Joe D.

   Great job Chase! Those look great!! Glad you were a good sport, after inviting Bob over, for a "splash" of silver!! Wish I were as close as you for a hunt!!🍀👍👍

   Here's a few similar to yours that I found online! And one hand operated, also seen online !👍👍

   Another great report(s) and finds! Nice to see that the M-core is working into your lineup well!

   With a little "PI inspiration" from you and others, I recently changed my beach lineup as well, with a couple of PI's! Been running a TDI SL & Miner John 7.5x12 coil, with much improved depth, over my 800! And also got a Tesoro Sandshark to back it up in the wet stuff! Don't know if they can compete with the GPX, but they were considerably cheaper!!🤑 Still gotta do some mods to the TDI, to squeeze out even more depth! Than hopfully find your kind of spots to "pillage"!🏴‍☠️ (F350 term)!!😂🤞🍀

Keep up the good work!!🍀👍👍

   Sorta reminds me of the plugger i used to use on the golf course I once worked at! I like it; and possibly even better with the few mods mentioned above!! Nice work!!🍀👍👍

   Glad you got out with Chase! It's much easier to get a high five for a good find, when you have a friend along!😂 Your a lucky man, in more ways than one!! Love the old celler hole! Maybe a hidden stash amongst the brickwork?🤔  Keep up the good work!! 🤞🍀👍👍

   And although very good detectors! (I have two models)! Another reason I'm in no hurry to buy MineLab again! With their customer responses, or lack of them, it's not a good business model to stick with! I don't know if they have always been appearingly "indifferent" to customers timing/requests?, but they appear slow on the uptake, for whatever reason!!

   But thankfully, there's three other companies out there, that seem more responsive, IMO!!👍👍

10 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

bet you won't hear a peep from all those early reporters that could only find negative things to say about it. 🙂

   Not only that, but any critics of the 5000 on the beach ain't saying much either; you've proven it's worth, time and again!! (but it's still a beast to wield)!💪👍👍

2 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

Nice relics, You're smart to dig those iron targets.

His name says it all!! PI Man!! 😂👍👍

   Well, #20 wasn't quite what I described previously, but well done just the same!👍

   Glad to see the Manti is working out for you! May the luck, and nice finds continue!🍀👍👍

On 1/10/2023 at 10:19 AM, GB_Amateur said:

The jar with the rancid whale oil?

😂🤣👍,

   GB, I forgot all about that! I'm LMAO, all over again!!!

   Caleb, you should repost that story again!! It was awsome!😂 And an update on how those coins are doing!!🦨🐳👍👍

38 minutes ago, PI-Man said:

Get your choirs done Treasure awaits!

    Treasure waits for no man; or woman! Especially one with a honey-do list as long as mine!😂👍👍

   Oh yeah, the $50 Billion bailout to shore up the Mexican banks! That worked out well!🙄

    Cool looking coin though!👍 Looked like a tannened half from a distance! And a bunch more digging! What numbers did that ring up on the D2??

   Way fewer nickels this time; running a different program, other than "silver slayer"?

   Was that aluminum bench hard to dig up? At least you found something to "support" your finds!🥁😂👍👍

   24 nickels by my count, and a nice amount of quarters! If it's hitting the nickels that hard, than some gold "ladyfinger" rings shouldn't be far behind! Nice job!!

   You guys can train me on it, when I get a good price on a used one!!😁🍀👍👍

   Beach hunt #20! Left the Manticore in the car! No need for it today, as there was a carpet of silver coins across the beach, with gold jewelry in between, laying on the surface....

😴😖 I'm awake; I'm awake dear!!

A little treasure dreaming never hurts!! Better luck on #20!💍💰🍀👍👍

Drone detecting?🤔  Think I saw something like that on Discovery Channel!! Maybe that was Lidar i'm thinking of!?😂👍👍

   Yes, vibrate only, auto shutoff after one minute, and/or tilt on/off! Takes one 9 volt, and no switches or buttons to go bad or leak! Battery will last a long time too! Been using my original one, going on 8 years now! Bought two hardly used ones on Ebay for about $50 each last year, as backups!🍀👍👍

   I like and have the Nokta, and all three attachments! But my Treasure Products 585 is a beast, and comes in three configurations! Just not in one package, like the Nokta!!👍👍

   Eight days is pretty hardcore!! But I get it! Gotta hit the sand, while conditions are good! Sometimes its days, other times it hours! Totally unlike land hunting, where items can be static for hundreds of years!

   I'll repeat; great haul!🥳 And I'm sure you're body is paying for it now!😵 Ibuprofen is a detectorists best friend after days like that!

   Keep on that EOY gold target!! It's painful but still doable!!🍀👍👍

   Great job Gerry! Your a "nugget" of a man, and salesman!!👑👍👍

9 hours ago, kac said:

Are the new nox coils compatible to the older nox machines?

    Yes, from what I was told by a dealer! Only Manticore coils are not compatible with the  Noxs! But there was another question, about weather the shaft heads themselves, were compatible! I'm guessing yes since the coils are, but stranger things have cropped up with ML, soo...👍👍

   Been there x3 with the coil ears, but only one on a side each time!!😡 Send it to them for replacement! See what they say, since they know the defect very well!!!

  And BTW, that looks like a gold nugget to me! They do turn up occasionally at the beach! Any of the nugget hunters may be able to say for sure!

Nice job with the hunt, and temporary coil repair!!🍀👍👍

Welcome to the forum Dringle!

   I don't know where PNW is, but here on the beaches of the Space Coast, we get different kinds of melted looking blobs, besides aluminum, from exploded rockets! But both Steve and F350 have set you on the right path! You can also take it to a jeweler to identify for you, if your not confident in you testing abilities! You don't have anything for scale, so it's hard to judge size! Good luck in your identification, and I hope it is platinum!!👍👍

   Great finds, and story to boot! Thanks for posting! "Nearly" as good as being there! Chase is very lucky to be invited for hunts!!🍀👍👍 

😳🤯🥳👍👍

5 hours ago, GaryC/Oregon Coast said:

Just send the address and I'll see you soon.  Your new hunting buddy!!  GaryC/Oregon Coast

   Take a number!! I'm sure Bob now has many "volunteer detecting buddies"! The deal is you have to wrestle Chase for the position first, than have a Kevin James style dual with Bob's dual D2's!!🤺😁👍👍