Daniel Tn

That's a flashback to the audio of the Whites V3i for sure.  Takes me back!

I've had the Nox 600, 800, and 900. As well as the Manticore, Deus 2, and Legend.  While each one is popular and has its own cult like followers, my #1 goto detector is still the Teknetics T2. The others to me, excel in niche and situational conditions...but not enough to say that one rules them over them all.  That's just me though and I'm getting to be an old dinosaur.

Here's ya an arrowhead example of what I am referring to.  

14 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Bill, asking again, can you tell us how/where you ordered the Legend shaft upgrades. Thanks.

 

Yes please!  I was also awaiting a response to that.

Ahh it all depends on how big you let your social media circle be.  Mine is very very small.  Some people have hundreds and thousands of followers and friends.  I have less than 200 and all are people I know on my Facebook personal pages.  I am on several local detecting group pages though.  If you're from a certain area and have dug there a while, you know what finds look like when they come out of your soil.  I don't call em out on it but my BS meter gets pegged quite often.  I remember a few years ago, a guy at the DIV hunts got busted for his "finds".  He had went through the trouble of buying relics, bringing them to the hunt, and then pretending he dug them.  The problem was...the seller he bought them on eBay from was also a regular DIV attendee, and posted screen shots of said "found" relics from when he had them for sale.  I don't get people like that.  

1 hour ago, Badger-NH said:

I don't watch many detecting videos but I would like to see an example of what you are saying. That kind of thing would bother me too.

When people see the number of views that channels like Aquachigger receive, the potential to make a lot of money becomes a major motivator but more often than not, the type of person who would fake a find is not very intelligent.

I wasn't referring to videos or YouTube.  I was more referring to the detecting groups and such on Facebook that people post pictures of "finds".  This is exceedingly bad on pages like the Manticore Facebook pages, and similar machine specific groups where they are really trying to push a machine.  

Has anyone else noticed a huge uptick in obvious faked finds being posted?  Not here...but on other sites and in particular, social media hunting group pages?  I'm talking about silver and copper coins "in the dirt pile" pictures that have zero oxidation, patina, etc and the silver look like it's been rubbed on with metal polish paste...that kind of luster to them.  I guess they thrive on comments or something. I saw some tonight on an arrowhead group I'm on...guy had 5 modern points posted together that are the kind you get at the souvenir shops, gas stations, and such...not even made from material found here in the US...and claims he found them at a certain place near me.  If he did...somebody planted them as a joke.  I thought he was posting the picture as a joke but he said he knows their real because he knows other people have found native rocks there too.  🤔   Well heck...I guess beer cans are from the Civil War because we find them on property we also find Civil War relics too.  Stuff like that probably shouldn't irk me but for some reason it does.  

Great video.  However my TekPoint sucks.  It's one of the worst pinpointers I currently have.

Careful...all property on the TN River banks is TVA and TVA is strictly prohibited for metal detecting.  Even the swim areas. This is including up to the 100 yr flood mark above normal "summer pool" levels.  

It looks like a Kirk stemmed point to me.  We find a lot of them in Tennessee. One very similar to yours is on the bottom row of the pictures in this link. 

https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Kirk_Stemmed.html

Mine is still on V1.09.  I've not attempted the update yet. It's that way through both the machine speaker and head phones.  

I'm wondering if it's just my hearing or if it's the Legend audio...does the Legend audio sound static/crackling/rattle to you guys?  Mine sounds that way through the speaker of the machine and headphones...I have even tried with a better pair of Bluetooth headphones and still hear the same thing.  I thought it might be from using several tones and it being the blending audio but even with 2 tones, I still hear it.  Only way I can describe it is like the sound coming from a busted speaker.  One of the audio modes on the Manticore was the same way to me so it may just be my hearing with certain frequencies.  Take it from me...just one shot of a 44 Magnum revolver with a ported barrel is enough to cause some pretty good hearing loss.  

Hello, also from East TN.  South East corner.

