Bling, bling!

[avalon]

Don’t view this file if you have suicidal tendancies. It makes me laugh when I read  topics on which machine finds the most gold. Minelab can plug there GPX 5000 till the cows come home, and you may  require a small morgage to purchase it. It’s more to do with knowing your machine than chopping and changing every 5 minutes. All these gold items have been found with A 10 year old White’s DFX.  I also have the Etrac and the T2 in my arsenal, but the DFX still finds me the most gold when set up correctly. In fact the smallest piece weighed in at 0.3 grammes.

Poulton hoard


Edward IV Quarter Ryal
 

Corio stater


Corio quarter stater



Corio quarter stater

[avalon]

And more...
atrebates gold stater


Eldersfield brooch



George I guinea



Gold and silver watch fob

[avalon]

oh and a bit more..

Antonia aureus



Gold ring



gold ring

[Chef Geoff]

No Steve it's all about walking over it.

[avalon]

No Steve it's all about walking over it.

The Swindon detecting club spent 3 weeks detecting my hoard site, they missed a 100 m square area. They abandoned the site because they thought there was nothing there

[rjm]

I agree with you steve.

It's a lot to do with the machine, and how it's used, as you showed me with that 0.3 gram pure gold piece when
we did the test. I'm glad mine got it, good audio but the numbers were bouncy.

Yes, the coin or artefact has to be there but what's the point of it being there if the machine misses it? As
so many machines/detectorists do, as you've just stated.

Also, some sites I've been to have been done to death but stuff turns up (without ploughing) as detetcorists
have 'missed' it.

[Chef Geoff]

[/quote] The Swindon detecting club spent 3 weeks detecting my hoard site, they missed a 100 m square area. They abandoned the site because they thought there was nothing there
[/quote]
That proves my point Steve, unless you grid with line and pins you will miss individual finds very easily. Yes I have to agree that having confidence in your machine and knowing what it's telling you is all important, but you still have to pass that little piece of plastic over the target.

[avalon]

You shouldn’t be drawn in by all the hype of new machines, it’s more to do with the operator and the land he detects, than a singing all dancing top of the range job. If there is nothing on the land in the first place, it does’nt matter how good the machine is, it can’t produce something out of nothing.
I tested various machine out on the weekend with a small fragment of gold,as Bob states. The MXT failed to produce  a signal, along with 2 other DFX'S, and a Minelab Quattro.  If machines arn't set up correctly you will miss so many signals.

[Chef Geoff]

Steve I've been detecting 33 years and I know that Today's machines are not that much better than those that I was using in 1980.
Yes the machine operator is important but there are no "great detectorists" only normal ones and bad ones. I would be only to happy to follow you across land with any of the popular machines and I would find something you had missed, in the same way that if you followed me you would find something.
Also one machine doesn't find everything, you have said that the DFX is the best machine you have used for finding small pieces of gold, does that make the DFX a great machine...No, it's 15KHz that's why it finds small gold so easily.
Horses for courses and if you happen to be on the wrong horse for that particular land or find then forget it, Someone else on the right horse will come along and find it.

[Val Beechey]

Do you fancy doing B/B for detectorists. Think there'd be a few from down this end (West Wales) might be interested.
Glad you said if it's not there you wont find it, I was going to mention that point myself but thought better of it.
I have every confidence in my M6 (I've hit some very small targets with it) but we are not so well blessed as Gloucester with goodies.
We do get a good selection of fishing leads though.

Val

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

Fantastic,  great macro too,  i want one like that lol

[rjm]

I'm glad Steve showed us what he's found as it shows it's out there to be found.

I could look at the pics every day and not get bored. There's just something about good quality gold.

I remember a club member finding a gold iron age neckband on club land that'd been done many times
and that was with a DFX machine!  And I went and bought a Deus   

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

There again I used a DFX for 18 months (in the correct settings) and learnt every whimper that machine could make.

Gold Artifacts or coins  I found = 0
Hammered coins = 30 +

I also saw Casa dos walk over a manure covered path I'd walked across a dozen times with my DFX, he walked over it and pops out a Gold Noble - Why?    Because he swung his coil over the path and I didnt. (I dont like manure)

I've now got an etrac and last year I found a quarter of the hammered I found the previous year with my DFX. Why ?

Because last year i went out a quarter of the time I went out with my DFX.

So pop pickers whats the importance top 5 this week.

No. 1 - Pure Luck
No  2 - Time spent detecting
No. 3 - Relevant Land 
No. 4 - Machine Knowledge
No. 5 - Half decent machine

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