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  1. I found the top one you have at a old boy scout camp camp and it's made in Canada.
  2. I use them(Tony's) for both(land and water) and they are great headphones. I have the 800 and you can use them with the module that came with it which means your not connected to the machine.I also don't mind having it connected to the machine when I land hunt.My buddy uses the wireless headphones and also does well.l like using one set of headphones for all my hunting.Chase gave good advice too.
  3. I wonder if they send it to Africa first because they do it for a living to put food on the table for their families.
  4. I would say the F75/T2 are a huge success since they probably have a good amount of sales between the 2 even though they were pretty expensive when they came out.
  5. I only saw one person using a Mxt around here but have read how good a machine it was for many hunting situations.I wonder how many ounces of gold this machine has found all together.
  6. The Explorer series was popular with my buddies.Almost all of them had one.I did not see that many E- tracs and only my rich buddy had a Ctx.I talked to a buddy and he said that a guy using a CTX cleaned up on a golf course that use to be a fairground and a old horse track.He showed him a picture of a draped bust silver dollar he found there. My buddy and his son both got Draped bust dimes.The guy was getting over 30 silvers in a day when he first started hunting there.He got permission to hunt in the off season for golf.
  7. It is mind boggling that almost all my buddies and other people I see hunting or talk to have a Nox.The same thing could be said for the Garrett At series.Almost everybody I know has had one and I have seen guys I don't know using them a lot before the Nox came out.With Garrett the At pro was the most common.On this Forum I would bet that most have had a Nox. Even though I used the X-terra I never saw that many being used around here even though it seemed to be popular around the world.The At pro was more popular compared to it in the US probably because of Garrett marketing and it being all terrain and cheaper compared to the 705 version.For the turf I would take the X-terra any day because it could be tailored to more hunting situations.The x-terra and the Nox sound very alike which made it easy for me to gel with the Nox.
  8. Great find. Sometimes those iffy signals end up being the best finds you will ever get.My 2 gold coins were an iffy signal.If you are in a spot that produced a lot of coins you better dig those iffy signals to get the coins that are still left.
  9. It looks like it will be a good coil for tiny nuggets and on the tougher gold jewelry targets based on the way it can hit a #9 shot.
  10. Me and my buddy went to a old abandon girl scout camp and got 14 silvers between us with about 10 in the thick pricker bushes. For each silver I got a nice scrap from the prickers on my body.A Barber dime =a good day.
  11. It seems this coil would be nice for sticking between rocks since it is more sensitive at the nose vs. the center of the 6'' coil.I think Simon did the video and he thinks both have about the same sensitivity on that #9 shot.
  12. Good find.Getting a silver half in a public place is becoming harder as time goes by. Most of the ones left are probably masked or are a iffy signal.
  13. I have a beach in Rochester where i used the Infinium to go for silver coins on the west end in the spring because the wind blew some sand away . The best i could do was 4 in a day and under 35 total which is what you did in only one day.I Imagine if you used your Gpx here you would be able to squeeze out more.Here you can find Barbers because sometimes the clean up guy would dig up sand and put them near the surface.There is a lot of sand here and I have never found a silver coin in the water. I love that you are cleaning up with a gold machine on silver coins. I really did enjoy using my PI to go for silver on the dry sand.I would like to see your final tally for the year.
  14. If you want the micro type jewelry the 6'' coil is better then the 11''.A tot lot is a good place to try this because of the easy digging. The gold stud earring is one of the toughest targets there is and the 6'' coil gives you a fighting chance in getting one.Nice find.
  15. Hi C.J.C.Since you are on the other side of Lake Ontario which do you prefer for your water hunting our big lake.The Nox or the CTX and do you have sections that can be thick in black sand in certain spots over there too?
  16. Hunting the first sandbar on Lake Ontario where the water is clearer and it is easy digging I would use the gold modes to hunt.I would go mostly by how the zip sounded but would glance at the numbers. I found a small 316 stainless steel ring with small stone that rang as a 1 that was near a foot.If i did not have gold mode i would have not dug it because it would have sounded terrible.I dug a tough gold earring hit with this method too.The gold modes have a place in certain situations other then nuggets.
  17. Those who have the x-terra can find how hot the ground is with a few steps and with the 9'' standard concentric coil. I don't remember how to do it but if you go to findmall they should have info at the x-terra forum.You can do it in the salt mode to so you can see how conductive the ground is I think.0-10,000= mild.10,000-100,000= moderate.100,000-to a million = hot.I remember my yard was about 27,000. I checked a black sand section of Lake Ontario and I got overload it was so hot.Doing it the improper way i still got over 600,000 and that was without starting my pumping motion at the ground because it would over load.i imagine the overload signal means i am close to a million for hotness.
  18. The best find i have seen found by a member here since i have been looking.The private mint gold coin club must be the toughest to get in.I think in Charles Garrett coin hunting book he said a man found one at a horse track in Washington state worth 250,000 way back then(30 years plus).I can see Cal Cobra finding one since he has a knack for finding valuable coins.
  19. I have probably taken a 1000 pounds of junk out of the beaches in all these years as opposed to the many people who are polluters on our beaches.I think there is a $1000 fine for those who throw junk in the water but very few ever get caught.One of our thin but very long beach looks like a junkyard after a long hit weekend.
  20. Do you guys think the Garrett Infinium can handle bad ground as good as the Minelab PI's since it is less sensitive then most of them or does Minelab do something special with the ground balance ?Also is thick black sand the hottest ground there is?
  21. Nice find Rick.You need certain machines to hit those types of targets well.The Nox in it's multi or 40 kz. gold modes would also eat that target for lunch.The GMX with it's 6'' coil would also clobber that target.My At gold would hit it nice but not as good as those other machines in it's all metal mode.
  22. For you tech.guys is it possible for Minelab to add 60 kz. to the gold modes by doing a update to the current machines ?
  23. I talked to my buddy and the ring cost his wife over $2000 back when Palladium was cheap.I would say it would cost about $ 5000 to replace today.For some reason that At gold likes to make big finds.I heard of a $20,000 ring found by a hunter in our area with that machine.
  24. Back when Palladium was around $400 a man lost his almost 20 gram ring with stones in a shallow bay on a Finger Lake.He called the club and my buddy called me and we made the half hour drive to the spot.He did not know where he lost it in this about 20 acre cove.Armed with my 5by8 coil on My At gold I got a most unusual sound and scooped up his huge ring.I walked over to him since he met us there and I drooped the ring in his hand and asked if this is what you are looking for.This man was so happy because he did not believe he would ever see the ring again.He gave the club a gift of about $150 and since then the price of palladium has hit about $2400.One other time a man on the beach lost his ring just by posing for pictures on the beach. I found it in 20 seconds since I was walking by when they lost it. I said I don't want anything and just kept on hunting down the beach.In this instance a man lost something without even being overly active.The only time I got paid was when i found a young man's key to his sport car which was expensive to replace .I found it in 30 seconds and this guy was very happy.He offered me money but I refused.He kept on insisting so i said I will use it to take my buddy to Wendy' s to celebrate you getting your key back.Me and my buddy used the $20 for a nice meal at Wendy's.One other time someone left a keg on the beach and me and my buddy split the $20 deposit.You never know what adventure the beach will bring you.
  25. In N. Y . me and my buddies call anything we find on the surface a "Duck".
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