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  1. You have captured a response that most don't get. Thank you. Many years ago I asked on several different forums what do deep nuggets sound like. Audio was hard to capture then. I didn't know to listen to the 'broad' sound and could only hear the sharp nuggets. I didn't do the proper amount of 'limit' testing you are showing here. I didn't take the time to bury nuggets out of range. I'm sure my detectors saw targets and I passed right over them. Beach sounds aren't quite the same at depth.
  2. Are you one of Gerry's customers? haha You have two hats on ... a Gerry's trainer and ... Arizona gold seeker in the winter. That is a nice gold picture.
  3. I had a chance in 2010 to buy the best detector, a 5000 and start doing something I'd never done before. I started going out into the desert looking for gold. To say I didn't know much about it would be an understatement. I did think I could get the best detector and I would find things easily. That is not what happened. The detector was fine but I didn't know where to use it and what to listen for. About a year later I found my first nugget in a tailing pile. That somewhat satisfied the where part but I still had a problem with the what to listen for stuff. I couldn't hear gold and I couldn't hear little meteorites. I wasn't adjusted right. At this point the ability to think and perform a bit outside of the box became worthwhile. I got lucky with finding a nice nugget in a non-nugget location. I kept that in mind and when I upgraded my coil I went back to that same area and I got 'lucky' again with another larger nugget. Upgrading to the 7000 was not the same type of increase in nugget size. I've mostly gone back to where gold has been found before and sizeable nuggets just are not there. Enjoy your walk-abouts. Carry a detector and you will find some missed gold but go one canyon over and you might still find a big nugget.
  4. Here is the hunt from yesterday. I had to give up on the wet beach and go to dry sand. There is a Santa Barbara bus token there. I've not found one of those before.
  5. I used my 800/15. I seem to have a good ear for the stuff at depth with it. Things are a bit deeper this year than years past it seems to me. Quarters and pennies can be 8-10" in wet sand. I can't quite imagine going another 3-4" deeper with an AlgoForce if in fact it will do that in mineralized beach sand.
  6. We enjoy better than this but I have to get out even tho it is not that good.
  7. Seeing the Super Bowl ads which included Mr. T and then seeing this haul lets us know, "It's still out there!" You have to be too busy to post and watch this forum.
  8. Here are the finds from 3-4 hunts over the last week or so. They are certainly not like anything Mr. and Mrs. TTT have been finding but I can only show what I find. It has been quite a long time since I found a watch and this one was bouncing around in the waves. There is really not too much good stuff but there is one 14K/1.6g earring and one .925/2.4g ring. It is just time to show I've been out, good or bad. Here is the hunt from today. It is an old ring that didn't clean very good. We think it is a crystal in there and certainly not a diamond.
  9. I've never found a beach like he and his wife have found. I did get 12 rings in one day but most of them were toast. It was very much of a one-off type of deal. 2866 has one of those locations that takes decades of losses to have that many finds. I'm an envious guy on the West Coast. haha It is really nice to see all the stuff tho.
  10. Where did you throw your detectors? I'll be down your way in April to pick them up.
  11. I used to buy used and surplus computer equipment. Most of it was put back into service but a good portion of it was dead. I would separate the metals and boards and get a different price for each by the pound/truck load. The recyclers need quantity. They would break off all the fingers by hand and treat them as School said. The old main frames and the CPUs had much more gold. Many people put boards up from the 80s and 90s and got pretty big offers on eBay from people that would do recovery. I got out of the business in about 2006. I couldn't do enough volume and I didn't have a yard. When I stopped doing it I could get lots of stuff for free and the desks the computers were sitting on were worth more than the computers.
  12. I went out last Saturday to a club claim where guys were finding big nuggets (up to 11 grams) 15 years ago. I was using my X-coil and I'm pretty sure I was the first one. It was the first time there for me and I didn't get any gold but heard lots of stories (clues from the past). The regulars have reduced themselves to digging the banks and getting nuggets with the Gold Monster.
  13. Maybe someone can find a use for this in normal gold recovery. How to Extract Gold from E-Waste Using Old Milk - GreekReporter.com
  14. You said it better than I did. I started late to this game and my kids won't have the 'clues' I did because they will look at a contact zone and not find gold and not get exited. Everything will seem like a one-off event. Not true everywhere but truer than in the past.
  15. A new detector is not going to find gold that is gone. Along with the gold some of the clues are gone as well. New clues are made with dry wash piles, hand stacks and dig holes.
  16. I've hunted that same beach twice in the last 3 days and the majority of what I found was dimes. There are a lot of zincs and a few quarter but it is not much of a jewelry beach right now. That little cut was made by the wind waves and it can change at any time but today I took a break. Yesterday when I was there a guy took an electric bike that you rent into the surf. He laid it down and then he went for a 'swim' with all his clothes on. He was loaded or something. He came back to the bike after about 10 minutes and laid next to the bike and waves were washing over him. I couldn't let this continue so I propped up my detector and went over to him. He didn't want me to help him. I called 911 and waited for someone to show up. In the mean time another guy went to help and this guy got him and the bike out of the surf. This was right in front of a life guard station and a life guard who was in his truck. They apparently knew him. The other good Smartian got him up to about where you see the detectorist in the pictures above and the police showed up. I told them I had called and I was told if they had any questions they would come to me if I was still working the area with my detector. After about 20 minutes of talking to the guy they just left. The guy refused help from them also. He was wet, his pants coming off and he was just out of it but they have lots of guys like that that refuse help. I had been reluctant to try and help him and this is why. He is not ready and with the drugs he is on he may never be ready.
  17. There are a lot of things that can be said about Los Angeles and Los Angeles County. Much of it is bad right now but we do have some very good things from the past that are still World Class. One of them is the Natural History Museum. It is part of the whole complex around the University of Southern California and Exhibition Park. I've been several times and there is still much to be seen. A permanent exhibit that interests most of us here is about gold. I've got a link and then some pictures I took. Maybe you will see something in the link that will have you explore more online. Discovering Gold: Exploring the California Gold Rush | Natural History Museum (nhm.org) Here are my pictures I took in December 2023.
  18. Detectorists and dealers can be a competitive lot and few of us hold a grudge, but we have long memories of hunts gone by. Sharing some of that knowledge and passing it on to others is a personal choice. Many don't share. From my perspective Rob, Gerry, Steve, JP, Norvic, Simon and many others share a lot. It makes us all better to hear different perspectives about different areas. We're potentially fighting over the last scraps of gold so let's get out there and get some.
  19. What would you estimate the total market to be for the E1500? Is it 10,000, 25,000, 50,000 units or more? How many of us want one now? How many of 'us' are there? I don't know how many 800s sold or 7000s or 5000s or XPs or any detectors including Bounty Hunters. I'd probably be surprised. Everyone is saying that this E1500 (is it named after this original $1500 US price?) is more affordable and will have a bigger market. It is all good. I wonder for a couple of reasons. One is just how much of a task is it to contract up the manufacturing and the second is related ... when will that mean there will be one of these detectors available that I can buy? If there is going to be a long waiting list (already is) and the number of units produced per month is low then it could be a long time before most of us get one, right? Even longer than just the FCC approvals.
  20. If it powers that car you were talking about then I'm going to put together 3-4 and power my house and the electric heaters!
  21. I would buy one but I like more moving parts when I spend that much money. If I can't see something moving and have big arrows and balance beams then I've paid too much!
  22. The 6000 can find large nuggets too! Thanks for posting.
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