Dances With Doves

I also like to know what my partner has found when we hunt together no matter how bad he is kicking my butt. It gives me the inspiration that  I need to do something different to get his results.I got a Nox and was out doing my friend with his explorer so he adjusted by getting a Nox also and he is making  great finds too.The  motivation   to get better  results will help you be a better hunter.To me a good day is when Me and my friend both have a  good day.It makes detecting  even more fun.I am happy when my friends make good finds and am happy for those here who make good finds too.

I bought my  custom   Tony Eis. headphones for water hunting.I  tried them  one time in the turf hardwired to the machine  and in 50 tones pk1 and I  never went back to wireless for   serious coin hunting.I did much better this way.

 I enjoyed your   posts.I know your results are believable because if you  are a good hunter  and you are in a good spot the gold can pile up.

The 6" coil is great for jewelry in the trash.

5 minutes ago, kac said:

Ugg, which years? Gonna have to go through my clad jar again .

2019 and 2020 so far with more to come.Google West Point  quarters.  

 Have you found  one either detecting  or in your change? We have a circulating clad coin worth taking a good look at and worth much more than a  regular  Mercury dime. Only 2  million released  mixed with P and D quarters rolls per design. I see some going for $36 on E bay. Happy hunting.

On the Nox the 6' coil is much better on the  tough gold because you can isolate the target better plus it will not get the target masked like the 11' coil.  I have a 4mm 10k  yellow gold  stud      earring that the 6" coil gets  but the 11''  is a fail on this target because of masking.If you can get to where the  roped swimming   areas are in  your lake then go to town on these targets. 

Those   Seem like good  choices.The  Nox with the 6'' coil is not bad either in park2 or the  field 2 modes, plus the most sensitive  modes are the gold modes . In all the above try  multi or 40kz.I have tested a lot of the jewelry   you are talking about and the nox will keep up with the best of them with better id in the    multi modes.It will hit a 3mm 10k white gold stud earring which is the toughest of targets.It will also hit all chains nicely.          Good luck. 

7 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Hugh, that was a low key title for such a great find.  But now I see your ploy -- post is analagous to your experience:  non-descript signal leads to monumental discovery!

Do you think it was dropped at the same time as the other relics?  I assume this is a Civil War site.  Did soldiers actually carry gold coins?  (Apparently some did.)

Anyway, hope you bask in that aura (pun intended) for the rest of this otherwise trying year.

I think they would use those coins to pay the soldiers a lot of times.

Welcome to the  gold coin club.Those small ones would be tough to find. I hear Tom from California welcomes all new members to the club with a  Prime rib dinner. I still remember when  I found my 2 in 2003 which were in the same hole and  that is as good as it gets for detecting. You now have gold coin honors on this  forum since you are the last person to find one.Steve your next!

Maybe you can sneak out a small gold coin with this machine.

I tried the TRX  on the toughest micro gold target which would be  a 3 mm 10k white gold stud earring and it would not hit it.It would  hit a very small yellow gold earring back at 1/8 of an inch and a bigger one at 3/8 of an inch.It would also hit a small 3/4 inch   diameter hollow 10k yellow gold hoop earring at  about an inch. It would be something if they made a pi pin pointer that would hit my 3 mm earring.This is on  the 3 setting. If  I have time   I will try the 4 setting. 

 Great find.I think they use 6 prongs on the better diamond rings.That is a classic beach find.

Fantastic hunt.The only silver dollar I ever found was also a 1892- o Morgan dollar.I have a book by  Dick Stout on  coin hunting and picnic groves were his favorite place for coins.    

1 hour ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Thank you for the kind words Dances with Doves. I like your name by the way. Mine by contrast would be "Stumbles over Canadian geese and lands in their poop while detecting"

I have owned all three Vanquish models and both Equinox models. (Somewhere on here I said I have a contact in the storage unit auction business. I get like new detectors from them at half price or less sometimes, test them to make sure they are working and then donate or sell them).

First, the Vanquish are great detectors. I especially like any of them with the 10" coil which will separate targets fairly well, unmask fairly well, feels just right to me anyway weight wise, and most of all will hit coin sized targets with accurate tones and numerical target IDs beyond 10" deep if the target is by itself. The Vanquish is still a beginner to upper entry level detector however and where it suffers is in heavy aluminum and iron near surface trash. I would take an Equinox 600 over any Vanquish model if I had some serious detecting in mind.

