Glenn in CO

Thanks everyone! 👍

I think this mystery item has been solved. Never heard or seen something like this found detecting before.

I cleaned it up and there was the following stamped on it.

PAT. APD F01

The 0 or O was not clearly stamped, kinda half there.

9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Grandfather had a set closer to it, but they were clothes pins that were still on a clothes line. The line went through the top of the pin above the clasp.

I think the hole would be to small for a clothes line. The mystery continues.

Detecting a old mining camp last week and found this item. I believe it is type of tong, but what for as it is small in size. It seems to be made of brass and has a little nickel or silver plating left.

4 hours ago, jasong said:

Are these 3 ring bullets worth anything if they are found outside of the Civil War areas, like Western States? Or is it the location/history that makes them valuable? I've found probably a hundred of them over the years, just ended up throwing them away though for the most part. 

I and my wife found over two hundred three ring bullets at Fort Sedgwick in Colorado. This website is selling civil war bullets at $4 to $5 a piece.

6 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Are you a smasher or leave it all natural?

Nice find! I'm with Steve, just give a good cleaning.

According to the manual the battery life for the WSA II XL is 17 hours.

11 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Nuggets I found with Axiom so far, most with crude prototype not near as good as latest version. Largest nugget 2.63 grams, smallest 0.15 gram, total 18 grams. California and Nevada. Click or double-click photos for closeup versions.

Gerry of course annihilated me with a single nugget! 

Garrett Axiom Quick Facts, Owner's Manual, Etc.

18 grams gold nuggets found with Garrett Axiom
 

18 grams gold nuggets found with Garrett Axiom

WOW! Very nice and that's with a crude prototype. Wonder how the latest version of the Garrett Axiom handles wire and sponge gold specimens?

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

 

Be adults, take responsibility, sort it out, and leave the BS to the YouTube drama brigade. Count me out! Just call me an old man in second childhood, having the time of his life, having fun with new toys. Meeting and hanging out with fun people from Garland, having some people pay attention to what I have to say when making a new detector…. life is very good my friends. Whether anyone likes the Axiom or not, I just don’t care. I like it, and that’s good enough for me. Peace, and best wishes to all of you!!

 

 

Sage advice Steve and I wish people who give reviews on new detectors would do the same. Looking forward to your tips and techniques on the Axiom and hopefully show us some of the gold you find.

2 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I admit I read this thread with a degree of satisfaction, and a feeling of being vindicated. As a prototype tester I put out a very early report on the GPX 6000 trying to tell U.S. operators only (not Australian users or X Coil users) exactly what is now becoming accepted as fact. And that is, for the average U.S. user, especially new buyers, the GPX 6000 is a better value than the GPZ 7000. Despite my clearly stated caveats, however, I got enough blowback from the very people I was exempting from my commentary, that I pulled all my reviews and information on the 6000. I did finally post them again about three months ago, once the heat died down.

I must say that the quality control, and therefore all the problems people have had with the GPX 6000, have been very disappointing. The fact is most people do not have issues, but so many do, including quite a few people that I know and respect, that it has taken some shine off what should have been a truly excellent release by Minelab. Were it not for the issues that plagued some people, a lot of the pushback would not have existed. We hear "yes, it does find gold, but the problems......" far too often.

Still, the Minelab GPX 6000 for me is a joy to swing, and literally paid for mine in two days last fall, on the kind of gold the GPZ 7000 is weak on, and that I had been over and missed with the 7000. Again, because of the grief I was given, I did not post about any of my GPX 6000 finds last year, but it has left me with a hole in my Steve's Mining Journal last year, that needs to be filled. So I will finally get around to writing that up and posting about it soon. Thanks Gerry, and everyone else posting on their GPX 6000 success, for making me feel more like saying something now, than I have this last year.

A few ounces of GPX 6000 finds from the Mother Lode country.....

Absolutely incredible specimens you found Steve - well done!

