Dances With Doves

I  stuck out  in Arizona in 2002 at the private    Johnson mine near Stanton.We met the owner at Camp at a  event in Stanton and got permission.I did not now what I was doing but it was really fun trying.        

 Did  any  one    ever try the Yukon in  Canada? 9 states     by  beat up will be tough to beat.I bet  Gerry is close.

I found one in tailing pilings from sniping the creeks with my friend in N Y and if I did not bring the detector would not have gotten it.To be clear I am talking about natural  gold.

 To put in a better way.How many of you would buy a  Minelab multi freq. detector that was     dedicated mostly for gold nuggets with single freq. options    available too.    

It seems that the AT Gold with the Nel snake coil make  a   pretty good combo if you had to use that machine for Nuggets.Our   Gerry did a video for Garrett using the 4.5''  sniper coil for the AT Gold and was finding #9 shot.Not bad for an 18kz machine.

23 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I added prices to the post above. No reason to lower the 24k price. It’s new and good. Garrett should hire me as a consultant. I’m available. Seriously, but only if they’d like to get serious also.

It seems they are all sold out so you are right about not lowering the price.This machine really is a hot machine.I like my Gmx in tot lots and on certain beaches.I will try it on the cleaner sandbars in lake  Ontario and save the close in iron spots for the Nox.It did get me one gold   earring a in posts past in the jewelry section.The only machine that has not paid for itself yet.My AT gold and Infinium did it in under 10 hunts. 

How  much would the LTX   cost?Plus would you lower the price on 24k.   Remember your in  charge!

Hi  Steve.You were a good business man and a top notch gold prospector with a detector.If you were in total charge of Garrett in the  metal detecting for raw gold department what would you do now since they   now have  Whites too.You are looking at the whole world  market which seems to be  big.  I think you would  first would want to get the 24k/Gmx going again.

Do you think any of the Whites  tech. can help them in this matter since it seems they were working on the Apex before they bought Whites ?

Do you think Garrett should come out with a AT multi  freq. gold machine with single freq. options in a  dedicated gold  machine and beat minelab in producing the  first one since much is spent on gold machines in other countries where  people do it for a living(Africa and etc.}.The Nox is not a  dedicated  machine but a all purpose machine even though it does a great job on small gold.  A  Garrett machine still holds the world record for biggest nugget so Minelab still has something to beat.

With all the talk of Minelab dominating the prospecting part of metal detecting lately   how often has any one used a Garrett for gold prospecting in the last  few  years?  

Time changes everything.The xterra was a popular machine a few years ago but since the Nox came out there are not many people that use it much anymore.There was a lot of comparison between that and the At pro.At pro won  for being waterproof and the xterra for being more    versatile. For turf hunting   I  would take the X-terra any day.The Apex is a different and new machine with better beach performance at a good   price so it will take away from AT Pro sales.The Nox- Vanquish machines have taken more then there share of the market and that is we are  today.All of my friends that turf hunt are using  the Nox  today.The  Apex type machines will be the AT Pros of yesterday if they keep improving it.  

Has anyone   found a gold nugget using the   Apex yet?

I was  always seeing on the xterra   forum about the desire of a  small 6'' 3kz coil  for silver in trash. Randy Horton  pushed for  it and it was finally made by coiltech at a  price of $189 back then and even  named after  him(DIGGER). They even had coitech make 15'' coils for all 3 freq. The only thing they didn't have was a 10'' 3kz coil which would have been a hit with that machine.Maybe the Nox coils have a lot of tech in them and  Minelab does not want anyone  else making them.Maybe  Minelab needs a coil division that  focuses on     different coils for it's machines    

 Do you think this machine will be able to hit a  tenth of a grain gold nugget? That would be impressive for a gold PI machine.          

I see  OBN just posted on  friendly forum so that is a  great sign to me.I hope he makes a fast and full recovery.

He  came over my house to show it to me and  when he  dropped it in my hand it felt like he     dropped a shotgun slug  in it.That ring was made as strong  as a brick house.  

3 hours ago, geek4gold said:

Was that an XT 18000 you were using?

To answer your question re finding of a 10 gram nugget...... Gosh, they are like hens teeth today but that isn't to say they are not out there. The 'shallow' ones have well & truly been picked off. Today they maybe just down out of reach at the moment with todays ever improving technology. It is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string😂. The real gold is in the journey of trying to find one. Enjoy the journey, just as you did in your post. Best of luck.

G4G 

I think so.

I am just curios  since I don't nugget hunt.It seems that those bigger nuggets are like silver halves and now are  harder to find compared to the past when they were more abundant.  

It is on this forum now and you can see it at jewelry forum under Relic Ray.

I only  went real nugget hunting one time in Stanton,Arizona in march 2002 because the late Charlie Wilson of Wilson metal   detectors took us as guests for a week.I was   using a Minelab gold machine he lent me that ran at 3  different freq.You had to choose one.I really envy you guys that get to do this in your area.I loved doing it even though I found no gold since i was  new at this type of hunting.The owner of the   Johnson mine even gave us permission to hunt his land which I thank him for.I  met Chris  Gholson and his  father and they were fantastic people.  

That was the ring a was talking about  before in a different thread.Find of a lifetime and  I think it is a collectible ring because of the markings.  

Is my X-terra in the prospect mode threshold  base or filtered also?  

How about offering the Nox 800 with the 11'' coil plus the 6'' coil for $999 plus with a  pin pointer  as a winter special in the USA.With all the     money the  government  is given out it would be a good time to do it.

If the  Nox had a threshhold based all metal how would that make it better then what it has  now?