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Hello From Middle Earth!- New Zealand Metal detecting

DrunkBrother

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Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Detector(s) used
Minelab E-track, Excalibur 2 ,CTX3030
Primary Interest:
Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Good day,
Let me Introduce myself first.
My name is Max :-) and i am a Russian Kiwi - moved to Nz in 2004 from Moscow,but was born at far East of Russia .
I've been metal detecting since December 2011 ,so just 16 month, but amount of time i put is probably euqal to someones 5 years of detecting :-)
i have 2 machines- Etrac for land and Excal for water (and no- i do not like CTX3030)
I got over 50 gold rings and hundreds of silvers in these 16 month.
Done 3 Treasure hunting trips to Rarotonga , here is one of the Videos (2012,but more on my Youtube channel) :


WE are lucky in NZ with coin shooting - our 1-2$ are at 0.85 value of US dollar and have a good buying power (egss 3$, milk 3$ 2leter, bread2-3$, butter 4$, petrol 2$ a liter,) and more over they are made of Aluminum bronze alloy - that makes coin shooting in disc mode absolutely fantastic
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Our water/beach detecting is either really hard or really easy - our tides are HUGE from 0.2 to 3.5 meters! so you either walk on wet send where the drop area (when high tide during the day and people swim ) or you have to go into water during low tide chest deep and have only about 2 hours for detecting if pople were swimming during the low tide time

As everyone else here- i would like to share my finds and stories and make some friends in remote parts fo the world in case i go on Treasure hunting trip you way :-)

Here is my Blog for all older stories:
Auckland Metal Detecting
and my Youtube channel :
Max Botkov - YouTube

And here is me from my March Rarotonga trip "
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Awesome! I've always wanted to be able to travel to New Zealand, some really beautiful places. (I also fly fish!). You're living a dream! :thumbsup: Welcome to Tnet!

That video is absolutely killing me! AWESOMER scenery!
 
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Nice video...welcome to the site, you will like this site.
 
WELCOME ABOARD :occasion14:
 
Welcome and thanks for sharing! I always wanted to go to New Z. Sounds like a challenging place to hunt with some great returns.
 
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Congratulations on the gold:hello2: I'm waiting to see more about your adventure:treasurechest:
Regards,
Hamid
 
G'day Max ! Dobro pozhalovat' to TreasureNet


( I hope I got that right :tongue3: )
 
welcome max, sounds like some great finds!
 
Nice video DB... what was the water temp.? My cousin married a NZ'er and moved over their from Florida. I always wondered if anyone was actively water hunting in NZ. I like the idea of dollar coins,,, we have them but rarely circulated and lost. Good hunting.

SD
 
Welcome to T-Net Max. Thanks for the video and sharing some of your treasures.
Looking forward to seeing the results of more of your hunts. :hello:
 
Great to have you on Tnet Max. Welcome to Tnet..webpGreat video!!!
 
What can I say I do like the CTX 3030. All part of my detecting Arsenal. ;)
 
Dzien dobry, Max!

Witamy!

( Polish, but close enough, I think :hello2: )

Lorraine
 
Welcome !!! , great hunt !!!
 
Good day,
Let me Introduce myself first.
My name is Max :-) and i am a Russian Kiwi - moved to Nz in 2004 from Moscow,but was born at far East of Russia .
I've been metal detecting since December 2011 ,so just 16 month, but amount of time i put is probably euqal to someones 5 years of detecting :-)
i have 2 machines- Etrac for land and Excal for water (and no- i do not like CTX3030)
I got over 50 gold rings and hundreds of silvers in these 16 month.
Done 3 Treasure hunting trips to Rarotonga , here is one of the Videos (2012,but more on my Youtube channel) :


WE are lucky in NZ with coin shooting - our 1-2$ are at 0.85 value of US dollar and have a good buying power (egss 3$, milk 3$ 2leter, bread2-3$, butter 4$, petrol 2$ a liter,) and more over they are made of Aluminum bronze alloy - that makes coin shooting in disc mode absolutely fantastic
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Our water/beach detecting is either really hard or really easy - our tides are HUGE from 0.2 to 3.5 meters! so you either walk on wet send where the drop area (when high tide during the day and people swim ) or you have to go into water during low tide chest deep and have only about 2 hours for detecting if pople were swimming during the low tide time

As everyone else here- i would like to share my finds and stories and make some friends in remote parts fo the world in case i go on Treasure hunting trip you way :-)

Here is my Blog for all older stories:
Auckland Metal Detecting
and my Youtube channel :
Max Botkov - YouTube

And here is me from my March Rarotonga trip "
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Hi Max,
Was nice to meat you at Kohimarama beach the other day. Went back the next day after making a few changes to the settings on the Manticore and I think it is a lot more responsive now and I managed to get one small gold band. Tried another beach yesterday and picked up 5 junk earrings and a very nice GUCCI sterling silver ring and about $3.00 in coins. Hope we get to meet up again some day.

Cheers Glenn
 

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