Sirius

Took to a nearby park for 3 hours today, and learned about listening to the beeps of my machine. It was quite the enlightening experience because being able to hear the difference between a coin and a rusty bottle cap is monumental. Coins are sharp and won't tone break when swung over multiple times, whereas bottle caps will tone break when swung over along with producing a not so sharp sound. The target ID helps with identifying what it could be 45-46 tend to be memorial pennies, while 50+ are either quarters, silver or (Lead)? Beaver tails/pull tabs are within the gold and nickel range and have to be dug up if you wanna find gold. I also dig low tones too but those 15-16 tend to be foil. I'll definitely need to put more time into it, but so far so good! Also yeah I need to check high traffic areas, more drops there.

ah I see thanks!

When I checked through the sub menus it only had GS. Gold field mode is also missing ST. I think it would be great to have the ability to modify these settings through all of the modes rather than just beach and park mode only, that is unless they're still working on it.

They do say that if you want gold, you gotta dig up the pull tabs/ beaver tails and nickels. If there's no avoiding that then i'd just have to shift my main focus! Don't have to necessarily dig up every target, just those pull tabs/pennies. Probably more pull tabs than anything since it's closer to the gold range.

Yeah ngl the coin lost 5g of its original weight probably from that loss of copper and some silver.

Yeah it's best to check when the tide is headed back down. Also I didn't know that the gpx5000 was not waterproof! The ability to be near and in the water helps alot with searching for coin lines that end up consolidating in the wet. Coin lines = potential heavy stuff.

tbh the gold might have to come from the beach for the most part; somehow less trash at the beach than trashy parks. I'm not much of a park detector anyhow but it would be nice to learn when high tides prevent me from going to beaches.

It would be helpful to run some tests to hear for the differences between gold rings and beaver tails. That being said, no luck on finding gold rings on the beach yet, so I don't really have a sample to work with!

apparently no warrenty, should not have skimped out on paying premiums and should have done research on good scoops. CKG seems to work well for some people so that might be my next purchase when the current scoop kicks the bucket.

Nickels are in the gold range 20ish to 25 so it would keep in a good amount of gold but also beaver tails seem to be in the same area. I'll need to check again.

I didn't know how to set the C settings until I watched this vid, could be very useful for notching out trash but you'd miss gold for the most part.

This is a understatement, he moves like he's on speed most of the time. Especially for digging in the dirt which can be rough.

yeah i was using a LG35 coil and was hitting beavers 7 inches down. Trying to use my beach settings for parks did not work out so well, so I do appreciate the info about proper park settings. I bought the pro pack so I could use the 6 in coil. I'm in need of a new beach scoop as mine fell apart within 2 weeks of purchase, so i'll have to hold out on the LG24 for now. Current beach scoop is being held together by a hose clamps due to poor welds and I replaced the handle with a iron pipe.

you can custom disc certain numbers on the legend its pretty neat. i've set my settings to this and might check it out sometime later.

This is a good thing though, if it's reading that high I tend to ignore such numbers same when it reads 60 on the beach. Someone I met at the beach said anything higher than 35 or so is most likely to be trash, but he was using a nox so the target ids are definitely going to be different.

I was using M3 today, and man it was still all beaver tails. 4khz seems to cause targets to change their target Id's something like nonferrous trash would hit 50-60 which is the max for the legend. Not sure how that works so i'll have to do some testing later.

It astounds me how much trash we humans leave behind. But occasionally we also leave treasures behind as well! I often find umc shotgun shell bases by the coast and I always wonder: How'd they even end up there to begin with? So much history, yet we don't know a thing about it cause the people who dropped that coin or shot the gun are long gone now.

The main park I wanted to go to was closed today due to storm damage, so I went to another park down south. Turns out it was trashed so bad that every step I took ended with me finding a beaver tail and barely any coins. I also found a ton of crushed cans and various other junk. I've mostly stuck to beaches and had tremendous luck there, but with parks it's a whole other game that requires more investigation. Luckily I pulled a bunch of trash today that i'll be using to test my detector on. Hopefully i'll figure out a way to distinguish between trash and coins with enough testing. Anybody got any tips on hunting parks?

Two people asked me the same question 2 days ago, I just told them I don't watch TV :) It also seems like you pull up a ton of trash with the GPX, but it's hitting those good targets too! Is it difficult to discriminate between ferrous and non ferrous with that detector? Cause I noticed you picked up a ton of iron.

The condition that this coin was originally in made it impossible to identify without a thorough cleaning. It couldn't be helped. I've left my other coins alone though.

I'm also in the same camp as you. Gold is incredibly rare or maybe i'm just not lucky for gold. Lucky for silver maybe got a number of silver jewelry and coins but very little gold. Gold rings are just non existent for me and the only gold object I found is a earring. Though I have found a gold colored ring of some sort, but It seems heavily plated if anything; it lacks the luster and smoothness that the earring has and has areas where copper is exposed? At least one area has copper colored metal used to seal a crack. Though strangely enough despite having been in the water for so long (as you can tell from the pockmarks), there's no tarnishing on the copper areas, or tarnishing in general.

the wet or the dry?

The legend is my first detector and it's pretty solid so far for the wet. The only menu that is not in it's own category is the iron filter/bottlecap rejection/ ground stability menus. It's under the recovery speed menu, just have that pulled up and press the bottom middle button (pinpointer button) then navigate with the right arrow key. Other than that it's straight forward once you play around with the settings some.

where are you searching btw. beaches or parks?

it's a a very cool piece even though it's really worn down, cleaned up quite nicely as well!