Rick Watkins

Very nice pieces, really like to have that bear on a chain wanna trade for a pig?

Great story, yea winter is the worst, this has been a great place for me to get good information from a great bunch of VERY knowledgeable guys for sure. Good luck to ya in 2015.

I have ran my sdc very little but the warble doesn't seem to bother me anymore than running a TDI,actuallyto me its kind a soothing sound. It is easier for me to hear the slight change of tone with target with sdc than it is with TDI,just my opinion

Thanks for the info.guys,just wanted to say i ended up getting another charger alsofor SDC 2300 vanson (tenergy)combo v1199-8c universal charger &8c cell tenergy batteries 5000 MAH for $36.95. I thought this was pretty good deal batteries alone are at the least $32.00. Also the car adapter for original HC1HU charger that came with SDC.this adapter may fit the V1199 also, forgot to check on that $4.12 plus a little shipping. Anyway thanks for the info. RICK

Thanks Steve, i will check it out. By the way played with sdc in water 2 hours the other dayto get some time on it found a few coins sinkers swivels and 1 ring nothing fancy.

I have never used many rechargeable batteries before,just wondering what you guys think may be the best and longest lasting of the many brands? I will mainly be charging C batteries for sdc 2300,and also some 9 volts for gold bug. I lost track of the thread that had some of this info. About recharging, and solar chargers. Thanks guys Rick

Yea skip there was 2 young guys in mayville oregon that found tobacco cans and more in mayville oregon was that the same story? These boys got their college funds taken care of. I talked to their dad and he wont say how much other than they were found in a rock crib on a fence line Rick

Great stories, i have a short one also that drives me nuts when i think about the possibilities of a big coin find that will probobly never happen. There is a guy i contract haul for every november that wanted to buy a detector to look for gold coins on land they run cattle on in the John day area of oregon, he said that he and another guy were walking accross a small meadow that early pioneers had apparently cleared in the timbered area of their acreage. Story goes his buddy seen something on the ground picked up a $20 gold coin,he tried to give it to the landowner and he told him to keep it. So a couple years later the landowner is walking the same field same area and he finds another gold coin ,now he is starting to wonder why would these coins be here,he started looking around the area close to the coin finds and thinks possibly a farm implement may have uncovered more of the field near the big ponderosa pine tree nearest to the coins. Anyway he tells me this story and wants a detector to use when they go back to this rangeland he had never used a detector before but i ordered him a WHITE DFX and showed him the basics and told him these big coins should be fairly easy to hit with thisdetector and he could still use it for other hunts. The thing that bothers me is he has never took a detector back up with them 2 times a year he goes. Every november i ask him if he has detected yet nope he says,i always forget about it. I told him i would go up and hunt with him just to help him recover what else is there dont want a thing just the chance to possibly recover a very nice find. He says we will get up there every year now, 15 years have gone by now i dont think i will ever know the answer to the two gold coins,but i sure have some good ideas going on.

Good job steve you deserve it, bet it's not your last time either

Hi guys trying to figure out next step with some of the pieces to the left side not showing gold, they have amythest showing in them. This was a solid rock i dug out that had most of the gold localized in one end i had a friend slice it. I carefully fractured the end out with the gold in it into chunks then used strong percentage of HF to eat away the quartz untill the gold showed up,problem is i dont know what to do with these that have a lot of amethest showing but cant see the gold yet they hit big time with detectors,i just dont want to turn them into a pile of dust. I dont want to use acid on these to get gold to show but not sure of the next step,any ideas i think im going to sell some of this crystaline.

That is sweet, someone probobly sat under that tree years ago with a hole in his pocket. Is that the typical look for that gold in the area you guys were in?

Wow sounds like nokta is shooting for the moon, maybe their research and development team will excell in the gold detectors quickly and give the consumers yet more quality choices in the future, isnt that whats needed to bring the prices down to affordability? Rick

Nice piece's chris,it's amazing what the 2300 can pickup after many,many other vlfs and pi's have been over. You have probobly about wore your 2300 out also this year. Do you and steve have an idea how many hours you guys have together on both machines this year? It doesn't sound like there are many issues with them so far. Guess i had better get my order in for one before they are obsolete. Glad to meet you this fall Chris it was very enlightening and informational to learn from you and steve. Hope to see you two again in 2015 somewhere. Rick.

You can do it steve, what a clever idea. What a great project,and one that also pays you back in the end. lm sure the big boys are watching and listening to your modifications. Next i would like to see you modify a gold bug into a light weight pinpointer,

Thanks for the comeback Steve,yea now i remember the speaker issue,toobad they couldnt have done another location with external,my ears arent that great anymore either like a lot of guys.

Looks like the bad road was well worth it Glen

Steve,on your 2300 did you find you had a volume problem with it ? You and chris were talking about it when you guys stopped by. Just curious, seemed like the volume on chris 2300 you said was better. Also did you guys get anymore testing on porres gold done?

I really like this idea jack, looks plenty light enough to pack all day if your out looking for pockets, and still carry detector and pic

That is a sweet trommel

Glad to hear they are shutting the doors on some of these pirates. Last thing that i would like to find out is that my purchase or parts were junk.

Can ya back pack drywasher around? Looks good, we run a gold buddy stalion gas motor and blower too heavy to carry far.

Hey Chris, what kind of dry washer are you using?, Hope the rains hold off awile for you guys looks like a good area your in. Rick

You guys have been doing very well with 2300' i see, have you used gold bugs near them working in same area, they shouldn't talk to each other should they? Been nice seeing everyones hunt results and feedback this season, hoping to get on a hunt in oct. In Nev. Ourselves before desert is white and frozen.

Ya know it's probobly the first detector company that has a decent price and will work for them in africa and has strategic locations around the gold belt should make a killing off pure volume and parts alone. I dont think i would like to stay and run a store there though after looking at the overall conditions, and after watching posts from some of the guys that have been there.

Chris who makes that quad, is it Coleman?