Dances With Doves

Hi Steve.That is a awesome find.The variety of finds you can find in Europe is mind boggling.Would you say you enjoyed hunting the fields in England as much you do nugget hunting. If Greece had in England's treasure laws that could get some winter tourists there to hunt the fields.Summer is way to hot there to do it then.

In 2009 i would still water hunt a lot plus went for turf gold more.I also tried to find silver with the xterra with the coils that I had which helped in bringing my silver total for that year down to 50 by not being as good and me going for the challenge in trying to get silver with it.I would get 12 Barber coins this year.My explorer stock coil would break early in this year and I would use the 7'' coil for most of my Explorer hunts.I did find in a private farm field that use to have a old 1 room school house a silver Constable badge that had the town written in script.What a find. It is probably from the 1870 and is a town where my buddy would have ancestors (Dutch).It is no longer a town by that name. in 2009 i would get 50 indians including 15 in 1 day.

In 2008 I would buy a Tesoro tiger shark and a x-terra 70. I paid 798 for the x-terra in November and got a carrying case and a 5by 10 18kz. coil plus a 9'' 3kz coil for that price which =$400 in extra coils . I would still water hunt a lot and do good there.I would find 113 silver coins that year with a record for me of 14 in 1 day after a buddy from a different town brought us to a certain park .He though him and his buddy had pretty much had cleaned it out.I would find 12 barber coins that year. The Xterra would get 3 silver at the end of the year.The explorer found most of them.The explorer was much better in most situations on silver compared to the xterra and the 9'' 7 kz. stock coil.This xterra was a good machine if you learned how to use it and where to use it with it's different combos.I would get 81 Indians in 2008.

I wonder if that was the cost to use the beach house to change.

In 2007 I would still water hunt a lot but this year we traveled out of town a lot to Buffalo and a eastern Finger lake town. I would end up with 107 silver coins this year with the infinium getting about 10 again in the water and out of it.I found 27 Barbers this year because of the out of town trips.I would get 175 Indians with a few 10 plus days on them out of town.At this point I am over the 1000 coin mark the way Tom described.

In 2006 I would spend a lot of time water hunting and got 79 silver coins but only 6 barber coins.The infinium got about 10 silver coins with a few in the water.This is the year we found the cache and the main clusters of them. They were on land and in the nearby shallow pond along the shore. My total for the cache was 542 that were all dimes except for 2 quarters and 1 war nickel. I did real good on the gold in the water too. Total silver with the cache=621.Makes up for the low Barber count. in 2006 I would find 63 indians.

In 2005 I would dip below the 100 silver mark with 80 coins.I would get 18 barber coins. I would try water hunting in june in Lake ontario for a week with no luck. I would hunt a park in a other town with a buddy on a hot august day and he would get 2 gold in the turf.He motivated me and and next day on a calm and clear lake ontario I would get a big gold ring within 15 minutes and I was hooked plus I had a bigger scoop.I would get a 100 gram 10k rapper medal plus a 3/4 ounce 24 k chain with medallion after this.I would mostly hunt in the water after this .The gold made up for the loss in silver.The infinium even got 2 silver coins in a finger Lake plus a few on the dry sand using the Steve H method by digging the low-hi hits.In 2005 I would get 38 indians.

In 2004 I found 106 silver coins and this would be the last full year that I did not water hunt.I would buy a Garrett Infinium early in 2005.My Barber coin total would drop to 19.I would get 133 indians in 2004.

It seems so far for the price that people think it is a above average detector.

That small gold is impressive skookum.Did you every try the 40kz. on the Nox to try to find those inner ring fly poop specks.

Hi Tom. What was your total from your spilled cache on silver about?

My silver count would drop to 142 in 2003 but I would get 216 Indians.I would get 32 Barber coins and we met up with the Minelab explorer Guru Mike Moutray and we took him to a spot since he was not from around here.That day i found 2 $2.5 dollar gold coins in 1 hole with both 1909 dates.He found the most coins though including his first 3 cent silver.The week before I scored a 1895-o key date barber dime and for the icing on the cake a Seated half in December. One of my favorite years ever.

How would you rate it's performance for the places and way you like to hunt so far at a scale of 0-10 ? 10 being the highest.

We have to remember they probably pay Minelab a cut for every coil which =higher price. Coitech offered 15 inch orange coils for the x-terra for a high price.Minelab then offered the same coil in black after some time at a much cheaper price. It could happen hear too after some time.

That vanquish 7by 10 coil would have made a great water hunting coil for the nox.It would have good coverage,good depth and it would cut through the water better then the 11''.It would also be lighter for those hunting the dry sand where a lighter machine means less pain with ample coverage still available.

