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Recent content by Jiminsandiego

  1. J

    What about only digging under 140 ?

    There's a beach here with thousands of pull tabs that I am confident holds gold rings. I guess I could use Critterhunters "splitting hairs" theory but what about loosing the pull tabs completely? I find very few modern pull tabs read under say 142 ish and the beaver tails ( 124 ish) have a...
  2. J

    Come on really?

    Why not a a waterproof ( to 60 ft) sov gt? Maybe with a 180 meter on the handle. Maybe more modern batteries to make it lighter. Hip mountable! It would replace the exclaliber and make the gt awesome. The E-TRAC seems to already fit the bill for land hunting and would seem overkill for a water...
  3. J

    I bought a gold tester

    I found a ring the other day that sure polished up like gold but had no karat mark so I finally broke down and shelled out $107 for a Mizar ET18 gold tester. I had about 6 other "might be gold" items so I figured it would be fun to play with. The tester was very easy to use. I started out with...
  4. J

    golden touch gold tester

    I've been wanting a gold tester for awhile now and am thinking about getting the golden touch gold tester. It sells for about $80. Anybody have one? What about white gold? Any input on this subject will be most appreciated. Thanks, Jim
  5. J

    Sensitivity setting in all metal gt

    After reading the previous post on this subject, I got a chance to try out the a/m mode on my gt at a very mineralized beach today. (My first real attempt at a/m). In disc I could run at about 4:30 and it was still relatively unstable. Found a few clad coins,sinkers etc. So then I switch to a/m...
  6. J

    To dig or not to dig zinc pennies

    After using a meter on my gt for awhile, now I am questioning the wisdom of digging the solid 177's. I (kinda) know it's gunna be a zinc but I've been digging them anyway (at the beach). Now I've got about ten pounds of these guys and today I just stopped digging them. The corroded ones tend to...
  7. J

    Money saved not fishing

    After detecting for a year or two, I was thinking about how much doe I used to shell out for my fishing hobby. Lures, line, lake fees etc... really add up. I still like to fish, but now I find myself metal detecting a lot more often. I have a pile of change, some silver and some gold from...
  8. J

    My new mindset for detecting

    After about a year of detecting beaches I took a break (because I had to work). As a newbie I was "challenged" to find a gold ring, or any ring, at first. With hard work and patients came gold rings, silver rings, pendants and old silver coins. I would look at my stash of gold and my stash of...
  9. J

    Wheaty from the beach

    Spent 4 hours at a very popular beach in Sandy eggo today. No silver or gold.. but wait is that a wheaty in with the clad? The best looking wheaty I ever found...at the beach no less. Must have been dropped yesterday by the looks of it.(I haven't even rinsed it off). Cheers, Jim
  10. J

    quantifying mineral content in soil

    One reason I bought a gt was for it's ability to handle "mineralized" soil/sand. Now I would like to know more about what is meant by "mineralized". I am thinking iron and salt are the two biggies but are there other minerals that come into play? And is it possible to quantify the soil/sand on a...
  11. J

    shortening coil cable

    Actually it's the cable that goes from my digisearch meter to the box. I have the meter attached to my hip mount bag so I only need about 10 inches of cable instead of 5 ft. So what would be the best way to shorten the cable? Cut off the plug that goes to the box and cut the extra cable and...
  12. J

    Using a propointer at the beach

    Here in Southern California many of the targets I dig are virtually invisible even when they are in the scoop. Pennies completely encrusted with sand and small pieces of melted aluminum are especially hard to see. Most of the time I am in wet sand but the water can often be pretty far away. For...
  13. J

    coin bezels

    Found these coin bezels on the internet. Very easy to set the coins into with just a small screw driver. They make silver and gold bezels for lots of different coins. Anyway I think they're kinda cool. Cheers. Jim
  14. J

    Digisearch meter a big help with my gt

    I got my gt about 8 months ago and a meter for it a couple of weeks ago. If you are like I was, trying to "learn the tones", I highly recommend considering a meter. I believe I went through way too much effort to learn the tones, when in fact , what I needed was a meter. The gt was saying "no...
  15. J

    Suggestions for a hip mount gt shaft?

    I'm considering buying a second shaft for my gt so I can have one for my 10 inch coil and one for my 12x15 sef. I'm using the stock shaft now with my 12x15 and I'd like to upgrade and use the stock shaft for my 10 inch. So I'll need the whole thing (handle arm cuff and full shaft). I saw a video...
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