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Who will service the old units? Can anyone make a business model to keep them alive and make money?
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Sweet swingggggggg ...
You don't need depth on many locations.
Mitchel
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Well done. The 'ring thing' is a bit like nuggets. Once you find one there is a knowledge in your swing that is just not possible to forget. You get a sense for the water, the energy and the places where people lose jewelry.
Make sure you check the banks where people sit between swims and the old, dirt parking areas too.
Mitchel
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8 hours ago, madtuna said:
What amazes me is the amount of people who think it's hilarious. On one forum some numpty exclaimed it was the funniest thing he had read all year!
The loss is obviously not funny. It is the reporting of the story to the general press that strikes us as odd.
As we can see, this happens more often than we know. I've lost a bottle with a couple of nuggets in it when I first got my Equinox. It was found by my friend the next day after I reported to him that I had lost my bottle.
A true loss is forgetting you ever had it in the first place!
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I didn't read the Twitter report but ... it was probably not 'lost' ... an 83 year old never forgets things now, does he??? Maybe they just have so many nuggets they didn't count all the big ones properly. The police just wanted to un-jam the roads leading to the area.
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A '$50,000 A' nugget was lost on the highway 270km from Perth. Reward offered ... haha
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Shape matters is all I can say.
Does the piece at the top of your picture that is not a closed loop sound different than the piece below it?
I could probably interrogate those pieces with my 800 and get a couple of positive audio responses if deep and then I would have to take my chances on the number of good targets that sound that way. The closed piece would probably make me want to dig it if I was new on your beach.
Mitchel
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7 hours ago, ALEXANDRE TARTAR said:
The philosophy is this:
Either you wait after the gold which is inaccessible because too deep comes back to the surface thanks to the sea, at the risk that someone detect before you with a more powerful detector.
Either you decide to spend more time learning, digging etc ... But you find before the others and after the others ...
I call this detecting the 'staging area.'
Before targets are brought up or washed off by wave or tide energy they collect for a few weeks, months or years waiting for the right circumstances to move. I look forward to detecting these areas on my beaches before the targets are ejected up on the beach where I have found them with my Explorer, 3030 and Equinox and even my 5000.
My beaches are not a sea, lagoon or a lake where targets remain in nearly the same place where they were lost. They move in what I sometimes call a crab crawl waiting for the energy to be within the finding range. A few years back when we had an El Nino we had new targets all summer long. Targets are sparse now so I have to look deeper.
Mitchel
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The Aussie story tellers are working overtime to describe this one!
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On 6/20/2020 at 10:16 AM, Steve Herschbach said:
So what did I do a while back? I know much better than to ever leave my detector leaning on the rear end of my truck. But I did it anyway and backed over the detector. Right over the pod. Crushed the handle completely!
Steve,
You are not alone in the 'backing over' your metal detector category. On one of my few nugget hunts earlier this year I forgot the 7000 was leaned up against my 4-Runner. I was with a friend and he stopped me carrying my broken detector! I had heard something but ...
I was lucky, extremely lucky ... I broke the bottom lower shaft which is plastic. Nothing else was damaged and I changed it with an extra I had and kept right on detecting for the trip.
Mitchel
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Good going on the finds. My wet change has been down low recently also.
We haven't had much energy in the waves lately to dig out those heavy rings and put them on the move. In my area there is the slope as you described but there is also a layer of living shells capping the sand. We need some big swells to break that cap and get things moving.
I didn't go out last night but I went out the night before. As you described there was only a couple of pieces of light jewelry and hardly anything at the top. I was using the Nox 800/15" which kinda wears me out. It has to be right over a target for me to see it. I feel like I know and see better with the 11 and that is what I'll do tonight.
Mitchel
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1 minute ago, Steve Herschbach said:
It would seem to me the plastic should be more pliable than it obviously is.
Can it be glued back to make it as a spare?
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6 hours ago, phrunt said:
This is interesting, beaches have opening hours? Do they fence them off? How is this policed, seems very odd to me. Do parks have opening hours too or is it that they just don't want people swimming in the dark?
Phrunt,
Basically there are 'day parks' and they are open then and they prevent excess trouble and vandalism and night camping if they close the gates. You have to go to a camping park with your caravan or tents and reserve the space sometimes months in advance.
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Ok, I remembered in another article I read that the amount of gold shown would not equal the claim of value. That can be subjective I guess when you are the 'hider' but that is really a different question than the truth of the find.
