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I think I will save my pennies for one of these instead of a new detector.

Here's a video I made on day 4 of my gold prospecting trip to Wanlockhead, Scotland in March 2016. In this video I show how we have managed to divert the river water away from the hole we're working, which allowed the water level to drop by over 30cm (1ft), allowing us to work the hole a lot easier. especially for my friend who's waders failed so he couldn't stand in very deep water. We went prepared ready to make this diversion as we had a plan of where we were going to work and how to work it and having worked the hole previously, we knew we would need some kind of diversion for the water if we stood any chance of seeing bedrock at the bottom of the hole. Also in the video is a y lovely picker I saw at the top of my gold sluice flare along with pictures of what I picked out of my sluice for the day. I hope you like the video and if you do, please feel free to like, comment and share it, thanks :D I hope the video displays properly this time, if not, can an admin amend if required

Found this from Carolina Coin Hunter testing out the mxsport

Hi guys we released a new youtube video called ' mountain goat gold ' Hope you enjoy!

Here's a short video from my first gold prospecting trip of 2016. This trip was to Wanlockhead, Scotland close to Leadhills, we have visited this area a number of times and my friend wanted to revisit a boulder he had previously worked so we went with a 7 day plan to get to bedrock. In this video, I was testing my new sluice I have made specifically to use in narrow streams rather than this wide river, but as it was new I had to test it out and from my very first bucket of concentrate, using my DIY narrow stream sluice for the first time, the sluice managed to stop this lovely little picker right at the top of the vortex matting. I was really pleased with how this sluice operated and I have another video to come showing material going through it so you can see just how it runs, but I couldn't help filming not just the first visible gold of the trip, but also the first picker too. This trip was one of my most successful trips to date and I have more videos to come showing the area we worked and the gold I found, so if you haven't already, why not subscribe to my channel to keep up to date with my videos.

Lol. And before someone asks, I do have permission...reason for the nighthunt is the hwy you can hear in the background.

Hi all, Just a bit of a video I put together reviewing the Gold Racer. Got a couple more coming.

Here's a video I shot at a friends farm permission in mid Feb 2016 using my Minelab X-Terra 705 metal detector. The day wasn't the best to start with, the minelab x-terra 705 was finding lots of trashy junk items in the field, I detected for over 2 hours with the minelab and nothing but trash was found, but typically just as I was starting to get sick of the trash and thinking of calling it a day, I started heading back to the car when coin after coin started popping out, finding 6 coins in literally the last 30 mins of detecting on the walk back to the car, it saved the day which would have otherwise been wrote off. Goes to show not to stop detecting until you're packing up as you never know what you might swing across.

Anyone have any insight on this new machine from Nokta? Saw it advertised on a internet discount detector sales site (guess.....yep that's the one), kind of looks like a "futuristic GB2". Man this company never sleeps.

A short video introducing the dryblower I got to process a bit of dirt. A photo with riffle trays in. Should have her catching some gold next week.

I found this video for you ZED users showing some accessories that you might find useful for protecting some of the bits that matter, They were posted else where but after I watched the video then this video popped up so I thought it might be usefull.. john

Here's a short video of another woodland hunt using my Minelab X-Terra 705 metal detector. I have visited this woodland a couple of times now and usually find anything from old to modern coins, lead bullets and rifle casing etc through to unusual stuff and this trip didn't disappoint, finding a metal ashtray made in Chille of all things along with a large cache of shotgun shells.....

Here's a video showing how I've redesigned and made my monster 4" manual gold pump/dredge. I have a previous build version of this 4" manual gold pump on my youtube channel but due to trial & error, I have improved upon the previous design to make my 4" manual gold pump lighter, lose less material and create a smoother suction vacuum. These pumps are great to use where you are not allowed to use any mechanical processing to remove material from rivers & streams as this is a purely manual process. One of these 4" manual gold pumps can fill a 1/4" classifier in just 3-4 draws depending on the material being worked, so they can save a lot of time compared to smaller versions of the pump which can take 5-10 minutes to fill the same classifier. The cost to make one of these pumps is really minimal, especially if you can scavenge suitable parts because it doesn't have to look pretty as long as it works as its supposed to, I think this cost me about £15 in total to make ($25). I will be taking this pump out with me when my prospecting season starts in the coming weeks and hope to make some more videos to show how it works but if anyone wanted to make one as a project, I highly recommend it as it's a fun build with impressive results.

