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Last year when I was in Australia Reg asked me if I had ever used noise cancelling headphones.  I said yes.  He was quite fond of his but he would have to tell you what he used.

I used a pair that were about the size of the Equinox headphones and they had a AAA battery and volume control that was great for the WM 10 and 12.  I found a lot of gold using those phones that I originally bought to listen to audio while on planes.  I had the adapters and at the time I didn't have JP's or the SP01.  The noise cancelling was the trick.

I've tried other audio headphones and now use the headphones that came with the 7000 but it might be time to ... go back to noise cancelling.

Well done.  Nice looking gold.

It's a big 'triangle' as I remember it from last year.

How the world has changed.

Mitchel

Right you are and not as expensive as I thought it was going to be.  

Who did you buy the lower shaft from?  I would like a whole one with the clamp at the top.

6 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Frequency smequency... what about coils!  X-Coil has proven there is lots of room for innovation, and to this day you can’t get anyone to build a Bigfoot coil again. Too many aftermarket people copy each other making coils that are all similar.

Steve,

I read this entire thread to ask you how much this coil reminds you of a Bigfoot.

It is long and narrow so ...

Mitchel

5 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Yes, I think recovery speed could be an achilles heal for Apex.

 Ok, Apex 'heal' thyself haha

In the meantime I think the phrase is 'achilles heel'

Steve is right in my book.  50 tones and sometimes 5 and I turn up the volume on iron which helps me hear both of the targets or the iffys which start out as negative.

9 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

priest

Relying on God are we Steve?  haha

(For those of you who wonder about this post, when Steve wrote his post above he inadvertently or overtly said "priest" rather than preset.)

I do think some of us have prayed and or pray before each hunt but to think of the God 'preset' was a chuckle.

I've been to Lake Tahoe with my CTX 3030.  I waded a beach that was not subject to any waves.  It was very cold which could have been good but I know several people had already detected it.  I've see a couple of videos where people have found old, smaller swimming areas and found jewelry.

On 5/14/2020 at 7:28 PM, Northeast said:

Thanks Norm. 

For those that may link in, is Los Angeles Pacific Standard time?  Or what would be a city that is in that time zone?  
 

If LA is right then for those in Oz it looks to be at 8 a.m. AEST on Sunday May 24. 
 

NZ would be 10 am.  

Adam,

We are now on Daylight Savings Time.  I'll check with Norm to confirm.

Jason,

I think you are right.  I had that warning from him for years I remember the name.

He certainly did 'right' by me.  He told me he wouldn't give me a second chance!  That is good enforcement.

Mitchel

Our beaches in southern California have been shut down for a number of weeks.  I did manage to sneak in a couple of nighttime hunts but they were nothing to write home about as they say.  Even without the metal detecting pressure the conditions just weren't right.  Some of that changed this week and the beaches were also opened on Wednesday.  I couldn't go that day but I did go on Thursday in the daylight!  haha  I had some 'moderate' success at one of my favorite beaches.  There was a bit of a slope to it but no real cut.  The tide was not very low but I could detect the top of the hill, avoiding a few people.

I managed one junk ring, a cheap bracelet, a lock and key and some salvage scraps missed when a sailboat was yanked off the beach a few months back.  There was also the Australian coin!

It was a good enough hunt to encourage me to go back today.  And the wind waves had changed the shore for the better.  It was a bit steeper.  I did the best I could with the incoming tide and the extra number of people trying to social distance.  It took away some of my grid areas so I had to modify my hunt.  Within the first 15 minutes I got a nice silver ring.

It wasn't high and it wasn't low on the hill.  I made a note of it of course but kept to my pattern for this beach which produces with a grid.  You can find rings mixed in with coins.  You keep a tight pattern and you will get directly over your target if it is there.  Funny thing was that was not how I got this ring.  I heard it 'off coil' in my fringe at the bottom of my turn and had to seek it out to then see the 28 which made me think it was a quarter but it is much better.  It is a little small for me but it is 10g/.925.

Most of the coins were found up and out of the now rising tide but I didn't have much time so I wanted to go back to that heavy ring line and see if there was more.  This brought me down to where the people walking area was against the water.  I left the perpendicular grid for a parallel sweep.  It wasn't long before I had a couple more rings!

Both of them are stainless steel and of no value but I found them the same way.  They caught my attention 'off coil' and then I dug down the 5-7 inches to get them.  Once I got over them they had numbers like 10 or 16 with my settings at 23/6/50/no iron bias.

I reversed myself on the beach to keep my pattern and skipped a few pennies (20) to not waste time as my zone was about to be under water and I could lose things in the surf.  Near the end of the session I got my last ring.  

It is a 10k/2g but I'll take it.

There was one additional silver chain section and some junk jewelry pieces.  I hope there is more when I go back!  You never know with a beach but I had to go.

It was fun.

Mitchel

There are people still using them so I think the threads are probably in the coins or Minelab forums.

Yes, that would help but you need to control the amount of information you are gathering.  There is a lot of power in even a small PI coil so the 'fringe' can affect your searching.  You don't want more of the soil than necessary also.  If you look at the beach PIs they tend to have the 11-12 inch coils because in wet beach sand you can't dig everything unless you have one of the huge scoops.

I used the 11" Commander coil most often on the beach.  There are some good timings for those units in the same way you can choose park, field or beach.

Another good coil for the GPX is the 8" coil.  That can be fun and productive.

