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2 hours ago, F350Platinum said:
Yes, on both, one is black and one is red. Can't find them but did find these for ya:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/115902573134
Do you remember the ID on the Franklin? Probably 99...
Thanks for the link I’ll check those out. I remember seeing 98. There was iron grunts coming through too. I was in program 3 with sense at 95 and reactivity anywhere from 1-3. I don’t recall what I had the reactivity set at when I found it.
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Indians are very rare for me. I’ve probably only found around 15 in my 8 years metal detecting. Congrats on a nice one!
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7 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:
Rolling in silver, NC! Congrats. 🏆 Been a while since we've seen one that good from anyone!
Hope you enjoy your "6". Great pinpointer. 🙂
Thanks Bob! Btw, do you have a tip protector on your mi6, and if so, where did you get it? Thanks!
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22 minutes ago, JCR said:
That is a good hunt. All in nice condition too. You know there is more.....
Thanks JCR! Heading back tomorrow!
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The largest lake in my county is about 30 minutes away and they’ve lowered it for the winter. First time I ever hunted this lake was last weekend at a small beach area. Only got clad and it’s included along with today’s clad.
I started off at that same swimming area. It’s pretty small and I got all the high conductors last weekend so today I dug medium and low conductors. I got a scratchy mid 30s signal and out popped a gold earring. After I got home I confirmed a 14k stamp on the little hinged piece that goes through the ear.
I then moved down the shore and came to an open space about 40 yards worth of shoreline between houses on the shore. I soon hit a wheatie. Then not 5 minutes later I hit three silver dimes all within 3’ feet of each other. Probably a spill. After those three I say to myself “game on”!! About 20-30 minutes later I got a nice sounding 94 and up pops a ‘56 GW! Right next to it along with a bunch of iron grunts was a 90-91 and another silver rosie! I kept scanning that area and through the iron grunts I’m getting a high tone with mid to high 90s numbers popping on the screen. I dig down and up comes a 1960 big ben! Most likely another spill.
To top things off, when I got home my new MI6 pinpointer was in the mailbox!- 24
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I took today off work and had a great plan to hunt a local creek that gets thousands of people tubing down it in the summer. Today was a great day as near record high temps were forecasted. This creek has a dam about 5 or 6 miles upstream and they open the dam each day during the summer for tubing and into the fall for kayakers. I had checked the dam’s website and the dam was supposed to stay closed until next spring. However about a half hour after I got in the water, the water level started rising very quickly. Maybe they opened it because it was so warm. There were a bunch of kayakers in the parking lot when I left. So I resorted to plan B and went to a park that I’ve hunted many, many times and have found a lot of silver coins there, but they’re getting harder and harder to find. But I did get a 1924 merc and a nice sterling hair clip. Silver always lightens my mood! Lol
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15 hours ago, pavelka72 said:
The problem is how to insert it, not because they didn't copy the SPHINX Magnetic correctly, but because of the design of the holster. You can't hit the hole in the holster the first time. This was the case in my youth, but here it is impossible to learn. You lose all the time you saved on shutdown... The devil is in the details :)
I had the same problem myself with the Pro Max. The hole in the bottom of the holster has an inner shelf that catches the tip of the pinpointer making one have to fidget with it to drop through and fully seat. I took some epoxy putty and filled that so that the tip of the pinpointer can’t catch on it anymore. Works great now.
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Dude! You deserve a double hell yeah in all caps!
HELL YEAH! HELL YEAH!!
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What an awesome coin! Congrats!
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I guess I’m the odd one out in that I wish they would come out with a round 6” coil if it’s possible to make one. I love the 6” on my nox!
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Great restoration job! Looks spendable now! LOL😅
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Nice Bob! That’s a nice looking gold ring and two silvers on top of that!
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4 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:
I am curious about the Nokta Accupoint since we can't get the Russian Sphinx 03. I really haven't missed the ferrous ID since getting the MI-6, but I recently thought of a useful scenario for ferrous/non-ferrous discrimination. So if the Accupoint can meet or exceed the depth of my MI-6 in my soil and discriminate accurately, then I'll probably snag one, unless the MI-7 comes out with ferrous/non-ferrous descrimination. 😏
But I'll probably wait for @F350Platinum to do his in depth report first! 😉
First I’ve heard of the Nokta accupoint. Was it released recently?
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A couple of “Hell Yeah!) hunts for sure! I’d be hyperventilating too😄
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On 10/19/2023 at 12:16 AM, King-Of-Bling said:
Great hunt. Looks like my hunts with the greenies and trash. Bottom ring is Christian Dior. Most are plated , some are solid. Still worth a few $$. I have found several over the years.
