Lacky

Basically I use the WM08 if I want to use earbuds.  If I'm hunting in water i will often seal up the WM08 in a couple plastic bags and tuck it in my waders pocket (inside the waders). I dont like using the bluetooth headphones over water.  I could still flood the module inside my waders but its pretty unlikely,  a chance I'll take. Sometimes prospecting I like to wear a wide brimmed hat and will use earbuds.  

I never notice a difference in lag, so it is always a choice of earbuds or headphones. I like the minelab headphones more than I thought I would. 

43 minutes ago, Doc said:

 

Besides I did a focus group with a bunch of your wives, they said it was no problem because most of you don't have a clue what it means.  😀

It's like gold. I know what it is, I'm just never really sure I'm looking in the right place 😁

Lol, perfect then. Like I said, I thought it was funny. But I would hate for him to go through all the expense of page layouts, etc, then find out, lol, I could see that happening with my dad. You just never know without asking.

I really like the idea behind the G Spot. I do feel compelled to make sure you know G Spot is a term for part of female sexual anatomy though. I have no problem with it, kind of a fun play on the name, I'd just hate for it to not be a conscious decision because you didn't know!

It definitely looks like a spinal collum vertebra. If it's heavy it could be petrified.

On 12/14/2019 at 5:58 PM, madtuna said:

Watched a yootoob a couple of years ago posted on an Aussie prospecting forum of a bunch of half drunken prospectors at a camp shooting the crap out of anything that moved or didn't move. What a really good look to inspire confidence and trust in the prospecting community.

Read on another Aussie prospecting forum where one prospector was saying how when he and his mates go prospecting, if they see a cattle beast without ear marks or ear tags it's wild cattle and doesn't live long. This clown is a minelab dealer and I pray that's not the sort of info he advises his customers to follow.

In WA (rightly or wrongly)there's no shooting on crown land like in some states. There's no shooting on pastoral leases without a Pastoral letter. There's definitely no shooting on mining company ground. Half our cattle are wild and don't have ear marks or ear tags until such times as we manage to catch them in a muster.

Unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a mentality with many that because you have a $25 miners right, and because you are in the WA outback and it's huge you can go where you please and do as you please.

So confrontations will always be inevitable.

 

Is a pastoral lease a grazing lease on public land? We call them grazing leases here so just trying to see if its the same thing. Here the grazing lease just gives the right to graze cattle on the land but no other control over the land. It's still public land and anyone can do any activity allowed on any other public land. 

4 hours ago, phrunt said:

Conductive silver ink is cool, I've used conductive silver ink pens for trace repair on Xbox's and Computer motherboards.

 

I'm getting the impression you would be a useful neighbor to have.

Point taken, and it's a good point, but I use mine less than many. By the time I need a replacement I expect there will be plenty of detailed tutorials out on exactly how to do it.  The internet is great for some things, and I'm not the only DIY type person out there.

Obviously if minelab prices the replacement at double the cost of the battery or less it's a no brainier, I'll just buy the replacement,  but if they do the typical 4x+ price I'll figure it out.

30 minutes ago, phrunt said:

A very successful hunt, thanks for the post.  I hope to one day be able to put a post up in the "metal detecting for jewellery" section 🙂

 

Ya know, you will actually have to start digging junk signals for that to happen. Actually eventually you will find a gold ring that rings up at exactly the same number as a coin, but you are limiting yourself if jewelry is a goal.

The battery looks like a single 18650 with leads soldered on. If the replacement battery isn't pretty cheap I'll probably be looking to diy when the time comes. I can't see myself wanting to pay $100+ when I have a dozen of them sitting around the house.

What a great idea. Just dump tons of solar powered detecting rumba type robots with the sole objective of blowing themselves up. Built in volume that probably wouldn't even be that expensive.

Yeah, I really didn't put much thought into it. I just bought a scale, basically a cheap afterthought while buying something else. It's ridiculous how cheap and simple scales have become compared to just 20 years ago.

I have this one, under $10 and works fine.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Scales-AWS-600-BLK-Nutrition/dp/B000O37TDO

59 minutes ago, 2Valen said:

I am updating my passport so I can go and search out some of his spots myself.

