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9 hours ago, Airtemisa said:
For me, this is the key. A bit expensive, but its simply incredible. I hope they will repair mine.
Yeah I understand the portability part, there's three of us to share the load, if we didn't have a budget the nemo wins in the potability stakes, we would have one each, but with spare batteries that's over 10 grand, ouch, we are finding gold but not that much. Reliability ? time will tell, life is a compromise, good luck with your nemo, and keep us updated.
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On 1/29/2023 at 1:05 PM, Erik Oostra said:
If there's one man you can trust for expert advice on metal detecting, it's PJ.. He's even got his own Youtube channel.. PJ knows his stuff.. Years of fence jumping and making a nuisance of himself at kiddie playgrounds have made PJ the spiritual leader of the world's metal detecting community.. After watching PJ's knowledgeable critique and extensive field testing, I've decided to buy an Equinox 900..
Erik, I'm confused, two laughs from the funniest post I've seen on this forum.
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On 2/23/2023 at 7:46 AM, Airtemisa said:
Hi, mine have some "troubles" with the regulator switch. At the beggining it worked on/off perfectly, but now, 3 years later, I have to find a "neutral" point manually, because if not, it Will pump continiously. Is that What happens to you?
No, I've bought the Australian made AirBuddy, this unit allowed us to run two divers. Plus we were able to talk to the manufacturer and work out a system were we could run it from a larger battery. Jan and the crew at AirBuddy were really helpful plus they back it with a full list of spare parts, which makes it user serviceable. For one diver and portability the Nemo looks like a good choice.
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On 2/3/2023 at 9:43 AM, Erik Oostra said:
.. I put a picture on Facebook and copped a lot of flack for killing it..
The critics have obviously never experienced, the spinechilling moment when you see a snake go under the fridge. I support all animals and their rights to share the planet, but you have to draw a line in the sand.
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A great alternative g-j by the time you take into account socks and trousers. I think the reason Australian snakes are so venomous is that they have a relatively poor way of delivering their venom i.e, via grooves down the side of their fangs rather than a hollow fang. This is just from memory I didn't fact check.
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On 1/19/2023 at 12:43 PM, Ethan in Adelaide said:
Hey mate,
I am from China so my understanding is a no go. If you found gold or relics and was known to government, you will need to hand them in otherwise you will be in trouble
100% the same as Tasmania.
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On 1/21/2023 at 3:18 AM, 中国 张 said:
Thank you for your attention to China's detection. It is true that detection in China is more complicated. There is no clear regulation that prohibits the use of metal detectors, but the things you find will belong to the country. If they are rare and expensive, it will be more troublesome, but if they are common items. , or you can keep it yourself. Anyway, if a good thing is detected, you have to hand it in, otherwise it will be very troublesome, and no one will care if you keep the low-value item. China's current detector market is still good, XP, MINELAB, NOKTA, GARRETT, and other brands have market shares. In my area, there are many gold detectors, minelab, GPZ/GPX5000/6000 monster1000 XPorx Garett 24K, basically these are the main ones. Recently introduced, NF Z-17*13 inch coil, and coiltek HAWK coil. Looking forward to their perfect performance. Share it with everyone! Thanks! ! 谢谢大家，指导关注！！
Sounds like Tasmania.
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1 hour ago, Erik Oostra said:
If there's one man you can trust for expert advice on metal detecting, it's PJ.. He's even got his own Youtube channel.. PJ knows his stuff.. Years of fence jumping and making a nuisance of himself at kiddie playgrounds have made PJ the spiritual leader of the world's metal detecting community.. After watching PJ's knowledgeable critique and extensive field testing, I've decided to buy an Equinox 900..
100% red light, a torch, a vibrator and 100gm. weight saving, I've already added a 6" coil to my 800 but I'm going to sell it for half what I payed for it and rush out and buy a 900........it's only going to cost me $2200 I can make that up in the coins I find jumping fences at night, with that red light and torch on the 900.
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I wasn't expecting to see a metal detector
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8 hours ago, phrunt said:
I look at it from a hobby perspective where I'd have difficulty paying off a detector in finds so everything prospecting seems expensive to me, but I see people in Australia and they don't blink an eye about buying a GPZ then buying another 5 coils at almost a couple of thousand AUD each paying the price of the detector all over again in coils, plenty even buy a backup GPZ so if they have issues they have a spare handy for their trip. Then you find out they're finding $50,000 AUD of bread and butter gold each season with the potential for a lot more if they find big stuff which they sometimes do and it starts to make sense. If Minelab made a GPZ 8000 for $20,000 a big queue of people would be buying it if it was indeed better than the 7000 because these people know they would recoup that money plus a lot more in finds.
