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Were you able to get the gold out of Brazil?

Combining cot + air/foam mattress  works the best for me, it`s easier to get out of a cot than getting off the ground from an air mattress. The air mattress/foam pad helps to insulate the cold that creeps up through the cot

Thank you Gold Seeker 4000! If that happens it will be a great assistance to those lost in this claim/not claimed morass that we are currently in. It also will be good for current claim owners to better show their boundaries. If it does happen I will buy a smart phone and pay an instructor to help me use it.

Maybe some of you already know about this and have the phone to support it. I have one of the flip phones that nobody wants to steal, so it really amazes me. On his phone he dials up google earth map and it instantly it brings up the boundaries, acreage and name & address of the owner.

It would be fantastic to have the same ap for claims, showing owner and boundaries, no more accidental trespassing.

Hi Rodney, your excitement and enthusiasm will carry you through, lots to learn and much info will be found here. Slow down for punctuation!

Colorful?

A good friend from one of the metal detecting clubs I belong to has averaged over 5000 coins a year for the last 5 years, not counting the rings, bracelets etc. Living in PA the detectable season is roughly 8 months depending on when the ground freezes. An early snow fall actually keeps the ground from freezing and lets you see exactly where you`ve been. This last severe cold snap -15 degrees below will take weeks of warmth to thaw the ground.

If the smell had not been so bad I would have detected up to it and perhaps detected the 40 oz nugget that was probably under it..............

I don`t think so........too many parts missing

Excellent!  A raconteur of renown.

In my younger days I spent many months in the bush up there and yes, perhaps because of the loneliness and remoteness there are primeval feelings that rise up in ones mind and hint to a time when others walked the woods.

Interesting........Reminds me of a situation I encountered in NSW near Kingower.

I was detecting some old workings with the 23 getting some crumbs. the area was near a cattle farm and laying in the diggings there was the remains of a steer that someone had poached with in the week or so, leaving only the head and the guts.

As I got 20 ft from the carcass the 23 started lightly pulsating, at 10 ft it was extremely loud like some kind of a fire alarm.  There were some hydro lines nearby but they  didn`t seem to effect anything previously, curious I circled the critter and each time I got close the detector acted the same. I assumed there was some kind of transmitter or chip in the carcass?

13 minutes ago, benzyoc said:

Also so if I see a game camera laying around on on unmarked land it's going in my backpack.

I would not take a camera that does not belong to me. It might belong to a hunter or is there for some other reason, maybe monitoring cattle by those who graze there.

I need to replace my original Minelab rechargeable C batteries. I have used a set with 6000mAH and they work great,

Now I see that 10000mAH C batteries are available and much cheaper than the 6000aMH   I purchased 2yrs ago, has anyone used these and is the run time longer?

Welcome to the forum Lagerphone, lots of good information on both sides crosses these posts.

I applaud his effort, I will sit through anything to learn something about gold and how to better to find it.

I appreciate all the great feed back,  I have a customer who was skeptical of the SDC 2300 ability to find deeper gold,  I think now he will consider it for his first gold detector.

Thanks for all the great examples, only wish some of them were mine!

We all know that the SDC 2300 has proven itself to be fantastic on small gold and people seem to get the idea that it is a very shallow machine and not too useful for hunting nuggets at depth. I realize it is not a GPZ or a GPX but can anyone give me an idea of just how deep this machine can go on nuggets above a gram and into the bigger stuff. I guess what I`m asking is for some examples of dug targets. Is this machine an overall detector or is it just for shallow small stuff?

Has anyone heard anything about Nurse Paul?   Must we pray for him?

This was taken from another forum and is worth the read.

http://golddetecting.4umer.net/t25379-accidental-plb-activation

Caligoldhog

Beautiful pieces, can you tell us what detector you used or how it was found?

1 hour ago, ophirboy said:

and then when I get a promising signal I scoop it out off the hole and flatten it with my boot

Great technique Ophirboy!

Reminds me of the opening scene in Fury Road where Mad Max stomps on the lizard and eats it LOL Must be an Aussie thing!

I don`t own a claim and don`t understand how these situations reach  the level that they do. Is it ignorance on the part of the miner or does the fault lie with inept forest service people out stepping their jurisdiction. Is there any recourse or review within the forest service itself to prevent these problems before money is needlessly spent? Seem both parties should be working together, not against each other.

I will have a small shipment after Aug 1st. Detech is closed now for summer vacation. This coil must be something special as they already have a 14in Ultra Sensing Mono, and now they are introducing a new 15in Super Deep Mono. Can`t wait to give one a try.

Make us proud Paul, we`re rooting for you!

Kudos to you for chasing the dream and making it come true.  The pay off to lots of hard work!