Biggoldnug

On 4/24/2021 at 8:41 AM, GotAU? said:

Welcome home! 🙂

I hope we can do a meetup sometime up at one of those club claims in the El Paso’s, and would love to see how you handle that GB2. I chickened out and went with a GM, but am curious to see how they work. It would be interesting to see the differences between what they can detect, also!

Hey buddy! Yes definitely! I went out last weekend and found a .25 gram. Tough detecting but a great time. Good talking to you last week.  Feel free to reach out anytime and I'll do the same.

On 4/24/2021 at 6:17 AM, rvpopeye said:

Welcome aboard !

Glad you finally showed up BGN !

Everybody here has been looking for ya !

Hahaha BGN! Love it! I found a LGN last weekend. The big one is still waiting for us!

Well where to start...I started about 9 years ago with a X-terra 705 because after research it seemed like a great machine for coins and relics as well as gold. I live by about 5 miles from the beaches of Southern California so off I went. First day out, found a diamond ring! Woooo I'm hooked! Since then I spend many hours on the sand finding hundreds of coins and only a few more pay rings. Still having a great time. 

I soon moved on to the gold fields of the El Paso mountains. It took about 10 trips out before I found my fist nugget. It was a nice 1 gram chunk of pay! I was elated to say the least. Since then I got rid of the 705 and went for the Garrett AT Gold. What a great machine! Very much like the 705 but it has a screen reading the 705 didn't...but they both have about the same sensitivity and depth. Love both machines really. I soon came across a Gold Bug2 and that's when I started finding gold like crazy. Although that machine has a learning curve I adapted to it pretty quickly. It's been about 5 years swinging the Gold Bug2 and I can say I still have dreams of finding the big gold nug. I'm here to read how some of you find those "off the beaten path" spots and hope to meet a friend or two. 

Happy Detecting!