Our finds dictate if we think a detector is expensive or not, VLF's are easier to justify, I paid my Equinox off with one ring find, so it's easy to justify their price, gold detectors are a bit harder for the hobbyist to justify but when put in perspective with the prospectors with good gold ground it's the same thing, some likely think the GPZ is very good value for what it finds them.
Location, Location, Location.
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5 hours ago, strick said:
I may give the Blue Nemo another shot this summer...it sure worked nice when it did and it's easy to tote around for shallow water hunting...I was really disappointed that it broke so quickly...there is another gentleman on another site that I have been talking with and he has only had to send his in once for repairs in about 3 years of use...sounds like the company backs their product...
strick
Hey strick, after reading all the comments the Nemo does seem to have some problems. The very thing that makes it so efficient on battery power may also make it prone to unreliability i.e. a switch in the regulator that keeps turning the compressor on and off. Think I'll look at an Australian made unit AirBuddy their website has a complete list of spare parts which makes it user serviceable. I would prefer to see that than videos with pretty girls.
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On 11/20/2022 at 7:06 PM, Northeast said:
Hi GS, thanks for checking it out more. I did get on their U.S. website and went through to checkout but it then said that it could not be shipped to my location. All good, we have 2 distributors here in Oz and one currently has $300 off as a bit of a deal. Unfortunately I don’t want to purchase right at the moment due to REALLY high river levels. With only a 1 yr warranty I don’t want to buy until I can commence using it 🤷🏼♂️
Hey N/E did you end up buying a hookah unit, we area looking into it.
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On 7/9/2020 at 12:46 AM, AlbyM said:
Hi all,
I just bit the bullet and purchased a Nemo Blu3 portable dive system as another tool in my metal detecting arsenal. For those who don't know about the Nemo, here are a couple of videos that show what it can do:
I'd love to compare notes with those here who are using a Nemo Blu3 with their Nox underwater. I haven't used it yet myself as I had to put it in my shipment to Vietnam, where I will be starting a new job in a couple of months. So I'm just doing a lot of research at this point.
The only problem I am hearing so far is that the Nox can be difficult to hear underwater over the Nemo Blu3 regulator whether you use the Minelab "yellow" underwater headphones or don't use headphones at all. For anyone using the Nemo with their Nox (or diving at all), have you been able to find an alternative underwater headphone with better sound or another workaround? Thanks in advance!
Hey Alby, I can't seem to find any details about the unit in Australia. See my posts on sniping under the gold panning forum. On our last trip we were working an area where it got too deep and came to the conclusion that we need a hookah unit. We are looking at a Chinese unit based on price, an Australian made unit based on quality and parts and serviceability, as well as the Nemo. All I can find about the Nemo is that it's by a Florida based company, is it made in the USA ? And after using it for a few years what's your verdict. Your opinion and any others that are use this hookah system or similar would be appreciated.
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After a good days sniping we have to walk past an apiary to get back to camp, Corey was ahead of us by 20 meters, Brodie and I were walking together, I'd just mentioned how in the past the bees have been well behaved, when Corey got stung. The s... hit the fan in a matter of seconds, I now know what making a bee line means, I saw a line of bees coming straight for my head. We stared running, we were in our wetsuits and and all put our hoods on as we ran unfortunately for me there was three bees in my hair, they stung me, while running top heavy with a back pack and trying to get my hood back off, I tripped on a rock. A series of increasingly long steps followed, until the inevitable happened and I fell heavily, my partners stopped to pick me up, we had left the bees behind, and with a bit more than my pride bruised I hobbled back to camp. It could of been a lot worse Corey got stung four times and me five, Brodie escaped injury, we had a good laugh about it later, but in hindsight it could have got nasty really quick. Here's some pictures of the weekend, sorry I can't post any photos that may give away the location, I'll post them when we finish in the area.
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Hey Erik, nice finds, 1.30 am that's dedication, looks to be worth it though. Blank shell is interesting, I have found .303 shells and one blank but not that size. As you say the gold ring looks to of been in the water a while. Big tides up your way !
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8 hours ago, F350Platinum said:
Hey Gary,
It appears to me from your posts you are very eager to instantly become a successful beach hunter, almost like you want to do it as a profession.
