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  1. I agee it is hell to look at long quotes here - actually on any type of machine. I never got how that becomes a habit, but here it is. On your other point, perhaps no one wants to take a chance on getting you cranky.
  2. Wow, audio B is for grown-ups. It's, of course, easier to hear because we know it's there in the file, but out in the field, that would take the degree of concentration you have been preaching for years. The file actually seems to almost mimic some kinds of EMI or ground noise. I do like the softness of the sound as compared to what you call the "harsher" ferrous tones. I love going to school on this stuff. Thank you.
  3. Reg, I'm sure most of us haven't thought about it in just that way…you have a way with words. Your humor is appreciated along with some arresting mental images...
  4. I detected in a constant high velocity wind today…I would never have heard those warbles. In the usual quiet? Yes. Sound stamp 5,7,9,11 and 13 and a fade out. That one audio file teaches more than most verbal descriptions could ever do, a fantastic bit of knowledge for one click.
  5. I would bet those of us with cameras with us as we are out, might be able to also post the subtle sounds that result in finding gold. That might really be a fun thread.
  6. These posts are even more to-the-point than videos, we can ask a specific question and get a specific answer. Very impressed...
  7. Isn't the potato trick also good when you have mercury coating the gold? The mercury absorbs into the potato.
  8. A potato retort! Haven't seen one since my dredging days…very cool.
  9. JP so do you recommend using HY/Difficult even if the ground can handle HY/Normal? thanks...
  10. Wow you take a hint with the best of them. Nice one!
  11. Your sense of where to look is a lesson in itself. The smallest piece in the lower right is what I am scoring these days close to home. I'm getting the hint that I need to take a trip.
  12. Great add-on to Jason's post, JP. I too appreciate you guys taking the time to educate and share.
  13. I bet that's spot on…take a look. https://www.nuggetfinder.com.au
  14. Great write-up Jason. You have a great way of sharing your experiences and your conclusions. Glad to know you are out and about, we always benefit.
  15. I have hunted with my hearing aids on while wearing headphones and have also taken them off doing the same. I use an amp and feel that, in both situations, the amp more than compensates for my hearing loss, which is also in the high frequency range. If you have an amp, I would say use it…all the time. I think it's harder to hear the variations in the threshold that can signal targets when it's highly mineralized etc. where the threshold won't settle down. After awhile that constant pitch change blurs my ability to be able to pick out subtle tone shifts. I do what Fred does, I just take a few minutes and take the phones off and relax for a few minutes. It helps a lot. Just a thought.
  16. Anyone who has seen his DVD's know the level of photographic/video work JP is capable of. The man is a born photographer, videographer and editor…with an urge to educate and illustrate. And we are the beneficiaries. I am always mindful of the tons of clipped passages from his posts I have stored in my computer that educated me on my last five detectors. I know from experience what it took to shoot, edit and score his DVD's. We are a luckier than we may know.
  17. I cannot believe those "long-range" detectors are still being foisted on people. (I do love the idea of an excavator being included though…)
  18. Don't be irritated. That's why I included the story of that gent just randomly sticking his detector into a bush and hitting a big one…there is so damned much luck involved. Refining technique is only so we can take advantage when luck provides an opportunty - in my opinion.
  19. I agree heartily with your post Steve - no surprise there I guess. It's just the way I have seen the detectorists that I admire, work. Low and Slow is not just a saying it's a gold hunting technique that produces results. As a counterpoint I would like to add a short story that illustrates a jack rabbit approach that paid off big-time. This was recounted by a good friend; He was hunting in the motherlode with a friend of his, let's call him Joe. My friend is methodical and organized. His friend, Joe , disappeared into the brushy distance in the first five minutes of their hunt, waving his coil like a semaphore flag. Half an hour later, my friend was on his hands and knees and sweating profusely as he wrestled with some virtually impenetrable manzanita growth trying to open up an area where he could slide his coil into an undetected space. He straightened up when Joe appeared beside him. "What are you doing in there?" Joe asked, "That's the same place you were working last time we were here. Doesn't look like any fun to me." and for emphasis he shoved his coil into the brush about a foot away from where my friend had been struggling and instantly got a booming signal. The quarter ounce nugget was the biggest of the day by far. My friend still shakes his head in wonderment every time he tells the story.
  20. Firstly I have been detecting on beaches since the late 70's. I began gold detecting in the early 80's. For me, beach detecting is actually a lot easier than detecting for gold. I will bet everyone who as been around a new gold prospector and you have them take a listen to what a subtle target sounds like, they say "That is what it sounds like?" At least that has been my experience. Want to be clear, this is not trying to come off like some sort of expert here. You can tell from my questions on the forum that I am learning all the time. I have seen you hunt on the beach and you know your stuff. You move quite a bit more quickly than I do but I don't really think that makes too much difference, it's kind of a matter of style and I can tell, you like to move. And, you find all kinds of cool stuff, you know from experience how to read a beach and where to look. I have never hunted in the desert with you but from your descriptions you seem to do things right. Do you move at the same rate you do at the beach? I doubt it, but thought I'd ask. In all honesty I think it's simply a matter of time. You go to lots of good spots, I know you've found lots of gold, so maybe it's just some sort of weird dry spell…we all have them (don't we?). Best...
  21. Heck Walker, he's probably on his second one...
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