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Hi all, I'm from Belgium, living near Brussels and not that far from the battlefield of Waterloo. Bought myself an entry level detector back in 2013 and put it in the garage after a few times searching with it. Recently a good friend of mine asked me to go out on search trips with him and so I took up the detector again. As the old detector just isn't up for the job, I'm looking into buying myself a new one for Xmas. I see that Nokta Makro is doing a great promo here and I'm considering buying a Legend from them. Anyways, I already found a lot of good information here and I hope to get to know you guys better online. Kr, Walt

Bonjour à tous Franck de France, 53 ans Je pratique la détection sur la plage depuis une dizaine d'années pour le moment avec le Deus 2 , mais m'intéresse beaucoup au Manticore. Hâte de pouvoir échanger avec vous bonne détection

Now that it has cooled down here it's time to drag out my Equinox 800 and GP Extreme! I've been metal detecting off and on for the last 50 years or so. Back in the late 60's, with my parents, metal detected Patton's Desert Warfare Training Camps in AZ and CA. I have quite a few artifacts that I'll post one of these days. Also, around the Fortuna Mine which is not far from where I currently reside. I've also detected for gold throughout the Black Hills in South Dakota finding some gold with my GP Extreme. Looking forward to finding more in AZ! If there is anyone on this forum in the Yuma area would like to hook up for some detecting.

Hello and Happy Holidays, new member here. I'm brand new to the hobby. After enjoying reading about all the fun I decided to jump in and bought a Nokta Legend. With the current sale price I couldn't resist. Too bad there is a bunch of snow on the ground right now but you never know with Colorado weather. I'm hoping for a mild winter so that I can get out and try it a little. I'll be starting out in the parks but hope to find more exciting areas to hunt in the mountains. In the meantime, I'm doing all the reading I can and watching YouTube videos. This is a great forum and I'm looking forward to being part of it. John

Hello, I'm Cristiano, a Portuguese living in Brazil that loves metal detecting and making his own detectors. Thanks.

Been searching for info on my new machine, Nokta legend and a pulse dive pointer. Came across this forum and I liked what I was reading and how the members interacted.I also read Steve's post about the forum and why it was started.Looks to be my kind of place. The wife and I are getting more into detecting and she has been wanting to go as much as we can on the weekends. We joined a local club, Yankee Territory Coinshooters. We've been able to do a couple club hunts which has been fun. She uses an AT pro and I have my new Legend(bought without her knowing and asked for forgiveness after the box arrived and I was questioned about it). We are enjoying the exercise and the fun of the hunt. I know I will learn from the site and hopefully get good enough to add to the site Thanks Mike

Been lurking here for several years. Really enjoy the knowledge and professionalism. Started detecting off and on since 1976, using a variety of machines. Mainly relic and coin hunt. No beaches or raw gold in SW Texas. Currently using the Nox 600 and the ORX.

I am a long time reader. My current metal detectors are, Equinox, Whites TDI pro, TDI SL, and MXT all pro. Been detecting for 13 years, although I've taken the last year off due to a shoulder injury. Should be repaired in mid December, may be able to start detecting in 4 to 6 months, if health permits. Love to coin hunt, and occasionally pretend to be looking for gold. Although I'm an expert at finding a lot of lead. I've learned a lot by reading this Forum.

Hello There. Jack here - Sydney Australia 29 years old. I am here because I am interested in Gold Digging, Metal detectors and etc. The reason that I am here is that I like to learn new thinks and I think that this is the prefect spot. Learning from other people's experiences and their advice is the beset. By profession, I am a product photographer.

