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Gery- the Piece you're talking about is a ornate womens metal hair clip it has clips on 2 sides . It's stamped 1915 . The bullet casing is 50 cal i found that at an old ww2 dump site here locally. Strick

Thanks Gerry of course you can share the photos however you want. The finds were from 4 different spots. However it's hard to beat the Sierra Nevada foot hills this time of year. Makes you wish you could go back in time and see how the old timers worked the ground...I'd like to have learned a few things from them. Every time I find something they dropped or lost is another story/history lesson. strick

Gold is soft when you scratch it. Stainless is hard when you scratch it. Nice ring either way good find. Strick

Do you have a scratch tester? If it is platinum the solution will not dissolve the scratch... if it's stainless steel Or if it's gold it will disolve the scratch. Strick

If you are trying to equate a specific alloy...Stainless, Silver, Gold Platinum, Alluminum white gold, or what ever it may be with the VDI of your machine you are wasting your time and simply fooling yourself. It don't work that way. strick

GB Amateur- thanks for the leg work. Your research and knowledge is invaluable to us here on this forum. Oh and dont let me leave out your enthuasium ? Deus Fan boy- The XP Deus is hard to beat in the a trashy relic environment. Your expertise with this machine make the two of you an un beatable pair....which is why I do my best to hunt out a spot before I take you there ? and yet you still are able to pull good finds from all these hard hit areas. I still remember your remarkable words of wisdom.... "Nails are your friend" Till the next hunt... Strick

Congrats on a great find! I keep thinking one of these days! strick

I love seeing pictures of the old miners at work. It would be nice to have a few hanging on my wall in my office. strick

Thanks Cal...im sure the buckel is off a halter...the rectangular thing is a small pad lock. It has writing on it but hard to discern...will tumble it. I have found a couple scale weights in the past. All the stuff in that picture includind the quarter were found close to where i live. Now if i can only figure out the sun god thing. Probably not very old as im finding lots of modern clad in this spot. Strick

Up in the foot hills there are some areas where the ground varies every 5 feet and the machine needed to be re manual ground balanced every 5 feet! so I gave up and switched to tracking and the machine ran better. Not perfect but better. In the ground down here in the bay area I do a manual ground balance as needed and the machine runs nice and smooth. When I get into a bunch of nails sometimes it's hard to find a clear spot to to a manual ground balance so I'll try the turn on and go method and just forget about ground balance.......sometimes ignorance is bliss as they say strick

Clark thats good advice and I think I'll take it since I'm on a streak right now. Funny thing is I don't consider myself lucky. My mom on the other hand is always winning at bingo.... seems like every other week she's taking home over 1k in winnings lol. Me I don't gamble....even if theres a fifty/fifty chance I usually come out on the short end of the stick. I've always had the "hard work gets rewarded" type of attitude. When I told Lisa what the coin appeared to be she got a serious look on her face said I deserved it lol. Now if you believe all that I got an Island out in the middle of the desert I'll sell you. My Gold fox is supposed to be here tomorrow strick

Gerry- me thinks Wade needs a GPZ...but what do I know

Thanks fellas. Once i looked it up i just wrapped it in tissue did not even rinse off the dirt so i guess ill send it in to be cleaned and graded by pcgs. Never did this before so its all very interesting and fun. I hear if you join then you get something like 2-3 free evaluations....

Between work and projects I've managed to get out on a few hunts. I bought my buddy an equinox 800 since he has been kind enough to let me run all around his ranches as if I own them myself. He has showed some interest in detecting...he thinks he's going to find a 1 pound gold nugget . After spending some time showing him how it works...I'd mark a target and then have him go over it and then dig it...he started to get the hang of it. So on our second outing he goes and finds a 1855 seated quarter (like Deathrays) but not in nearly as good condition. He was stoked and I wish i had brought my camera with me so I could get a pic of him smiling and holding the coin. Been hitting some other locations near where I live. Old homesites and street tear outs. Day before yesterday was a quick but pleasant hunt. Dug the standing liberty and put it in my pocket so it would not get banged up in the pouch. I never look at items much in the field but wait till I get home. I was glad I put this coin in my pocket. I'm going to have to get it looked at just to make sure but I think it's the real deal. If anyone knows what the sun god thing was? kinda cool digging it and have that smiling back. HH to you all strick

My carrot is my fastest recover....and most sensitive and I have 4 different ones including a pi and the trx

Just remember..... I was your first subscriber on youtube lol strick

Wait... I thought you went to Mexico lol... Nice to see the CTX is still sniffing out the yellow metal. Are you sure thats beer and not an oil change ? strick

Thanks for the detailed pictures John Doe that's a nice simple set up you got going there. Strick

Nice coin Ray! strick

Garret puts money into advertising...Minelab puts money into new technology.... Let the product speak for itself. strick

Yep nice guy with a good attitude..pulls a lot of big stuff out of the water. strick

Nice work Rob...hard pulling silver out of any park these days...what about the beaches? You usually do well there. strick

i noticed this with my my machine as well....reacting to fresh green Vegetation...I'm glad it's super sensitive in a way probably means I wont miss any gold. strick

Very clever of you Clark. I was just going to buy a Gold cube with a Trommel but now you got me feeling guilty that should try to do something clever as well lol Planting my potatoes this morning so I'll have to ponder this a bit. Whats the suction jet thingy for ? like a minnie dredge pump? strick

Nice Clark...plenty of water moving through that. Did you find the copper nozzles at home depot or did you have to order those? Does the hopper have a discharge out the back for the rocks? I followed this guys design on ours but with a bilge pump. Its has some issues that I could probably fix. Adequate water flow is the main issue so I will go with a bigger bilge pump. Nice set up you got there. strick