Coinboy

There aren’t many people detecting in my area of Iowa, but if they are they’re usually swinging an Etrac.

Welcome from south central Iowa!

Thanks everyone. I would be hunting in freshwater. I did own a simplex and liked it. So I think this will be a good choice for me.

Hi everyone, I’m thinking of picking up a used multi kruzer. I have a Nox but don’t want to put that thing in the water. I have heard the kruzers are pretty chattery. This would be a backup machine and a water machine and maybe for dense iron trash with a small coil. Is the kruzer still a viable good machine or should I save up a bit and get a used Anfibio? Thanks in advance.

Awesome hunt!

15 hours ago, dogodog said:

14!!!!!! I was thinking your in your 20's. Son you have a lot of great days ahead of you. Be respectful of the people you meet and the places you hunt, And some of your best days and memories are to come. When I was your age hunting, fishing, trapping and digging old bottles were top priority, Many good memories still to this day. I'm so glad your here to be part of the next generation of detectors to advance our hobby. In another 50 years you will see what I'm talking about. Keep at it, you have a long and great road ahead!!!!! 

Thanks dogodog! Too many kids my age just sit inside and do nothing but play video games, they are missing out! Lol

1 hour ago, dogodog said:

Great job!!!! That's one of my bucket list coins. A young friend of mine, who I introduced to detecting found one with his simplex the first time out. I think I was more excited than he was. That's just a tremendous find and hope you find some more. 

Wow that is awesome. I am also pretty young (14) and I was using a Simplex when I found that! Thanks.

I don’t know the other stuff, but DI means it has discrimination.

13 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Great year.  You must have access to some great sites there in Iowa to haul away all that silver.

Thanks, it was about 50% old houses and 50% old parks

6 hours ago, mn90403 said:

After the Reale what was your next best find and so on ...

Ah ok. So my next best finds were 2 Seated dimes, around 15 Barber dimes, 2 barber Quarters, an SLQ, a Kennedy Silver Half, and lots of Washington quarters, Rosies, and Mercs. Around 25 Indian Head Pennies too. My best relic this year was a beautiful turn of the century Skeleton Key, and my 2nd oldest coin was an 1843 Seated dime.

10 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Well, I just read this thread and as incredible as this find is I want to also congratulate you on the 99 previous finds that caused you to go out and reach 100!  Each coin has a story and you told a very good one about number 100.

Have you ranked them?

Mitchel

Thanks! What do you mean by ranking?

11 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Great find and you just never know what is going to be in the bottom of that hole!  Well done with your perseverance, finding the two nails and keeping checking.

Foreign silver coins were commonly circulated in the USA up intil 1857 when a new law stopped that.  You said the park goes back to the 1840's so this likely was lost in the first 10 or so years of the park's existence.  Just think (you likely already have...) what else might be down there at the 10 inch level....  I bet you can't wait for spring thaw.

Yeah I can’t wait. It snowed 4 inches so I won’t be getting out for a while. Thanks

On 12/4/2020 at 11:49 AM, phrunt said:

I'm totally torn over getting this Simplex deal, a Gold Kruzer or the new NF GPZ Coil for Christmas! I want all 3 damn it!

The Simplex does look to be the best build quality out of the low priced detectors, that's for sure.

 

With my Simplex I have dug 11 inch coins with the stock coil. I can only imagine what it would do with the 13 inch coil!

I use a good ol screwdriver

I have the apex and an old ace and the apex arm test is much better, i even had to push it forward a bit. But then again i’m a kid and i’m short so the old ace one was ok for me 🤣

59 minutes ago, abenson said:

As far a s false signals go I haven't really experienced that in clean ground (other than 1 park I went to). But when you enter a patch of iron. look out! The closest thing I can compare it to is the Equinox when running it hot, which I do most of the time. By hot I mean sensitivity all the way up, iron bias at F2 0 and horseshoe on. The difference is with the Equinox you can pretty much tell a false on a nail vs a good target pretty quick. The good target on the Equinox will lock in and tune out the iron.  With the Apex it's weird you can't really hone in on the target even when it's good. It's like close nails tend to steal the strength of the signal so you get a centered hit on the good target then a hit off to the side and as you circle around the good signal the center moves. Drives me nuts! It doesn't help that iron pulls the ID and audio so far down on the Apex either. And Garrett is in the background doing videos trying to explain iron masking, like we don't already understand that issue. Well it's a different story when you can see the coin/target next the the nail on the surface and it's beeping on a dime with an ID at 37-40. But try going out in the field and use that theory. You have a group of signals all over the place in the 15-40 (yea nails false that high I've experienced it first hand) range trying to pick out a good target, and the good target is only coming in at 37-40. On top of that you can't get it to lock in. Maybe I have a bad machine, but I know it's not me. I've got enough experience metal detecting that I know it's either a bad machine or a bad design, not sure which. 