Ok, im in. Tried several times, im in. Have been a member on Findmall for yrs and tried here im here now. Good, there im Smigo, old nickname in Oz too with mates from the 70s. Hi all👍

New guy in the SfBay Area! making the push to swing my coil over some nuggets. Started detecting back in 2014 just coinshooting in the local parks. Took a break for the last 3 years and just got the itch to get back at it…this time I am making a push to get into nugget shooting by getting some good machines and picking up some research materials to guide my search. Next is to get back into a club or two with the hope to get some access to proven grounds to practice…hopefully hook up with some fellow detectorists and dig those targets! Seems like a great forum community, look forward to seeing y’all in the field! Also want to thanks Steve for his hard work and dedication with all the guides, tips and info, outstanding! Cheers All! John

Hello everyone, I've been a lurker here for quite a while now, but, since I got a new detector , I thought I'd join a new forum and the discussions about it. I've been detecting now for 30 years as of this month. Been through many machines in that time. Started with a BFO, went through the TR's and various single frequency VLF's and then into the multifrequency Minelab machines. There were a few side trips with PI machines, but, they made me work too hard digging iron targets at my beaches, so, I got rid of them all after getting my first Excalibur. Now, just today, I got the Impulse AQ. I've been considering another PI machine for some time now to complement the Excal, and was about to pull the trigger on a TDI when I started to hear about the Impulse AQ (Manta back then). Wish me luck! Thank

Hi all new to the site so a big hello. And hopefully get to some new friends and info on topics I've not covered on other forums. I'm no Pro to Detecting but any new info is good info. Cheers Paul.

New to metal detectors. Always wanted one but never pulled the trigger. Want to search some creek property I bought. Looking at buying the Garrett Ace Apex Multi-Frequency to start out with.

Hi, everyone. I've been lurking around this forum for a month or so and decided I need to join. There are a lot of Detector Pros here and I appreciate the advice they provide. I'm not new to metal detecting but I'm far from an expert. I actually bought my first Metal Detector back in the '70's or so. It was a Metrotech!! I doubt many here even know that name. Here's a video of the device It just had a beep and a meter. I used that detector on an off for many years to search parks and school yards in the Denver area. I would have loved to go prospecting but the detectors back then weren't up to the task. I recall it being very frustrating digging up all the junk I was finding in parks. Sure, I found a few silver coins but nothing really exciting. I remember once I located a silver dime spill in a school yard on their manicured lawn. I dug out some of them then felt so bad about digging up the lawn that I just covered up the rest of them and never went back. They are probably still there. LOL I don't think that detector went very deep, probably just a few inches if that. Through the years I kept reading about Garrett and his progress with better and better detectors but my interest waned on metal detecting and I developed other interests. Finally about 15 years ago the bug struck again. I read about the great discriminating machines Minelab was making and bought an Explorer. My bane has been the fact that pull tabs came up in about the same place jewelry was appearing. It seemed all I was doing was digging up pull tabs and aluminum cans. So, I bought the next iteration of the latest and greatest Minelab detector but still it seemed all I did was dig up aluminum. So, I sold the new machine, kept the explorer and told myself I wasn't going to detect again until someone made a much better discrimination detector. Now, I'm retired and the detecting bug is striking again. I have more time now but a lot less energy than I used to but I need to find something that will get me out of the house and getting some exercise. At the same time I began to hear about the Minelab Manticore and wondered, could this be the detector I've been wanting for the last 50 years? Well, I doubt it but I've ordered one anyway. I'll just have to see if this works for me or if I get frustrated again digging up lots of trash. If I disappear from the forum sometime next year, you'll know what happened --- unless it was my questionable heart health that sent me off to detect in another realm.

Hi folks! Long time lurker, first time member here. I live down in the hills of south central Indiana and get to enjoy easy access to some of the better-known gold prospecting spots in the state. I've also started getting into the metal detecting hobby recently, and am really enjoying taking my Equinox 800 out to the local schools and parks, and to whatever private permissions I'm able to obtain. Can't say I'm an expert by any means, but I've booked a few pickers on the gold prospecting front and a little bit of silver on the detecting side. Looking forward to reading and learning from all the experienced posters here!

Hi there, I'm Ollie and new to this site. I've been detecting about 8 years and and am using the XP deus 1. I live in Norfolk, England. Cheers!