I pray that is not the case. 🙂 If you're looking for the magic settings that will get you gold from the get-go you will be disappointed to know that no one can give you that information for a few reasons. The most important factors are Location, Tides, Time of year in some places as there may be no one at the beach during the cold months, Sanded in or out, and the existence/lack of conductive sand like black sand. There is a lot more than that.
First, no one knows your general location. Every single strip of beach in the world is going to be different. Even going a hundred feet can change things. Sometimes 10 feet.
Second, wind, waves and tides vary as well, if you show up at a beach at high tide your hunting strategy is different than at low tide, and different at all the variations time of day throws at you.
If you live in a colder climate you can pretty much count on your local beach having nothing but junk due to being hunted out in the warmer months. Other more experienced detectorists will certainly leave junk for you!
Sanded in or out means that a storm or wind conditions either moved the sand in or out, sanded in is difficult because most good targets will be deeper under the sand. When you are lucky enough to find a beach that has been eroded, what will be there is only the result of what others have not found.
One good thing is that beaches are replenished yearly, relic sites are pretty much done when done. No ghost from 1790 is gonna drop another coin or ring for ya. 😏
I really, really hope you are coming at detecting as a hobby, not a profession. You may get lucky your first time out but more likely until you master your machine, learn the seasonal patterns, and become familiar with conditions of all types, you're pretty much going to come home with junk jewelry, bottle caps, tent stakes, can slaw, foil bottle seals, beer cans and pull tabs. If the best detectorists don't post their trash they make it look easy, but even they get that stuff, and sometimes that's all they get. Seriously. The best, most expensive detector in the world will not find any more than the cheapest one if you don't get your coil over something good.
My first suggestion to you is to lower your expectations.
Next, yes, ask questions here, but get some reading material regarding beach hunting either online or in print. You need to know where to look on a beach as much as you know what to look for. Keep in mind that the most experienced people here are not going to answer you if you don't ask questions that seem to be backed up by experience.
Next, set your detector up in a default configuration, Beach 1 for dry sand, Beach 2 for wet and submerged. Tweaking settings at this early a stage is confusing. Luckily your 800 can be reset with a push of a button. If you don't system reset now and again you can really mess yourself up.
Next, go to your beaches and dig it all. After a while you'll assimilate experience as to what is good to dig and what is not, and still you'll find you're wrong. 😀 As I've told you I didn't find gold for a long time. All the above is the reason, and more, but I relic hunt more than beach hunt.
Rinse your stuff off at the end of the day, and repeat. 🙂 Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you.
It has become painfully apparent to me after over 2 years of detecting that no one jumps in hot and finds really great stuff, because I didn't have high expectations, it's always been a blast. I also don't do it for income.
Good luck as always. 🍀
You've got it covered, that is the 'book' on beach hunting.
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1 hour ago, mn90403 said:
You slayed it! We all hope for similar results but can't achieve them. You did.
January 5th 2023 according to Surfline the largest West-Northwest swell to hit California in decades, given the direction and your location did you miss the worst/ best of it ?
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Phrunt's advice is to detect less popular locations or to be more precise locations that haven't been detected by others. Good advice, but what I can't figure is how come I only ever find ring pulls bottle tops and foil, are you bastards leaving that stuff on the beach !
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Sad but a sign of the times, I look forward to my monthly copy of Australian Gold Gem & Treasure. Obviously I'm a dinosaur, but I just prefer the printed version, If didn't have a printer I wouldn't use my computer nearly as much. Yes I have a computer not a smart phone, for my convenience I use a dumb phone. " how do you fleece sheep"....... charge $1200 for an i phone.
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20 hours ago, Northeast said:
Yep, can use a small sluice and can use a high banker. Can use mechanical stuff to shift water (for the highbanker) but not to extract gravels. Any extraction is hand tools only.
We also have excluded streams - about 70 of them - where no form of prospecting is apparently allowed. That is a bit of a grey area though as it is a very old rule and actually speaks to ‘occupation’ for the purpose of prospecting or something to that effect.