35 minutes ago, Againstmywill said:

I have noticed that after a couple years, the Garrett PP can start to drain the battery quickly. I found this out after I thought I left it on once and found the battery dead after one hunt. When it happened a second time, I got wise. When I am done with a hunt, I open it up, turn the battery around, and screw the cap on lightly. Not sure what happens, but I have had a couple Garrett's with a bad capacitor in the past. Maybe the two things are connected somehow?

That's why I think mine is draining power even when OFF.  That's exactly how mine has done...think I left it on after the last hunt but didn't.  I'm thinking mine was dead out of the box too.

The reason I say the Minelab ones are NG is because the one I had, you practically had to be touching the object to get it to sound off.  Even in YouTube comparisons, they are the weakest ones available.  If I have to touch it to get it to sound off, that means I can probably see it with my eyes and don't need a probe for that to begin with.  The Quest is fitting the bill so far...although I did have to reduce sensitivity from the Max setting.  It was actually TOO sensitive.

X-Pointer Max is the one I have.  

I didn't like the MI6 unless it was paired to the Deus.  As a stand alone unit, I didn't like it at all.  The added sensitivity while paired to the Deus really helped it though.  The F-Pulse and TekPoint are indeed the same. I don't like them because of the falsing...and I end up chasing ghost signals/phantom beeps with it.  The AT ProPointer is great except for the battery life.  I think that's going to be a big plus for me for the Quest.  When I charge the detector and headphones, it will be a reminder to also charge the pinpointer.  I usually find out that the Garrett is dead when I am out in the field and a ways from my truck.  

1 hour ago, Digalicious said:

I just got a Teknetics Tekpoint, and tried it on a few targets in my backyard. Even in my mild ground, and the lowest sensitivity level, the falsing was unbearable. The only way I can kind of stop the falsing, is by turning it on with the tip touching the ground. But then again, that often doesn't work either.

I also don't if it's defective, but this pinpointer has extremely low volume. Much lower than the other pinpointers I've used. I have to use vibrate, because when I'm outside, and even with only one earbud in, I most often can't here the damn thing.

Now I'm thinking of returning it, and getting something else. What model do you have, and what do like about it compared to the others?

EDIT- I also tried the quick press in the air to tune out EMI. Like pressing the power button when the tip is on the ground, it often didn't work, and when it did, it would start falsing again after a few seconds.

That's exactly how mine is and how the F-Pulse was too.  I think that's just how they are.  

For some reason the quest (no pun intended) to find a good pinpointer has been quite expensive and full of trial and error.  I think I can say I've had pretty much every one on the market.  Nearly all of them have quirks and some things I absolutely can't stand.  The Minelab ones are probably the worst of the bunch.  The Garrett AT is one of my favorites but mine goes through batteries like crazy.  I actually wonder if something stays on that drains the battery when it's off...because mine only lasts about 4 to 5 hunts before the battery is spent.  The Whites TRX was another favorite but mine has quit working.  The Fisher and Teknetics pulse ones...false WAY to much for my liking.  Well...as I was searching here and there, I ran across some posts here about the Quest pinpointer and decided to try it.  Heck yes!  It's not fool proof but it has now taken over my top spot for pinpointer.  I don't know how it will last in the long run but so far I'm satisfied with it.  

I didn't even see the version numbers up there before.  I looked when I got home. Mine is 1.09.  It'll have to stay that way for a while: busy week ahead for me.  

I bought the LG30 over the others because it seems to be the one everybody seems to be liking the best.  I wouldn't have thought there would be much difference between the 11 inch round stock coil and a 12x9, just looking at the dimensions.  I would have gravitated more towards the LG24 if it would have been me just going for a coil based on specs.  But I've seen very very little out there about it.  

Seated silver doesn't come often for me either.  East Tennessee just isn't known for producing large numbers of silver coins from that Era.  It has been years since I've found a seated coin. My last one was probably 2009 or 2010 and was a couple of seated half dimes. This is the 1st seated 10c dime I've ever found.  

