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1515Art

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  1. The final straw broke last night on my trusty suv and I parked it and walked away... Sort of, sold it for parts to a friend, no way I would feel ok selling it to someone as a driver although don't get me wrong, I got 222000 miles out of it and the engine and tranny are still strong... Just the rest of it was junk and I didn't trust it anymore going into the wilderness. so, I've got my eye on a very clean 2006 jeep rubicon slightly built 3 1/2 inch lift winch bumpers other goodies with only 19000 miles, $23000 b/o. Guy bought it as a toy, didn't use it but a couple of times and then his daughter put most of the miles on it. Looks like new and I like this model because it's the last one jeep made without all the electronic junk I keep reading complaints about and the same stuff that ruined my Mercedes suv (Daimler/Chrysler) electronics, too close to the jeep electronics for my blood. any thoughts?? Price seems a little high to me, but the jeep is nice.
  2. Mitchel, I think the lighting is better over at my location... and I'd be happy to take another picture for you in perfect light, just send them to me. Very nice gold and great work, congrats!
  3. I think you will eventually end up with at least two detectors anyway so go ahead and get the 7000. Then you can worry about which vlf best suites your other needs...
  4. With the small ws4 headphones it is comfortable to wear one side on the ear and have the other above the ear on the side of your head, keeping one ear completely free to listen to what's going on around where you are hunting if you need.
  5. Really sorry for your loss Jim, everyone of us on here at some point in time or other has been the victim of some #^@&!^? 2$$#*(#$ and would to catch the SOB. This one came up on cl at just the right time, sounded bout right and seemed priced to sell. Anyway we'll keep the old eyes peeled just in case. clark
  6. AMRA is a great group and working hard still and despite this huge setback needs all of the prospecting community to remain focused and continue our support. The AMRA Christmas dinner fund raiser is fast approaching with a growing list of great prizes for the raffle, one of the gifts is a donation from my studio that is a really nice set of pearls. Check it out on the AMRA web site and sign up for their Christmas dinner party, sure to be a great time. also PLP at the Placerville gold show talked about pending legislation having to do with world wide mineral production and national security issues, this was supposedly already introduced into some bill or other, we may possibly see some relief from this?
  7. Actually, I like my trx, it has great depth and I also like that the tip is very directional as this makes pinpointing and finding the target pretty easy and the ground grab works good to quiet things down when it gets a bit chattery... My sensitivity is set to 3, guess I could turn it down, but like I said it is hitting pretty deep on 3.
  8. jeez...sounds like reality TV to me, should have had the camera rolling, season 1 episode 1, our star "tboykn" almost dies in massive rockslide nearly tumbling over a 3000 foot precipice saved by agility, panic and a little luck from a plunge spelling certain death and yet the search for gold continues...
  9. Magic my friend...what great finds, you are playing your machines to perfection. We are going to have to start calling you the jewelry master or king ring, or the grill man cause you been cooking with gas. Very nice and we love seeing those great results, keep it up Chuck and we know a nice lump awaits your swing in them thar hills for sure!
  10. I have the trx also and it acts the same way, what I've found works pretty good is to turn the trx on pointing down at the the ground a few inches away from where you think the target is. Pinpoint the target and then before I set the trx down I give the ground grab a quick hit, this mostly keeps it quiet. Frequent use of the ground grab button quiets the thing down when it's acting unstable, which is a lot.
  11. He may not have found any gold with that contraption, but he's captured several hundred thousand Poke-mon with the smart phone interface... And when it gets cold outside all he needs to do is crank up the gain until the blood in his toes starts to simmer, keeps everything nice and toasty on a chilly winter morning.
  12. If I'm getting to dream a little and could combine two technologies that I know little about, although am certain would be scientifically impossible due to interfering with each other's signals somehow, and cooking the operator in the process might be a possible down side as well... I'd like to have a metal detector that also had some kind of XRF technology whereby you could detect for small percentages of various minerals (Au, or host rock) and then you could hunt for indicator trails and the eventual rainbows end
  13. For me it will depend mostly on if XP got it right with the new coil and if this coil works as well across the larger frequency range as the smaller span of frequencies of previous software versions. If not I'll still love the Deus, but not nearly as much. The current gold ability of the Deus is hard for me to comment on much fairly as I'm so new to this, but compared to using the GPZ and running the Deus over some small test nuggets, for now the Deus stays in the car except for when the boredom overtakes me and I just need a break, then the Deus opens some new ground and the possibility of cherry picking something interesting. Like everyone else I'm also wishing the new higher frequency and coil will give me something close to gold racer performance in the Deus package. Combine all this with the lifetime updates, the XP build quality that seems pretty good to my unskilled eye and the redundancy afforded by having that second detector (coil) available if I'm off on a trip somewhere and there is some problem, I could at least still use the Deus because of all the redundancy in a small package with two detectors (coils) and two control units counting the headphones. having all that I think gives the Deus some premium over just adding a new coil to the arsenal I guess and i'm also one who prefers to have as few coils to drag around a possible. Is twice the price reasonable for all the Deus brings to the table and the advantage of all wireless... Depends, I don't need it and could do the same thing for less money for sure, but what the Deus brings adds a lot of value for me by greatly increasing the time I spend out hunting because I like using the Deus a lot, it's a fun detector as you get more comfortable using it and I keep saying this, but it's such a pleasure to pack around and swing.
