dogodog

All I can say is What a great time I had detecting with you Bob. Its not very often and almost never that you run into a person that has so many of the same thoughts, values and drive. You are for sure the first person to keep pace with me. If I didn't know better You might be my long lost brother. The real story is I was hoping to slow you up with breakfast HaHa. You were pretty much kicking my ass with the Quarters and dimes, while I was just finding the dreaded Penny's. Damn I thought that ring was rose gold. Deep too rang in on the 800 as a 8-9, For the most part I think we were doing way better than the other detectorist's. Not sure I saw one dig anything. The end of the day yielded a little sparkle and a few more clad. The older fella with the MXT was a hoot, he had a bunch of great stories about CW finds and couldn't believe how light your D2 was. A good 25 people stopped us and were interested in what we found, I hope a few of the people we talked with give detecting a try. Overall I think we did pretty well for 8+ hours, We each got a pocket full of change, Traded secrets on detecting, Had a lot of laugh's and became really good friends. This is what life is about. Sometimes you trip up on treasure that isn't buried by sand or dirt. I'm thankful to call you my friend. Oh and you forgot your my pretty pony lip gloss!!!

I believe the one you made for me fits like a GLOOOOOVE. Thanks buddy

If they made a unit with a 10 or lower khz and a concentric I would buy two. I have looked at their products but just can't pull the trigger. Call it stupid but for me 5 and 10 khz is a sweet spot for my spots. I sure hope that some of the so called fringe detector makers don't fall into the multi trap. over and over I do much better with single vs multi on my 800. Something about a knob machine that just plain makes a difference. (I think more fine adjustment)

Nice for the Cibola and small box tesoro's. that's why you can't find covers. Sometimes I regret trading mine. Some guy in Boston got mine.

Great job on the 1/2 dime, love those tiny little coins!!!

Nice save on the ring. I'm sure there is more to find in the area. Hope you post it if you do.

Good luck with the new machine Erik!!! The first question I need to ask is did you take the rest of the money and invest in a shark cage? Question two is did you call XP and ask them how the screen holds up to a great whites bite force? You my friend have doo-dads the size of basketballs. No way I would be in your water past ankle deep. All joking aside I hope this new XP opens up a few more spots for you, I always enjoy your posts. Sincerely your friend who watches shark week on the discovery channel Dogodog

Great read, I find DD's have a slight edge in depth but not by much and are quite often difficult to rely on in the iron trash areas I hunt. My detecting started with the tesoro machines and most came with a concentric and then a DD. Just my opinion but Tesoro's really shine with a concentric vs DD. Then came the Multi Kruzer, Which is an awesome machine. I ran the DD's for some time and had Pretty good luck with them until I bought the 9 inch concentric. It was a game changer for the MK. In all fairness the best DD I have ever used was the Nel superfly, oddly it almost seems like a hybrid of the DD and concentric configurations. As of lately I buy up concentric's at a high rate of speed, and fearing they will no longer be available. If I had to pick only one I would always choose a concentric. I wish minelab or someone else would step in and make a 9 inch concentric, I think it would make the 600/800 a machine that would be hard to beat in the performance arena. For now I run my tesoro's with concentric's for clean up in high nail infested sites.

Thanks GM, This is so far becoming a great little story. I'm hooked can't wait to hear more. This might make a good movie!!!

Research!!! Try and research when your stuck in the house with the wife. Love her to death but she would rather have me research painting.

You can change the material/utensil but you just CAN"T change the human condition. All the thoughtful people pick up all the other non self aware humans junk. Most just can't get out of their own way.

Good job, one is better than none. Oh and by the way it was 11 degrees here in my haunts. Ground is pretty stiff right now.

Stamped 925 mex Gb. Wish it was 14k. You might have walked right by it, Found it a 50 yards from where we started detecting.