Abenson I got the same problem, iron really cripples the apex and this hybrid audio system is very annoying. I did a test with a dime in between 2 nails and even when im right over the dime barely moving the coil into the iron, the dime is down averaged so much it becomes an iron tone. I can imagine it only gets worse if the dime is under the nails...

5 minutes ago, palzynski said:

Hi coinboy , have you read my report/thread  on the Apex ? I have the same pb as yours , false signals , So we are at least 2 on this forum having this issue ...  I know that other French Apex users have also this pb ,so it looks like Garrett might have a major issue with this ..  

https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/14043-testing-the-garrett-apex-false-signals

 

Yes i’ve read your post, very honest and true. The falsing is driving me nuts. I may have to contact Garrett.

16 hours ago, abenson said:

So having used and test the Garrett Ace Apex for a bit now. I've come up with some things I do and don't like about the machine. If anyone is on the fence about buying one this might help you make up your mind.

I think Garrett is heading in the right direction with all the modern features they have included on the Apex. Here's what I really like about the Garrett Ace Apex.

1.    Wireless headphones

2.    Backlight display

3.    Rechargeable battery

4.    Easy to navigate menu

5.    Easy to read display

6.    Great sleek look

7.    Light weight

8.    Ground balance capabilities

9.    Weatherproof design

10. Adjustable frequencies

What I don’t like and why, yea I know you can’t have everything you want with a $425 machine.

1.    Lack of accessory coils-IMO the 6” x 11” Viper coil is too big for trashy sites and not big enough for clean sites.

2.    Iron Volume-IMO the iron volume on the Apex is pretty much worthless. It’s too loud and the machine can’t reset fast enough and drowns out good signals close to iron when iron volume is used.

3.    Notch discrimination-notching out 5 segments at a time is too many. With the Apex already struggling at depth and in iron, you need to be able to notch out one number at a time so you don’t lose targets in iron or make them even more jumpy when the target is deep.

4.    Lack of adjustable tones-5 tones on this machine doesn’t work well, especially in iron trash. The iron tone and the very low conductor tones are too close in sound. Yea you can hear the difference but since this machine pulls down target ID so bad in iron, a 2 tone option or even a 3 tone would be much better so there is a distinct separation of the audio.

5.    Lack of usable search modes-Really all you get with the Apex is set discrimination patterns, not search modes. When you change modes you simply notch out different segments you may not want to dig. Depth and separation remain the same, many other machines on the market both more and less expensive change the recovery and depth in relation to the mode you choose.

For those of you that have the Apex or even if you don't, I would be interested in what your thoughts are on the Apex.

 

Couldn’t agree more. I despise the tones on it and the recovery speed is pretty terrible. One thing i’d add is a problem with false signals, i’m really struggling with those and frequency shift doesn’t help.

20 hours ago, kac said:

For some reason Nokta and the GA service center don't respond to any inquiries. Are they disbanding the USA market? Seems like there is 0 service and support for Nokta machines lately. Very strange.

I had to call 3 times to get an answer and I sent an email before that, no response. Luckily it’s back to working again

On 8/29/2020 at 12:31 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

I never bought here but they looked like a good place to do so. I saw some good buys there, and listing was free. But now they are gone? Seems to be happening a lot in metal detector land these days.

http://www.treasureclassifieds.com/

 

I saw this too it’s like it just disappeared out of the blue. Strange

Id love to test a new Nokta in my mild dirt, it will be a great way to test its depth capabilities plus I’d put it on my YouTube channel...

11 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

That's an impressive picture.  OK, let's predict how long until a review is posted here on detectorprospector.com by a member.

“Ok after 1 hour of use, here is my full comprehensive review.....”

I called the nokta repair Center in ringgold GA and a very nice man man answered the call told me how to send in my simplex for repairs. But I had sent them an email a while ago that they didn’t answer.

13 hours ago, ziessen said:

Hello all. I have done a small amount of detecting years ago with a Whites detector (don't remember the model) and really enjoyed it. I search mostly on Iowa farmland that I own where old homesteads were. Sold detector several years ago but want to get back into the hobby. I would like to find coins, jewelry (not really any gold laying around here except corn!!) and such. Looking to spend around $1000 for equipment. Been researching some companies and Minelab looks like it has good detectors but never used one. Would appreciate any advice on what equipment would be appropriate of this type of detecting. Its not so much about the finding for me, its getting outdoors and the solitude of detecting. Finding is definitely a plus. I sure do dig up a lot of old  rifle casings!! Would be nice if detector could differentiate these brass casings from other metals. Thanks Mike

Hey I’m in Iowa too! If you got 1000 dollars I’d get a minelab equinox 600 or 800. If you got the 600 you could also get a pinpointer and some nice digging tools