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Rob, You are right. I think I bought a used NF coil from you before I found my big nugget (only 8oz gold). Others much larger than mine have been found in that area also and I know a couple of guys on this forum that don't tell what they find on a yearly basis. I like to find and tell but that is not everyones style for nuggets or meteorites. Mitchel

Tom, Your PM is full. I'll take a hat. Mitchel

The Eugenes have been good to a lot of people but I still haven't gotten a nugget from there either. After I left the eclipse I drove to the Eugenes and spent the night and detected there all the next day. The next time I make it there I'd spend more time around the bikini tree! haha

Very nice. About what year did you make those finds? I hunted in South Pass for about 4 hours with a friend after the total solar eclipse in 2017. Wow, has it been that long ago now? haha We didn't find anything but it is an interesting area for sure.

Very interesting and good research. You never know where you are going to find clues.

I know Jim and have hunted with him. We had a fun, full day when we went out.

I want to sell him one of my detectors! haha

I saw this quote today and I know it applies to more than fishing! What say you? I would say: Many men and women go detecting for much of their lives without knowing that it is not the treasure they are after.

He is about and used it for treasure in Europe for many years.

You are too narrow to the left. I don't think you opening up a complete bracket at the top will add much to your silver. I would go down to at least the F and 3-4 rows below. I've had some good 'round' tones over as far as the first major bracket line. The in between silver and gold is really not much good.

Simon, You do need to open up more on the left. Don't go all the way to the bottom. Raid your wife's jewelry and use your wedding band. Borrow some rings from friends. I concur that you have the silver nailed with those settings. As you go father left you start to get into our penny range. I've had silver rings 'top out' in the top right so you may want to include that row.

I'd say if you want gold nuggets with a CTX then look for Gold Hound threads. He did pretty good with it when no one else was using it in the bush. Now a man made object ... a gold ring is a really full sound with the CTX. I'll have to give some thought to your question as I've found many golds with it. I still have them on my GPS so when I take the 17" for a walk now and then I'll have to remember the numbers. I'll tell you I mostly look at the graph and even if I have it in all metal I know the rings are in the center left. That visual gets me excited.

I rarely use the pinpoint also ... just habit. There was not much on the beach today but I did dig a couple of 10" quarters and I have an 8" scoop so I had to scratch at the hole a few times for those coins. There were just a few two scoop pennies and then a lot of nothing. It was a nice sunny 3 mile walk on the beach.

Well said Mid. I hit Southern California beaches a lot. Mostly the wet sand areas. Recently I had a return to the 11" to give my arm a bit of a rest on the swing. I was surprised how deep it really goes. I can hear coins deeper than 11" in some cases and that is normally quite enough. The last couple of days after a bit of a blow and energy stirring up the sand I've gone back to the 15" and it finds more. It finds more going fast or going slow. It finds more deep when you get that iffy. I dig almost everything except a few pennies. I just can't spend 6-8 scoops sometimes in the recovery when I could find a better target with more character. It is a mood thing. Something that does make people not want to use a big coil is pinpointing. Often times I don't use it and I just look at my coil and know where the target should be dug. Sometimes that is a bit of an optical illusion. The target doesn't seem like it is where it should be. Today I worked out a correction for my perception. When I work my way over a target and get a full sound I normally focus on the Minelab Logo and dig under it for my target. My recoveries were not as efficient as I would have liked. I was taking extra scoops and missing my coins. I adjusted. What was my adjustment? I started scooping behind (closer to the center) from the logo. My eyes focused there (about 4 inches difference) rather than closer to the edge of the coil. It greatly reduced my number of scoops for recovery. I felt like I was swinging my 3030 again where I could get a lot of targets with just one or two scoops rather than 5-6! I'll concentrate a bit more on the 11" coil and see where my focal point is for recovery there. Thanks for your books Clive. Mitchel

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What will the time be at 2:22:22 tomorrow morning? Just think ... we get 2 chances at it!

Well done. It always helps to have a pointy finger along on a trip.

I go back over my same ground when I'm finding color.

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Good job Gerry. I started looking for meteorites about 10 years ago when I had only my 5000. It was difficult for me at first and I had to get help from some expert meteorite hunters. They eventually showed me how to set up that machine and I was able to find some sub 10 gram meteorites. Those are hard to pick out against the patina and hot rock strata in Gold Basin. They are easier to find when looking for irons at Franconia. The 7000 is a good detector for meteorites but you have to be in the right place. That big one you found is probably bigger than any I've found out of the dozens now so you did a good job there. All of them are getting harder to find. How many did Lunk get? Mitchel

Saves me the time of watching them!

It is hard to put together a heist from the park for just a one day show! They have more of a problem now with 'where do we keep it?'

I had read the article but wasn't motivated to post the first one but I'm glad you did now. We've got some other threads dealing with gold from the East but this one has more of a coin perspective than those and then retells the gold finds and mining.

What brand of detector would you need to find this? (If it was buried.) https://survivalupdate.com/a-12-million-dollar-solid-gold-cube-appears-in-central-park/

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