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The Explorers dont like any dirt between the cover and coil. I took mine off the other day when hunting the beach. I plan on doing mine now that im no longer beating the fields and trees. I noticed when i took mine off the front corner was cracked... could have been from constant removal.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
You left out a big factor there.... unions as well. I guess its cheaper for the companies to pay all those foreign bribes.... ops i mean pay outs than live with government rules to protect the workers. I believe we have an oil supply.... but our greed for profits by using others oil first and letting them keep those prices up so they dont get the finger pointed at them is killing us. I see a
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Goodmore.... does kind of loose something if you werent there or no pictures... ill take the A.... but being there PRICELESS. Im sure ill never have that kind of day again. Tried to hunt for the other ring..... but it just not possible with the Explorer. They run deep and smooth as a you get on both the wet and dry sand. However, in the surf where the water runs over the coil.... its like
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Id say the immigration laws will soon have changes. Why should china change its quality.... i mean lead paint for kids toys, bad grain, fake coins and goods.... we complain, but we buy them. Reminds you a lot of when Japan was flooding us.... look what happened then... they soon owned our steel companies, high rises and set some really crappy goods.... that we bough. Talk about single curr
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Its unfortunate but the feds have a law for everything. However, id check, just because i know some of the old installations people have been allowed to hunt .... ie Fort Ord in CA. Others you may with installation commanders approval.... but they are REAL sticklers especially about relics. Like most places if you find something then the ARK hounds come out of the wood work and want to rope
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People push these companies overseas by asking for more profits on their investments. They are happy to say ... look how much GE is making me. Then there is that deer in the headline look when you tell them great.... how long those investments going to last when you are out of a job.
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TD we dont get many times when people thank you compared to complaining. I was really glad to help and hopefully i can find the other ring tomorrow evening at low tide. But i dont give it much hope with my machine.
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GR.... I know i know i need to start carrying one. My wife told me shes going to keep me on a shorter leash. She said i guess if i let you have a water machine you wouldnt be on the beach where all these girls can chase you down. I told her i was just the hottest dude on the beach and they were dropping their rings on purpose...... she said ya right. I get no respect.
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Had one of those days that you will always talk about. No i didnt get rich or find anything rare. This was my first hunt here in Florida on the beach. I had been hunting about an hour and a couple of very attractive young ladies came running over and said they had just lost a ring. So of course i was more than willing to help them out. It was a small pinky ring and wasnt sure how the E
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We just dont know how to stage those huge marches you used to see back in the 60's. We elect people who we believe will make decisions based on the people.... but end up be a pawn for lobbyist and more experienced politicians. You have to be rich anymore or be backed by big money to play in the game.... they loose focus of the poor person just getting by. They worry about the militia
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Im guessing here.... but at the towel line i think Tom said there is a 50 to 1 .... wet 30 to 1 and water 10 to 1. Been awhile since i watched his DVD so those may be off.
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With politics as usual Tom do you foresee government calling in precious metals like they did once before? I saw what a government can do to money in Italy before they were under the Euro..... man their currency wasnt good for much. I dont like that everything now days is just bank transfers..... when investments are down your money is just gone based on whose say so?... poof.
