Aaron

On 4/17/2020 at 2:23 PM, kac said:

Hit a school yard just at the end of my street. Getting better at my Multi Kruzer as my trash level is way down. Came across this large cent there that was for some reason pretty shallow. Other is a 42 wheatie.

Heads facing left so guessing post early 1800's? I'll probably leave it alone and not attempt to clean/trash it.

Man those are rare around here! I’ve only found one and that was 8 years ago!

CONGRATS!

On 4/26/2020 at 6:16 PM, Bashin said:

An hour in the parking strip after chores yielded my first Barber dime.  Made a noob mistake and scratched the back a little.  But hey, I'm a noob!

Also got permission from the neighbors across the street to search their strip too!  Old neighborhoods with cool neighbors = silver!

I gotta say, this is really freaking fun!

Congrats on that Barber, WTG!

Ok Steve, thanks a lot for taking care of that!

You have a great website!

Aaron

Hi Tom,

Ah.....ok. I’m still trying to get used to Steve’s forum. I’ll try to fix it. You can always go to my YouTube channel and check it. Thanks!

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I was asked to do the test again, this time with “wet” coke rocks to see if the TARSACCI could still hit the $1 gold coin.

Thanks!

Aaron

Here is another video demonstrating the amazing ability the TARSACCI has to not only “see through” ferrous targets, but also use those ferrous targets to AMPLIFY the signal...... 

Please note that in this video I have purposely kept the sensitivity on 1, to show before and after the coke rocks are over the gold coin, and the dramatic difference in audio amplification. 

There seems to be a lot of confusion regarding how to do a proper ground and salinity balance. This short video should clear up the confusion. Also note how the very unique Salinity Balance feature is used to actually eliminate nasty items such coke rocks. 

Thanks,

Aaron

Here’s a good very of Keith demonstrating how to adjust the Salinity Balance on the MDT 8000 in bad dirt. (Thanks Keith!)

Aaron

Keith

One more test with the Tarsacci. 

A horseshoe and zinc penny. 

Again this should not happen.The Horseshoe is under coil at same time as the penny and is abundantly larger than the penny. 

Usually we use targets of the sane size to show unmasking.like a penny and a nail. 

Or a horseshoe and a belt plate. 

Not so with this unit.the unit is some how overcoming the large iron halo barrier and still hitting the coin.and with not even falsing on the horseshoe.VLFs false on the horse shoe easily.that's why I have a truck load of them. 

This it seems why I'm seeing so many non ferrous targets in heavy iron sites heavily hunted..and quiet easily i might add. 

Keith

Love those musket balls Teresa, hard to come by in my neck of the woods!

Aaron

Nice Injuns! Cool buckles too👍
Aaron

I really like that Baggage Check token, really COOL! Never seen one of those, CONGRATS!

Aaron

On 4/5/2020 at 12:44 PM, strick said:

The wife and I spent a night at a small town beach area back in mid Feb...we brought our detectors just for fun...not my first pick as it's cold and windy most of the time with not many people  but my wife likes these areas north of Petaluma as she grew up in that area...Lisa was learning her new Nox 800...she found a few coins and lots of trash...I got lucky as I did not expect to find a gold ring...at first I thought it was 10K but it acid tests 14K like it's stamped....not the prettiest ring but gold is gold....the little one is silver.... some lady and her 5 year old daughter were on their hands and knees watching as I sifted it out of the sand...they were as surprised as I was..

strick

Very nice gold ring!

congrats!

Hey guys!

Check out this video Keith Southern has done demonstrating the TARSACCI’s extraordinary ability to work right next to BIG iron! Please note the iron used here is NOT a modern hammer thats a 1850s style blacksmith iron hammer..thats one tough thing to do right there. Its shouldn’t be possible  since the hammers bigger than the penny and the hammers under the coil at same time penny the penny is. The field of distortion is crazy!

This should be particularly interesting to those of us hunting in old house, field and campsites.

HH!  Aaron

Totally agree w you Steve. My first 30hrs w the TARSACCI were FAR from pleasant to say the least! It’s a language all its own, and different from anything else I’ve used. However, as with any other machine you need to put the time in. 
Unfortunately, many are not willing to do what Keith has done, to not only put the time in but also FIGURE IT OUT and in BAD dirt!  The TARSACCI is able to do some pretty “USUAL” things, (putting it mildly) and most have not been commonly known.....until now. With Keiths help we’re changing that!

Thanks!

