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1515Art

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  1. Have to retrieve them from the bank vault first
  2. Mine is pretty much lik the one in the picture, one side is serrated and it has a blue molded handle made by some French company I think. It's really solid and cuts a nice plug... pops shallow stuff ok too.
  3. Not to far away... Farther than I could throw a spark plug on my best day by a couple of streets to the west, perhaps it's become a spark plug placer. Sometime you will have to check and see if any look familiar, might need DNA or finger prints to know for sure.
  4. i have found a few spark plugs it would be cool if i was off on my dates and it was the one you worked at, i could have you bring over the mxs and clean up all the junk you tossed over.
  5. I don't know what station it was, they tore it down before I went to work for the city in 1976. all the junk i find is older looking radiator cap and fittings, I've found some old broken motorcycle brake or clutch lever pieces. not great stuff, but vacant lot spill over kinds of things that could hide something I hope. i don't hunt it a lot cause i don't really expect to find much, its good for when I'm board and the parks are full of people. my sisters place is a few miles away its an older home also with a big rear lot that was also part of a farm and had an old barn at one time, i found a old roller skate key and a mini ball and the usual assortment of old nails.
  6. The cool part was it was a frenchie with my new frenchie, I don't really care about the date that much, in fact I'm happier to get good information, so thanks for the help and picture. I'm still pretty sure it came from Harris, he traveled to France a lot and lived in the house a long time until his health failed, then one day he took a walk out into the orchard and sat down next to a tree with his shotgun and moved on, I found some old shotgun shell brass in the front yard also. That would have been in the late 40's or early 50's and still fits with the coin.
  7. actually that was kind of stupid, I'm not griding a gold field so i guess the deus will do a pretty good job of keeping track of whats left in the ground... still gonna be tough on the grass.
  8. this little park I've know of for most of my life i think might just be one of those good micro jewelry locations. hearing the different criteria that makes a good location this one has a number of factors aside from not ever hunted, the average surrounding home value is in the 4 million dollar range. the park gets a fair amount of use and thick with tiny pieces of aluminum scrap, i think I've the machine for the job, but haven't gotten my deus bible in the mail yet so I'm not sure exactly certain what settings might be best to start with and my other concern and this would be the one stopping me from hunting this micro stuff at all is I'm afraid the lawn will take a pretty hard beating if my luck is poor. the targets are so thick that it gonna take a long time of spreading the digging out and then trying to figure where everything left off as i move from place to place trying to cover the ground but spread out a lessen the impact on the grass. the only thing it might not have as a strong point is its more of a sitting park and not a soccer field environment.
  9. since i just got one I've been researching and although i am not advocating it for the beach as i have no idea of its abilities in that area yet, i did see a video on some precautions using the deus at the salt water. apparently the gold plating on the charging posts will corrode over time if subjected to salt exposure preventing the ability to charge the coil. one fix and i may be the only clueless one in the crowd about this so my apologies if this information is old news... placing a strip of electric tape over the terminals before going to the beach and removing the tape during clean-up will prevent the corrosion from starting.
  10. Ya, they were mine like they would be for any 8 year old... I did trade two rolls of the uncirculated matching date peace dollars to my best friends older brother for his new bike! Both our dads were PO and the deal was reversed in a few days with a couple of (we got yelled at) along the way for good measure...
  11. Pretty nice John great coin, when we sold our collection we had almost a full set of Morgan's Missing only two coins the 1893s and it's been so long I forget now the other one, an 1895 I believe. Had a full set of peace dollars and a half dozen rolls of uncirculated matching dates peace dollars, a full set of Jefferson nickels and full set of Lincoln pennies a few old gold pieces some Hawaiian coins, private fractional golds and a pile of Indian head pennies melted together in the remains of a metal box from the San Francisco earthquake and fire. i was 8 years old in school lunch line one day and we had been collecting for a couple of years now so I knew even then the key dates I had asked the lunch lady if I could check the dates of the coins in the till box and spotted an 1893s Morgan in the till. With the innocence of an 8 year old I explained this was a key coin we were missing and asked if I could use my lunch money for the coin instead of lunch that day, she declined my request. When my dad got home from work we went to the bank the school used and checked every silver they had on hand and it was not there. id like to have all of those now of course, but that's how it goes. my grandfather had a transit company and on one visit gave me a moving box full of old baseball cards left behind from some estate in SF, this was the early 1960s hundreds of cards and even mix of what were semi new at the time and old cards with funny looking guys in the pictures most of these were really early, I wasn't really a fan so they just sat in my closet along with every comic book ever printed from the later part of the 1950s up until the fateful day in 1963. I headed up to the sierras to go fishing with my grandparents and when I got home... All gone to the trash... Love to have those back also.
