Okay...here goes. I got to use a NOKTA Golden Sense in Spain this past August. Went there to see family and do some detecting. I have a Troy Shadow X-5 pre-positioned over there so I don't have to transport it back and forth. My Nephew had purchased a Golden Sense to use with his business and for detecting ancient coins and relics on the weekends. When we got to our usual spot on some high ground along the Ebro river we discovered that my Shadow X-5 was (Tango Uniform) and that our entire site had been dug up and hauled off for fill on a road building project. We returned to Zaragoza that evening after an uneventful day. My Nephew knowing I really wanted to do some detecting allowed me to use his Golden Sense and Monday morning bright and early I rocketed my rental car towards Madrid and then southward toward Ocana, my favorite place to detect in all of Spain. The user manual was in English and Spanish and after a quick read I was ready to begin. The thing sets up easy enough and is a breeze to balance to the area where I was hunting. After turning the detector on and waiting the few seconds it takes to come on line I started swinging the detector back and forth to check for erratic or false signals. Got some right away and slowly began turning the sensitivity down until it smoothed out. Knowing the area was polluted with iron from over 2000 years of history I selected the "iron off" mode and began searching. Not a few steps from the spot I got my first signal which turned out to be a really deep musket ball from a battle between the Spaniards and Napoleon's forces. These are common here and mixed after years of plowing the fields with bronze age, Celtic-Iberian, Roman and Medieval coins and relics. All in all that day I recovered quite a few musket balls along with some really neat coins and relics. I spent the night there in my sleeping bag and hit the floor running again the next day with pretty much the same results. I had to leave three of the targets located because they were just too deep to get down to and that with a really heavy duty digging tool. The Golden Sense runs deep and smooth on relics. I'll try to post the pictures of my finds as soon as I can figure out how to do that.
Now back to the good ole USA, Florida Panhandle. So impressed with the NOKTA Golden Sense I looked the company up on Google to try and purchase one of their machines and was directed to Kellyco. Ordered it and put it to work on some of my coin and relic sites here. This evening I went to an old area of town that has been beat with every detector in Panama City and in about 30 minutes recovered a small piece of silver from a bracelet, a small slug of copper, two pieces of an old rosary and my first gold with the NOKTA Golden Sense, a gold tooth cap at about 8 inches. This is a powerful no frills, no bells and barely any whistles type detector that really goes deep and lets you know by tone and by LED whether the target is ferrous or non-ferrous. Nothing more, nothing less but a powerful tool for relic hunting and if it is half as good on placer gold as they claim, I will know that in a couple of months good Lord willing.
I have fallen for a few of these foreign made detectors in the past and after having weighed them in the balances, found them lacking, the most recent boondoggle being a DEEPERS MF-2008-B that turned out to be a disappointment at the highest level.
If anyone wants an honest discussion about this machine or has any questions, I'll gladly spend some time on the phone if you'll PM me.