Aaron

On 3/11/2020 at 3:08 PM, Tom_in_CA said:

Hey guys, I haven't done a show & tell on this particular forum yet.  But a few friends I know  here aren't necessarily members or readers of some of the other forums.   So here is my latest trophy show & tell.  Got this @ last Saturday, on a hunt with Brian "Cal Cobra".  An 1881 P $10 gold.   This is my 16th gold coin of my career so far.   Brian also got an old coin from this trip, but .... we'll let him chime in with his 🙂

 

This site has, so far, given up a Spanish reale, an 1829 bust dime, some 1800's foreign coins, an 1853 seated quarter, gold rush buckles, etc...   And oodles and oodles of period "whatzitz" that keep us on the edge of our seats.   All I can say about the location is:  "In California"  🙂

Daaang Tom! 
That’s AMAZING! I’m still trying to find my first gold coin and I’ve been detecting since 86’!

Gorgeous coin!

HH! Aaron 

On 3/20/2020 at 3:45 AM, Coilpower said:

It was a rather strange day today ......broad spectrum of finds and dates of coins.  BUT .........I got a tiny 9ct gold stud earring in black sand mix. A nice old penny, the other penny is just too far gone to see a date. Another coin for the scrap. Hubby ran off with the stainless steel hose clip thingys......guess some junk is useful eh? 

Hi Teresa! 
Very impressive the TARSACCI is able to find that little piece of gold in your black mineralized sand like that! 
Hope your doing well, and staying healthy!

HH! Aaron

We’ve managed to get a TARSACCI MDT into the very capable hands of Mr Keith Southern, seasoned relic hunter and historian.

Listen and see what Keith has to say so far regarding using the TARSACCI MDT 8000 in his VERY difficult soil.....Thanks, Aaron

As far as the EMI.Its very resilient so far!I mainly stay on 12kHz as it offers sens to low and high conductors.But even down on 6Khz its stable around EMI prone areas. 

I should say in that video I was 12KHZ next to my neighbors Air conditioning unit when I was doing brick test that was running and it was stable.The 10 Inch dime was also in 12Khz as was the Nickle.And I can add the nickle will bang harder than in the video if I go up to 18Khz.! 

I also want to add the Brick test while impressive Its main thing I wanted to share was its ability to punch.Not necessarily make people think I'm going to dig targets under bricks or rocks which you can if they are there in that scenario but Its to show how well its sees through mineral.Say a 7 inch 1 dollar gold coin 3 bar dirt or half dime on edge at 7 inches in 3 bar dirt.A vlf can shut down on those type targets in even that type mid mineral soil but the Tarsacci in that type soil will give you more of a chance.Or even a GREAT chance!As mineral goes up the tarsacci really comes into its own and even hits harder and harder!!AMAZING!!! 

I was in a site that we have worked on for 30 plus years ..House site camp area and march route battlefield all in one.Its type area you just cant get a signal to dig unless you chase nail falses type stuff to hope and luck up. 

The dirt in this site on Tarsacci ground balances at 910 and FE numbers on F75 are a good 5 bars.So for my area of operations this is not an out of the norm spot. 

In iron (in heavy iron) the 18khz is the way to go as it should be for more reactivity to targets.The machine settings for this site was also Salt Mode on balanced at 21,6 Sens, Negative 2 threshold.Black sand off,Disc mode 0 disc so iron was silenced.I just wanted to concentrate and see what the uninterupted high tones could sound like .Theres two high tones in disc.mid high and high.No low tone for iron no mixed mode either in here way to busy for that. 

This site is a nightmare to hunt from the iron.Big small weird all on top of each other from about 1840 to about 1920.with a war fought on top of it to boot.Over the years its given me and alot of local hunters great finds.Reb buttons, plates,Yankee buttons lots and lots of bullets for everyone.Its no secret site and its pounded on.They graded through it about 3 years ago and churned up some more stuff first 6 moths after that it was no surprise to go there and see 5 or 6 guys swinging it daily.Lots more goodies was coming up for Us to find then as a site does that gets all of a sudden rejuvenated it started to get scarcer and scarcer.Its just basically solid red clay exposed pottery shards everywhere black glass iron laying everywhere.well hole open right in middle of it barrier-ed off. 

So back to the Tarsacci on this site.I had came through this site last week on a walk back to the truck.I had been back in a 950 dirt site in the woods 6 bar dirt hot rocks aplenty doing some coil testing.As i had cut through to shorten my walk i hit a clean signal in this spot full of iron and it stopped me in my tracks.Thought well must be modern trash.dug hole open targets till there then diug some more about 7 inches or so out pops a dropped 3 ringer .58 caliber.I said huh really?The got a pack stud about 3 feet away another clean hit.Now this is in awful iron and I was still I'm mixed mode from the woods hunt I had been in and 12kHz. 

Later that night I was talking to Dimitar on the phone and mentioned before hanging up about the bullet and it surprised me being so clean sounding.I was surprised Dimitar was not.He ask some particulars about the targets and the nails etc in the hole and he just laughed and said Yep! 

