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

4 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

I am very exited about the 10X5, I can see some applications for the 14x9 in beach/water or sparse target flat land areas, but I have no use for the 15" coil just like I have no use the the stock 15X12 Minelab coil for the Equinox.

The times that I have owned and used Coiltek coils for the Minelab X-Terra 705 and for the GPX series PI detectors, the Coiltek coils have been more sensitive than the original Minelab coils in every case. So, comparing the standard Minelab Commander coils for instance to the Coiltek Elite and Extreme series for my GP3500 and GPX4800 I would pick the Coitek coils over the stock Minelab coils every time.

So, maybe the new Equinox Coiltek coils will not only be more stronger and durable on the outside, but hopefully more sensitive too. That would be quite an achievement as far as sensitivity since the Minelab stock coils are already amazing.

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.

1 minute ago, GB_Amateur said:

Did you ever come up with a hypothesis on why those coins were cached there?  Did the building predate the beach (I'm assuming public beach...) or was it some kind of concession stand or ??

In Charles Garrett's book on cache hunting he says that the best way to succeed is to find a potential site first through research, but that (of course) stumbling upon them does happen.  Sounds like you did the latter, but that's nothing to feel bad about.  😉  Some of my best finds (singles, not caches) came about without me having a clue they might be there.

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.    

4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Could you tell us more about that here on the forum?  I could go looking for that magazine but seems like a lot of work when the horse's mouth is right here in the flesh (well 'in the pen' anyway)! 

 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. 

6 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

Danced With Doves 

On what you said it had to be Steve. Another thing he didn’t want you to kill any rattle snakes.

 Thanks for the reply.

 Chuck 

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?

32 minutes ago, Minerjosh said:

I'm pretty sure I'm going to get an equinox 800 tomorrow  lol

 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.

1 hour ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

I'm going to say they are pretty close (closer than most folks realize), but here is where the EQ-800 shines over the Monster.  NOX ID's hot rocks better, can handle mineralized soils better, easily ID's gold better and I know before I dig if it's a 22 shell, 30-06 casing, beer can or coin. 

Plus, here are some other things the NOX does and you can not with the Monster-.  Complete detector is 100% waterproof, not the Monster. NOX is blue tooth wireless, not the 1000, the NOX is software downloadable (very big deal for most of us), but not the Monster.  NOX is a great water detector and I have found ounces of gold rings in salt water.  Monster will puke itself in a salt water (but it was never designed for it).  NOX has adjustable tone pitch to suite ones ears of the sounds they don't hear well.  Not the Monster.  NOX has adjustable recovery Speed to pull nuggets from many hot rocks and the Monster does not.  The NOX has fine tune Ground Balance capability, not the Monster.

I could go on, but feel you get the point why all 9 of my Field Staff own the EQ-800 for Nugget Hunter and sold their GM-1000's.

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. 

4 hours 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".

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

1 hour ago, Ridge Runner said:

Dance With Doves  

A friend of mine did own the Johnson mine and his name was Steve Scott. Is the guy you talking about? 
Chuck

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.