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Welcome from East Texas.

The double ring item could be a link for a chain pump.  Nice finds.

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

I don't know if I'd want a powerful magnet that close to the electronics.

I was a little concerned that it might effect the battery life on my Garrett carrot but it has not that I can tell.  It has proven to be a very handy modification.

Excellent research results for an interesting item. That is half the fun and what brings the past to life, making it real.  Thanks

You are going to like the Legend.

That’s a good hunt.

Interesting assortment of finds. Looks like George Washington on the spoon handle. Quite a few War Nickels posted on the forums lately.

Welcome from East Texas.

A successful and thoughtful hunt.

You could epoxy a rare earth super magnet in the recess.   I keep a square of rubberized shelf liner with my spare battery for the Garrett carrot. It can be hard to remove the cap also.

I have watched quite a few videos the last six months or so from some of the Eastern European testers. They have a somewhat different approach than we in the USA because their conditions are also different. Their ancient habitation sites seem to have plenty of very small iron bits, but not a lot of whole nails or the farm & wagon iron we dig on relic sites.  The desirable  targets they search for seem to be much smaller and of lower conductivity than ours.  Still, I have learned a lot from some of them and can use it for my sites. In very heavy nails, their approach is helpful to un mask good targets that are being drug down by the co located iron. I still have to decide how small/low I want to go, but today’s machines can pull some surprising targets.    Picking through the iron with a smaller coil and/or faster separation is a different game for different conditions.  I want to have the ability to set a machine up to hunt the conditions I have. I don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

That’s quite an assortment of finds. Glad you were able to get out on some different beach.

1 hour ago, Redneck said:

Give me an expanded meter anytime.   Thats one major thing i did not like about the eq 800.  I had a Rutus alter 71 a few years back, and I found the most jewelry with that machine, as it had 120 segments.  I would go into a ballfield bleacher area, and the rings would lock on with a solid number, where as the aluminum crap would usually bounce a bit. The only aluminum that locked in was the tab when broken away from the ring. 

The new Rutus Versa has 120 points also, divided up a little differently than previous models. It and my Whites MXT 180 point scale do a good job boxing in common Al trash.   How a detector processes & normalizes the SMF signal is really the secret sauce on TID.  The Nokta Legend only has 60 points, but has the most solid TID lock & accuracy out of all my detectors.

6 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

 

I'm pretty sure what the gnats are is flying ants, they don't bite but simply get all up in my face. It's a yearly swarm that only lasts a few days.

Sounds like termites swarming.

Look’s like a fine day afield. Pretty Narcissus. I hate gnats.

Welcome from East Texas.

Those a valid & correct observations.   I have noticed no practical diminishment of sensitivity to the small targets I want to dig with the 13" coils I have from Nokta, Detech or Garrett.  I know there is some on the smallest of targets, but anything smaller than a primer cap is not of much interest to me on Relic/coin sites.  Fine jewelry/chains would be a different matter.   I will try to post my observations on the 15" NEL Attack/Legend performance at some point.

I sent PayPal payment last night.  NEL Attack 15X15. 14-21 days shipping.  I hope it comes thru alright as I think it will give me some more depth for my mild ground sites.  I have one spot(water sand) that has played out after many nice deep coins.  I also have a new large permission dating to the mid 1830's that I doubt has ever been detected and should be mostly mild dirt. Many of the old areas would have been plowed in latter times. It is all improved pasture & woods now.  The Nokta LG35 coil is excellent in every way & my experience with NEL coils is also excellent, so I am hopeful.  

I will encourage you to read the Users Manual over & over. Garrett and Whites both give good descriptions of features that will make sense after you get wrapped around the unit.

What detector are you referring to?

On 3/11/2024 at 12:42 PM, phrunt said:

I've always found they're very slow on Emails.  Hopefully it all works out.

I did get a response from NEL this morning. I think I will place the order & make the Pay Pal payment and see if it shows up.

Maybe a token?

Very nice. I really like the larger coils I have too.

Very good hunting. Maybe your spot with the cooking pits is part of the detached kitchen.  Your lead coin could be a bag seal.

3 hours ago, jerrym said:

How many rattlesnakes have you run that detector over? lol

No Rattlesnakes but a few Copperheads. They’re prettier and not in as bad a mood.