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Nope, pretty strong current now, will be less in the fall/winter. But that means I'm only knee deep or less by necessity. The floating sifter might be unworkable, but I'm going to try, because I already know the sand scoop is. I assume if I just turn with my back to the current the sifter should float in the perfect position to dump into. That's the sifter I'm planning on making. I'm having a hard time finding the netting and might have to order off amazon https://www.amazon.com/YARDGARD-889230A-Black-Plastic-Hardware/dp/B000W6408U So might not happen till next weekend (my "weekend" is Thursday to Saturday)

Yeah, I don't know how you guys endure the whole dig every metal target thing. I have a hard enough time with lead shot using discrimination. Any gold I'm missing is ok, because I'm confident I would just give up and have zero chance if I had to dig every piece of iron too. My ADD pretty much requires I always play to maximize my % of good targets over bad targets, rather than getting every good target out of the ground. It would be nice to have better patience, but I don't, and at my age it isn't going to change.

After my first river hunt in my area I'm probably going to go with a full sized trenching shovel and a floating sifter. The river bed is a layer fist to head sized rock with the gravel underneath. Most of the gravel is too big to get through the holes in the scoop so it should be easier to just use a shovel I can pry rocks with then just dump the shovel full in the sifter. I'll save my scoop for sand. That's what I'm going to try this weekend anyway.

I'm sure someone with V3 experience will chime in, but the simple answer is aluminium and lead and lots of other targets respond in the same range as gold so you end up digging those. If you have a million pull tabs that all read the same you could skip those signals knowing you are skipping the 15% or whatever of rings that ring up at the same signal range. You can play percentage games like that, but there is no way to tell if the signal is gold or aluminum or etc without digging it up. I wish there was, and I was the only one that had it. That would be fun! Btw, this will probably get moved to the detecting jewelry forum. This one is for nugget hunting. Welcome to the forum!

I think he was worried you were missing the quiet tones. If you are finding tiny bits also then your probably fine.

You can also download a free pdf version here https://archive.org/details/cihm_02753

Makes me think we be rotating settings. If I hunted a location on park 1 last time use park 2 this time, field 1 next time, with and without GB, recovery rate changes etc. Anything that might bring a response from something missed before.

That actually sounds good. I don't have that many friends though. I'd probably have to go the traditional butcher and package route. I know elk are good, and they are camal sized anyway.

I never knew that! Do they taste any good? I'm sure somebody has tried them.

I went to Soundpeats website and they show an option for shipping to Australia for $10, so total price of $39.99 US, so 57.15 Australian for the ones we know work. https://soundpeatsaudio.com/q12-plus-soundpeats-bluetooth-headphones-magnetic-wireless-earbuds-ipx6-in-ear-bluetooth-5-0-wireless-earphones-9-hours-playtime-aptx-ll-cvc-8-0-10mm-drivers.html

I just looked around some and found nothing. It's a pretty specific combination of specs. There probably just isn't a market for it outside wireless detectors.

You could also just try them. They would be great for other things if the delay was too much for detecting. Some people have said the delay wasn't that noticeable with aptx. I haven't tried it so have more idea myself. Up till buying the equinox I always just used cheap wired earbuds for everything. I have an older detector that isn't wireless and I really like not having the headphones wire to deal with though.

No, unfortunately. Those are only aptx, not aptx low latency. So they have about 120 millisecond delay, aptx low latency has 40ms delay. I looked hard at those before because they look just like mine but are an earlier model. I don't know if you can buy from the US without it costing a fortune but if you can the first link I posted are the Soundpeats with aptx ll. I'm guessing they all come from China so there might be someone selling them closer to you.

Wow, that's quite a first post!

What the heck do you do with 30 camel?

Nah, bears and cougars are easy. Unless you get a crazy one they avoid or ignore you. Your far more likely to run into a crazy person in town than you are a crazy animal out in the wilds.

I just did some research. The chance of dying by snakebite in Australia is only about twice the chance in the US. And most in both are people intentionally messing with snakes. I'd just go for it. If it really sucks you can always bail before it gets too bad.

Boy I can't even answer. I wouldn't think twice, but we don't have so many creepy crawlies that can kill me. About all we have in Idaho is rattlesnakes and those are easy to avoid.

Where are you? I'm assuming Australia, but let me know if that's wrong. I have these https://www.amazon.com/SoundPEATS-Bluetooth-Headphones-Magnetic-Earphones/dp/B07KLWS43V and like them lots, but I don't see them on your Amazon. I do see these https://www.amazon.com.au/Avantree-Bluetooth-Wireless-Headphones-Cancelling/dp/B07P961J94 kinda pricy in Australia, only $40 here. But yes, as long as they are aptx low latency (the ones you show are) you should be good.

If I'm understanding correctly wouldn't it be the other way around? Both burrs on the same side on type a since it wasn't flipped? Interesting read.

Congrats!

Yep , I got the Soundpeats earbuds last week, really liking them. I also like the minelab over ears lots more than I thought I would. I can see myself using both about equally. The Soundpeats will definitely be the ones I use over water though. The combo of them being somewhat waterproof and easy to pin to my shirt or something makes them perfect for it.

Thanks for clueing me in to that. That's a great channel, and other than my river being lots colder pretty much exactly what I'm gearing up for. Nice instructions for building the floating sifter too!

I love it. It was a huge leap for me to buy an equinox, sand scoop, and a used wetsuit. This is like lifestyles of the rich and famous for me! (I decided that was nicer than comparing it to real housewives of Beverly Hills ?)

I've had to wait for flows to come down. It finally dropped off flood stage 3 days ago so I should be able to get out some soon, but fall will be the best flows.