Minelab and The Gold Digger Metal Detectors hunt in NJ looks like a great hunt how many attending on this forum and your strategy?

[Ron from Michigan]

This is event on the 19th and 20th of this month I would like to attend.As I post my hand is still wrapped in badages and the stitches won't come out until the Monday before the hunt.I would use a Sovereign with a Tornado 800 coil.Looks like a lot of prizes and fun.For those who are going bring back some photos to post and war stories.LOL ,Maybe take a friend or two along to help pay for gas.HH Ron

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Ron, I will be attending the dinner ans hunting Sunday events. Gary Schafer VP Minelab America will be presneting the CTX 3030 in public for the first time at the dinner.There are 6 events planned by MInelab nation wide those days everone should try to attend one near them.
http://www.gominelabbing.com/

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Looks to be a big event.Maybe on my way through Ohio I can pick Critter up to help pay for gas?

 

[Nomad NJ]

I'm going. Keep Critter in Ohio, we don't need the competition. I'm using my Sovereign with a Tornado 800 coil. I wish they will give away the new CT as a prize.

 

[Critterhunter]

Looks to be a big event.Maybe on my way through Ohio I can pick Critter up to help pay for gas?

I'm going. Keep Critter in Ohio, we don't need the competition. I'm using my Sovereign with a Tornado 800 coil. I wish they will give away the new CT as a prize.

LMAO! Thanks for the offer Ron. Nice to know you'd still be willing to travel in a car with me after all the forum back and fourths we've had over the last few years. And Nomad don't worry...because I can't go. I hardly have enough money for gas to even hunt locally right now. Have to keep enough gas in the truck to go hand out resumes. On that note, things are looking up. Got three calls in the last two days concerning my resume online for an HVAC job. Doing some interviews next week. I was always told that HVAC companies like to do most of their hiring in May and June in terms of HVAC school grads with no experience. They have them do prevenative maintenance and clean-n-checks (changing filters and belts, cleaning condensors, and so on) on AC systems to get their feet wet in the field, and this time of the year is when that kind of work mostly happens. Not as big of a rush during cold weather season as furnances don't often get this kind of stuff done to them as much as AC units do. Wish me luck.

 

[Nomad NJ]

Good luck Critter. How is your finger. If you get a good job will you buy the CTX.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Critter I travel through Ohio a lot maybe on one of these trips there's a park in your area we can search for a couple of hours and swap war stories. My suggestion look at ways to make money.The traditional 9-5 jobs are gone,but there are a lot of ways to keep the money coming in.My brother after he retired opened up a hot dog stand and made more money than he did working for GM. Good Luck Ron

 

[Critterhunter]

The finger is fine. Thanks for asking. I had heard that it will get cold in the winter but no problems there for me. Only big issue is the fingernal grows straight out like normal but then bends down over the very front of the finger as it grows. Makes it an issue with my finger sliding off buttons and such when pushing them.

Don't think even if I had the money to blow that I'd get that new machine. I feel it's got too many gimmicks packed into it like the GPS thing and I don't care at all for the weight factor. It's a good half pound or more heavier than the Etrac by the sound of the listed weights for both machines. I do miss a computer screen to stare at and play with here and there that I had on my Explorers. If I bought another computerized Minelab it'd probably be an SE Pro only due to it's better PPing than the old Explorers, though I hear if you put a Pro Coil or 12x10 on one of the old ones they have just as much depth and separation as the SE or Etrac do. Heard guys said it was like using a new machine. Never did care for the old 10" coils on the Explorer. They had a reall fuzzy/sloppy detection field that made separation harder and PPing. I also feel that was soaking in too much ground matrix for my soil which never got me very good depth. I have a feeling the tighter field of the Pro Coil or 12x10 on it would see less ground glare and thus get the machine a good bit deeper in my soil than my old Explorers did.

Ron, sure...Drop me a PM some day when you are heading through and we can head off for a hunt at one of my favorite honey holes. I live about 10 to 15 miles south of Cleveland in the suburbs, just east of Hopkins airport near the Ford plant if you know where that is.