Hi Guys
Well were to start, I have been detecting on and off for over 30 years and in that time I have used most makes and types of detector that there has been.
I could give you a lecture on Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Hammered coins, medieval broaches and coin weights, but Gold, Duh!!! Now your talking to Mr Ignorant as my knowledge of Gold prospecting comes from youtube and old cowboy films.
The thing is, this coming summer I have a chance to go to Ireland for a few weeks to try my luck at prospecting. My current machines are the Sovereign elite, Etrac and Garrett Sea HunterII, unfortunately none of which are much good for nugget hunting.
As this is more for pleasure and fun (at the moment) I can't afford to pay out for a minelab PI machine and as you are probably aware we on this side of the pond don't get much call for other gold machines so it is difficult if not impossible to get the TDI, GMT or Infinium, which as far as I can see narrows the choice down to just the X-Terra705 or the Tesoro Lobo.
So I'm relying on your experience to help me choose, also would it be worth me investing in a Desert Fox rotary gold pan, sluices are not allowed over here on the grounds of pollution.
Your thoughts please
Below is an article from a early 19th century newspaper relating to the area I am going to....enjoy.
[From the Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 15, October 6, 1832]
In Ireland, county of Wicklow, seven miles west of Arklow, about the year 1770, there was an old schoolmaster, who used frequently to entertain his neighbours with accounts of the richness of their valley in gold: and his practice was to go out in the night to search for the treasure. For this he was generally accounted insane. But in, some years after, bits of gold were found in a mountain stream, by various persons; and, in 1796, a piece weighing about half an ounce. The news of this having circulated amongst the peasantry, such an infatuation took possession of the minds of the people, that every sort of employment, save that of acquiring wealth by the short process of picking it up out of the streams, was abandoned; and hundreds of human figures were to be seen bending over the waters, and scrutinizing every object there to be seen. In this way, during six weeks, no less than 800 ounces of gold were found, which sold for
Well were to start, I have been detecting on and off for over 30 years and in that time I have used most makes and types of detector that there has been.
I could give you a lecture on Celtic, Roman, Saxon and Hammered coins, medieval broaches and coin weights, but Gold, Duh!!! Now your talking to Mr Ignorant as my knowledge of Gold prospecting comes from youtube and old cowboy films.
The thing is, this coming summer I have a chance to go to Ireland for a few weeks to try my luck at prospecting. My current machines are the Sovereign elite, Etrac and Garrett Sea HunterII, unfortunately none of which are much good for nugget hunting.
As this is more for pleasure and fun (at the moment) I can't afford to pay out for a minelab PI machine and as you are probably aware we on this side of the pond don't get much call for other gold machines so it is difficult if not impossible to get the TDI, GMT or Infinium, which as far as I can see narrows the choice down to just the X-Terra705 or the Tesoro Lobo.
So I'm relying on your experience to help me choose, also would it be worth me investing in a Desert Fox rotary gold pan, sluices are not allowed over here on the grounds of pollution.
Your thoughts please
Below is an article from a early 19th century newspaper relating to the area I am going to....enjoy.
[From the Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 15, October 6, 1832]
In Ireland, county of Wicklow, seven miles west of Arklow, about the year 1770, there was an old schoolmaster, who used frequently to entertain his neighbours with accounts of the richness of their valley in gold: and his practice was to go out in the night to search for the treasure. For this he was generally accounted insane. But in, some years after, bits of gold were found in a mountain stream, by various persons; and, in 1796, a piece weighing about half an ounce. The news of this having circulated amongst the peasantry, such an infatuation took possession of the minds of the people, that every sort of employment, save that of acquiring wealth by the short process of picking it up out of the streams, was abandoned; and hundreds of human figures were to be seen bending over the waters, and scrutinizing every object there to be seen. In this way, during six weeks, no less than 800 ounces of gold were found, which sold for