got the ones in the water.I also found 2 of those 60 with my buddies CTX the 3 times I used it.One in the turf and 1 in the water.On April 15th when i had 1 silver clad hopper had 10 with his Explorer 2.At that time he was not impressed with the Nox on silver because of my measly results.He was impressed that my 6''coil got a very deep wheatie that he called me over to check though.I had 92 Indians in 2019.I had 23 Indians in 2018. In 2018 i had 4 Barber coins.In 2019 i had 15 Barber coins

Hi Jeff. What coiltech coil did you use for the x-terra and how did it do for you ?Also imagine if the 5 by 10 is even more sensitive then the 6''coil. That would be something .

We never used a 15'' wide'coil on the nox before with it's multi iq. tech so we may find out a few things and that it might be real good at in certain conditions. I got my only silver dollar with a 15'' wot that I used with my explorer

I wonder how deep that 15'' coil will go on a silver quarter in good ground?Not a bad selection.I bet they sell a lot of the Steve H. coil (5by10). $ 210 is a good price considering they are charging over$259 for a 6'' 3kz.dd x-terra coil last time I checked.

I am going to try to take a silver tally by year to find out my grand total .In 2020 I found 119 silver coins all with the Nox with both the 6 and 11 inch coils.About 18 in the water. I found 40 indians too for a 3/1 ratio.Clad hopper had a 2/ 1 ratio.I will do 2019 next and used mostly the Nox.If you want you can guess.In 2020 i found 12 Barber coins.

I used the Nox 95% of the time and the GMX the other 5%.The GMX was new so I gave it a few spins to try to find where it likes to hunt. I hunted about 40 hours in the water too but mostly in the turf .

What a great hunt. When you have the power of the ocean to separate all the different metals by density then finding that location where it dropped off the heavy one is what it is all about.Here location is everything.All my plus 4 gold days were always made in these spots. The gold lying on the clay with only a couple of inches of clay are sometimes the easiest hits of all.I am talking about the power of the Great Lakes in my situation and they do a good job of separating too but without your big tides.

Was the cable deterioration because of the salt water or did it deteriorate in freshwater too on the ATX ?

To answer Tom.Even without the cache i would be over 1000 for sure.The cache was just icing on the cake. I also like finding the older(pre Barber)silver coins but they are tough. I hunted 2.5 years with the Nox and not even 1 ,but I have found 4 Large cents and 1 was near a sandbox like Tom always says. I like his sense of humor.When you go out metal detecting just have fun because that's what it's all about. I will count my total Tom's way for he is right that getting those coins the way he described is the way they should be counted. I will have cache total plus non cache total and for fun combine the 2 since I liked finding that big pile of coins.

it could have been an old beach house .It is abandoned now.

I just talked to clad hopper and his total with the cache is 2317.His tally from the cache is about 350 which puts him just under 2000 for non cache coins.He told me he is at 994 for indians also. We both started hunting in the summer of 1999.

There was a brown building at a beach by Lake ontario and a bulldozer cut a path next to it.I went off the path and started finding silver on the weeds on top.We found about 5 different piles within 20 yards.The cut path was next to a pond and we went in and got even more.Mostly mercs and Rosies and no key dates.The coins dated to 1963.

My cache was found with a friend.It was in best finds for 2007 in western and eastern by curt roe titled I think" Silver in the rough".We invited clad hopper along for the ride too.I got more after the article too.

I see Jamflicker on Friendly forum just hit 2000 silver coins in about 10 years hunting which is amazing. I bet our member Raphis here on this forum is in that range too.10 years and 2000 silver = vacuum cleaner.I am talking about wild coins and not organized hunts.I am in that club because I found over 500 silver in a spilled cache which helped me get there more easily.To tell the truth I don't know what my exact totals are.I would have to go through my records since 1999. How many here are in that club?If not what total are you at and how many years.

One of my buddies was crying when i found a measly 10k 1.5 gram ring in a bottle cap infested lake.I had 3 gold in a row since he last struck gold.I told him you know your just playing games with me and that you will strike big.1 hour later he gets a 2 car. diamond in a platinum ring that a jeweler offered him $3500 cash or 7000 in store credit.It was worth probably over 20 grand. At gold were our machines at the time and we paid $640 new.I have to admit that i like the sound of the AT Gold when it hits a gold ring more then the Nox.It hits it like a pit bull on a meatball.

I will guess a 5 by 10 solid nugget coil. I think they should call it the SH nugget coil in Steve's behalf since he pushed for this coil.Coil Tech. called their 3 kz. 6'' DD" Digger" after Randy Horton pushed for it.This is if i am right.

I think it was a little cold for the snakes when we went(march) since I did not see even one. He told us he made good money on some of those huge boulders he had.Who owns the property now since nugget shooter has permission from him.

Around the year 2012 if you were mostly a fresh water jewelry hunter that hunted nuggets occasionally this machine (AT GOLD) was a good choice if you could have only one machine.I think it is good enough to be considered a nugget detector even though there are better.

When I compared my xterra 70 with it's 5by 10 coil vs the AT Gold and it's 5by8 coil on a .5 grain nugget I could not see much difference on my concrete floor.How would they compare in the field where you hunt?

Relic Ray got a 25 gram gold ring in the first 15 minutes so I hope you do the same.

I remember Madison Maine youtube using a Blisstool.

It is an unbelievable (in a good way)that the machine that I got mostly for old coins and gold in the water is also a top notch nugget machine too and at such a good price. Being waterproof,wireless,plus being able to hunt saltwater beaches makes this a fantastic machine.I wonder today what the sales for a Nox is compared to AT machines from Garrett.

If you include panning I would have N. Y. plus Arizona.I tried Pennsylvania on some creeks by roadsides and came up empty.I did get gold in 7 different counties out here in N. Y .in it's natural state.You never know what the glacier's have brought in. There could be a big nugget out there waiting for a lucky person. I heard of a platinum nugget found in eastern N. Y.in the early 1900's.

I found one of those baby Lincoln's too.My friend found a gigantic 3 legged buffalo nickel in the water.

I don't know.He was about 35-40 at the time(2002) and our buddy the Late Charlie Wilson got permission from him for us.I remember he told us to shut the gate behind us when we drove in and also told us that he did not bother the mountain lions and they did not bother him.He told us that a old timer was doing very well at this spot that he gave permission.He had the most secluded dwelling I was ever at.We only hunted one day.A very cool spot indeed.