Even still...an iron filter/bias setting adjustment is only useful if you know it's there.  My unit is new but didn't come with anything detailing what version it is and the hardcopy manual it came with doesn't have that in it.  The download able version does, but I would have never found it had I not saw the posts here.  Go easy on me...this thing just came Friday afternoon.  I've still got to update it to whatever the newest version is too.  All I've done so far is charge it.

JCR - Correct on the soil. It's only 2-3 bar soil on the T2 platform.  That was another reason I took it to that particular place...didn't have to contend with hot soil complicating things. And yes, the 11" round coil is the only coil I have.  I didn't buy the Pro pack. I do have a 12x9 ordered though.  

I didn't dig any iron or have iron falsing.  But I also didn't have a clue what you guys were talking about with the iron bias settings.  My printed manual mentions nothing about it. It wasn't until I read these posts and downloaded the new updated manual, that I saw what you are talking about. My printed manual must be from before all that stuff was added in newer updates, because it's not in there.  When I was playing with it in my yard and home test garden, M1 had the best response vs the others, so that's where I kept it.  Most settings I haven't even moved from the factory presets.  This was just a maiden voyage hunt.  I was only hoping to find a minie ball or two since it was too windy to go fishing.  A seated coin caught me off guard.  The 1885 coin date is even better to me. I'm a movie buff and Back 2 the Future is one of my favorite series...and 1885 is the year Doc and Marty went back to the Old West in B2TF 3 haha.  

Story time:  I took the Legend to a little spot in my home town where I had dug a few dropped Civil War bullets last month. I was hoping to get some more.  I figured it would be a decent spot to take the Legend to, to see how it would run. The minies I had dug, hadn't been that deep.  There was some trash there...can slaw, deeper iron, etc.  I hunted in park mode M1.  Ground balanced and let er rip.  GB was around 48.  I actually didn't find much there...but that was to be expected.  Legend was running very smoothly.  I dug a deep brass piece to a door and a deep piece of melted lead.  Then I get this really good 46-48 signal all the way around.  I dug a 3-4 inch plug and still had a signal in the hole. At around 5-6 inches I had it out and it was the dime.  I couldn't believe what I was seeing. 3rd signal I dug!  I dug several more coins but nothing old. And didn't dig a single bent nail or a nail at all.  I'll definitely be going back there now.  

Interesting!  I'm not a coin guy but I'll take seated silver any day!!  

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

Despite living in a very rural place, my bank has a coin counter because of the coin shortage. It has a hopper that they can dump a whole jug of coins in, and they will automatically deposit the funds in your account. All I do is tumble them, they will take the most corroded Zincolns and give you credit for them.

Look around for a bank with one! Make sure you go when they're not too busy. There is no charge for this if it is your bank.

That's how my bank is, but the machine rejects most everything that isn't just shiny pocket change.  I actually tried it at the beginning of this month with some tumbled dug coins. Their machine must be extra picky. Haha.  I dump all my loose coins into a jar when I get home.  We had approx a gallon of non dug coins that we also took.  It accepted all but three of those...and they ended up being oddball foreign coins and it came out to a little over $110.  I had roughly the same amount of dug ones that it wouldn't take though that I chunked in the dumpster at the landfill when I went.  

I'm interested in this also.  I've tried the rotary tumbler technique with aquarium gravel and dish soap...never could get mine clean enough that the automatic coin machines wouldn't kick them right back out.  I brought a whole quart jar full to my bank and they wouldn't take it and the machine rejected 3/4 of the coins.  I've got to where I just throw all my dug clad coins away since they are apparently worthless.

I didn't bring a detector with me.  I looked up the state park rules before I went (Bull Shoals State Park) and it wasn't allowed.  I only brought clothes and fishing gear. We are going back in May to fish a day or two and look at some land while we are there.  I went fishing earlier this week here in Tennessee and was only catching little stocker size trout. I got tired of catching them and loaded up and went back home.  Arkansas spoiled me.