Problem is I don't know where he lives, and I think I will have to take his picture with me to find him.

 

He's given plenty of clues if you do some research 🙂

I completely agree. In this non analog age I wish I could pick whatever I wanted, some nice orchestral sounds or something. They all basically emulate the original analog sounds, which were also annoying. 

I hope this stays. I had never heard of it. It looks like an amazing special effect, or pouring slag, which I have seen many times and is also very cool.

The fact that I had never heard of the detexperts until your post is indication enough it never got off the ground, at least on YouTube,  which is the only one I regularly use.

Its interesting they didn't recruit the people that are already popular on YouTube that favor minelab detectors. Minelab is pretty clueless in lots of ways. It's good that they build really good detectors. I dont think they would have made it on marketing or PR skills.

57 minutes ago, 2Valen said:

Sorry but Simon never jokes as he is always trying to keep people out of his fields of coins.

He's doing a piss poor job. He has half of us wanting to move there.

1 hour ago, phrunt said:

You're 100% correct, but do we really want more people swinging detectors? 🙂 the manufacturers do... but I don't know if we do

There is a guy I work with, honestly a fairly simple guy intellectually,  that bought a Garrett ace 250 a few years ago. He has been out nearly every fair weather day since, has lost about 20 pounds, and is constantly excited about and talking about his finds. If all that joy and well being means there is less for me out there I just dont care. I know you were joking, but really it's so much better than spending a life sitting on the couch watching tv that yeah, I really do want people out there doing it if it's going to be a life positive. 

I kind of agree with your sentiment, but a also think about that pallet of detectors at Costco that people are saying is a pretty good detector for less than $100. Something like that is going to introduce lots of people to the hobby. Yeah, most will be used a few times and put away, but some will find a new hobby in their life. It will be their route to ending up in the specialty shop. Without the whim introduction from the cheap widely sold detector maybe they never would have.

I think both routes have merit. What I think is great is the availability now of cheap high quality detectors. Nothing will kill the new hobby idea in a person faster than a peice of junk detector that wont really detect much. A person that tries out that under $100 detector and enjoys it is a future customer for higher priced units. Many of them would have never spent $300 or $500 or $1000+ to try out a new activity they dont really know if they will like. But they will if they are already in the hobby and already know they like it and know what they want.

Haha, yep, you found him. I'm sure you will be seeing a reply shortly. 

Haha, I was calling myself old, and you are 10 years my senior.  I suspect the cut off is about 35ish. Older than that and you didn't get used to Myspace or Facebook growing up. 

I suspect its largely an age thing. I have Facebook because I thought it was a good way to keep up with my daughters that lived out of town. Problem is as soon as I signed up I got friend requests from lots of other family. Pretty soon it was just a time sink, so I just stopped ever going there. You only ever see what people want you to see anyway. Anything really important would still come in a text or call from my kids. I havent posted anything in a couple years and wont because I dont want to give anyone the impression I'm back lol. Lots of people I play poker with got me to join a poker facebook group and check it out but it was the same thing, trying to wade through endless crap to find anything interesting.  

I think there is a great divide between the older and younger crowd on there tolerance for social media, basically because they were born to it and we weren't. Also the idea of privacy is far different. I dont want people to know what I'm doing, not because I have anything to hide but because it's none of their business. Polar opposite to the whole social media craze. Facebook etc is FAR more useful for marketing, so I completely agree with you doing the promo there. Honestly doing it here probably doesn't reach anyone that doesn't already know about your product.

4 hours ago, MannyScoot said:

My collection is growing these were found within the last 30 days ..... I hunt locations on Google Earth Pro ...... and use the MRDS ..... 

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world (select Arizona). Included are deposit names, locations, commodities, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references. The Six dirty nuggets in my hand came out of the same hole...... 

 

If you feel like starting a "how to" post on what that all means and how to do it I will be an interested party!

Yeah I'm kinda baffled by that too. I assumed it was just a website error till the iffy signals video.  Dick's having them in store while metal detecting shops even in Australia are waiting is amazingly bad optics. I can't explain it.