kac

Check ebay for Tesoros, people seem to buy and sell them quite a bit. Models with adjustable ground balance should work well in tougher grounds. Mojave will handle bad ground but doesn't have an all metal/pp and is fixed gb.

Vaquero, Tejon and Outlaws are nice.  Which ever you get make sure they have a concentric coil on it and not a dd.

Deeptech Vista is about as close as you can get to the Tejon.

Is there an internal fixed gb pot your refering to? Cibola gb at 10 ohms and works well without falsing.

Thought bat mobile was black. Had one as a kid.

Not sure what one that is.

Love finding old toys like that.

Copper is added for malleability. When working with silver it will become brittle and have to be annealed so it doesn't crack.

Nice looking ring.

On 6/26/2022 at 7:22 PM, Chase Goldman said:

Thanks but is there a written summary version of the highlights of the latest about the forthcoming update somewhere?  Love the personal touch by Dilek, but I really need the bottom line up front bullet points version.  Just really don't have the patience for watching 26 minutes of talking about something I can easily read in 1 minute and spend the other 25 minutes swinging my Legend.  Lol.

People read?

Nice and efficient way of picking a park clean.

So far works really well. I use my pp straight up and down to find the target then put the blade just outide and pop the target out. Tip does scoop pretty well for it's size.

I hunt quite a bit at the river and lakes that have packed gravel and want to test the new one on durability. Should be like a little pry bar. Shovels are useless in the gravel.

Update on the park probe. After using first one and knowing how brittle the 1095 is I changed up materials. The new one has a slightly less curve to the blade and rounder handle. Should be nearly industructable. So far even though the first not the right materials it works greate in popping up gravel and working around roots.

Congrats!

Think the deepest ring I dug was 12" deep and was a 10k class ring. Was in a park where they had moved some dirt around and put in a sprinkler system. Majority of my rings had been far less. Small 2 tone gold/silver kids ring in the 8" range that dated to the late 1800's the deeper of natural sink. Majority of the rings where in the 4" or less range.

If your grounds have a lot of natural iron and wet a very high frequency may be counter productive ie ground phase in mid-high 90's. I ran into that with the Gold Racer at 56khz but that is an unusually high frequency.

I still do well in the 15-20khz for gold and it still hits silver well so if you ran at 26 you should be ok.

Bet it does well on Monte's nailboard test.

That should do really well around iron infested grounds. My poor Tejon might have some competition now 😞

Actually skunks are the ones that pull plugs. Happens a lot when there are lot of grubs.

Been using a probe here because grounds just too dry to dig.

Possible to make a motion based pointer and even have multi tone to it.

Most gold rings will be very detectable with frequencies >5khz.

Most the rings and jewelry I find is with my Tesoro at 17.5khz and recently my Multi Kruzer at 19khz with small 5x9.5 dd. The frequency has much less to do with me finding jewlery than the coil size for the area I'm hunting. I happen to like the narrow dd for jewlery hunting because it has excellent separation and I am able to sort through modern trash easier.

The higher frequency and smaller coils are more sensitive to earrings and smaller gold but that doesn't mean you won't find them with other setups.

Micro jewlery is another issue but finding a stud earring in and around aluminum trash and foil with a prospecting machine could easily drive you mad.

Couple my recent finds, 925 cross, rhodium ring and 18k gold with 5 small diamonds.

Coin is soldered to the key or was it cast that way?

Last skeleton key I found that had a solid top was a hotel key.

Nice finds.

Maybe lost roll that broke up if they are on the same beach.

Good idea but kids are picked up and dropped off at their houses either by the buses or the parents. Not like the old days were we had to walk 10 miles up hill both ways in 6ft of snow.

If you dig the sinkers first you won't need a weight belt 🙂

2 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Well @kac was right. Saw a kid out metal detecting the volleyball court yesterday, he had a Garrett AT. That must be why I didn't find much there, but I pillaged the tot lot. 🤣 Haven't seen him anywhere else. He also wouldn't have found anything unless he dug really deep. He had a trowel digger only, and that dirt under the sand is mostly clay.

Nothing is sacred 😞

You should have asked if he had a permit haha

4 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

I was pretty disappointed. It's hard to impossible to scoop when neck deep in water, the issue is you have to breathe. 😀 When you do you float, and you can't press your scoop down. 😵 I've been in chest high water, that isn't bad. It was too deep.

Large silvers on edge can on some machines come in as junk. It is because the phase shift of the target goes around called iron wrap. More common with DD coils. Nature of the beast.

Be more concerned with iron masking than stumbling on a silver horde 🙂

12 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I could be wrong, but I believe he pulled over 300 coins out of this place last year, so I don't think anyone local is regularly hitting it.  Probably years of drops exploited in a few days by Plat last year with about a year's time for replenishment.  So it's not going to be as productive as last year except now he's going to hit the water with the Deus 2 and maybe strike some gold.

Ahh didn't know he hit that place before.

Place looks way too good for you to be the only one digging there. Bet there is someone local that hits it.

At least you found some stuff. Might want to toss that small coil on the nox and look for some tinies

Stress ball from digging too close to emi.