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.

8 minutes ago, kac said:

Weight is the issue for me not the heavy price.

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.

1 hour ago, Mike Haer said:

I have never found an 1877 Indian but I was fortunate to find an 1872 with incredible detail. Being a semi key date Indian if it didnt have the green patina it would be around a 500 dollar coin.

One thing I was lucky enough to find was a 1916 D mercury dime that graded out to VF-35 and ironically enough I found both coins in the same weekend hundreds of miles apart!

 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. 

5 hours ago, Compass said:

I agree that the water and wet sand seem to be the places to hunt if you are looking for rings. I think that most jewelry is lost in the surf. I have nothing against clad but I'd rather scoop up that $200 gold band than 800 quarters.

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. 

3 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

So you have every date+mm in the series except the 1877?  Did you find all of them with a detector?

 

 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.

1 hour ago, stevejhgla said:

Yeah bracelet rung up a 7 and the ring 5.  Probably stainless.

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.    

22 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

In good soil conditions the pull back method on pulltabs actually works on the Deus but only in full tones which the ORX doesn’t have.
 

The slight difference in tones and numbers between a  US nickel and most undamaged late model oval pull tabs is possible to hear on the Equinox with practice especially in 50 tones. The slightly older blocky pulltabs are harder for me. If I’m just gold jewelry hunting with the Equinox I’m digging good sounding targets with solid numbers in the 8 to 21 range. I used the word good on purpose. For me it is fairly easy to hear “good” sounding targets on both the Equinox and Deus in the gold range. On the ORX that was next to impossible for me. It sounded like every gold range target had boosted audio. Just my very subjective experience. 

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.