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I had read several 'related' articles to the story I linked. I didn't find the answer to my question and it was time for me to sleep.
Why was he looking through his planted box? Did he go to where the finder had opened it just to see the condition of his stuff? Did the finder bring it to him? Can you get any clues in the photo where he actually was when he was looking at the box and does it jibe with the other info.
Gold hunters are skeptical by nature. We try to figure out how much truth there is as the 'where and when' which is what Fenn is trying to protect here.
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How is it that Fenn is going through his own planted box?
https://www.westword.com/news/forrest-fenn-treasure-photos-dont-convince-doubters-11727941
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Well done! That must be brackish water to make that coin look so bad.
It makes me want to go back to some of the swimming holes we went to as a kid in North Florida. I imagine many of them have already been detected but there are many more lakes and springs up there.
Mitchel
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There is a salt setting on the 5000. I was digging everything and eventually got tired of the bobby pins and got VLFs since then. Funny thing about all of that is now with my 800 I'll 'enjoy' digging a bobby pin at 4-5 inches in all metal because every once in a while a -2 turns into something else! I expect the same with the AQ unless there are so many missed rings on our beaches that I won't stop for anything other than round sounds.
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11 hours ago, Compass said:
Thanks for the quick response OBN. 7 grams is not a bad sized chain- I don't know if any other pulse machine could detect a gold chain that size.
Years ago I used a 5000 with an 11" Commander coil on the beaches for about a year. One of my best finds was a chain with a diamond. There is a story to go with it but basically I heard something in the damp sand where the high tide had been so I went to dig it at night. I dug and dug and couldn't find it. Then in one of my dig out piles I saw a glimmer and it was a fine gold chain with a diamond (about a carat) hanging from it. The only part of the 'chain' I could get the 5000 to see was the setting holding the diamond. Other chains I have seen the clasps.
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On 6/14/2020 at 3:16 PM, mn90403 said:
Simon,
I have mentioned this several times in my hunting. I turn up my T1 volume which includes ferrous and have found GOOD targets that were on the deep and lateral fringes when I first heard them. This keeps the blanking away from my headphones even more. When I interrogate a target with swings I don't ignore it just because it is negative. In the sand at my beaches there are times when I lose it or it is just the iron in the sand but I can tell the targets better with the 11" coil on F2 0 better than I can with the 15" coil.
The last couple of trips for me to the beach I used the 15" and there are just not that many targets. I know because I see other detectorists going long distances between targets. The 15" picks up some additional 'noises' so I GB and push up the F2 to 4 to make it more stable at my sensitivity of 23. This doesn't always work and I have to lower the sensitivity but I feel like I'm losing fringe targets.
I like the 11" coil on the Equinox best of all. I can dig 15"+ on some targets but I'm wondering if an AQ will brighten up these targets even more or if it will only be gold. I'll use it in all metal and bring out my massive scoops!
Mitchel
I made an adjustment today that made the 15" more usable to me. In the past I had tried to lengthen the sound by going slower from 6 to 5. Today after some falsing I went the other direction and increased the speed to 8. It sounded and performed better.
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It is my understanding that the Crown is always involved because they retain mineral rights on even private land.
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It doesn't seem like two years have passed since we first heard about that find.
I wonder what they have found around it since.
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Ask Chris Ralph and get it shot with a IR.
Group Owned Claims
in Detector Prospector Forum
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Jin,
We still have many clubs here in the states but the number certainly was higher. The biggest is the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA). It publishes a book with claims in it and claims reports.
https://www.goldprospectors.org/
I belong to it and several other clubs. Each of them suffers from the charge that their claims are hammered and you can't find any gold on them. The truth is that there was more gold at one time on their club claims but the members keep finding more and more. I found my first piece of gold on a hammered club claim and many ounces have been found on it since then!
Good prospectors manage to find gold on flogged patches as they say. It is an alternative until you find an unclaimed patch of your own here. Once a claim is placed in the states on public land someone can keep it as long as they keep paying the fees which now can be more than the cost of joining a club.
Most clubs here are non-profits also and they have monthly meetings where new members are guided into their area of interest in the detecting types. One club I belong to is a club first and a 'claim holder' second. By that I mean the members are more important than the claims or the type of detecting because they also encourage beach, park and ghost town detecting outings.
All of us can do that on our own but it can be more fun in a club.
Mitchel