Unfortunately, yes. Bit like our miners right stating the need to re-fill your holes when detecting and that still doesn’t get done 🙄
Interesting to hear that you can use mechanical means to shift water in Vic. I wonder what the rules are in other states ? There seems to be a lot of gray areas, for instance gold and other minerals found in Tasmania belong to the crown and unless you have an additional right to it you cannot keep it. Yeah right I'd love to see that rule enforced ! The other vexed question in Tasmania is needing to get permission from the Exploration lease holder, considering most of the land is under an E.L. and most E.L. holders are large mining companies, and when asked for permission they don't respond or say no, no one I know of ever asks. In Western Australia this has been addressed by paying $99 on top of your prospecting license, but there are pedantic rules about it's use. Surely after paying for your prospectors license, that should be enough to give you access to crown land, after all we are limited to what we can do by the rules of the license. Another disturbing trend is the way insurance companies are limiting land holders to give permission to prospectors to use their land. Bureaucrats, lawyers and insurance companies have changed the world that I grew up in. Reminds me of a song by Robert Cray Nuthin' But Woman ' you can give me an hour alone in a bank pay all my tickets wipe the slate blank you could buy me a car fill up the tank tell me a boat load of lawyers just sank.......................
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8 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:
You can see that Art was not my best class.
The Chinese made their own sluice and it may not have beauty but it worked for them.The board that I show is a 1 X 6 but like said you can use whatever you want. The cuts across the board is a electric saw blade width and a 1/4 deep but you can make a cut deeper if want but too deep will weaken the board. You could use a 1 X 8 are wider if want. I’d have the sides stick up about 1 1/2 inches on the side.
If you make the sluice too much over two feet it could get heavy but 3 feet should be good.
You will catch material in the first two ruffles and they to slow that nugget down to drop in the next one. If you want to cut it over two blade width you could repeat this every other one.
It’s nothing cut in stone on making it.
One Hung Low had luck with it so why not you!?
Chuck
If only the people who buy miners moss, dream matt etc. knew that nearly everything will catch gold. People here in Australia buy pay dirt i.e. dirt with gold in it to 'practice' their panning, without working out that it's actually hard to loose a piece of gold when panning.
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4 minutes ago, Ridge Runner said:
Blackjack
Many years ago I wrote a article for GPAA on prospecting. I was in finer than fine gold and the only finer than what I was in would have to be Nome Alaska.
The statement I made was How could a nugget hide behind a speck of black sand.
When working with such fine gold it’s a lot of work getting a ounce of that metal.
Chuck
That's funny, I'm new to this forum but I hope Reg doesn't read this, Hey Reg our nuggets float during the clean up !
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On 12/12/2022 at 2:05 PM, Tom T said:
Sniping is all I do anymore.
I “DO” run either a NOX or a Monster across crevices and shallow bedrock but even if I don’t get a signal, crevices that have oversized gravels that been “hammered” into the cracks by larger rocks get thoroughly cleaned. You can keep it simple or go all out. I’ve been known to use a vacuum along with a hammer drill with feathers and wedges to open up the deeper cracks. 😎
Wedges are a great idea. I use to carry a small crowbar, but even an extra couple of pounds can be a killer on some of our hikes. I've got an aluminum wedge, there's no shortage of rocks to hit it with.
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2 hours ago, oneguy said:
I've only done the creek crack scratch thing maybe 5-6 times. My sucker is like the bottom Quick Sniper you posted above and in my opinion works well? I also like it where the nozzle does NOT extend up into main tube a few inches to hold the gravel so that you have to remove cap/nozzle to free up the gravels. I like the nozzle to be flush with bottom of main tube so in two fast strokes you can fill and empty into pan or bucket without taking it apart to release the gravels? Suck, raise sucker up in air FAST, swing over bucket, push plunger down, gravels in bucket..... jmo
When working next to a stream sluice yabbie pumps are easy on your back to feed the sluice, not sure what they are called in the states, bait pump ??
Blu3 Nemo Problem
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While I do think the Nemo is a good product and I don't want to start a discussion on which dive system is the best, In my opinion the thing that makes the Nemo energy efficient is also it's weak point that is the on/off switch in the regulator. I had concerns about it's serviceability in Australia as well, on inquiries to the dealer it seemed like it had to be sent back to the USA to be serviced. I ended up with the AirBuddy system, for three reasons, I was able to talk to the manufacturer via phone and email, they sell a full list of spare parts and are happy to have the unit user serviceable in fact they have videos on it on their website and lastly I was able to talk to them about making modifications to the unit, I wanted to use a bigger battery, they went out to their way to help me achieve that. I'm really impressed with the AirBuddy's build quality they use the best components from around the world and assemble it in their Sydney workshop.