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That is quite a month. Well done. It looks like you averaged one gold ring for every 2 hours or so!

GB, There are meteorite hunters and then there are New Fall meteorite hunters. What is the difference? Known meteorite strewn fields are listed and known by detectorists or you can get 'lucky' and find an otherwise unknown or unreported meteorite. The value of a meteorite goes up I'd say if it is from a known fall. There are lots of falls in the Mojave/Mohave Desert. You can see them and try to get a piece if you have time. Another area that has meteorites is Northwest Africa. These are just labeled as NWAs for the most part and they are collected from the deserts in the area and smuggled out to Morocco and then sold. They have to be smuggled because there are some prohibitions on ownership in the areas where found. New Fall meteorite hunters are always packed and ready to fly to a New Fall. I've only gone on two New Fall meteorite hunts (2012). These require recent information which can include All Sky cameras, weather radar and local reports to try and position the new falls. Pieces of New Fall sell for thousands of dollars depending on the amount of material collected. Often times an area of a New Fall doesn't remain constant like the meteorite described above. These pieces fell on a frozen lake. When the ice melts the pieces can't be found any longer. Those that were on land are mixed with the snow slush and are nearly impossible to identify. Most New Fall meteorite hunters get skunked and end up buying from locals who own land where the meteorites fell. It really does become their property. It is very competitive to be one of the 10 or so meteorite dealers in the world to get New Fall pieces. I think the center of the meteorite trading world is in Tucson. This is an example. http://galactic-stone.com/pages/falls

Here is a meteorite with a great write up and pictures that I bet will expand your meteorite visual knowledge. http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=02/02/2021

Franconia is a very special place in the strewn field. You can tell some areas have baked and baked under the hot sun for thousands of years undisturbed. That is what you get by just walking around the place. When you want to get the meteorites it has been depleted by many numerous detectorists. I've know of some that have gridded very large areas and placed all of their finds on GPS with some of them shared for the master map and many, many including my finds that were not shared. We'll never get them all so it is right up there with Gold Basin for me if I want to find a meteorite. Thanks Lunk for the memories.

F2 = 0 only

I can go for at least 3 4 hour beach sessions without having to recharge the detector or the Minelab headphones. I believe it is actually good to discharge the battery to a lower level rather than keep it on the charger every instant. I use my 800 90% on wet sand beaches.

I liked the part where the mining company didn't mind if you find nuggets on their land. This is mostly the same way it is in Northern Nevada. If you find a lot of it they want to know but if you find a few pieces you are welcome to keep them.

Prospector unearths three gold nuggets near Castlemaine, sparking hopes for mine https://www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/7110780/could-one-gold-prospectors-finds-unlock-hidden-underground-riches/

A bit off topic but when would you use the Equinox over the Gold Monster?

Yes, there are some guys out who dig a hole and put their tent stake up like a prized kill and leave it for others to find again. It is irritating and I wonder what they actually find but they don't get it all. A couple of years ago I had words with a guy who would dig with a short hand scoop. He would leave a sharp edged hole and not leave much dirt around it so it was like a 'trap' he made. We screamed at each other over a few months or avoided each other but he is not out any more when I am there.

Great job and thanks for the view of what is out there. I had the feeling the waves had done some classification and I would have loved to have stayed longer on the beach on Friday. Thanks also for the 'get a couple of towers away' thinking. If I get out and see someone working my way then I'll either jump behind them or pickup and go to another beach. I hate to be crowded.

There is no model number. It was just expressed as a hope that the name Minelab reserved would be used on a new waterproof detector but it is a long shot. http://themetaldetectingshow.com/rumours-2021/

I think part of it came about because this summer I used diving booties quite often on the beach hunts. Previously I never let my feet get that wet for so many hours. When I stopped doing that at the end of the summer I had a thick pad built up and it dried too much with wearing the sandals. I thought I had it fixed as I had no problem with it for just about 10 days but now it is back. I think I've learned my lesson and just keep up with it nearly every day.

I'd say no matter what coil you have on an Equinox it will pay for the coil and the machine! You can order an extra coil and it will get paid for also if you use it enough.

