Finally, first gold in 30 years, the curse is broken - also a tiny silver ring

[DeepseekerADS]

Is there something wrong with TNet tonight? I've been trying to post pictures and it freezes up each time. I'll try to post the pictures again later or tomorrow.

Indian Steve & I went out for about 3 1/2 hours today. I dug up this ear thingy and walked over & showed it to Steve. There's no marking on it, but Steve immediately said it was gold. So I acid tested it first with the 14k solution and it failed. Then I tested it with the 10k solution and it passed beautifully. It weighs only 1.42 grams, but it's gold. Praise the Lord! Now that must open the door to more, right?

Also found a tiny silver ring, weighs in at .89 grams. Plus 29 clad coins for $1.85

Now to send this and will once again post pictures.

YeeHaa!

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

Gold is always a good jump start on detecting!!!!!! Now you will be hammering those rings Good job!! Happy Holidays my friend!! Tommy

What is it? Every year I'm heading up your way and we're talking, yet we still haven't run into each other!

I'm driving up to Royal Oak this Friday, the 22nd to be with my son and daughter until the 26th when I return home. I don't have a cell phone, no point - they don't work up this holler, which is where I stay most of the time.

But I will still have access here. There's a city block park right across from my son's apartment. He has a busy life, but in the years he's lived there He's only seen one fellow swinging a coil. I've always chickened out, too cold when I'm up there, or busy with other more serious things. I'll be looking at the weather forecasts as I prepare to leave.

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

Yeah, you too Loco!

 

[Tired Rooster]

That Tejon worked really well for you.......very nice. Gold and silver.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

That Tejon worked really well for you.......very nice. Gold and silver.

Yeah, this thread really needs Terry Soloman to pop in

 

[Kurios1]

Wow!?! 30 years. That's crazy. I don't even target gold but, just dig lots of garbage from the low tones up and have three real gold rings. I have another little gold pin as well. Nothing to brag about for sure but, I can't imagine hunting 30 years without any gold? I have to say I am certainly grateful to hear you have firmly placed your heel on the devil's neck. Now finish him off and get about finding some more gold my friend. Congrats on putting an end to this long dry spell. May the wellsprings bring forth plenty of yellow goodness.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Congrats on the Golden Ticket!

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Wow!?! 30 years. That's crazy.

Well, I left the hobby after the job in Massachusetts and did not return until I retired. Those years between were filled with a whole lot of trouble, the divorce wars. I took far too much punishment in those times, one suit after another, took everything I had except this farm. I defended this farm, my sanctuary. It cost just about everything else. In the end I ended up with my 3 kids, they were all that mattered.

That's all over now, was before I retired. That 30 year absence wasn't because I didn't want to get my hands dirty again, it was because of the fight we must all face someday = always doing what's right regardless of how much it hurt.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

I turned the CTX on and ran the earring across the coil multiple times. The most repeated FE-CO number recorded was 11-23.

It is unlikely I'd have dug that number

 

[Gene Mean]

Nice gold! There's more out there.

 

[washingtonian]

Nicely done!!!

 

[sprailroad]

I turned the CTX on and ran the earring across the coil multiple times. The most repeated FE-CO number recorded was 11-23.

It is unlikely I'd have dug that number

Good point, I wonder that with all the advancements in detectors, all the information given and multi adjustments and programs etc, that we begin to OVER analyze each target to where the fun begins to go out of it. It is a easy thing to do, I have done that as well, but sometimes you just need to go a little bit back to the basics. I dig a lot of trash, because of those many "iffy" signals. I am NO expert, and right now I use a AT Pro and Minelab Safari, and I really do like the Safari, and I understand it. I do use the screen, but more as a reference point, I go far more by sound. I have never used the Tejon or the CTX, both good machines by all accounts, and as with so many other detectors, I think most all would agree they are like different tools for different jobs. Good Thread, kind of makes you slow down a little and think about it.

 

[pepperj]

Okay, the truth from this end. The CTX is an incredible machine of science. And that science makes you stop at every single signal looking at the screen, the numbers. All the while I was doing that, I dug very little trash, still digging by the sounds in the ground and of course looking at the numbers. Meanwhile Steve and his Tejon dug 2 to 3 as many times the targets. He dug a lot of trash. But he didn't miss any of the good stuff.

And today I dug the most trash of any hunt since I returned to the hobby, more than double my 31 good targets today. I'm hunting with the Tejon just like I hunted in the early 1980's, by sound. The more you dig in a hunt, the far better chance you have of digging up something good. To me, the Tejon is back to the basics.

I'll still use the CTX, but I know better than going up against Steve with his Tejon for another butt whipping

Well done on the gold and silver.
When I got my first Minelab 10yrs ago someone stated this very helpful hint "put tape across the screen" not literally but don't look at the screen, as the sounds are the key not what the screen says. I'd be hard pressed to tell you what a Minelab screen readings are showing except for glancing down at the main numbers after hearing the diggable signal.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first piece of gold. I hope many more follow (but sooner than 30 years) !