Greg

I have the Whites GMT and Fisher F-19. If I could only take one it would be the F-19.

I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morning. Aw.. The anticipation...

Happy thanksgiving to you as well Ray!

Now that's some nice looking gold! Awesome!!

Lol! Nvchris that's awesome. I love it! If there's a will there's a way.

Thanks Bob for the reply on the "Ol Yeller". Right now I'm most interested in Keene or the Thompson dry washers. I did like the Whippet dry washer for its light weigh. What I don't like is the price and the absence of a hand crank.

Hey LARGO. Yesterday I say an advertisement in the Mining Journal for the Thompson dry washers. They look nice and good pricing to. The Keenes are nice as well but they have that big wheel on the side, looks like it won't pack up as small.

Hi Chris. That's not a bad looking little dry washer in the video! Are they available for purchase?

Hey Paul. Have you used a blower style dry washer at all? The two dry washers I think would be a good fit for me are the Keene DW212v puffer and the 140s blower dry washer with crack vac. Hum.. Choices.

Wow! Thank you all for your replys. I posted my question then got very busy getting ready and leaving for Lake Tahoe. Spending the 4th up at the lake. Plan is to hit the beach with my ATX the fireworks crowds leave! Okay back to dry washers. I was leaning puffer with battery,something a little more mobile,one to two man operation. Although if gold recovery is significantly better with a blower style unit I may be persuaded otherwise.

Looking to maybe buy a dry washer. What does everyone like? Power blower, electric bellows, size, brand ext.. Is one brand better than another for fine gold recovery or do they all preform the same or close to the same. I would be grateful for all information. Thanks Greg,

Thanks for posting. I have the SPP so should apply to the SPP as well. I will have to try some 2900s for the longer run time, I have the ATX so I can use the Duracell 2650 mah NiMh AAs that it came with for both the ATX and SPP but the 2900 s run time sounds nice.

I bought the F19 a couple months ago and am very happy with this detector. No regrets at all.

ATX,and Whites SPP on the PI side and GMT, F19 will be the VLFs I use.

That's some nice looking gold there HurtHawk! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for that awesome story! That sounds like one special detector for sure.

Wow! Good for him.

TVANWHO. Riding a Rokon off trail is not going to harm the environment one bit! Have you seen the balloon tires on a Rokon, and the fact that it is two wheel drive equates to very little wheel spin so not likely to cause erosion. In my opinion the environmentalist movement is more about government power and control over the population and limiting individual freedom and liberty than it is about the environment. Hey mabe erosion from a dirt bike trail somewhere will expose some gold rich bedrock in the next 200 years! Future generations could have some new ground to prospect.

Nice gold Ron! Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Hi JP, That looks like it works good! I like the hip stick idea to keep the weight off the shoulders.

I like it. Thanks for sharing! I need to make one for my ATX to suspend it from a small day pack.

Congratulations Steve, nice job!

Hey Steve, I didn't feel like you were pushing the V3i at all. I asked what everyone likes and you gave me that and much more, so thank you for that! I had forgotten about that Tesoro Compadre. A friend of mine had one and it is a very effective little detector. I do like the V3i and the 22.5 kHz may be more sensitive to small gold than the 14 kHz MTX. Also the price of the V3i isn't that expensive compared to my ATX and other gold prospecting PI detectors out there. I will be looking forward to more results in your comparison betwen the V3i, F75, FORS Gold and CTX 3030. Thanks Steve.

Disregard that last post I thought the last one did not go through. Nice little stud plidn1! Steve I think I may fall somewhere in the middle like MXT , F75 or FORS Gold something with a value in prospesting trashy sites as well as jewelry. It hard for me to get away from the prospecting aspect, oh well.

Alright so what is your favorite detector for hunting jewelry? Anyone can chime in here, just curious what is liked PI, VLF, discrimination ext. All my detectors were bought with gold prospesting as the number one objective ATX, whites SPP and GMT. I think I am setup pretty well for a dig all approach although the GMT takes digging trash to a hole new level with tiny pieces of foil and the likes, but has the ability to find micro jewelry. A couple of years ago I found a diamond stud on a beach in cal. Turned out to be a fake dimond but it was a small find none the less.