I can remember my first crack about 3 months ago when I stepped on a kids toy. Then they started cracking naturally and on both feet. It does get more than irritating ... downright painful. I looked it up online after I used some liquid bandage on a couple of them. That is when I rasped some of the thickness down but I forgot about them for 3-4 days and they are back! 😗

I very much like my CTX/17 for wet sand hunting and I use it with a hip stick. The GPS lets me return to old spots accurately and remember previous ring finds. I don't think it would be easy to control the coil underwater. It is now simpler for me to grab my Equinox/15 and use it without assistance but I get similar depth and I think I have found more gold in Beach 1 than I was finding with the regular use of the CTX. I slow down more with the Equinox than I did with the CTX so if I go back to an occasional use of the CTX slower is a way to go. The 15 really isn't an underwater coil. There is a rumor that the Silver Slayer from Minelab is going to be an underwater beach machine. It that were true I'd be waiting on that unit.

This is really more of a medical topic than a detecting topic but it affects my detecting. The problem is that I wear sandals (others are like me) much of the time and the bottom of my feet have dried out recently for whatever reason and the skin cracks. This affects me when wearing rubber boots on the beach and also my detecting boots which is little recently. I've put some moisturizer on my feet and also 'shaved off' some of the dryness but it has come back. There is a VA nurse here who probably wears sandals more than I do. Has he had this problem? Have any of you had such a problem?

Lunk would be a good go. There are a few of us who have found gold and meteorites in the same day.

I just read this entire thread for the first time. I read it backwards! There is a lot of information here for my pea brain to absorb. Thanks Jasong. If I was out and about I'd show up and let you use the 15x10. I don't know how I can get it to you now. Mitchel

Chet, Someplace I have Lunk's latest settings but this is his discussion about your topic:

To see this: And this: https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/01-29-21-australian-gold-dragons-lair-ausrox-nugget-perot-museum/#slide=0

I took off this afternoon after the storm and went to a couple of beaches. The first beach has been a good beach in the past but it was not going good for me today. I got one little name plate that reads 1 but I don't think it is gold. It was time to move about 5 miles away and try something different. Conditions were better but getting started was slow. I used my intuition to move on from my first spot to a good direction where I started to pick up a couple of coins and then I got the first ring. It looks like part of a set but when I looked at it more closely it is not marked. I worked and worked finding more change with a lot of dimes and I was fighting myself to just move on at a faster pace. I was working a cut but not perpendicular to it. On my 3rd pass away from it I got the tiny little ring. It weighs just .5 g but it is 14k! (I didn't know it at the time.) Now I'm a considerable distance down from the cut and I'm thinking I'm down where the heavies would stay if the energy didn't kick them up. I was at the edge of the shinny wet sand and I got a hit. I dug down about 7-8 inches and it was a flat lead fishing weight. (I gave it to a fisherman and that is why it is not in the pictures.) This was a clue. I circled the weight find and got another hit at 18. At this point I'm digging anything that is not a -2 and out pops this ring (5g/.925/.750) that is silver but you can see the gold. This was the heavy I was expecting and it was near sunset and dinner and ... Now that I have cleaned it up I see D.Y. I know that brand and sure enough the picture is on the website. https://www.davidyurman.com/products/womens/womens-rings/x-crossover-ring-with-18k-gold--r07437-s8.pdp.html?swatchCode=R07437 S8ZZZ This is what it looked like before cleaning. These were the finds for today which included about $10 in change. These were finds from two days ago and one silver ring. If I would have had more time or gone to this beach first then I would have more to show! Thanks for looking.

Well done. Time = rings!

Good job Compass. You took advantage of the energy. Nice little T&Co. I went out today and got one little silver ring. I was out two days ago and tried the 3 beaches thing and didn't get any jewelry. Today I was the only one on this beach working a little cut. Then two guys showed up at low tide and saw one down in the wet. We waved and he walked less than half a lifeguard station away and got in front of me on my cut! That makes me mad as a hornet. Give me more room that that! Well, he forced me to change direction and that is when I found the silver. I wish I would have had your big cut beach for a few more targets.

Jasong, This is the stuff I thought might be on the chips in the Equinox and it could be on the 6000 if they wanted it but then what would they do for the next generation detectors? Maybe Geo Sense is a marketing name for an algorithm!