Hi Raphis.Are you able to keep up with your buddy Jamflicker and his FBS machine vs. your Nox.He seems to be doing good and has more years on that machine?

Hi Steve.Do you know how many people in Africa use a metal detector in Africa for their lively hood.

In 2002 I would have my record year for silver at 244 coins. I would get 168 Indians and 1073 wheat penny's. I would get a Civil war belt plate and many 3 ringed bullets in this Northern town.I would also get my first draped bust large cent which was dated 1800.I ended up with 38 Barber coins and got my first bust dime that was to worn to get a date. I also got a mint 50 cent silver from a country in South America with a 1917 date.I had about 10 seated dimes that year. At this point in time clad hopper was still using his Garrett 2500 and I only hunted a couple of times with him at club hunts at this point(main hunting partner now).He would get his explorer 2 in May 2003 and would clobber silver the next 17 years with this machine.I would guess at this point he is under 100 silver for his career .

In 2001 winter was tough here in Rochester and I did not get my first silver until march 9.That year I found my first 3 cent piece(2 in 1 hole ) my first Spanish silver and my only Morgan dollar plus first seated half dime.I ended up with 211 silver coins that year.My Barber count went down to 30 but I did find a 1901-s dime.I also found my first Carson city dime that year.I was happy hitting 200 but other explorer hunters started around here and they were good and they would take a good chunk of silver.I would become friends with most of them.In 2001 I had 222 indians which should be my record for a year.

I started out the year 2000 with almost 10 hunts in January with a few wheaties in this overgrown hill old camp that was between a pond and a creek.I found a Canadian Large cent and a few wheaties here with the Bandito and then the snow came in heavy and shut it down.At this time I got an early run Explorer before the ran out of them because of demand and this lasted a few month for that machine. I can say that having this type of machine at this time made a newbie like me look good.The first time at this camp I found a Barber dime and Merc. and I was just going for solid signals.I did not know what a good iffy signal was yet.I had 6 silver in my first 4 hunts which including my first Barber Quarter too. I had in that year 190 silver coins and got my first beach and turf gold .The turf gold was a about 6 gram 24k medallion. I had many old silvers that were older>Barbers,seated or old Canadian.I had a total of 57 Barber coins with a 1895 and 1897-o Barber dime found within the first month of me using the Explorer with a 1895-s coming at the end of the year.Thank you minelab for offering this machine at that time. All my old coins show what those other machines missed and made a newbie look good.I hunted a lot that year and was not a water hunting yet.I did hunt the dry sand about 20 times and spent time at a school because it was very close and they tore up the back.Barbers were very scarce at this school.In 2000 I found a 160 indians

I used a 5by8 on my At gold and that coil would swing very nice in the water and the area we hunt is a half mile by about 400 yards area that you can walk out a good distance when the water is low.It would swing much better then the Nox 11 coil.I imagine the coiltech 5 by 10 will do the same.

f2-0 for coins and f2-7 when the bottle caps get numerous in my finger lake when I am hunting gold.

I dug out my records and went back to the beginning.The first hunt of my career was on June 20 1999 with a bandito 2 umax I bought from Wilson metal detectors.I did not get my first silver for almost 20 hunts and that was with parks still loaded with them.I did not know how to hunt for them plus picked the wrong spots at first. I also was hunting the beach a lot so that did not help.I was able to get a feel for hunting coins with that machine and picked spots where the coins were shallower. I ended up with 19 silver for that half year of hunting which I did often.I did get 2 Standing Liberty quarters though. I found 6 indians in 1999 including 1 15 minutes after it got dark on dec.31 to end the century.I found 4 barber coins this year.

In 2017 I found only 53 silver coins.The explorer 2 in the turf and the At gold in the water found most of them with the x-terra 70 with the 7.5 kz concentric getting only 2 of those.The x-terra 70 in my area did not do well with that stock coil in most situations.My 10.5'' 7.5 kz coil broke the year before on that machine and that coil on that machine improved it's performance more then any combo that I ever used for coins. This is a instance where a coil made all the difference. This was the least amount of time that I ever hunted by far.At least 50% less then year before. I only had 8 Indians in 2017. In 2017 i found 2 barber coins and they were found on the same day.

The new 15'' coil in 4kz. might be a very deep combo in good dirt.I remember one person saying he got more depth on silver with his 15'' 3kz. coil for his x-terra then he got with the 13by17'' coil for his Ctx.I had a faulty 13'' nel tornado in 7.5 kz for only 2 weeks and it got me the deepest wheatie I ever dug in the turf with my x-terra 70 . I heard that the Mars coils were also very deep for the X-terra.