So, to answer your question the Vanquish is the perfect beginner, loaner or casual hunter's detector that is great for not too trashy parks, school grounds, playgrounds, tot lots, sand areas and beaches of any kind and it would work okay in open fields that weren't too trashy. If it can detect a single target it will give you great information. It can stumble on co-located targets like coin spills. It is a killer crown bottle cap detector and I mean that in a good way. The 440 and 540 have customizable notching which is great for a gold jewelry hunter. Any detectable gold and silver jewelry or coin along with non-ferrous relics will sound really good and have solid numbers.

 

i was hunting a pounded old school along a  small hill at the fence line between the  houses when  I noticed a small dove about 20 yards away.I got any iffy hit and dug a Barber dime which shocked me because i  have not found a good coin in this section in a long time so I did a  little dance and the dove was dancing with me.I would go to the left and he would go to the right.I would go right and he would go to left.We kept this up for 40 minutes when the dimming light finally   sent him off.I thought that was  odd as doves usually take off right away  when you are near them but not this little guy.My metal detecting name is because of this little care free dove.

7 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Nope.

Hi Jeff.  I always enjoy your  input on things. Where and why do you like to use your Vanquish since you also have the  Nox. Would you say the 7by10 coil on the Vanquish helps make your decision when going for basic targets(THE many gold and coin signals you  get in schools plus parks)?

5 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Nope.

Hi Jeff.  I always enjoy your  input on things. Where and why do you like to use your Vanquish since you also have the  Nox. Would you say the 7by10 coil on the Vanquish helps make your decision when going for basic targets(THE many gold and coin signals you  get in schools plus parks)?

 Me and my friend did really well at one freshwater finger lake here in    N.Y. with the AT GOLD and it's  stock coil. It discriminated the bottle caps very well  that infested  this lake and hit   the gold with gusto. We found many silver coins  at the ghost pier that had many  nails.  This machine was paid back very fast and I have my  record of 6 gold in a day  with it even though I got 5 with the  Nox in a 2.5 hour hunt where  the 6 gold needed a 8  hour hunt. The iron audio would   get  to you in thick iron after a while.  It would be nice to  lower the volume on it.  A very fun machine to use at the beach and in tot lots.

 Do you know your pull tab to gold ratio?Good job on the bling.

 a very small 316  type stainless ring can give you a #1 since I found one in an engagement type style ring.

  I focused on gold one year instead of silver and got more in the turf then in the water but it is a lot of work.You  can't compare areas as some just have more then others. I got 96 last year so it was nice to get 100 again.I got 247 in 2001  but it was so much  easier back then with a machine like the explorer and with so much more coins.Hunting  in today parks is like playing a very difficult golf   course in difficult conditions vs.  a easy golf course in  ideal conditions which what  it was like hunting the parks  in the  years  before around 2008.I will try to put some of the coins together to get a picture   since they are put away. Me and my 2 friends   found a massive coin spill with over 1200 silver coins in a spot in 2006 that would have brought me over 500 for the year but that year   I had about 130 individual coins and over 400 from the   spill.About indian pennies,I talked to a old timer who had a paper  route in 1939 who kept records.He  told me that out of 10 pennies he got from his route that about 2 would be indian  pennies even 30 years from the last time they were minted. This would be from upstate N. Y. There still has to be a 1916- d  mercury dime waiting for you in those Denver parks.

If you  ever hunt for small gold in the turf the small coils are much better in so many ways and more enjoyable.       

I have a very small white gold ring that will id at 2(AIR test) at about  9  inches and in pk2 in    a high emi area(my house  )and     I can get it with the nox and 6"coil with  pretty good id.The gmx also gives a soft signal  but the nox id is more reliable.For some reason my 4by6 gmx dd is not that deep of a coil and  would not hit your target if  I was betting.

With all the damage the many good explorer hunters did in my area to the silver turf population it shows me that the Nox is at or near the top of the class for silver  coins.This is all from hard  hit  spots with about 15 from the water.My   friend who just switched from the   explorer  to the nox(this year) is at 48 and he has won the    title for most silver in a year many times.He has the best  2 silver coins   with a barber half and a seated quarter .I did manage 3 walker halves and a 1894-o barber dime.I agree with  people when they say if they could only use 1 machine that  they would pick the  nox. I am at a 102 so maybe  I can focus on some turf gold since I only have 1  for the year and the only reason  I dug it was because it was a  nickle hit  next to a wheat penny   I just dug.  

Nice finds.I actually detected a very old bottle in a lake because the metal  top was still in it.

 Yes,it is a party spot where boats can be packed like sardines for nearly a mile on a good day.I hunt the top plus the slopes and there is not as much junk as in close.People like to  play on the  first sand bar and the water is clearer.In close you want to find a spot  where there there  are more heavy objects because of the currents .That is where I got most of my gold this  year.If the gold   kruzer is better then nox in thick iron  I might get one.