Wednesday I had a brief moment in the arctic air that is hammering PA. It was going up to 50 degrees, So I thought I'll take what I can get during this frigid spell. Off to the park I went to try for some silver. I had about 2 hours to complete the mission before my wife decided to cash in on my insurance policy. Three clad and I dropped a silver in the box, A 1964 rosie. Light was fading and a bunch of clad later I decided to detect back to the truck. Starting to get a little colder I needed to adjust my hat and as I sat my Tesoro on my digger I got a nice tone. Thought maybe it was just the ground sounding off. Once adjusted I swung again and it WAS a good target. Time to dig, At 8'' I had the wonderful Heart Attack moment. All I saw was diamond and a big one!!! Well once cleaned I realized it was a CZ mounted in a silver Mexico setting (CRAP). But I thought to myself it's still beats a white metal ring. I think we all have those Heart Attack moments, some are real and some not so much. At least this one didn't turn out to be a pull tab ring. Pretty sure this is what drives us all to keep digging. I love each and every crappy target I dig knowing something good is just around the corner.

Nice one!!! I'm sure Mateo is missing that chunk of gold, Take them as they come.

Welcome BH, Glad to have you here. I can tell you 2 things. One - You won't be disappointed and 2 - Your head might explode from information overload.This place is the best archive for gold detecting info on the planet. If you add up all the years some of these folks on our forum have been detecting/prospecting for gold it adds up to 1000's of years of experience. DP is all about shared information and stories that keep you going each and ever year. Best of luck and please post your finds along the way.

They would have a hard time pulling that out of my hand for $500,000. I'm not known as a sharing kinda guy. The UK does have some tough treasure rules though. (still would be a fist fight) Man that's a fantastic looking coin!!!!!! Thanks for posting that Steve

Great finds and report. Pin and fob are very cool. I'm sure their is a bunch more goodies to be found soon, Wish you luck and looking forward to an update.

Great story, persistence always pays off. I always enjoy a good end of day find. I've Only ever found 1 seated 1/2 dime in my area, was an 1857. Love the buttons and pull tabs Ha Ha

Two is about it with the exception of disc. With the umax you can pretty much disc all but the large iron out and still pound copper or silver even most clad. The circuitry of a tesoro will allow you to not hear small bits of iron anywhere near your target. When hunting for silver I run 1/2 way between zinc and max disc, this still allows me to pick up some clad to not make for a boring day. I'm a big fan of low recovery speeds on other machines, swing speed is much more important. As for tones on a Tesoro They are hard to explain you have to run one for a while to start to understand the fades, crackles and rolls.

Poor Rich, Love you buddy. You need to come and enjoy our arctic weather and fine silver.

In my areas I bring both the 800 and a tesoro. 800 for clean areas (so to speak) and the umax for high iron old sites. My buddy runs the 800 all the time and he is really good with it but he is amazed by the simplicity of the umax. Tesoros to my happiness are NOT beep and dig machines.

GB, I'm thinking you might need to break down and purchase an XRF or subject your prize IH's to the dreaded OES test. Nothing like a vaporized piece copper alloy. Either way its for the good of Detector Prospector and its loyal members. Ha Ha

With all of the new machines out or coming out, I was just wondering how many of us Tesoro fans still use them on a regular basis? Also if all these new machines are so much better, Why so few Tesoro's for sale? I own a NOX 800 and NM multi kruzer and like them both, But seem to find myself drifting back to the low Khz Tesoro's. I'm a coin guy and love silver and copper coins. Gold to me is a welcome surprise but it's not what makes me smile. Running my Umax over the 800 as of lately really seems magical. I feel like I'm much more in tune with the tones vs blended audio of the 800. I'm also a big fan of concentric coils, they just perform so much better in dense trash. I know everyone chases depth, but I do not. Most of my coins rarely go beyond 7'' with the exception of big silver (oddly) Ha Ha. Beginner detectorist's IMHO rely to much on their screens and discard the fundamentals of detecting for a machine that they trust without knowing what that means. Something awesome about a 1 tone machine with a hundred nuances.

GB, if you do some testing on the IH's, Please compare dates. Say 1884 dug vs collected. I have long believed that penny's especially IH's depending on date have a wide range of metal composition. On my 800 they can dip as low as 17 and as high as 24. On my Tesoro's the disc. break can be all over the place depending on year of the coin. I think our government didn't care to much about the penny standard of metallurgy. I think they were all over the place with metals and only focused on the weight. I've done some testing myself and still can not understand why the difference on dates so close together. Generally if I hunt IH's I hunt at a starting disc and go back at a later date and adjust for the odd ball dates I can not find. Seems to work for me since I'm not in any big hurry. This is a great topic and can't wait to see the results.