  12. I remember the times of which you speak in the hay day of coin collecting, I just turned 63 a couple of months ago and collected coins also. Every paycheck my dad would run us down to the bank and cash it in silver dollars, we'd go through them keep anything we were missing and re-rolled and do it again if we weren't tired of it all by the first trip, it was a lot of fun. I also remember when the mint would chop the silver dollars up and sell you back a 1 ounce Baggie of the chopped up coin (pretty sure that was the mint and not a third party).
  13. Hi GB_Amateur, I'd never try and judge a swamp person by his cover, I bet most of them could McGiver us out of a tough spot with some shoe strings and tin cans if we were in a jam, but they do put on quite a show... not knowing if you have ever been out west before or what experience and resources you would have available in the western states, if you visit California and are without places you have planned to hunt, a bit of friendly advice is to check out something like roaring camp. They have a web site and are smack in the middle of good ground, it's a little expensive however they generally book up and people keep coming back for more with positive reviews.
  14. Hi Brian, I took the Deus out to a little park near my house today for a quick hunt, the soil is fairly mild and on the Deus gb averaged around 67 to 72 or so, having access to these numbers is new to me so I'm still on my learning curve as to what that all means in relation to things other that the basics. This little park is never hunted so it loaded with clad, tabs, slaw and the other assorted junk. I know some silver must exist but the park has had a makeover some years ago and the silver might have been lost then. Anyway I'm digressing a bit here so back to the Deus, I found it fairly easy to id coins by cherry picking sweet higher tones and keeping the vdi above 70, with an occasional rusted bottle cap. Older heavy aluminum pull tabs were giving a sweet mellow tone in the 50 range at about 3 inches and the slaw bounced around in the 30's to 40's this day at this park. I dug a dozen clad, a little bit of junk and mostly focused my time testing myself in the clad range and higher tones for the little bit I practiced today. Additionally, while the vdi helped to id coins it was not near as accurate as the whites in identifying specific coins as whites which was pretty consistent everywhere I hunted down to around 5 inches or so, perhaps even a bit more depth than that at times. It feels like the Deus can be as others have said before as easy or difficult to operate as the user wishes and although still early in my experience still holding true. I'd agree, the Deus style of vdi favors non-ferris in a way where it's more difficult to eliminate some of the things you don't want. I think it was Fred that aptly pointed out, things like modern aluminum are more scarce in the gold fields, so hopefully the vdi won't be as much of a factor at those old home sites, similar to the conditions overseas. I should add today I was running relic program 6, with the iron volume tweaked to 0, reactivity bumped to 1 and volume lowered to 2. I've spent the last 3 months feeling a bit like a tennis ball at whimbilton, the ctx, gold racer and Deus all have things I was looking for but in a different way. And during this 3 months I've changed my mind almost hourly, every review, new release, rumor and delay a whack of the racket sending my decision back across the net. i guess I could also add my reasons for settling on the Deus... As I've said previously... Love the package, lifetime updates, the Deus was sounding like a very capable machine and the promises of v4 would make it perfect, I'm committed to buying the new v4 coil, but if by some surprise v4 fails to live up to the hype I can just buy the racer instead for about the same money. The Deus small coil and ws3 headphones alone can make a decent portable mini pointer for the zed without the upper shaft and controller and finally, I ruled out the ctx despite it fitting so well with zed because I'm just a bit nervous about the 3030 being dated technology and the lack of regard to mineLab customers with the games played on the gpz pricing and sudden gpz price drop. good luck in your quest, clark
  15. So far I like the Deus but I'm super new at it. I will say on my limited experience and comparing the sst against the Deus under extreme conditions in a nail infested tin rich hot ground gb87, the Deus seemed manageable relying on tones, where the sst falsed more and my confidence that I would find the target I was hearing through the deus is much higher. I feel much the same with the z... When it hits on something very good odds i will at least find a target, nothing worse than digging holes with absolutely nothing in them but hot ground and ghosts.
  16. No need to be conserved on the Deus about charging 3 batteries as the charger cable is split 3 ways and charges 1 or all 3 batteries at the same time from a single outlet, it was clean and easy. The charger and cables are fairly compact also.
