Dances With Doves

 Do you guys  ever find Jesuit rings in California in your old spots that you hunt?

12 minutes ago, Tiftaaft said:

I find that very interesting DwD..   so I assume the 6 times with the Explorer was to search turf and high conductors (silver).  The SE Pro was my main machine until the Equinox came out.  Honestly, I learned how to detect with the Explorer, even though I owned an Etrac and CTX before it.  I outlined a pounded park I am targeting this year in another thread... and while I have my E600 and E800 lined up and ready... my Explorer is also fully charged and standing in the starting lineup for my hunts there.... batting "clean-up". 😉 ~Tim

When I use my  explorer in the turf  95% of the times i am going   for   coins. I dig low hits when i am at the beach or in the shallows. I have got a few  gold rings  with it in the  shallows and on the dry sand.  Only about  5 gold in the   turf and 2 of them sounded like   Indians in all those years.I was a silver snob in my early years.

 I was checking to see why my 2001   silver total was so small compared to other full years of hunting. I only used the  explorer 6 times and  I found 48 pieces of gold which means I was putting a lot of time  going for the gold.The  gold amount makes up for the low silver  total so I can't complain.     

 I would   not mind if they put the  ATX in a GMX housing.The Gmx  uses the same battery pack as the  Infinium.Does the Atx use the same one? This would be for beach hunters.

On 2/16/2021 at 4:17 PM, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Very Nice! Love the color!!

  Joe   i am glad you are alive and doing better.My buddy found a pre 1905  10 k gold ring over 25 gram  within 15  minutes of  using his new Nox in the turf so he is in your club of  finding   a ring over 20 grams.  I call it the   OBN club in your honor. I see someone on the friendly forum just found a 31 gram 18k ring so you have a new member in  your club.  

Since there are more coils for the Apex then the   Vanquish,are you able to get the same depth or more in the ground you hunt  with the Apex  ?

i checked my pre  Jefferson nickel count for 2020 and  I had 25 which included 5 in one day while water hunting the ghost pier.They were mostly  buffalo's. In 2020  I also found 41 pieces of silver jewelry and 1 small sterling spoon.That is 161   total silver for the year if you count anything silver.The nox is the best silver jewelry machine  that   I ever  had because it  finds all sizes of silver very well. The fbs machines won't  hit the smaller pieces  as well.

I was 35 and while watching the   gold fever show I decided to join and I drove the 45 miles to the man who was head of the local chapter who happen to own Wilson 's metal detectors.I went home with a Bandito 2 U max and I was  hooked.I liked panning for gold too but it was easier to  go detecting because the good  spots were much closer.

I have 8.A  tesoro bandito 2 umax,a  explorer xs that is dead,a x-terra  70,Nox 800,Garrett infinium,Tesoro tiger  shark that needs to be fixed, A  AT gold, and a Gmx.All have paid for themselves but the Gmx.

 I know Emi makes a difference since I always play with my deep dime in my   test garden.When the Emi is really high the target sounds bad.

On 2/15/2021 at 9:06 AM, GB_Amateur said:

What, no 1894-S?  😁  I noticed you have several keys & semi-keys of the Barber Dime series.  Have you ever put them in a Whitman folder?  I'm curious how many slots you'd fill (and how many would remain empty).  Maybe half and half?

Those of us who didn't participate in the heyday of coin detecting knew that we missed a lot, but reports like yours are quantitative evidence of something few experienced and maybe almost no one will ever get to do again.  Thanks for this series.

I did get a 1894- o  last year so i came close . I guess  that they only know about 12 out of the 24 and  one was very worn which means it circulated for many years.i bet there is a couple waiting for a hunter and some buried in the debris from the 1906 quake.I have not put them in a folder.You also have  condition keys where the nice ones are worth a good amount.I wish they  never made the v nickel and instead made a barber  half dime.i love  Barber coins.I forgot to mention that i did find a 1894-s quarter last year.Close but no cigar.

On 2/15/2021 at 10:24 AM, kac said:

Beaches up here are hit hard so I never plan on finding anything. Current is very dangerous so even wading can get you swept out when the tide starts to rip. Most the hunting is just cuts. Still nice to get out when everything else is frozon.

