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  1. Good Thread Everyone,

       I have been experimenting with different settings, and ferrites. I have a different ferrite that falls within Minelabs GPZ 7000 specs, that seems to be working pretty good. Also, would be cool to incorporate an audio / O'scope screen option, to see when you need rebalance... I know semi pretty much does that when properly balanced to ferrite and ground, but I noticed you still need to constantly rebalance due to varying conditions, EMI, soil type, ect..

     

     

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    P.S. I tried this new ferrite Ring, but it didnt work to well...

     

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  2. 38 minutes ago, phoenix said:

    Dave apparently the hole operation is just one man.

    davsgold wrote "The guy making the coils is hand making each coil, and is very particular about his work, and so this is why the batches of coils getting made are not in large quantities.  He does not have a web site."

    Hmmmmm ???? ?

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  3. Good article Mitchel,

      Nevada is loaded with Arsenic.... working for the water district, Arsenic is always present in the water here, and concentrated in different places. A lot of places and mines out here in the desert have it. A good indication of Arsenic is the slight smell of garlic when a rock is broke open with a rock hammer, just very deadly to be smelling the stuff... ?

    Dave

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  4. 1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

    Dave,

    I posted it up at the end of last year.  He did pass.  He was a Vietnam Marine.  He was buried at the Riverside National Cemetery with a gun salute.  I attended.  He knew it was coming so he was 'prepared' by having removed his valuables from that house.

    I miss Jim.

    Mitchel

    Sorry to hear that.... Oh man Jim was a good guy, he talked about you when I saw him. I have family buried at the Riverside National Cemetery very nice veterans cemetery....

    Thanks Mitchel,

    Dave

  5. On 3/11/2019 at 8:18 PM, mn90403 said:

    Just up the road from where the Lytle Creek GPAA claims are they have a few near Coolgardie. 

    Mitch,

      What happened to the old miner guy that lived out in Coolgardie, I think his name was Jim, or something like that, I heard he passed away?? I met him once prospecting out there a few years ago, real nice guy...

    Dave

  6. On 3/11/2019 at 5:22 PM, mn90403 said:

    Dave,

    You are not old enough to have been detecting in the 80's!  You right about Lytle Creek.  I was there last year and put my pick with a magnet down in one place and got 30 steel casing on it and could have had 100 more if there had been room on the magnet.

    Julie, Dave is a guy you could learn a lot from about meteorites, gold and metal detectors.  If you ever get a chance to go to an outing where he and his dad are going to be you should go.  It may not be in California.

    Dave, invite her for a hunt.  It will change the way she thinks about gold.

    Mitchel

    Thanks for compliment Mitch.... Im older than you think , hehe... pushin 50 soon.... ? I grew up in Riverside, California,  I lived back in all the hills all around Riverside off roading, detecting, ect in the 80's and 90s. , the old man still lives there.

      Steve runs a pretty good forum here, and love all the people here with their advice. Julie, like Mitch said,  if your ever in the Vegas area, send me a message, could take you at to some spots to detect, also if you ever get a chance to get out with Mitchel hes very knowledgeable in almost everything from beach hunting to gold and meteorite hunting.... and hes probably closer to you than me. Hope you get the coil over some gold, so you can post on here, love seeing finds...

     Theres still gold in California, just need more patience with so many bullets and trash.

    Dave

  7. 11 hours ago, jinmon said:

    So I set out to find the tiniest piece of birdshot I could find. I mean, I WOULD have looked for gold but we all know that’s a crock. 

    SUCCESS!!! That Kevin guy might know a thing or two about metal detecting for lead, if only he’d stop pretending he’s talking about gold. Check out my haul from a few hours in the claims at Cajon Pass (note this is only the small stuff - I was already an expert in finding shell casings from an hour on Lytle Creek):

     

     

    Jinmon,

      Good to see your getting all that birdshot and lead, everything is working right, you just need to get the coil over gold. Lytle Creek- I used to go there in the 80's and shoot and pan for gold. Is everyone and their brother in southern california still using it as a shooting range?? They should change the name to Lead Creek.  If you dont get out more than 3 or 4 hours away from the citys in california, your gonna come across so much trash and bullets with a detector it will drive you crazy..... 

    Dave

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  8. On 3/2/2019 at 8:18 PM, Aureous said:

    The metal in meteorites is usually Taenite or Kamacite, both Nickel/iron alloys. These will not be tracked out unless miniscule in size and at depth. Some (much rarer) meteorites are non or low  metallic and can  give a negative, hot-rock type response. A few Carbonaceous Chondrites and LL Chondrites fall into this category. Best bet is to be certain which area has what type of meteorite known already, and 'tune your ear' accordingly. 

    Aureous,

      I've ran vlf's before with auto ground balancing on, and had Chondrites track out, to include LL's to H's large and small, buried and on top,  after 2 or 3 sweeps of the coil. Like others say, disable auto, but then your going to be tuning a lot more frequent, as you go through different geology. Like Lunk says, a throwdown, and many hours practicing is your best bet. If your hunting Irons, cover your ears ??

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  9. 2 hours ago, Swegin said:

    Have you had a chance to read it?   How was it if you did?   I have a feeling it would get the brain going.

    Hi Swegin, 

      Yes read the manual. A lot of good info in there. He talks a lot about his adventures, starting since a young age with his dad in the depression era, to late 90's when he published. Would love to see more history published from the guys been doing this 30+ years. I love reading Steve Herschbach's adventures here on the forum, and from others. 

    Dave

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  10. On 3/2/2019 at 6:28 PM, jasong said:

    New technology is great, but a backhoe in just the right place can be just as good when most the surface stuff is gone.

    Thanks Jason, it was good seeing ya last weekend. I wish I had a mentor when I first started, I havent been gold hunting as long as others here, only 17 years. I learned myself, and it was a year before I got my first piece. When I'm to old to do it anymore, Im gonna write everything, with locations for examples, and the research I've done, where I went, and what I found along the way.... 

      Love the idea on the backhoe, and would love to throw the GPR in there for those deep bedrock dips ?... 

     Kick ass out there, oh and we like those videos ?.

    Dave.

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  11. 15 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

    I've heard stories of this legend of a gold hound man but was never a pleasure to meet him.  Yes another of Northern Nevada Legend's who is swinging better golden pastures "the Smokey Baird" mentioned him to me a few times.  Others, 2 pound Dick, a regular at the T & A, knew and spoke of him also.  T-Bone, Jim Malone and Sue Thompson- now Sallee, were all well known big gold grabbers back in the 90's.  In fact, the last time I was down Jungo Road, I swung by the T-Bone Memorial on the tracks near Pronto.

      Thanks for reply Gerry, WesD, Lunk n JasonG .... I bet Jim Straight might also know him. Ben talks about hunting placer gold fields to include Northern Nevada, Northern California, Quartzsite, Rich Hill area since 1947.... Need to get a few more of the old prospectors to write their memories down before its gone into the golden pastures...

      I know when my prospecting legs get to tired, I will be releasing all my info I know, documented mostly on google earth... for others to learn from.

    Dave

     

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