gambler

"Might be I did not have my cable wrapped tight enough so I am giving the benefit of the doubt until we see production units."

steve, can you explain this, I dont understand why cable tightness matters.

thanks for the review. I find myself more and more interested in the technical aspects of this sport and it's machines. your writings are the meat.

almost forgot, would you consider this a good choice for a one machine user? coin and jewelry hunting sometimes, nugget hunting other times. 50/50 ratio? what about 70/30 nugget/coin jewelry?

still here, but getting sleepy.

I can tell you this right now. If you are trying to detect the smallest gold no VLF running under 40 kHz is as hot as the Gold Racer. The question is more like, which would you rather have, a Gold Bug 2, a GMT, or a Gold Racer? Until we find out what it sells for however a critical part of the question cannot be answered.

and these discussions help us decide that question.

oh ok. but I"m sitting here all night and waiting!!!

oh and great post and pics ray. thanks for sharing

cool stuff. especially the second one.

when will the unit be available for sale? 

and steveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, we're waiting

• So which is the one to get, the Fors Gold  Plus or the Macro Gold Racer? prices? Be nice if you could run them both side by side...

thats a good question.

yay. this should be interesting.

thanks again, makes sense. like mowing a lawn.

thanks Steve, again, I learned something new. I would like to hear more about how you approach  hunting, as far as long term plans.

I've noticed the same thing, an absence of car horns. I love it up there, I always stay at the downieville river inn. A funny story, the handyman was replacing a bathroom floor in one of the guest houses, while the floor was out, my brother dug some of the soil and panned it, and found some gold.

it was raining in downieville when I left on sunday morning.

thanks for sharing the pics, very interesting stuff.

https://thecounterfeitreport.com/product/443/Metal-Detector-Coils.html

saw this and thought some might find it interesting.

interesting

Well it is legal for individuals to grow at home in California for their personal use. In turn, the weed market has pretty much dropped out here in California. But the Mexican cartels are growing here and taking the buds back east. They ruin our forrests with their trash, human waste, and commercial fertilizers they use to grow. Plus they are heavily armed. Without going into details, I've had a nice confrontation before. Don't go unarmed!

I second this, don't go unarmed.

look

Gambler, from the little I've seen theres nails a plenty for all up and around that river.

 

My wonderful sweet understanding kindhearted (are you reading this baby) wife will be out of the country in China for a month beginning around the second week in June and I've pretty much told everyone else if they need anything they are going to have a tough time finding me, I'm going detecting. 

 

I probably need to head home here and there to do laundry, but I'm going to spend as much time as i can in the Sierra s and n nevada depending on how things go while indulge guilt free. Im not sure exactly what day I'm heading up but it'll be in that ball park.

Clark

look for me, I'll be the guy with all the nails.

Rick, ahhhh I know so little... I've been digging it all in the desert, except some of the wash areas are so filled with rusted tin and nothing else that I give up and move on. The one time I tried the zed just below downieville on the yuba river I was overwhelmed by square nails, this was my very first outing with the gpz so I moved on to rye patch area for a little easier detecting I thought, but next month I am planning to take on the nails again and I have a much better understanding of the gpz, so I'm planning on finding a much higher grade of hand forged nail... A whole keg of em. I've not yet hunted an area I'd refer to as a patch yet, but that's mostly been a lack of time to go hunt.

hey, back off. the Yuba is my nail collecting heaven.

let me know when you are up there, I know some nailolicious areas. I could show you.:-)

Lets not forget, gold is a consumable. it's in your smartphone, your computer, and many parts in your car. I throw away parts every day that have some gold content. like any commodity, it's price will rise and fall.  but will probably trend up long term.

is there an iPhone app like backcountry navigator?

seriously, how in the heck did we get to the point in this nation where the producers, the doers, the makers are the bad guys? sheesh, we are lucky to have people to stand up to the blm.

nice rock though

I get lost driving home sometimes