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Well, I think a phrased the 'assignment' a little too awkwardly.  I was hoping for a few more stories about how someone lost their stuff but more of how you make up a story to claim what I found!

We've all been out on the beach or in a park and someone says 'find anything?' and you might say yeah or you've even showed an item (I don't show much any more).  There is something within some people that they try to claim what you found.  'That's mine' I've had people say.

Is what I found 'yours?'

Maybe you can tell us a 'that's mine' story!

It would be really good if the price was $1599A!

Every now and then I find some cash.  I'd like to return it.  Can you guys help?  Maybe it is yours?  Where did you lose it?

How much cash did I find and what was the exact location?  (Be CREATIVE Klunker!)

But it is an Australian $ for the Manicore.

On 10/3/2022 at 8:41 AM, Bill (S. CA) said:

I hunted a slope by an old merry-go-round in Griffith Park, a spot that has been hit and hit and hit and hit for many years. 

I went there once with a friend about 6 months ago.  He found a silver dime with his 800!  I found a few coins.

There was an old bus stop near there that a friend of mine hit there many years ago and it was all silver!  He's told me stories about it.  It is difficult to know a dig hole around there vs the gopher holes.

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

Well, I'm now in queue for a Mandible, and also all of it's coils.  Let the painful wait begin 🙂

 

Has the price gone down?

I got the email that said the 800 and 600 are now $100 less.  What is the end price?

Well done Strick.  Now who was it that he called first?  haha

I was taken to a claim in the Sierras near Downieville and that was the main place where you would sluice was with roots and grass that had held the flood gold.

I resemble that story!

My calculator says Minelab charges so much for its detectors because they have so many warranty issues!  It might also be a reason for price increases in addition to currency rates.

Be safe.  I lived in Port Charlotte and worked in Arcadia many years ago.  

Go to a swimming beach afterwards.  Try to determine an area that has repetitive waves rather than just a few big ones or a surge.

I know more about the East Coast of Florida beaches than West Coast but I've hunted the Venice (Fla) beaches for sharks' teeth to good success so maybe there will be some big teeth too!  That is not a good swimming beach.

You have to be willing to get to different beaches.  I went to a favorite beach of mine after our hurricane about a month ago, and it was disappointing for the heavier gold items.

Good luck.

5 hours ago, Clay Diggins said:

AZO forum died quite a while ago.

I posted on AZO for several years as that is where I bought my 5000 and met you at an outing Clay.  Then the forum was gone a few years ago and then it came back with less content, but it still had the thread where I found my big nugget.

I just went to the AZO site and tried to go to the link but as Steve and you both said it is gone.  It didn't seem to be something he wanted to make time for.

I wish you could get the content and put it up with some of your other old saves.

How does the Wayback Machine work on forums like this about content?

Thanks for the visuals.  You'll hear some bigger chunks, I think.

You guys missed the clues.  He said Australian ALPS!!!!

Thanks for the photos.  It was too far east for me to go there on my trip.

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

They know the serial numbers affected, they could just contact the owners, most people have registered their warranty, that gives them the contact details. 

Do they?

I've registered more than one Minelab product over the years and I can swear when I go on to my account with them, I can't see or find the multiple registrations.  When I have gotten a new detector, I drop the info into a new form that I can't seem to find.  I've never gotten an email that said you are the owner of such, and such numbered detector and we just wanted you to know something.

Can you look up your warranty on their system?  I know my dealers have had them and they have accepted my 800 but that is because they know their stuff and not really mine.

Who maintains their purchaser database?

'They' are crushing the money supply.  When you have pressure on the value of stocks and real estate there is less speculative money for commodities that are nonessential.  Some speculators have to sell gold or will sell gold to pay for other things.  That becomes a temporary scenario rather than price up because of world instability and the cost to mine gold going up.  Crypto is under the same pressure.

When interest rates rise ....

The curious case of falling gold prices (msn.com)

Thanks, Gerry, for this report.  It is a good one.

The 'report' I was really asking about was the one about the 'history' of Rye Patch.  That would be one that would include large nuggets found there and an estimate of total gold that might have been found there since metal detectors were used.  This was the one you said you would ask your trainers about and maybe even reference Sonny Baird and even could be expanded to the Eugenes!

I've been waiting on a Rye Patch report for months now!

All those fishing weights!  What did you lose?

Good job.

On 8/13/2022 at 12:57 AM, phrunt said:

If my pellet to gold ratio was anywhere near that persons I'd be happy!

I don't think detecting has much of a future at all, gold almost gone, old coins nearly gone, new coins not being used anymore as everyone pays electronically, jewellery more often than not these days is cheap costume junk as people don't value it like they used to.

What are we going to be detecting for when only the junk will be left.

Simon is trying to save it all for himself.  Don't fall for his 'bad' attitude!

There is a Christmas present being requested by a granddaughter ...

I found the quote here:

Maybe it is from someone who found Christianity in prison.

Here is the writing I can see, and I got the light right.