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Id have to say doing much digging in ground hard enough to break most diggers isnt much fun. When conditions are like this i cherry pick more and dig less. I feel like its not as much about leaving holes as brown spots this time of year so digging it all just isnt smart. Someone wrote.... a good hunter averages about 15 holes an hours. Thats a lot of holes in a park in 4 hours.... now what
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Ozzie....obviously it depends on who is using the SE or E as to the depth. Thats what i was saying ... once learned i find the SE just as deep and the E didnt seem to have an advantage in finds. Id say those graphs show an interesting reason some of us havent switched. But thats normal.... i know a lot of people who wouldnt switch from the Exp II to the SE. That changed some after the Pro
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There is a tremendous amount of things that can change those figures. Our club had a year long clad and coins competition where we had to keep track of our finds. Man i wished i would have kept that data. Its an eye opener and can really be used to adjust your hunting habits. Try it for a month.... you will be surprised. While doing that save your pocket change and check the ratio there
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I think the issue is some of us have a pretty good handle on the Explorers and there just wasnt enought improvement in finds to say the E was worth our hard earned money. Notice i said finds.... and for me thats the bottom line. Have to say i am a bit jealous of new people grabbing an E and not having to go thru the learning curve. Id love to see some of the E features on my SE. Id be
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Id be ashamed if i was Sam Waltons kids. He built a company based on made in the USA. Now its made anywhere but the USA. Its rare that i shop at Wally world any more and i applaud small towns that keep them from building. Seems Obummer has found a compromise.... 1 trillion dollars in tax increases. Why should the government stop spending when they can COMPROMISE by just agreeing to ra
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That should bring some response from the single freq guys. Ill just say im looking for a company to come out with something new not easier. I dont mind learning a complicated machine if it surprises me in a good way. Im just not seeing new tech.... im seeing things added to adjust that are normally factory set that make people go wow and jump on board... for awhile anyway. I have to s
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I to grew up on a farm ... food and guns and 20 plus in the military. If necessary i can buckle down feed and protect my family... what ever it takes. Cant tell you how many conversations ive had with my dad and grand parents about the depression years and how they made it. I traveled full time for 5 years in an RV... sold everything. You would be surprised how little you really need.
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I dont know Dan... i kind of like picking thru the trash and i find the SE even with a Pro or SEF coil does well. To go along with that... i also find MANY people pass these spots up. Slow really works well in these sites... i can spend 3 or 4 hours just sifting out the silver. Takes a lot of patience but when an old park can produce some old silver... chances are you will find it there.
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Personally being an old military guy... i believe Sun Tzu is being applied by China. Find a weakness and approach that weak spot... never approach a stronger enemy head on. Ive been watching and reading China is and has been buying gold for some time now... everything they can get. We are engaged in on to many fronts and our current weakness is our economy. It would be a shame to loose a w
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Like Tom said the MLs do process slower but with the Pro coils work trash rather well IF you know how to use them. A better comparison might be an XLT vs a DFX. Pretty similar except the dual freq on the DFX. Cant tell you how many fight about those two.
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Well you said coins... didnt mention depth or old coins and moderate dirt. You seem to be asking all things equal are the VLFs as good as the Multi freq. The way you put it id say yes. But.... add bad soil, silver or old coins, and depth to the question a lot would come down to the user as much as the machine.
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Hummm GB. Kind of makes it sound like its more of a figure 8 that a circle. Because the whites GB ( think) is somewhere around the 0 salt setting on that 190 scale. So if the GB and -95 to +95 are tied together.... sounds like a figure 8.
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Good one SteveMS. I guess all targets are just spikes on a graph that are being interpreted based on the processor. I know ML calls theirs Con and Ferr readings.... yet clearly those Ferr readings arent really the amount of iron in a target. Ive always felt it was more the rust that confused the machine than iron. I know i know rust is iron.... but in the fields where you get a LOT of hot
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TD.... you explained that MUCH better than i could have. How ever... i used to run my DFX NOT accepting that +95 which would sometimes bring those deeper coins out of the negitive range..... or reduced the sensitivity a bit. You are right it has a lot to do with weak good signals getting over powered. You can see the same affect with the Explorers as well.... just listen to the tone of a v
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Im not a CZ user but i understand what Toms saying about sensitivity only increasing the volume of everything being processed. If you are young with good hearing and concentration or are just willing to listen and try to ignore all the NOISE you have a good chance of digging some of those targets we miss. I once talked to Jimmy Sierra about digging wrap around targets at depth..... his reply
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We have to consider we now have a different way of life now than then not to mention coins. Will they be worth investing BIG money on a machine in the future? Most people my age can say..... back when i grew up. People used to set out side more.... no AC. Our parks were designed differently.... not so many shelter houses, no street sweeper, we had fairs in the parks, softball was more po
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