I was thinking CD as Calabash Digger😂
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I recently bought a quest Xpointer max and carry it on every hunt, but I mostly end up using my old, reliable whites TRX. It’s (the TRX), much more sensitive to small foil than the Xpointer and deeper too. This with the Xpointer on boost. When I first got the Xpointer I would pull it out first and sometimes it wouldn’t pick up anything. Then I’d pull out the TRX and I’d get a hit. After this happening a few times I noticed a pattern; either the target was small foil or it was deeper and the Xpointer couldn’t hit it. I still carry it every hunt and use it occasionally but the TRX gets turned on first the majority of the time. I do like the much better volume on the Xpointer and it’s adjustability and its discrimination feature. Speaking of that disc feature; it sometimes calls small aluminum ferrous, but it’s never called a coin ferrous. I’m probably going to get an MI6 so I can hear it through the deus headphones.
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Hell yeah! That’s a great haul! May I ask what part of the country you’re in?
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Very nice!
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1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:
Thank for your settings, NCt! That's similar to the Silver Slayer program that I use for parks, but I haven't used the sensitive programs much and have been experimenting more with them lately. I'll give your program a try, thanks again!
You’re welcome CPT! I hope it works well for you. Don’t be afraid to change up those notch settings to your personal preferences. Let us know how it works for you.
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Here’s a program I set up for hunting schools, sports fields and parks for shallower coins and rings. This is for quick paced hunting.
This program is based off of the sensitive program but could be based off others too, to suit your needs. For example it could be based off the general (1) program if your soil is really damp or wet.
Tones-pitch
disc-7
Notch-(7-40), (70-82). I’ve played around with different notch parameters and I like this setup, but use your personal prefences for what you intend to hunt.
Silencer-5 (You could max this out at 7, but I haven’t noticed much if any falsing at 5)Bottlecaps-5
sensitivity-95
Frequency MAX-40khz
Iron Volume-0
Reactivity-3
Audio Response-1
Audio Type-PWM
This program runs extremely quietly, but still hits targets hard. Like I said above, you can modify your notches to the site. If there’s lots of foil, raise the lower value of the first notch up into the 50s. Unless you notch out the lower 60s, you’re going to dig a lot of square tabs but also a lot of nickels. I dug 23 nickels today. I also watch the numbers and decide to dig based on how jumpy they are. This is not a deep program. This is for clad and rings in trashy areas.
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1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:
NCtoad!!! 🥳
Great job man, that's a lot of digging. 👍 I was averaging about $10 a day at the campground so I feel the ache. Sadly no good rings just junk.
I just waved the 13" under the benches, if I got a blip I went after it with the MI-6. Much better idea to pull the coil.
You don't have a lot of "freshies" in that pile 'o' clad so it looks like you're hitting the deeper stuff. 🙂
Good to see ya back!
Thanks F350! Everything under the bleachers is around 1 inch or less. In the grassy areas around the school buildings I’d say the average depth is 2-5”.
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1 hour ago, rvpopeye said:
Hope the test scratch doesn't dissolve🧐
Like the look of those bleachers !
The ones here have too many cross braces..But I get under there anyway....
There’s a lot of cross braces on these bleachers too, just ask my head! Lol
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EDIT: Acid test says it’s between 14k and 18k!
Haven’t been posting much the past few months as I haven’t been finding much to post about. Doesn’t mean I haven’t been out detecting though! I’ve been hitting the woods a lot and I got a permission to a 1940s house that gave up one merc and I keep going over my usual sites, but they’re not producing.
Today I hit the local high school. I’ve pulled well over $100 in clad out of there and had my best clad day there with about $33 in one hunt. Today I got 4 rings, two junkers, a .925, and one more that I’m pretty sure is gold. It’s not marked but I took a small file the inside and didn’t see a color change after filing a small groove. It rang up a solid 51 on the D2. Got that one and two of the others under the home bleachers. Also got $9.90 in clad! Which is pretty good since I hit this place so often.
Gotta love the deus2 for being able to remove the coil and lower stem while crawling on my hands and knees under the bleachers! I got a gold acid test kit on the way so I’ll be testing that ring and will update this post once I test it.
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10k On The Tubing River
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There’s a very popular river that has literally thousands of people that tube down it in the summer. It’s fed from a dammed lake about 5 miles upstream. In the spring, summer and fall they open the dam gates to raise the river level for the tubers and kayakers. They finally quit opening the dam for the winter so I donned my hip boots and took the nox with the 6” coil. It only got up to 46 degrees today so needless to say I was cold. It’s very hard to dig between all the rocks so I had to roll up my sleeve to retrieve the items I found. My scoop is nearly useless. Got a nice titanium ring early on and was just about ready to quit for the day when a solid 11 signal ended up being a 10k ladies ring. Look at all the vapes in this river (really just a creek). This is a trout stream!