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    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This V.2

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    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

     

     

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    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This

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    2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

    I looked and looked and couldn't find a page.  What value did it have?

    I know my DY chain and tag come to $2 thousand but this has to be more.

    .......$2400.....wow, I did not realize your chain was 2 grand! I'll have to go and take another look at your photo....

    6 hours ago, Compass said:

    Holy cow Jerry what an amazing find! - I had no idea those things cost so much. You could sell that and buy several nice gold rings. Congrats!!! 😮

    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....

     

    12 hours ago, strick said:

    Thats a great find! better then a a lot of gold rings that we can find...nice work for sticking it out and not giving up...love the TDI its in my stable  

    strick  

    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.

     

    20 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

    Very nice find and it is telling you that gold is very close by.

    Good luck and I hope you find the gold on your next outing.

    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....

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    World Class Gold-less Slump Continues, But I'm O.k. With This

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    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

     

     

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    First Post Goldquest Aquasearch V.2 Lessons For Beginners

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    Hi Clive,

    I bought a box and a few extra gaskets. The new gasket fits the channel, and closing the box seems to be a tight seal. The box appears to be an exact copy of the original Eric used. GSI put their name all over the box, but sadly if you look carefully, you will find Made in China.

    Hi George,

    There are not many used beach pulse machines available in the entire country now.....what happened to the choices we used to have?.....gold machines, kinda the same thing right now......It's a good thing when your 3rd string pulse is the PI Pro....

    -Jerry

    First Post Goldquest Aquasearch V.2 Lessons For Beginners

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    Hi to All,

    Not much meat on the bones here for the experienced hunter, so read on at your own boredom.

    I did not realize that I had never posted on Steve's site before, so part of pinning this on the board is to escape the Lurker rap. 

    The other reasons for posting? So we can review common sense principles that I wandered away from that you should respect:

    • Always power up your detector before leaving the house
    • Always run a target over the coil of your detector before you leave the house
    • Have a backup detector and always take it with you when you leave the house
    • If you choose not to have a backup and have only one detector that is a rare older design that nobody repairs, grief is in your future

    At the beach over a week ago my detector would turn on but not respond to targets run over the coil. The machine in question is an Eric Foster Goldquest Aquasearch v.2, which is a pure PI designed for beach/shallow water only. No many around anymore, no parts available and few if any work on them. Bad place to be, and I put myself there without anyone's help. What I realized right away is buying a top shelf backup PI right now is next to impossible- they do not exist in number. Garrett buying out White's made the TDI Beach Hunter scarce, plus everyone is holding their Dual Fields and/or Surf PI's. The used detector market is hotter than the used car market. Thanks, but no Seahunter or 7lb ATX for me. It may be a multi-freq machine is in my future because it is the only viable option- we shall see.

    As for the Goldquest Aquasearch, after many failed inquiries I found that East Texas Metal Detectors works on Eric Foster machines. Thank you Steve H. for the suggestion (via earlier post search). All is well for now in Redondo Beach.

    -Jerry

     

     

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