  14. The crows in my backyard have taken a fondness for one of my plastic gold pans.
  15. thanks fellows, it's always a blast being out on a hunt, and Chuck, great to see you and Lisa out there I hope we get a chance to repeat soon it was a lot of fun to hunt with you out there and your timing was near perfect. I hope someday soon to find us a new patch area so far i've been a day late and dollar short, but i'm seeing a lot of territory and one of these days... till then, low and slow...as much as I can, damn tough sometimes, but you are right... Low and Slow
  16. I've been collecting an impressive assortment of trash the last few months, but the only gold I have been able to count on has been from running my sluice in the creek as my gpz has been fruitless for some time. I was up in the high country for a few days last month, the first day and a half were looking pretty much the same with nothing to show for my time. I decided to pack up from where I had been hunting and drove out to see if gold miner Strick had set up camp as I knew he would be heading up for a hunt for a few days. When I got to his camp Chuck was out for a hike, so l chatted with Lisa for a few minutes and then headed to an old patch to see if my luck had changed. i had fired up zed and had been hunting for about 15 minutes when I picked up a really clean short sweet high low tone when I ran the coil alongside a large tree that had fallen down and partially decayed. I began digging up the target and at about only 3 inches down I spotted a promising lump as in the distance I could hear the approach of prospector strick's utv approaching my location. I hurriedly snatched my prize from it's hiding place, dusted off the dirt and dropped it into my container just in time to show it off to my fellow prospectors. my only conclusion is that an important part of a successful hunt must include at least a short visit to camp Strick, as I went back up the following week for 4 days and was not able to get some luck to rub off on me and lived the skunk yet again, despite destroying two tires on my wife's car the first day, which has worked in the past finding gold.
  17. These are exactly the reasons AMRA, PLP and other groups working to protect our rights are so important and deserve our support and also as had been said so many times before on this forum... Why it is also so important that we police ourselves and give those whom wish to end prospecting no reason to oppose our activities.
  18. Hi Strick, nice gold and a great get, there are always more we hope but that area is getting very tough... excellent find and pretty nugget.
  19. Hmmm... I'm slightly better at finding Waldo, but finding Steve is about as tough as finding nuggets. I'm gonna have to leave this one for the next detective, my brain can no longer focus and my eyes are blurred...all is normal.
  20. That coil looks big next to the 14... wish they had shown a little side by side action, guess thats coming soon.
  21. well...my first guess is that Steve was one of those big gold nuggets they were showing off, that would explain why they seem to be dripping off him everyplace he hunts, that and his superb knowledge and talents. other than my brown noosing, but still well deserved praise of our host...there was a guy in glasses showing up for a flash at 0:29 and again at 3:26???? couldn't tell you for sure and can't really tell, but i don't see any other possibilities.
  22. na, you'd be OK...girls like that get your heart started. i think they call it a debbie fibulator. funny story, I took my daughter and younger son on a tour of China a few years ago and on one night in shanghai a friend of ours took us out to some night clubs in the city. this guy works for the government as sort of a city manager doing something with business and running a couple of the corporations, i'm not exactly sure what they are but this guys got some horsepower. we were hanging out listening to music and having some drinks when 20 young handsome young men (guys breaking into the movie industry and the same number of up and up and coming starlets as pretty as the girls in that picture come walking up. the boys surround my daughter and the girls all circled around my son, the deal was they were both supposed to pick out a date for conversation and dancing. talk about different reactions...my daughter was horrified and wanted nothing to do with any of it, my son a different story...he was certain Shanghai was the place to live.
  23. you will love China, let us know when you plan to go and ill see if we can find you someplace to see off the beaten path or at least have a pretty Chinese lady meet you for dinner!
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