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That 17” Minelab mono is pretty sweet. Just used mine for the first time today and it honked on little tiny pieces of lead 2”-4” deep. I was in pebble to cobble sized rocky terrain interspersed with small boulders and only a few plants (desert mountains). I was going pretty fast, trying to beat the sunset at my last spot for the day and was surprised how small the lead was I kept picking up. It’s a great coil for doing quick surveys over large areas and really doesn’t weigh a lot. I have a Coiltek 14 inch mono , but it just seems kind of heavy and bulky compared to the 17. I haven’t done sensitivity comparisons with them yet. Both are relatively new for me. The stock 17 is a great coil if you need to cover a lot of ground, else the smaller Coils like the CT 10x5 would obviously be best for vacuuming between the rocks and underneath bushes.

That 10 x 5 is pretty good. A buddy used one and it pulled even more bits for him where other PI’s cleaned up before. It’s really good for getting in between rocks, the very bottom of little washes and underneath bushes, I really like it. One thing though, it takes a lot of time to use because it’s small and takes a while to thoroughly cover an area. It’s really a fine vacuum clean up tool!

Luis- also this:

This is a good start to find places to go look: There’s some information that might be pertinent, his other videos may help as well.

… I’ve chased pure white bull quartz veins and dikes around to no avail, and only more recently learned that it should have some color in it to be more gold bearing.

I like the idea Phrunt has of using a gold monster with the little 5” coil and a very short rod as a mini pin pointer, or try using a Garrett carrot or other good pinpointer, it may help.

Steve, personally, I trust you know what you need to do and emphatically agree to whatever it is. We don’t want you to burn out on the thing so take all the precautions you need to keep this full-time job of yours running smoothly! Thank you so much for your time, it’s an awesome forum! And… your ideas above are great - that sounds like a perfect plan for dealing with it. I never thought about the ins and outs about running a forum, your efforts are appreciated!

Is Chris AZO selling them and are NF’s available in the US now?

Well, it’s not like they’re sending really expensive rovers to Mars. Besides, look at the affects of the all of us buying their expensive stuff; Everything is becoming plastic, parts are non-swappable, batteries are not replaceable, etc.

Have you had to do those weird blips every so often randomly, some people say there’s an airplane nearby. That’s kind of hard to tell from me because there are always airplanes nearby where we are.

The type I want to try, by sticking it on the insides of my Doc’s cover, is aluminum duct tape used by heating suppliers. I’ll have to be sure that there’s conductivity between the strips, perhaps by bending the corners down over each other, but it should work out pretty well as a shield. while I’m at it, I’ll make a stick on foil hat for my head!🤪

Thanks for the reply. And wow, the Earth’s magnetic field? That’s pretty interesting, especially as detectors become a lot more sensitive to things like that. I am thinking of trying your passive shield idea with my Doc’s cover also after your trial, so please post about the results!

So if the shield has to go to the PCB ground, I wonder if the speaker ground goes there as well? May be a ground point doing that. I’m thinking of trying Aureous’ passive shield idea also by modifying the inside of My Doc’s cover.

@AureousDoc could’ve put an integrated shield into his detector covers- or a user can cover the inside of it with aluminized duct tape. One question- do you ground the shield to the detector circuit board, or to yourself and eventually down to the ground? I suspect it is to the circuit ground….right? also, can you explain a little bit more about Y-axis interference?

It’s getting even easier to make impressive looking electronic boxes that do nothing, and social media apps make it too easy to advertise them in professional looking presentations. I’m surprise so many people are still falling for this stuff. The simplicity of that gold spear with the extra poorly glued on attachment shown on this thread is ridiculous, it really exemplifies how easy it is to fool people for money.

Gerry should carry these for his beach hunts. Can’t believe the store actually sold out of them, probably alot of disappointed people out there for it.

If you guys ever find the one that has my name on it, please let me know 😉

Ugh, when one of my friends was a kid, he tunneled into the side of a freeway embankment with another kid and it collapsed on them while they were digging it. He got out, but his buddy had severe brain damage after he was rescued. All those guys were lucky to get help!

Hey- she’s a good woman and helped raise a good guy! You could make her happy by taking her someplace like Cancun, just don’t let her see your Nox hidden away in your luggage!

Great quote … “wow, and it’s just that easy.” thanks for sharing, I like his rotating the very last part to save it while cleaning out the gravel.

How do you like that X-coil on your 5000?

Naw, that kid will be the next Gerry and will be posting himself all over the internet with rings and watches on all of his fingers and arms with a big ol’ nugget in his mouth. 🤑

HiChuck, Thanks for the reply but really- no pain… I really enjoy just being out there more than anything, and the gold would be a nice icing on it, but the searching and exploring is the best part. That’s why drywashing is ok to me and I enjoy running a puffer for a bit, but detecting is really fun. I’m also looking for cool rocks and minerals, fossils and petrified wood, lizards and other live stuff, and even looking at the flowering plants when I go. And best of all is sharing it with my wife and family, or a couple friends makes it even better.

Went out for a day with a buddy from AZ that likes to highbank - in the desert! I could have brought a drywasher, but I assumed that the soil would be too wet so I just brought my 6000 instead. I spent most of the day chasing a skunk around with it while my buddy was making mud jello out of the 20 gallons of water I brought for his highbanker. It was a long day and the sun was about to put us in the deepening canyon shade, and I wasn’t very happy about being skunked so I grabbed a small shovel, a bucket and a 1/4-inch classifier and went for a short hike to get some grab samples off of a channel wall. I panned out the bucket of classified dirt from it when I returned to camp and got some color - about as much as a ball point from a pen’s-worth. That made it better, but I still prefer detecting over drywashing for the other benefits that go with it like hiking and exploring in the open desert and putting my mind at ease while just listening to the machine purring along, it’s very relaxing and sometimes may be rewarding as well! The highbanker take- mine was too small to see well.