51 minutes ago, phrunt said:

I've near cleaned out an area of junk and coins  here where I've found hundreds of coins, I plan to hit it next with my GPX and a big coil and see what I missed.

Try a small coil Simon.  I used my 5000 on the beach in 2010 for about a year before I got my Explorer SE Pro.  I dug everything but you began to learn the sounds and truthfully I did some skipping.

Several years back I was on the north side or the east side of Dolan Springs on the way to Gold Basin in the area where there isn't much but the speed limit was 45 mph in the day.  Now I think it is 55.  I came up from a dip and I was going 57 and a sheriff's deputy was there.  He stopped me.  This is only about the 2nd time I've ever been stopped.  He came to the car and said "Do you know what speed you were going?"  I said yes.

He went back to his car, checked my license (California tag) and came back and said, "You know, I could give you a ticket for about $200 right now.  We keep the speed limits low around here because it is open range.  Instead he said I want you to take that $200 and go have a nice dinner with the young lady beside you over there." (It was Lu ... we're now married)

It just depends on who you get I guess.  

So tell me why all of this 'stuff' that they took was still in storage and not sold?  This is the more than curious part to me in many similar thefts.  Tons and tons of stuff is recovered.  Much of it could be traced back to the owners so they keep it.  How do they cash out?  

I'm sure the land and lot sales people out there didn't tell the new purchasers that they will lose anything valuable in their sheds or cabins.  I would think they would be required to disclose it to the buyers because they pay the real estate taxes for roads and protection.  

14 hours ago, jasong said:

 Then of course that murder down off Gladiola and Gregg's.

I have followed that 'case' here.

https://nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/topic/31485-gold-basin-murder-update/?tab=comments#comment-310755

After the house was knocked off the foundation it was vandalized repeatedly until one trip I took it was all gone.  Empie's house was also picked up and only the stacked rocks remain.

This caused me to look up what happened and he just pleaded guilty.

http://www.mohavedailynews.com/news/empie-pleads-guilty-in-2016-meadview-murder/article_caba4722-89dc-11ea-833e-b7ddd73fd780.html

Invitation: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ud-yppzkpH9zTgL43K75yP73wYub-w6ET

This talk will discuss formation of impact spherules and their occurrence in impact deposits ranging in age from 0.8 Ma (million years before present) to 3400 Ma.

When asteroids impact the Earth with cosmic velocities (about 20 km/sec) they release enormous amounts of kinetic energy. A large portion of this energy is transferred to the Earth's surface that results in seismic waves and excavation of a crater many times the asteroid's volume. Materials ejected from this crater are deposited mostly near the crater, but in large impacts the ejecta with the highest velocity can travel above the atmosphere and return as a global deposit. The famous dinosaur-killing impact at the K/Pg (a.k.a. KT) boundary produced a global deposit that was probably only a few mm thick. It is well known that this K/Pg layer has lots of iridium from the asteroid but its most distinctive characteristic on a macro level is that it is composed mainly of small spherical particles known as impact spherules. Impact spherules are a common feature of distal impact deposits (those deposited far from the impact site). Large impacts can melt significant amounts of crustal rocks in the impact crater, producing spherules around the crater. The highest velocity ejecta likely comes from a supercritical* "ejecta plume" composed of a mixture of crustal and asteroidal materials. As this ejecta plume expands, melt droplets will form, some condensing from a vapor, and these will solidify to form the silicate spherules common in impact deposits.

Admission

Free and open to the public.

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

I tend not to get too excited, especially before I go out for a hunt.  This morning I was reviewing some of my recent sites with https://www.historicaerials.com when I stumbled upon some magic words on an older USGS topo -- "Drive-in Theater".  If that doesn't get your detecting mouth salivating then you're not a coin hunter.  Stay tuned.

 

When you use Historic Aerials are you looking at the maps or the actual aerials?

When I look at the aerials it seems to be low resolution and the copyright mark  is there.  

Well done.

Reno has quite a history of being an area where gold riches were spent and fabrications were done to take back to the mines.

I once found some Levis buttons and traced the history back to the original company in Reno that was purchased by Eli.

As you saw from the ring I found there's also some more 'modern' stuff in the trash.  I don't think the palm tree ring is very old because it says 18k.

Mitchel

I think our laws are similar if you have to 'show' any gold income.  It is possible to sell (cash sale) without a trail but that likely is not to a refinery.  They would be required to report the cash they pay you in the form of a 1099 which is the same as if you were to get a large casino winning.  Gamblers always have a way of showing losses to exceed winnings unless it would be a big tournament.

An Aussie prank

3 pair heavy drawers ... haha

56 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

If you wanted to try and be accurate you at the least have to define the target size.

How much of the field is really dependent upon the coil (and type of coil) itself?  Bigger coil, bigger field and all that stuff.

You did 'address' what comes to my mind each time I see those diagrams repeated because as you say, all of us know coils and targets don't work that way.  You say donut.  I say nerf ball or I'm drawn to the flame like a moth.  I think the real truth is that we must hear it with the fringe and then center it to dig it.

I think the better detectorists with more coil control and good hearing take those fringe (iffy signals) and enhance those into real nuggets.  I don't have that 'mastery' of it and I'm seeking the 'holy grail' or the edge/fringe/ground.   We buy technology to help us deal with that and coils are one part.

What makes someone believe they have a 'hot' coil?  I think I had one with a 19" Nugget Finder on my 5000.