  17. I think if you happened to be passing through Vegas and while on your way you stopped into one of the casinos and found yourself at the table where they play the game will my gpz be deeper... Your money will be 40% safer going with the house as the house always wins in the end... Double down on a hard 19 increases the odds by 30% and split 8's. anything else and you might be finding yourself someplace far out into the desert in a hole in the ground... Hmmmmm
  18. Rick, thank you very much... What you said makes great sense, confirms what I was seeing and clears the confusion for me. Having used the z for the last year, I've grown accustomed to it proclivities and think I will like hunting with the Deus very much and I love the light weight little package its in.
  19. This company is amazing... it's very difficult to ignor a company that is proving itself so responsive to customer needs. I hope they can maintain this pace and like Steve stated before "set a new bar" for all the other manufactures to chase. Good job Nokta/Makro!
  20. Thanks Chuck, I was wondering a little bit about the numbers and such they weren't making much sense to me. my ear was tuned pretty good for the whites, but the Deus tones i'm not used to yet and today i was finding myself focusing more on the sweetness of the tone and repeatability of what i believed to be nonferrous targets of interest. Not that different really from the Whites, great at ID'ing coins, but everything else a guess anyways and I'm told you could call the GPZ a dig it all machine , so I imagine I can live with some extra digging since I don't seem to know no better anyways. just having the chance to find a good coin or something else of interest out in the bush and trash infested ground will be fun. The SST is a great detector and super easy to use, but I'm really enjoying this dainty little french cutie. clark
  21. the house sits right in the middle of town, it was one of the early farm houses in the city. the guy who built it back in the 1920's came here from italy, his last name was Harris and his family had a couple of farms in town. he also had some connection to friends or family in France and used to travel there occasionally, so I would imagine that there is pretty good odds he was the one who lost the coin. there also used to be a service station years ago next door so I find all kinds of junk in the lot on the side of the property. between the farm and service station along with 90 plus years of trash the property has been tough to hunt, but the Deus seems to handle things pretty well, I never saw that coin, or picked out the signal with my SST.
  22. Well here I am in good ol Santa Clara, my first hunt with my new Deus... And what pops up as my first coin ever with my new detector????????? In my front yard????? LOL... A 1916 French coin!!! Figures, hope this is a great sign of things to come.
  23. being patient isn't one of my strong points, I think its the ADD... last year was good except for the severe drought conditions and all, but great for being outdoors doing stuff. guess I've got no choice, time is passing very slow, got back late last night spent the last few days hunting the area around forrest hill in some amazing looking ground, I found a little old trash, round balls, boot tacks and stuff, sadly no nuggets this trip. the signals were fairly far apart for this part of gold country, so I have to guess their is still something to find, but its been hit pretty hard as well. Gold lake area is the place my grand parents used to have a cabin when i was a kid, the cabin is still there right off gold lake highway its the first cabin in a little group just past the salmon lake turnoff in the area called lusk meadows. I guess these were used during the gold rush hay day in the area. we would out there for a couple of weeks to fish the salmon lakes every year in June when school let out and there was still always some snow on the ground, some snow on the buttes remained year round. I love the Deus, the package they put this thing in is one of the main reasons i picked it... so stealth. the combination I started with is the 11 inch coil and the smaller wireless headphones, figuring the new high frequency coil would be my small coil and then the 11 would be more useful later on. if everything else about this detector is even just on par with the average good unit I'm going to be very happy, but it is so much more adaptable than my SST (one knob one switch), that it will take me a little time to completely understand this machine, but in the little I've used it so far i think this learning journey is going to be fun.
  24. Went to the gold show in Placerville and have to say, if you have not had the chance to attend one of these you must place this on your bucket list... Really informative, as expected Chris's and Steve programs were fantastic and well worth the investment in just their presentations alone and all the other programs were excellent as well. One word of caution, the vendors can't be trusted... When I first went into the show my bank account was in good order, after only two short days my wallet was several thousand dollars lighter, I did at least manage to procure a new Deus in the struggle and later on Pat Keene gave me a hand dragging the remainder of my booty to the car. thats the other great thing, lots and lots of cool stuff... And all the vendors are actually great, they took all my money and I thanked them very much as the deals at the show were good and everyone was very helpful. for those who like to hunt in the high Sierra, I took a chance and drove up into the high country to see how the snow was melting, I know it was a long shot this year but I had other places to check out so I took the drive anyway. Just past the sardine lake turnoff the highway was covered in snow drifts, after just making it through the second drift and seeing much more ahead l gave up and turned around for other country.
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