Pyriteboy

.....well no, actually, I killed the monkey that was riding my back for the last 15+ days detecting (3 years) without joy. The Axiom lent the assist that was needed to get back amongst the living. First time out with the Axiom in tough ground, this modest .60 grammer saw the light of day, from 5" down. This is a big step up from the PI I was using previous. I used the 11 x 7 mono and was impressed with the hot top corners. Started out at sens 4 but got a little conservative and fell back to a stable sens 3. I can see that once you get some time on the Axiom, you will be more comfortable in pushing its limits. My confederates who run 2300's were impressed with how hot the 11 x 7 was.

That is a very sweet result for sure. Question: can you tell me what the difference is in the background audio between the 2300 and the Axiom on sensitivity 4? -Jerry

Great way to round out the year- a nice series of hunts for sure.... -Jerry

I may use different words than some of you, but the ideas are the same: 1. Operator.................45% 2. Location.................30% 3. Detector.................15% 4. Luck........................5% 5. Valium.....................5% -Jerry

TDI's now sell for around $1000.00. I know, 'cause I just sold mine and have tracked the sales for the last few months. Just bought an Axiom and took it out for its initial shake-down voyage to the California desert. I do not regret this purchase. -Jerry

I also like the ring......the weight is nice; congrats on the gold score....... -Jerry

Hope to see many of you there..... -Jerry

Nice silver pull for the less-than-ideal conditions....you don't see those every day. -Jerry

Nice surprise after the fact, George. Bummer older stuff was not showing, maybe they were just skimming the first 12"? -Jerry

Thanks, Carolina, for posting this news, sad as it may be. I always remind myself how lucky I am to have found one of Eric's Aquasearch v.2 detectors. -Jerry

Josh Reinke all the way....... -Jerry

I would have over-dosed on pain meds trying to dig that many targets-good God man.......considering General Principle or Stoner's Luck, more gold should have ended up in the scoop for your effort.... -Jerry

That's a nice hunt with lots of different targets. Do Zinclons always have the widest numeric spread on multi-freak machines?....asking for a simpleminded PI user...... -Jerry

Very nice gold......yep, when aluminum comes out of the ground gold is usually nearby.... -Jerry

Nice assortment of finds & rings- I think you deserved a little more gold for the time put in.... -Jerry

I love looking at treasure......nice gold score and congrats on the overall great outing... -Jerry

2-3 hours a week.... -Jerry

After finding the David Yurman Bracelet I took weeks off detecting in order to recover from a nagging pulled muscle in my middle back. A few days ago I went to a local beach to test the back and see if there was anything to be had in the wet. One spot had several good sounding targets that turned out to be quarters and dimes, + a few pieces of deep iron that fooled me. After walking down the beach aways I returned to this spot and started a tight grid going in the other direction. I quickly pulled out a junk silver plated ring, and just a foot away, this bomber came up for air. Emanuele Bicocchi designer .925, weighing in at a more that respectable 20 grams. Short 2 hour hunt. Still 0 for 2022 on the gold, but I'm OK with this. -Jerry

Way to go on the silver + rings, George.......man, it's going to be smoking hot inland for the next 6 days or so.....I suggest cooling your heels at the coast.... -Jerry

Gold and silver, what else is there to say?....excellent... -Jerry

.......$2400.....wow, I did not realize your chain was 2 grand! I'll have to go and take another look at your photo.... Thanks George- the bracelet is the nicest thing I have ever found at the beach. Gotta love that designer .925 jewelry. I am "scheduled" to throw down on the Axiom, so this will help defray some of the cost.... Thanks Strick, funny thing, I had been using the stock 12" Dual Field coil at the beach but it just died so on went the 8 x 11 Razorback straight mono. Big improvement with signal strength ID, sensitivity and weight. VL, the gold is close, but I do have to get out more so the odds work in my favor. Got a bad muscle issue below the ribcage that will not let up....started getting sports massages in order to function. Went out a few days ago to test the back, the results of which will be covered in a new post....

5 trips to the desert detecting with no gold.....my last beach gold was late last winter......oh sure, this summer I've found my share of silver and junk gold plate like all of you but that's it. Recently I decided to change things up and go back to where it all started for me on the beach- dry sand hunting at night with a gold detector. I set my TDI up on "Low Conductor" in order to only hear the high tone targets. This of course means you hear pull tabs, twist-offs, gold, nickels, etc.....no silver, dimes, quarters, and the like. The TDI will however, go into freak-out audio when you run across a quarter on the surface. I sometimes dig these signals if boredom kicks in. Anyway, I hunt dry sand by locating a good trash zone, and then griding tightly as if you were on a gold patch. Good trash to me is aluminum, deep rusted twist-offs and deep nickels. At the beach I was searching there was nothing along the towel line- not even any trash. I started working the zone behind the towel line, going back beyond the lifeguard towers. No consistent targets there either, so it was time to venture into no-man's land, where I immediately recovered an 18k gold filled chain. Here I picked up a nice trash debris field which contained deep nickels and deep aluminum. That's when I popped out a stainless ring, and griding low and slow, got this loud freak-out target response on the TDI. 3 things I knew about the target- it was large, close to the surface, and not gold. 1 shallow scoop and the bracelet was in my pocket- thought it was a bling watch until returning home to see the hallmark.....David Yurman Albion .925 diamond bracelet. Not gold, but I'm going to stretch the mileage of this find until the gold shows up.....Jerry

6 rings and gold, nice to get that 2nd gold after the drought, Mitchell....may I ask, were you following the tide down or on the high? -Jerry

Gold is great, George...nice to get that chain kicker for a double. By using the Excal, what kind of signals/targets are you not digging? -Jerry

Nice display of good targets.....if the gold was around, you would have found it... -Jerry