That large nugget will clean up real nice, congrats on a outstanding find! 👍

Nice gold! You show how researching and dedication can pay off.👍

33 minutes ago, Ogliuga said:

Glenn, if you want to try a good program to use on strong mineralization try with program n. 2 with disc 5, audio response 4-6, iron volume 5, reactivity 1-3. I don’t say in the video that Ground Stabilizer is on 1 and it’s very important for depth. I did a program based on prog.2, the name is Focus1. On low conductors buried in mineralized soils it’s very good. Just come back from the hematite area which is about 9 miles away from my home. This is the first test I’ve done on mineralized soil with v07 firmware. Focus 1, please name it what you want, is the same but with threshold because it uses Pitch tone which is performing on high mineralization without putting too much effort into the machine...less than PWM and maybe less than square as well. Now threshold works. I took the liberty of giving you some advice because, unluckily, I have to live with the mineralization problem and this is why I have pulse inductions as well.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtWzY4g8vx0

 

 

Thanks! I will give your suggestions a try.

8 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

I don't think one site was more mineralized than the other because the results flipped in different ways for different detectors (i.e., Nox beat D2 at one site and it was just the opposite with D2 beating Nox at the at the other hot soil site with the performance difference between D2 and Nox being about an inch...weird). 

Interesting! Thanks for the insight on the performance between the Nox and D2. Hopefully others who have both machines will chime in with their experiences.

6 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Glenn - still trying to figure that out.  It depends on my primary target of interest (e.g., High conductive coins versus mid conductive jewelry, relics, or nickels), my depth objective and how much modern and ferrous trash is present.  Right now, if going as deep as possible regardless of target type, Deep HC is my go to.  Followed by Relic and then General.  I adjust reactivity consistent with whatever separation is needed, but keep it no lower than 1 to limit ground feedback.  I’m partial to pitch tones but will often switch between pitch, full, and 5-tones to interrogate targets and for dealing with modern trash (e.g., can slaw reveals itself better in full tones).  I tend to avoid the ferrous filters (BC reject, silencer) but do use disc (between 6 and 10 in pitch and multi tones, and between -2 to +2 in full tones (FT), though I may change that FT disc now that 0.7 has incorporated FT iron volume). I set IAR to 5 in Relic mode.  I may change my philosophy on no ferrous filters (BC reject, silencer) based on the ver 0.7 tweaks to those filters.  Basically, it is still a work in progress.  With this approach I demonstrated reliable target ID on a minie ball target down to about 7.5 inches in Deep HC with full bars showing in the mineralization strength meter.

Thanks for your input and suggestions. I'll try these and see if I can come up with a combination that will work in my area. It would be great if I can get the Deus II to ID around the 7 inch depth area, as it is a lot easier to swing than the TDI. 😄

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Ground ID on Deus does not necessarily correlate at all to ground mineralization level.

Yep. Thanks.  That is moderately mineralized ground alright.

What would be your go to program for high mineralization and modifications if any to that program to try.

11 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

More importantly,how many bars were displayed on the mineralization strength bargraph (see inset on the pic below)?

Six bars.

12 hours ago, Denny said:

What was your ground I. D. 

It was 87.

Having the XP Deus II for few weeks and becoming familiar with the different settings and programs, I decided to test the Deus II depth capabilities in a nearby local park. Our soil here in Colorado is high in mineralization and VLF detectors struggle in achieving any depth on coin size targets beyond five inches. To help aid in locating a deep coin, I decided to use my White's TDI. With the White's TDI I can set up the detector to only hear high conductor targets and then cherry pick targets by listening for a deep soft audio response and ignore the shallow surface audio response.

When I located a potential target I turned off the White's TDI and tried the different stock programs of the XP Deus II to see which program would worked the best. Only two stock programs in the Deus II could I get any good response. The relic and goldfield programs gave a strong audio response, but gave no consistent VDI on the target. All other programs I could not get any type of good audio and/or visual response. The ground conditions were extremely dry and I don't know if that had any affect on the XP Deus II.

The coin was a wheatie and was at a depth just beyond six inches.

I found three other wheaties and had the same results. After locating and retrieving each target I put the coin at the bottom of the hole, replace the dirt and plug, then I tried the stock programs again and I could then get a good audio and TDI. I did change some settings such as sensitivity, reactivity, etc. and didn't seem to make any difference on the coins that were found.

Any suggestions, advice or thoughts, especially why I could get good target responses after reburying the coins?

Too many to chose for a favorite!

Chicken

Fish

Ram

Dog

Dinosaur

Spaceship or guppy

Triangle

????

Alien

4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:  I don't know if there are any coin/relic/beach detecting hardcopy mags left that are printed in the USA. 

American Digger is a great relic magazine that is available in print.