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I add vinegar and baking soda on my crusty stuff. I like watching it boil. Lots of Tube videos on it.

Yes, that was the 15" Nox 800 with 3.0 update. Don't the pictures show?

Last night I went to a beach that yielded a lot of targets. On my 6 hour hunt from 8 PM to 2 AM I got 51 quarters, 40 dimes and nickels, 54 pennies (one wheat), 2 silver rings and one 10k gold ring. There should have been more rings! The trash was another 50 pieces or so. When you figure it is 4-5 scoops per target (1000 total) then it adds up to a stiff back in the morning. I found the gold ring 2/3rds of the way through the session about the time the fog started rolling in which made for an enjoyable sight as it covered up the normal lights but there was still a mostly full moon above. I was using the 15 inch coil and when I started I was down a couple of notches from full power. I thought there would not be much on the beach but I was wrong and kept pushing along finding some high cuts. Near the end of the session the detector was nearly out of power and I could hear a lessening in my headphones. Something I've wanted to say about the 3.0 update is that it really makes the quarters crackle. I don't think I remember them like that before and I wish they would be a little more 'solid' but perhaps it is because of the sandwich metals.

Those are really nice saves as Joe says here. I don't really have any idea about bottle value but have seen some very 'valuable' bottles from western gold town dumps. They can be very collectible. What do you estimate your haul to be worth so that we can share your enthusiasm for the work and effort to get them. Perhaps you could link us to your preferred bottle online site. Mitchel

Welcome to the forums. How long have you been reading? Years ago (early 80s) I was in Tyler for a few days and I took a fishing trip to Lake Fork. I saw lots of Texas that year from the North to the South and East to West. I hope you find here something that will help you find what you are looking for there. Mitchel

We all know what a quarter looks like but here are a few of my other finds.

I found a 1965 dime. That is a bit of a pain for sure.

I finally went back to that spot last night and I didn't know until I came home I got a 1964 quarter after working it for about an hour. There may be more but I have to expand my search.

Lucky does have a pointy finger and he uses it often. An extended stay on the plains up there is invigorating as well. The long vistas and the 'possibilities' seem endless. Well done and told. Mitchel

I don't have mine yet! 😇

This is also one of my clues. I'll dig a bad target to see its size and shape and layer it is in on my beaches. It slows me down and helps me stay in a patch or find one. I enhance those 'bad' signals by increasing that iron volume. It is a target to me with meaning and I can decide to dig it or not. Sometimes I get blanking on them without a threshold. A tent spike gives my 800 a fit because of its shape I think. (It screams on my 3030.) It wants to blank and ignore them so I get a partial signal when I interrogate. I can't use it that way in all situations, especially the desert looking for gold. The hot rocks need to be ignored as much as possible so that iron volume is low.

Antique jewelry shop Simon. You can sell things for much higher prices! Well done Joe. Don't melt'em. haha

Well shown ... deep is the answer on your beaches! I hope it is on mine also.

That sort of thing goes with the High IQers. haha

Will a long guitar lead do you any good Simon?

You may have 'solved' Simon's problem. Did you read the thread about EMI?

So you plug the sP01 directly into the GPZ and you carry the sP01? But there is another 'fine wire' I see in the video. You just dig while wired to the GPZ but on a longer lead I see.

How about this train track layer?

Now I have watched the videos. That is one BAD coil. You could hardly keep the nuggets from being too loud! I do have a question about the wires you are wearing. Are you plugged in to the GPZ and then have a speaker and you are not using the WM12?

Those are two very, very tough areas for a metal detector. Most people who find color at the East Fork sluice or pan and now it is a National Monument and I've heard they are giving tickets to prospectors. If Piru is on your horizon I hope you have an 'inside track' on where to go. I've researched it and looked at old GPAA and other claims and was chased out because of the protected frog. I've read about good gold there but don't know where to go. There is a lot of private land. The gold areas around Big Bear, Barstow and Randsburg are areas well suited for a detector like the 24k. I got my first nugget with a ML 5000 on a club claim in the Dale District east of 29 Palms. Mitchel

Good pictures and a few finds for you as well. When I was a kid we would seine the larger mullet at times when they were in the waves. This was outside of the St. Johns River in North Florida. What is that pier? You are in an area of Florida I really didn't spend much time in. I went down to Sebastian Inlet a couple of times on surf trips long before I ever thought about a detector. Mitchel

That's a nice pot of gold. Your seasons are ending as ours will begin/continue for the next few months. It is still much too hot in many places in the south. Dave, you get well. Mitchel

Norm I have the same headphones but I'm one of the few that prefer the headphones that came with the Nox over these. Last night I really got them sounding good by taking my time over a few targets and making adjustments to both the 5 tone and 50 tone settings. I will admit that after 4 hours using the Nox headphones it is like peeling them off my ears and is 'painful' in a way. Mitchel

Simon and Norm have brought up another 'point' about the sP01. It is not just for the GPZ. It puts 'shoulders' on targets for many detectors. I'm sure some better than others. I haven't used it with my Equinox yet or any other of my detectors other than the GPZ and I've had it about 1.5 years.

I think Norm has said it a couple of times. He wants to use his Bluetooth headphones. His friend didn't put the WM12 into the mix and got the EMI. I think Norm will now experiment where to put the Trond and go without the WMs.