It was in my mind about that laugh so I went back to same spot And set it for optimum audio intelligence in heavy iron.Yes its still noisy like this but this site is eat up in iron.My first target was a solid lock at ID of +2 out of +30 then I couldnt find it and was barely audible in the spoil pile.When I did find it it was a Shotgun primer. the little primer out of the center of a paper shotgun shell casing.I thought come on with this big coil I got that so clean of a hit?

Then chased some weird hits then the audio in here hit me.nail falses were quick dead sounding but real hits had a sonar ping.clear ping echo type hits.So it was partial pip pip pip high tones then a sonar echo high tone Sort of reminiscent of those WW2 Sub movies where the operator gets sonar pings.So in this one area around the well I dug a good 10 to 12 pieces of lead .Flat button.Old smoothed out penny.twisted up brass pieces etc.50 caliber round ball.they all were clean?Anywhere from inch down to say 4 or 5 inches down.I left the site with a new appreciation of the tarsacci for iron hunting. 

What I had seen with the Tarsacci in the woods on unmasking targets from bad dirt I was also seeing in iron unmasking. 

What I have so far come to see With The tarsacci is it sees what others cant in terms of either the soil mask a target of a certain size or conductance.This is usually smaller than a dime from say couple of inches down to about 10 -11 inches.Things a normal machine cant see from Soil overpowering the target it can be small items or low conductance items.Things that the soil wont let break through.the other machines in these sites like VLF FBS BBS etc have gotten alot but the strength of the soil shuts targets down at some point.as the Soil mineral increases the more the conductance and size of targets you find EASILY with the Tarsacci increases. 

Now we have some iron See through too.And most of the targets I have found so far in heavy iron in mild soil or bad soil has been the same low conductance or small.So what we have going on is actual see through it seems.Not that I'm seeing through a piece of iron but the Tarsacci has the ability to tell a non ferrous target from a ferrous target when they are intermingled and allow the good target to be more SEEN. 

Dimitar has told me mineral enhances the target and hes right targets in the soil at times sound cleaner than when out of the soil.Iron ore dirt buried targets sound cleaner buried than exposed to air.So now I see targets that are in coil view in iron sound cleaner than just lying alone.the iron is also enhancing the non ferrous report.Its almost the OXIDE of iron is enhancing the targets through say leeching.Plus the iron sites like site above is already in iron ore soil.Like a target boost.Other machines may also be seeing these targets but the oxide and ore is destroying the clarity. 

Any non ferrous target and any shape is hit i might add in this sceanrio. 

The Tarsacci is not a normal machine and its doing things out of the norm that we are not used too.THIS IS REAL TECHNOLOGY like I havent seen in my soil.This is the type unit you have to set it up right for your site but its doing the work for you easily once it gets purring. 

Dont try and run mixed mode in heavy iron even though it sounds more VLFish.Mixed mode filters are set low to bleed more audio as high tone even deep iron.Disc mode is set to dissect with some stronger filtering to stop iron high tone bleed.Dont over power the unit the see though is the magic and even on sens of 6 I can see a ten inch dime in bad soil.Dont let the machine see too much soil if its bad let it be able to discern a real target from mineral or iron. 

This machine is as close as I've ever seen to a P.I. with disc. 

Dont give up or dismiss the technology if you have one its the real deal!This has the feel to me like a FBS gave me 20 years ago..Its different and we have to learn how to use it.ITS HIGH TECH!Its quirky and all and not perfect but what it does do is like I've experinced now for little over a month.It sees things others cant or struggles with.Get used to the audio and rely on its accuracy and it will become second nature like any machine.it has an different feel for sure but it should its different tech.When you get it set right and you can tell when you do once you accustom yourself to it its pretty dang SLICK! 

I had a hard learning curve with the machine for reasons only known to the designer.BUT I'm glad he subjected me to it on purpose.it gave me deeper insights.I started off backwards. A set up unit that would not hardly run in my soil.then went to a normal set up unit and that showed me so much and why this and that happens. 

Keith

I’d say that was excellent depth considering the size of the ring and in black sand!👍

Aaron

On 3/12/2020 at 7:22 PM, Coilpower said:

Went out with 3 hunting buddies slopping in the muddy blackish sand for a few coins and a small 1.3gr 9ct gold ring. Still waiting for beaches to do more of a move. Photo of my medium dug hole which only produced an old 20 cent, but happy with depth the Tarsacci got. The others only got 3 coins between them so hard hunting with so few targets around at the moment. Happy with 1944 shilling......1946 3d is toast.

That is a REALLY small gold ring in that nasty mineralized black sand Teresa! How deep was it?

CONGRATS on the GOLD!

Aaron

25 minutes ago, karakurt said:

Hey,Carolina,how can I find my MDT 8000 Serial Number?

The serial number is located on the startup screen, as soon as the units turned on.

Aaron

Hi, purchased mine Spring 2019 new. Most of my hunting with MDT is relic/park/fresh water.

HH! Aaron