Azavsfan

Congrats! That first one is so sweet and elevates the fever even more. It's also been known to rid the body of aches, pains and common sense, at least temporarily.

That's a great idea for the headphone cord. Chris is right on about no overload on small gold and I've yet to actually find big gold so I'm hoping to verify that soon. I do dig every target just in case and have a lot of lead nuggets and various other bits of wire, boot tacks and other metal frags to be sure, but I know eventually that screamer will be a big one as long as I keep at it. Good luck and happy hunting with the new toy.

Nice cat and smart too. Now if I could just find a nugget the size of that cat I could get 1 of those machines he likes....

Sounds like a great idea.

Concur, many thanks for the time and collection of info from you and others here. It has helped immensely in flattening out the learning curve. Great forum.

I love my SDC and will be out the next 2 days with it. Good luck hunting, you're gonna like it.

That is dedication for sure. I guess I can't complain when it gets too hot here, just drink more and keep swinging.

Several years ago I had some old (meaning previous relationship type) rings and a few half dollars that were 40% silver. After Googling and finding some melt value calculators and visiting jewelers and pawn shops, it turned out I got the closest to melt value by going to the pawn shop and selling out right. One of the rings had an amethyst and 2 very small diamonds for which I received nothing but the good riddance of the memory but the 18k gold was worth some money. I had to keep in mind that whoever I went to needed some room to make some cash on their end and also appraisals are often inflated for insurance purposes but I would think you should see at least 50% of appraisal if not more. Good luck.

I just got the SDC 2300 2 weeks ago and have about 12 hours on it, no gold yet but getting the same type/amount of trash down here in SW AZ so I'm hoping to get some of that yellow stuff soon. Thanks for sharing.