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[mytimetoshine]

Just placed my order for a Fors Gold plus, a garret bounty hunter IV to surprise my daughter for her birthday next month and a mine lab pro 25 pin pointer.

 

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[Asmbandits]

That's great you will love detecting and I'm sure your daughter will as well! You will be amazed at just how much trash is in the ground in some of the most remote locations, but sometimes you get lucky and find ground that's really workable. I'm still trying to get my first nugget with my detector, I have found quite a few cool coins and jewellery with it though but gotta keep at it for the gold. I've heard hilly areas with a lot of manzanita and live oak are good areas to nugget shoot if in the right location. I would love to detect a hydrolic wash area but getting harder and harder to find a spot like that.

 

[Jim Hemmingway]

Congratulations mytimetoshine... hope you have a lot of fun and success with this unit... it looks to be a really topnotch gold detector by all accounts to date. The other unit is a great way to introduce your daughter to the hobby.

I had the same idea years ago, and my daughter has accompanied me and the wife on several prospecting trips to northeastern Ontario. Those experiences left us with some wonderful memories, and it was exciting to find a bit of native silver while hunting together. Good luck!!!

Jim.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Good luck with the new machine and BIG Gold to you!

 

[Hoser John]

tons a au 2 u 2-John

 

[meMiner]

If your daughter is anything like mine, you had better get used to using the Bounty Hunter....because she will abscond with the Fors (assuming that turns out to be the better detector) and pinpointer. LOL

I wish you and your daughter great success with the new toys. Sounds like it will be a special birthday for her.

 

[mytimetoshine]

If your daughter is anything like mine, you had better get used to using the Bounty Hunter....because she will abscond with the Fors (assuming that turns out to be the better detector) and pinpointer. LOL

I wish you and your daughter great success with the new toys. Sounds like it will be a special birthday for her.

LOL that sounds about right. She always takes my cool toys!

 

[mytimetoshine]

Sorry for no update guys, but I had everything delivered to my parents house for safety since I live alone in an apt. So I haven't even been able to play around with it. I probably won't have a chance to use it till after Christmas since I don't want to spoil my daughters surprise. If she sees mine she will either know what's up or be hurt I didn't get her one so I'll just wait...

 

[mytimetoshine]

Finally got to take this bad boy out of the box! My daughter is with her mom till her birthday next week. Can't wait to see the look on her face.

So with my Christmas obligations full filed yesterday I decided to go out and see how much I don't know about medal detecting, lol

I planned a short sort of multi purpose easy trip. My fever has been out of control so I decided to bring my gold pan and waders too. Right under the bridge is a Rockpile I work when I don't have much time to hike in. After last week's rain the SF hit 6k CFS and the whole area was underwater so being basically a newbie I wanted to see what the water flow did to the area and if any flood gold was present. Sadly the water flow didn't do much, smoothed out some of the dug pits but nothing really moved..scraped some top layer back sand and didn't notice and recently deposited flood gold. So I just ran a half dozen pans of some ones hole that was up higher. Had some clay in it and was able to reduce my fever with a few flakes into the pan.

So I put all my gold stuff in the truck and grabbed my detector. I have never used one before. Did a Quick skim through the manual before I left this morning but that's it. Started right on the main trail. I did the ground balance thing and then turned on the ground tracking which I'm now thinking was wrong? Not sure what the difference between the tracking and the balance is. But anyway I started getting signals instantly. In fact I couldn't go 2 ft with ought one... lol soooo much trash. Nails, caps, tabs, foil, fishing lures, pennies... it's amazing how much trash is in these rivers...

I'm really glad I bought the pin pointer. It would have got frustrating quick trying to locate the targets otherwise. Anyways.. it was pretty fun and I can't wait to learn more.

....I did have one interesting target. Idk what it was but the pole went deep I couldn't get it out and the top broke of when I tried to Yank it out.

 

[The Dirt Pirate]

Awesome, I'm working on getting some new gear myself.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Way to go!

Now that you're getting after it, all other kinds of goodies will pop up too.

I too have no idea what the find in the picture is.

All the best as you get out and learn more,

Lanny

 

[arizau]

Way to go!

Now that you're getting after it, all other kinds of goodies will pop up too.

I too have no idea what the find in the picture is.

All the best as you get out and learn more,

Lanny

Maybe the mystery piece was an old t post for hanging a gate? https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=t post

 

[mytimetoshine]

We celebrated my daughters birthday on Friday and she got the detector. I expected her to be really excited but the reaction was " what the what"?...‪#‎birthdaygiftfail‬.

I convinced her to go out to a little area down the street for an hour this afternoon. This is a kids detector and she still can barely carry it... lol. As soon as it started going off the treasure hunt was on!
Her first target was probably the coolest. A pretty large old time stake driven into the base of this old Oak tree. What it was used for? That's left up to the imagination some times which is part of the fun. The next 20 targets were modern pieces of iron and wire probably from when the oak Grove was converted to a park. Then a penny was found near the bench. Then 2 deeper targets. Square nails... which to me are cool even though they are easy to find. 100 years old at a minimum.
Then the last target.. Ava got some pieces to her "old kettle". About a foot down.
It was fun and I think she had forgotten why she wanted the detector in the first place, but when she started finding old stuff buried in the ground she was on it. I wish I had one when I was a kid. Your imagination just runs wild when you finding all this old stuff. Good times!