Badger-NH

The eclipse will be passing right over NH so it will be near total where I am. I have no interest in watching the sun and moon. For me, the spectacle is how the twilight's unique shadows affect how everything looks. The landscape and scenery where you will be observing it make a big difference.

I just tried it again. This time I saw the forum. I started this post to say the site was working but then got denied when I attempted to log in and had to edit. I'll give it more time.

4 hours ago, JCR said:

@Badger-NH I just checked & it is working fine for me.

Thanks for checking.

It's strange. I have no problem logging in. Now it says " This board has no forums." I sent an email yesterday. I'll give it a few days. Maybe it will fix itself.

Is the new Dankowski forum offline? It was working for me a few days ago but now when I go there it says "You are not authorized to read this forum."

I'm hoping the Algoforce equals or outperforms the AQ for wet sand beach hunting. I don't need it to be waterproof. Waterproofing is unnecessary and just raises the price.

Welcome to the forum. I live in NH, not far from the coast. The Manticore is an excellent choice for our beaches.

Companies are more likely to listen when they are called out on public forums. 

The biggest improvement they could make would be to redesign their coils for higher performance. Aftermarket coils always worked better on the T2 and F75.

On 11/9/2023 at 8:22 AM, TampaBayBrad said:

I belt mounted mine which made it VERY light. 😁

I can't imagine anyone using a CZ20/21 out of the water with the unit mounted on the handle. That would be extremely difficult to swing. I've always used mine belt mounted. There is also a chest mount option available if you search online. The control box is still way heavier and bigger than it needs to be for beach use. They could have easily made an ultralight beach version of the CZ21 that would not require belt mounting but they chose not to. 

I would keep hitting that beach.  👍

The CZ20/21 was designed for diving. Awesome performance in salty wet sand but heavy and awkward for beach hunting.  I don't understand why they never made a lightweight beach version. That's where the money is.

The coin looks authentic to me. Replications are supposed to be marked "copy".

Insect Shield - https://www.insectshield.com/

Tarsacci went the way of the Blisstool. It showed promise but had no practical use.

The YaYa Tick Ban sounds interesting. If anything, it's a good backup for other products and I like that it's safe but I wouldn't depend on it by itself.

I don't care for Permethrin. I've tested it and it only lasts a week at best. The label may say it will survive a wash but it doesn't. You have to re-spray your clothes at least once a week or before each hunt. It's very easy to test the effectiveness of the Permethrin spay. When you find a tick, put it on your clothes and see how long it takes to die. As the toxicity starts to fade, the ticks will be able to crawl around until they find a safe place on your body to bite. That's when you know it's time to re-spray your clothes. I also don't like Permethrin because it can cause neurological damage in cats and probably other animals. Many people are not intelligent enough to use it responsibly.

You are better off just buying the Insect Shield clothing. The infusion process they use is much more permanent. My Insect Shield shirts typically last a year or more. They last longer if you avoid washing them.

I've had Lyme Disease three times over the last 20 years. Pretty sure I beat it each time with antibiotics.

The best protection I have found is Insect Shield shirts or similar brand products. I wear high boots over my pant legs to keep them from crawling up my ankles. That combined with the shirts provides 100% protection. I shower and change clothes when I get home. I started wearing Insect Shield eight or so years ago and have not had a tick bite since.

12 hours ago, Compass said:

Gold fillings can definitely survive a cremation. It depends on the cremation temperature (1400 to 2000 degrees F) and the alloy makeup of the gold. 10K gold melts at 1665 degrees F and 24K gold melts at 1945 degrees F. I have found many gold dental crowns over the years and most show some signs of charring or partial melting. I found 3 on one hunt and often find cremation tags nearby.

I'm inclined to agree. The crematoriums probably tell their clients that gold is unrecoverable just to make their job easier.

11 hours ago, KnT said:

They were melted amalgum.. Not shaped like a filling. Seen enough of them to know the difference. 

I found a piece of melted gold at the beach about the size of a filling. I took it to a gold and jewelry dealer and he said it was 14k. I thought maybe it was a small gold ring that had fallen into a campfire but now dental gold seems possible.

Gold is gold to me. I don't care where it comes from. I have four gold crowns in my teeth. If they ever scatter my ashes at the beach, I hope someone finds them.  🙂

21 hours ago, KnT said:

  My husband finds the gold fillings left after someone tosses the cremated ashes of people onto our little beach. It's creepy and weird and I make him throw it back. That item is trash worthy.

Any gold in a person's body would melt during cremation and would not appear in someone's ashes. The fillings your husband found were probably lost by someone swimming or playing at the beach. 

https://www.elementalnw.com/ufaqs/can-i-get-the-gold-fillings-medical-implants-bones-etc-back/#:~:text=While the crown may look,the process and is unrecoverable.

https://fcaaz.org/1761-2/#:~:text=At cremation temperatures%2C any gold,in with the bone fragments.

If the Gold is as good on the beach as the AQ but with a much lower price, I might consider one.

I don't need it to be waterproof. Also don't want headphones or a neutral buoyancy coil. No speaker please.

23 hours ago, Aaron said:

The only negative I have to say about the CZ3D, and this maybe true for all of them, it LOVED deep rusty nails.

I had to stop using it in my park when all that remained was targets over 10”.  Once I’d get a target that deep w the CZ, despite all my efforts, circling 360 degrees, whipping the coil ect. , there was no telling the difference between a deep rusty nail (especially a bent one!) and no fe target! 

HH! Aaron

I had the same complaint with the CZ20. It was useless around most iron, on land and at the beach. Away from iron, it was great.

Keep detecting. When you find a silver one, compare it to the clad coins you've found so far.

Wheaties don't always indicate potential silver. While silver coins were plucked from circulation in the 70s and 80s, wheaties were ignored for the most part. It was not unusual to see a wheatie or two in pocket change 20 years ago.

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.