Dances With Doves

It is funny comparing a metal detector to a boat anchor since my metal detectors found me at least 4 boat anchors.

I was on the hunt with him that day and all I could muster was a flattened 3 gram silver ring and 6 beat up wheaties.If your having a bad day and you start crying the ground feels sorry for you and spits out the good coins (LOL). How do you think I found over 100 silvers this year.Clad Hopper also managed a Seated Quarter plus a Barber half all in pounded parks.I still have not found Seated yet with my Nox. He called me over to the ring before he dug it and it rang a shallow 35 on his Nox.I called it a silver ring and that it was.

If I had to guess and Minelab brings out a new Multi IQ variant that is superior to the Nox by a wide margin I would guess $2000 would be the cost for it.I would hate to be short on funds for it because I bought a other machine.I bet this machine could be out before the close of 2021.

With a new Nox/Fbs type machine in the works as by word from Tom D. . Many might be saving up for that which probably would be $1500 plus.

Since my buddy Clad Hopper has become one with his Nox he has not gone back to his heavy explorer 2 /Sunray probe combo.He says it feels to heavy now after hunting with the lighter Nox.

With the Nox able to bring great results at $899 plus being waterproof it seems many think the CTX is not worth the extra money or to steep a price to pay for a detector.I would jump on one at 1200 though.

The gold coin alone makes it a great year. The rest is icing on the cake.Happy holidays, and may 2021 be happy and healthy to your family and friends and to you.

I think Digger who posted on findmall and was a Minelab tester has found 3.That is pretty amazing.

I think a smooth clean pea green Indian looks way cooler then a brown or red one.A nice 1872 Indian is a great find.Me and my friends have been trying for that 1916-d merc but no luck.That to me is better then a 1877 Indian since they are harder to find. 2 of my buddies did get a 1921 merc in the same small field of one section of a park.

You got to keep an eye out for those West Point mint quarters.Check your change or what you detect. If you got $50,000 lying around plus about 1200 for shipping the mint will send you a pallet of 200,000 coins and could check for those special quarters.

Sorry, all the ones but the S mint coins and the 1877.I even got the 1864- L .There was one older park that gave up a good number and having a explorer in 2000 gave me an edge. I also got my only silver dollar in this park and over a 100 civil war mini balls plus a a US belt plate.I thought I would get a gold coin here put that did not pan out.

The one thing I was shocked about this year was all the clad that me and my buddies found on the dry sand in this" as they say" cashless society .I got about $10 of clean clad one time and my buddy clad hopper found about $12 one time and was always getting over $5 most of the time. He was cleaning up the clad on the beach while I hunted mostly in the water.He used his Nox on the beach to get these results.For some reason he could not get any gold in the dry sand.I got lucky and got a couple.The dry sand has been stingy on the gold the last few years while the water has been more given.

You had a great year and deserve all that gold.How many targets of gold in a fresh water area and how much in a salt water area.

My friend who found that coin above did not even know the 1877 was a key date until he gave the guy who has 2 of those key coins all the dates of the Indians he found that day over the phone. The guy who gave him the info that he had a key date over the phone found his 2 coins after my friend found the one above.The 1877 is the only one I am missing.

I had 1 small 316 stainless ring that rang up at a 1 with small stones on it.

The above is my buddy who found the one and the only time he is clad hopping is when he is hunting the dry sand and getting more then his share of the clad on the beach. This guy is a silver slayer that switched to the Nox from his Explorer 2. He said hunting some of the deep and difficult clad helped him adjust to the tougher old coins in the turf. It showed in the fall with his great results which included a Barber half in a pounded spot.The first 6 month in the turf he was kicking my butt on the silver with his explorer 2 where he started with 10 right off the bat and me head to head at 0 with my Nox.I made adjustments and I finished the year at almost a 100 even with my late start.In one park Emi made his Explorer get very bad results while my Nox cleaned up. Around the end of 2019 he bought one and he like me had to adjust to the new machine.I knew the X-terra very well and this helped me adjust to the sounds.He has now adjusted where he can keep up with me with his Nox.He used it in the water ,on the dry sand plus in the turf and did great in all these spots .It is a machine that is great in many different places.This machine is more then a jack of all trades.

I have found 0 but one buddy found 1 and a other found 2.The one that found 2 also found a $1 gold coin made into a love token.

One lady at a lake I hunt(rich area) said she tossed her $25,000 ring in the lake because her husband cheated on her. I asked if she would want me to find it but she said she did not want to see it again.I don't know if i believe her or not since I looked in the area but could not find it. It is a very trash spot since since they seemed to dump garbage here before. It seems many people have tossed rings away. Reno ,Nevada had a bridge where many tossed their rings into the creek below according to a article.I had a man also tell me he tossed his ring into the grass from the parking lot we were standing at.I heard of many woman tossing their rings at the end of a lake Ontario pier.We have a spot off a deck and we found a lot of rings that could not have gotten there unless they were tossed. Many rings are also tossed in anger from cars too.

My turf soil is not to bad.How deep does the pullback method work.That sled hill area which is in a popular park here in Rochester,N.Y (.COBBS HILL) has mostly those old beaver tail pull tabs.It also has tons of old bottle caps where I made the mistake when putting it in 4Kz and getting a high tone on a nickel hit when MF gave a low hit and I did not dig.This method only works if the MF signal is picked way off the ground off and 4kz gives a high tone.If mf sound goes away fast after lifting coil then getting a weak high tone in 4kz you better dig since it could be a deep non ferrous target.I learned the hard way and passed up signals i should not have.Some targets are very deep here too and some are not.I always enjoy your imput. To me Metal Detecting is all about adjusting to things.

I wonder if anyone had any success for ring hunting with Deus/Orx by using the pullback method done in a video posted before.On the Nox I can't tell a pull tab from a ring.If gold can give a distinctive sound that would be a big plus in good jewelry locations. I have a sled hill where we have found over 40 silver rings and only 3 gold rings.This year about 8 silver rings and no gold.I dug over 100 pull tabs and 38 nickels hunting here the last 7 hunts with silver being the main focus.

That key is a awesome find with history you can track down. I would rather find that then even a Barber half.The great variety in what we find when metal detecting is the spice that makes it even more fun.

I found almost all my silver in pounded spots so you have to know how to work the trash as best you can. The spots that Cal likes to hunt make it so much more exciting and I have hunted a few.I like the spots when almost any conductive signal has a chance of being a great find when compared to parks that produces mostly junk.Almost all the Jesuit rings I found were like a nickel hit without 1 pull tab found in this secluded field.

Flying eagles are very tough to find.I can't remember the last time I found one. Good going.

Tom will probably get a gold coin next time out.Cal has a nack for finding valuable coins and I a love his ghost town/stage coach spots in his videos.

Those who have a X-terra have the ability too check how hot the ground is if you have the 9"concentric coil.I don't remember how to do it but you can find out on findmall in the x-terra section.