Back from Alabama.

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I just got back from over over a week in Alabama and surrounding areas. Hawkeye and I went there to help out some friends who just moved there. Flew back home from Atlanta this morning. Hurricane Frances did a fair amount of damage to Lower Alabama, but, happily, not nearly as much as was originally feared. I hope Ivan "peters out" before hitting the mainland. Hawkeye stayed behind to continue giving help to some old (and new) friends, and to also possibly close the deals on a couple of properties we liked. So, this "Southern California boy" may end being a "Southern boy." Reckon I will have to go from digging up California gold to digging up Confederate lead (minie balls). I note that a series of comments have been posted in my absence regarding the so-called "Jim and Kenner" debates. Many thanks to those who acknowledged that my singular desire on these Forums is to be of help to fellow detectorists. Naturally, since this is an MXT Forum, my comments and attention have been focused on this fine machine. Personally, I have owned over 100 different detectors, and have found strengths, and weaknesses, in all of them. There is no such thing as a "perfect" detector, inasmuch as not everyone will have the same opinion of what constitutes the "perfect" detector. One definition of "perfect" is "suitable for the intended purpose," and when it comes to locating metal, ALL metal detectors are suitable for the purpose for which they were intended. It just so happens that the "secondary issues," such as depth potential, desirability of cetain features, etc., DO vary, and so will opinions regarding the same. As I have often stated, it is best to keep an open mind on such matters, and be willing to learn from, and benefit from, the experience of others. Hope that all you Southerners on this Forum have not fared badly from Frances, nor, will suffer from Ivan. God bless, and HH. Jim

 

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[Anonymous]

Hi Jim,
Gee, I tried hard to get a rise out of you or Kenner, but got nothing but silence. I did not know it is just because you were gone!
Seriously, you have provided reams of helpful information and advice on this and other forums. I truly appreciate the lengths to which you go in sharing your expertise. Please forgive me for taking a poke at you for being so relentlessly a "White's Guy" but I guess I'm just a trouble maker at heart.
By the way, found over 6 ounces of really nice nuggets s few weeks ago on an outing to Ganes Creek, Alaska with my MXT. As I mentioned before, I ran in Relic Mode, disc set at "2", full gain to get the gold. It is a horribly trashy location but very low mineral. I would of course risk missing a nugget set like this (probably did) but as I was after 1 dwt and larger nuggets the MXT did the trick extremely well set like this. Ended up with 11 nuggets ranging from 1.2 dwt to 2.4 oz. Once again my MXT paid for itself many times over.
Another guy on the same trip found a 5.34 oz nugget with his MXT, and the big find of the week was a 15.65 ounce gold/quartz cobble the size of a baseball... also found with the MXT!
Sincerely,
Steve Herschbach

 

[Anonymous]

I made several posts, early on, regarding the use of the relic mode for nugget hunting. It works fine; imagine a prospecting mode with an audible discrimination "overlay" that will, in many soils, help ID (at least) larger iron. I still suggest digging ALL really faint signals, that is, if you are in the Mojave and hunting for "midgets." But at Ganes Creek, like you, Steve, I'd be "hunting for bear" and going for the big ones. In fact, the bigger nuggets you have found in AK are larger than the biggest I have found in AZ, CA, and NV. Kudos for you, pal! As they say "...location, location, location," but, really, success is 90% OPERATOR and 10% DETECTOR. As your AK season draws to an end, the Desert Season in just beginning. HH jim

 

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Hawkeye likes the greenery, so...... time will tell.