Here's a video describing how I have made a narrow river /. stream gold sluice. This gold sluice has been made with a combination of Vortex, Hi-Low & Gold Hog Razerback & Scrubber mats. The sluice is made of 2mm Aluminium which I had made & shaped at a local steel fabricators and the mats were off-cuts from someone else's sluice build, the other person had no use for them but they were the perfect size for what I wanted to make so the materials for this sluice haven't cost a lot at all. This gold sluice has been specifically made narrower than most sluices because I already have a gold sluice for general working conditions, this gold hog matted gold sluice has been made specifically to run in narrow streams and burns, where a normal size/width sluice would not fit. I have previously made a similar rain gutter sluice using ribbed matting but that only seemed to trap the finest of material due to the matting used, so this time I figured I'd use tried and tested matting to ensure the gold sluice will stand the best chance of finding gold from the material as possible.

Here's a video showing a metal detecting trip using my minelab X-Terra 705 on a friends farm permission. The week prior, I found my first silver coin and this time out, I found my oldest coin to date, a George II half penny. The date is too worn but the coins were made betweek 1729-1754 so it's getting close to 300 years old. It was the only coin I found on the hunt but also found lots of things I thought were coins on their way out, until a bit of cleaning revealed most was junk.

Here's a video of my first farm metal detecting trip of 2016 where I find my first ever silver coin. I was out with 2 friends, I was using my Minelab X-Terra 705 metal detector, my friends were armed with a Garrett AT Pro and a Blisstool detector. The farm permission we were on was in a quite contaminated field yet we all managed to find some silver coins each, I was just very pleased to finally find a coin with some value attached to it. The Minelab x-terra 705 detector did well in the field considering how trashy it is in places so I was happy with out it performed through the day, the weather was just too cold so I stopped after about 3 hours to warm up, feeling pleased with my 1 good find for the day, a 1819 George 3rd coin.

Keene is onto something with this new dredge design. It's over complex but with refinement, should be a gold getter. I find it very interesting they are using old crash box technology and modern sluice matting in the clean up sluice.

A nice woodland hunt video where I found 6 nice coins with the oldest dating back to 1908. Along with the coins I found a couple of bullets, rifle casings, toy guns and a few other bits and bobs. The metal detecting dig was done with my Minelab X-Terra metal detector which I've been using the last couple of months and the Minelab X-Terra hasn't let me down yet. There is a photo of the coins at the end of the video showing more detail and I'll be back out with the xterra 705 soon.

Mike Hillis spotted an ad for an apparently waterproof Whites MX - perhaps an MXT variant? NOTE ADDED 7/23/16 - this thread started before the MX Sport was released and is loaded with great information about the detector. However, once released problems developed. Please read the thread at http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/2307-new-archive-for-whites-mx-sport-threads/ for some of the latest information related to firmware and hardware problems with the MX Sport.

Gerry found an amazing gold specimen in dredge tailing piles! Bill Moore Laporte, CO

Here's a woodland metal detecting hunt with my Minelab X-Terra 705. I was out in the woodland I've only visited a couple of times and on previous metal detecting trips, my friends and I have found a variety of old coins and bullets so we continue to metal detect the area to see what else it has to offer. On this particular metal detecting trip with the Minelab X-Terra 705, I managed to unearth a 1950's metal kids cap gun, it still has lovely engraved detail on it which made it identifying it very easy. Along with the gun, the Minelab X-Terra 705 metal detector also found me some more lead bullets, rifle casings and the usual bits of trash too, but the gun was certainly the find of the trip.

Here's a short video from just my second time using my new Minelab X-Terra 705 Metal Detector just last Sunday. I was visiting some woodland we have permission to hunt on and took my Mnelab and the very first find was a Canadian coin which is something I was not expecting to find considering I detect in the North East of England, UK and it is in outstanding condition. OK, it's not the oldest coin but why it was found where it was if a mystery, it wasn't the only coin of the day either, finding a 1913 farthing too. Along with the coins, the Minelab X-terra 705 metal detector also found me some old lead bullets, some bullets casings and a little bit of trash too. I was detecting with a more experienced friend who declared the Canadian coin the find of the day and the farthing the oldest, so the Minelab X-Terra 705 did me proud :D #metaldetecting #minelabxterra705