Dances With Doves

I like hearing about your success.It should motivate people to have their own success by hearing others who have had it.

I think the Infinium and the TDI started the PI craze at Culpeper . Did any of you ever hunt in a competition hunt their?I think a man with a T2 won the individual point total a couple times.

If the 6000 can hit some of those rope gold chains in the wet sand that would be good.My Infinium does not make a peep on them on a fresh water beach.

I would like to hunt the Ghost town of Drosopagi , Florina ,West Macedonia, Greece where my dad was born.The village was only a 100 years old(1844-1944) but there were many gold coins dropped by air to the troops there plus who knows what else you would find.It is a very isolated spot in the mountains which means you probably would not find anything to old here compared to the rest of Greece.I would like to hit where our house now lays in ruins too.It is a ghost town because the Germans burnt it.My uncle was killed here. I think during the civil war of 1949 that the communists would use it too.

The difference between the 6000 and the Nox is the 6000 will be used in a few specific places by a few specific individuals for 1 specific target(gold) mostly vs. the Nox which is can be used almost anywhere by everybody for all targets and provide good results. The main target for the 6000 is a very valuable target indeed and for those who know how to use it the 6000 will produce good results to offset the cost.

That is a lot of money to spend where their are not to many nugget spots .Will it help relic hunters in hot ground over the other PI machines ?

Thanks Gerry.I wish they kept making the x-terra because it is a fine machine.Offer it with the coil they use for the Nox in 7.5 kz. and with the light 5by 10 18kz.dd coil for a combo price of $499.If their nice put it in the a Nox control box and add a few bells and whistles.It would be a economic prospecting unit that could also hunt for coins nicely with the new 11'' coil it would now come with.

I can see in some cases where the silver is deep and the aluminum is thick that the Explorer can do better. I would like to see you and Raphis get together for a hunt.

I am curious,When you had your Nox did you use 50 tones? My buddy clad hopper used his Explorer 2 for a long time and he made the switch to the Nox.It took him a while to learn the language but he finally got it.He would go back to the explorer when the nox frustrated him but after a while he never went back.He has around 2000 silver and he missed the first 3 years of the explorer party since he got his in may 2003.

The problem with the Explorer was it was a silver coin vacuum cleaner.It was that good.I had about 4 other explorer hunters in my area that were very good and they did a number on the silver coin population in the parks.Most of the silver these days are tougher targets that the explorer missed in the parks.

That is a great piece of history you found,as good as any common seated coin you will find if not better.But then you and Cal seem to find those s mint coins that are awesome to find.Is the ground to hot to bring your deus because of all the wet ground you probably have which would make some of the salty ground to hot?

I scrap the copper I find plus the aluminum and lead.I even scrap some Iron.I roll up the pennies.The scrap yard is next to a Italian food service business that my friends brother owns so i get to kill 2 birds with 1 stone when I go down that way.

To put things in perspective it would take 64 of those nuggets to = the weight of the dime.

By using $1800 for gold and $28 for silver as a base a common dime would have a value of 2.02 and a .6 grain (not gram) nugget would have a value of 2.02 if it was at 90% purity.If you want to know the silver amount of a common dime multiply .07234 times the spot price of silver.A .6 grain nugget is tiny. I would rather find a nugget then a silver dime any day unless it is a very rare silver coin.I imagine you nugget hunters stumble on to a nice coin now and then.I heard Tom Massie found a $20 gold piece when he was nugget hunting.I hope I did my math right.Even with copper surging to $4.06 today a common dime only has .27 cents of copper in it.

I will say my Nox is even though I did well with my Explorer Xs when I had it.I think it is better in most situations and lighter and able to snag coins in the water too.The FBS machines may be better in a few situations but with the silver coin population dwindling I think these days the Nox is better for the tougher coins that are left.You can also change to a single frequency if EMI is a problem.In one part of park the EMI was so bad that it made my buddies explorer almost useless while I did good.For having the FBS technology at a certain time nothing will beat having the Explorer for the time it came out.Having that machine in 2000 helped me clean up even though I probably had about 40% of the skill and knowledge I have today.That machine was way ahead of it's time and made me look good. I did good on silver the first few years I had it and there was a lot of silver left because those machines before it missed them.The FBS machines probably have found more silver then any other machine in the turf by a wide margin. In 1 good year with the explorer I have found more silver then what the Nox could in the 2.5 years that I used it which includes the ones in the water where I could not bring a Explorer.FBS machine will always be legendary for silver coins.

If you are hunting in multi iq and you get a hit in the nickel range and then switch to 5kz. and get a coin hit beware.The shallow sounding high hit is probably a bottle cap but if its a weak sounding high hit it could be a deep nickel or gold ring.You have to consider up averaging in this situation.

Good write up Gerry.Those tailing piles are huge and there has to be more gold since you are only hunting the top. Do they move around those piles so you can find more ?Did you do good with the X-terra on those tailings piles ?Those (Nox and Xterra) machines sound similar so those who hunted with the x- terra were able to adjust to that machine easily.The multi Iq stable id gives the Nox the big advantage over the X-terra.If you forgot the Nox but could choose any other vlf machine what would be your choice for this type of hunting ?Also is the Vanquish able to handle those piles for people who have that machine or those who have limited funds to spend on a machine.

If your in a good cut sometimes it's very easy to find a gold ring as it could be an inch from your coil with no junk around it.If you work the trash in that area you could up your total.If we did your biggest gold ring thread i am sure Joe's Great Lakes monster would be up there.My buddy found that 25 gram gold ring in his first 15 minutes with his new Nox.I see on friendly forum that a man scored with a 31 gram 18k for his first gold ring ever. I find mostly small rings.

If you look in the treasure magazines from about 2000- 2003 you will see Mike in the Minelab Explorer ads.

It is a lot of work to do it but it is fun. I use to mark all the different state quarters but not anymore. I do mark down the date of my wheaties but my buddy does not.I think when my buddies make a great find that I am happier then they are and enjoy their success.If you had fun metal detecting then you had a good day.I would love to find a gold coin in the 1800's.

I agree with you Chase. I go out just for fun an to relax.I like it when my friends do good and all of us can make some finds. I kept records but never really added up my finds. My hunting buddy had all his records on the computer so i wanted to see what I had and how each year changed by where and how I hunted.I got lucky and there were 2 in 1 hole. To get 2 in 2 different spots in 1 day would be something special.Going through my records was like reliving those times again.

That Day is the only day I struck gold coins.I am a 1 hit wonder.One of the guys on that hunt would get a $1 gold piece made into a love token a couple years later and in a town 70 miles east.One old timer told me about a horse track that was used by rich people near the city of Auburn,N.Y. about 80 miles from home.It is in a farm field and we never really checked it out because we forgot what road it was on.We should have wrote it down. He found 1 there,1 at a old Erie canal lock, and 1 at a east Lake Ontario park.If I do research I could probably find it since i now the area it is in.There can't be to many tracks in that area. 2 in 1 week is impressive and you have your s mint coins.I did find a 1895-o barber dime a week before I found the gold coins.

The rings I found were lost before 1687 when the French burnt the village and the Jesuits were now long gone who gave them those rings.

In certain spots i would dig low nickel or gold coin hits if they were deep and sounded a certain way with the Explorer.With my x-terra i would dig all sorts of targets and it got me the most turf gold by far including many chains where there was frolicking like Tom described.

Are Minelab PI so good that the the SD 2100 would have the edge over the Garrett ATX on nuggets ?