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to me they look like the small washers used on spark plugs.
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That was my huge mistake moving from the AT Pro to the Nox 800. I thought I could use every advanced control without really, I mean really understanding what that control did and what it was designed for depending on hunt site conditions. That cause me waste lots and lots of hours hunting with a very much detuned Nox 800. It ain't hard to detune and Nox 800 through ignorance. If you don't know what you are doing with these advanced controls use the standard modes that the minelab created with their vast knowledge of metal detecting engineering.
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The Unrealized Promise Of Multifrequency
maxxkatt replied to Steve Herschbach's topic in Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons
That has confused a lot of new Nox 800 users. I think that is why the advice to newbies (and most others) using the 800 is to pick their mode and don't try to roll your own unless you really, really know what you are doing. Speaking from 3 years experience with the 800, I tried to roll my own with advanced features way before I knew what I was doing. Thus looking back, I was often hunting with a badly tuned 800 that really degraded my ability to find any good targets. Sad, but true for me. I now use a CTX3030 that makes it much easier for the user to select a few options that are crystal clear, like ferrous ground or ferrous coin or high trash, low trash. These modes are even described accurately. -
Imagine hunting in your very good secret spot and they show up?
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Just when you think the story is getting routine, it gets more exciting. I just cannot imagine working on a crew like that. Now I see why the gold fever struck so many people. In Dahlonega, GA the gold and silver strikes out west caused most of the Dahlonega, gold miners to leave Dahlonega and head west. The mayor or some other Dahlonega official told the miners to stay in Dahlonega because "There is gold in them thar hills" which later became a famous saying.
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great nugget. That is why I say that best place to get real $$$ metal detecting is the western desert of the US or Southern and Calif beaches. Why Southern and Calif beaches? Warm all year round mostly. Choice places to retire and metal detect.
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Jed would have never made it alone working his claims. He would have been shot. Love this cliff hanger. Reminds me of the Saturday movies cowboy or space serials they showed before the main feature. Not a kid in our small town every missed the Saturday movies at our local movie theater unless they were sick, being punished or out of town with their parents.
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I used to know this, but am not sure I remember it correctly. I now hunt civil war relics and plan to look for bullets in creeks and smaller branches. These creeks and branches are slap dab in the middle of a major Civil War battle in metro Atlanta. All the other areas around I mostly cannot hunt but the creeks and branches are fair game. Where in the creek would you expect civil war bullets from July 1864 to now be located. In the areas of the creek that are built up by the water flow in the curves or in the deeper curve that is cutting into the bank. I know they could probably be in both places since the walls of the creek and branches have eroded quit a bit since 1864. So I am asking which sides of the creeks/branches would most likely yield the most civil war bullets. I know that lead like gold moves in a creek until it is stopped by something like a crevice or clay or boulder.
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I wonder if it is realistic to work a productive area like they did in the same manner they did just four guys & picks and shovels. If so think of finding 3-7 oz of gold each day. Especially at today's gold prices. Or would you be tempted to bring in the heavy machinery? I guess that is what ghost miner is doing or something close, meaning not bringing in the heavy machinery.
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I also found this video on filters vs depth. You may already know this, but others might not. Basically the more you add in discrim and other filters, you lower the processing power available for depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufosya8GhEk Now if minelab would come out with a CTX9090 with the processing power of the Nox 800 that would really be a machine. And Minelab engineers please don't monkey with anything else on the basic CTX design and mess it up. Well maybe make the sucker about 1.5 lbs.
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I did a frequency graph of the CO numbers on that data. Left hand data is qty found of the bottom data CO numbers. As you can see rings are all over the place, but in this sample you can see what the most frequent CO number are.
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You will dig way less junk on the CTX than the 800. I had the 800 for 3 years, and the CTX now for 3 months. Finding a lot more silver coins with digging fewer holes. If the CTX3030 says it is a deep silver, they it is very likely a deep silver coin.
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In Atlanta the tactic of gas stations (quicktrip & racetrack) is to raise it 10 cents at one time and then gradually lower it over two weeks back down at 1 cent every day or two. Kinda favors the gas companies. What else is news.
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New Garrett Price Increases Next Week
maxxkatt replied to johnnytuinals's topic in Garrett Metal Detectors
I lucked out. I got a brand new (was in box for 4 years in a guys closet) CTX3030 with full warranty for $1,400.00. The guy had passed away and the dealer was selling it for his widow. He indicated that she would probably negotiate on the price, but I told him $1,400 was fair and I did not feel right offering anything less. Very happy with my new CTX. It has some good features that should have been in the 800. Or they could have offered the 600, 800 and 1000 with the good CTX features. Had they done that they might have a better chance in fighting off the XP Deus 2.