Greetings Everyone, I am new to the hobby and just signed up here to learn from you all fine folk. I am in the market for my first detector and on the fence between the Garrett Ace Apex and the Nokta Makro. I hope to learn am much as I can to then be able to pay it forward when I am able to. I live in Texas with my wife and daughter, i'm a retired/disabled Navy Corpsman who needs to lose a couple (actually more than a couple) pounds and so metal detecting sounds fun! Not to mention I really enjoyed the short lived British TV show "Detectorists", than you all for reading!

Hi everyone I'm Rob I currently have the Nokta Legend and a Garrett AT Pro. I live and work in Portsmouth in the UK, I have only been detecting for 5 months but the bug has bitten me hard. I'm a member of a couple of groups and go out on digs most weekends.

Hey All My Name is Ciaran and I have been Metal detecting with various success for nearly 30 years. I focus primarily on Beach Detecting with the Minelab Equinox 800 but now giving the Nokta Legend a Shot. Looking forward to chatting with you all. Ciaran

So happy to find this group. Pretty new to detecting here in central NC, have joined our local club and enjoying the heck out of it. It's good to be able to talk to more seasoned detectorists and "pick your brains"!

Hello mates. Nice to be here. Hoping to learn & share.

Greetings to all. I have just invested in a new Minelab Vanquish 540 + other kit after a decade of general wandering about casually fulfilling my twin interests of walking outdoors and history/archaeology with a second-hand Explorer XS. I'm very happy too: first time out in a field found the best horseshoe ever at 10" and a poor-quality English penny, probably 18th century, at a measured 14" down, both in the same field. But I'm not scientific-minded, so I wanted a forum where I could ask various questions, and you guys popped up in my search. I'll see if I can find an appropriate thread in which to ask my question, as hinted in your rules, but if anyone else lives near here, maybe they would get in touch. Kind regards, Jonnty

New member here. I'm in Covington Ga. Currently using Garry Ace 350 and the Nokta Legend.

Hello everyone, Here I am again. Apparently Steve deleted me as he thought I was trying to advertise since I was engaging in to many topics at once on here. So pardon the re-post. BTW I lost all messages and posts so please re-post if you notice me My name is Jason and have swung different detectors since the mid 90's. All gold machines until just this year. Love the coins but just had hernia surgery here in San Diego and gettin heart ablation done in a week. So chomping at the bit to head somewhere cooler than the SoCal, AZ desert that I'm near and know best to find a little color and have some smiles and create some new memories. So I'm in need of some information for the NorCal, that I haven't been in the water since the 90's, or Northern Nevada that I not swung a detector over since my GP3500 back in 2008. California was always along the I-80 corridor. Mostly sniping the North Fork of the American with a little South Yuba here and there but all that mercury in that river!!!! A little sluicing too but no detecting at all as this was just prior to my first and sweetest sounding detector I've ever owned (And still do) , my Fisher Gold Bug 2. When I lived in Reno I often headed out to The Rye Patch area and beyond (Placeritas, Seven Troughs, Scossa, Poker Brown, etc). Not much else as I was too busy with work when I was there at that time. Also at this time I was armed with a very capable 99 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 on 33's and a stock 85 Toy 4Runner that went anywhere I dared. Now Im in the largest van know to man, A MB Sprinter 170 ext. It actually has very good clearance for such a mega vehicle and have off-roaded it more than most take their built jeeps but the bad turning radius, 10'2" height and especially 4' long tail really limits where I can go. SO!..... Where can I go now? I don't belong to any clubs. I'm really anxious to both snipe and detect the upper sierra's (This will be starting mid September if all goes well) and then probably head downstream towards the lower elevations of Cali or out into Nevada . Basically chase good weather and better gold. Van life for AU 22. Questions: 1.What rivers are open without claims now? 2. Can I still crevice with my Gold Bug 2 or ML Monster or should I get a SDC 2300 (It is foldable and waterproof) 3. Can you take an SDC 2300 completely underwater? I have a XP Deus 2 as well but doubt it can find small gold pickers in a crevice but sure it can find lead and nails and give me a starting point if that makes sense. 2.What hydraulic pits can I get to and are allowed to hunt in? 3.Anyone looking for company (Late Sept/October) Any info helps.