Stuff on the shore is ice, probably loaded with rings hahah. I'll pack a pick next time out 🙂

With your big tides(big above Cape Cod  )you are covering good ground at low  tide since  at high tide these spots you hunt  would be over your head  but low tide just wet  sand. I imagine in the winter you have to play it very safe.I loved fishing in The Martha's Vineyard derby and  how you have to respect the power of the ocean.I fly  fished the last time there and those darn Albies broke me off 4 times in a row.They are very strong fish.

 The nickel has a melt value of  about  5.4  cents so it holds true face value and costs the mint money to make it now. I found 338 nickels in 2020.I found 13 at the beach one day.

Nice picture. It looks like a calm lake. In lake Ontario    you would have to go a long way off shore to get open water because of the ice pack.Having a ocean gives you a  option in winter and what a good option that is.You lucky guy.

I added up my Barber coin total and I have 336 coins.The best one was the 1895-o key date  !

47 minutes ago, Hardtimehermit said:

Actually the old cloths line ran 90 degrees to existing fence, because i have learned the lot next door was originally part of this property and i recall a old metal cloths line frame on the other side of the fence, so my problem with getting permission to hunt next door is just the fact the renter is building a tiny house, that's taken 2 years and counting so some day i will get a chance.  

 I found the only silver coin in my yard under the cloth line.

   I wish they made all nickels until 1964 like the  way they made the war nickel.They would have come out  in better shape from the  ground  and they would have silver.I have found a lot of war nickels and they only made them  4 years.

I also have all 3 concentric coils with the x-terra and the 6'' 18kz. dd and the 5 by 10 dd and only the 10'' dd broke.I used it in  a stubble  field just before it broke and in the thick woods a lot.It was my favorite coil for that machine on coins and with my luck the only one that broke.It did get me 7 Jesuit rings a month before it broke. I probably can fix it if I  try but the nox lowers  my motivation to put in the time to fix it.

  I would not mind if they made that little 4.5 inch sniper concentric coil for the 24k/ Gmx.It would be a  sweet coil for the tot lots and hot on tiny  nuggets in mild ground.

9 minutes ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

I do quite a bit of water hunting each time I get to MX, Bahamas and HI.  I have used larger coils and do get better depth for the heavy gold or platinum rings.  But the weight of the coil in water is not an issue.  We can all move heavier objects in water than on land and I can move a heavy coil in water easier than on land just as well.  One thing to mention most don't realize, unless they do it.  The heavier coil does not get tossed around in the moving surf as easy as a lighter coil and the heavier coil seems to snug the bottom better, allowing for best depth.

These pics were of me using the 14x9" coil for the CTX 3030 on a MX hunt a few years back.  

On a side note, I agree with Trevor.  If you want best depth. then go the lighter 15" round coil.

Just so those who don't know, I have all 3 versions on order and waiting for them to arrive.

Hi  Jerry.Are the ears  on the  Coiltech   coils  better then the Minelab ones.A 15 inch coil will be nose heavy and you want stronger ears.My  x-terra coil broke it's ears in a year and a half of use because it was nose heavy and the ears were weak (10'' 7.5 kz dd coil.)

Is the GPX rainproof and can it handle the salt air better then other Minelab Pi machines not  counting the waterproof one they have. 

If Garrett comes out with a At apex  type machine( higher end machine)  with a all metal mode how much are you willing to pay considering  what the price for a Nox is at this point ?Would you pay $900.Also would you buy one early or   watch what field  tests reveal.         

My dad had a restaurant and from 1967 to 1973 he pulled out about 15 pounds of silver.He sold them to his cousin for only 3  times face value to his cousin in 2001.I did pull out all the silver dollars before  he sold them.I would  have bought the rest if he told me.Even in the 80' and early 90's me and my cousin would pull out about  20 silvers each in a year.  

 To tell   the truth with all the different quarters and $1 dollar coins being  made filling up a book would be fun  by trying  to get them with a detector.  Keep the best looking one you have for the book and spend the rest .Remember   those West point quarters are a circulating clad coin  and it is  valuable.