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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #430 on: January 27, 2011, 11:43:15 am »

mmmm Xavier not so sure about that down here.
I can hunt inland and really run my machine hot. But at the beach I have to go way down on the sensitivity. Inland run at about 18 and coast 15 dry sand down to 4 or 5 in the damp/wet sand.
But you must understand that I have never been into the technical side of things when it comes to these machines.....I'm a operator not a scientist hehehehe!
Finds look cool. Keep at it. What is the nature of your site?
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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #431 on: January 27, 2011, 11:54:16 am »

Love the .303 shell, is there a date on the bottom? Huh?

Could be from the Boer war Wise

Keep up the good work, that machine could find my gold coins.... But remember who they belong to Great

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #432 on: January 27, 2011, 03:45:48 pm »

Viking you are using a VLF machine if I'm not mistaken. I have a PI machine made for the water and wet sand VLF dose not like the wet even wet gras makes it jumpy LOL but they are much better in my experience inland where you have mineralized soil that is why I'm also building a VLF machine. By the way you can use PI inland but mine was setup more for the beech (my coil is not shielded and it runs at 400hz and under 30ms)

Pgill did you see the link that I posted from the Boer war? I found a lot of Gill in there here it is again.

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I cleaned the shell but there is no date not on the 303 nor on the shot gun shell the place that I do testing is where I live before it became an estate it was a farm and by the way I'm still looking for their rubbish dump and no I don't own the estate LOL (wish that I did)

All the best PS will be going to the beech tomorrow weather permiting
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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #433 on: January 28, 2011, 12:00:11 am »

Hi Xavier,

God bless Great

P.S I do not have any questions because you answered all of them yourself Funny

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #434 on: January 28, 2011, 12:20:43 am »

AHHH... You have a PI machine! Sorry I hav not been following the tech side of the discussions too closely. Makes sense now.
Thanks Xavier.....now get of your behind and go to hunt some more....
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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #435 on: January 28, 2011, 05:18:27 am »

Xavier,

Gill is a popular name in England... I do not think any of my family was involved in the Boer war, but you never know.... I will go through them and look....
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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #436 on: January 28, 2011, 04:49:09 pm »

you only say that because you know that you have to live here with us LOL just pulling your leg mate.
well did not go detecting today as I was working on a coil calculator (spiral coil) and I wanted to get it working (and I did) so I may go tomorrow if the weather holds up and by the looks of things I think that it will be quite a nice day to go out.

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #437 on: January 29, 2011, 08:00:16 am »

Now what is this about spiral coils? Huh?

You seem to have your hand in everywhere Mad

I am going to make some panaramio movies today for my website..... So will see how they turn out Funny

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #438 on: January 29, 2011, 08:10:33 am »

Hey, Peter, I see you got your Ace 250. How do you like it? Has it lived up to your expectations?

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	Re: Detecting in South Africa « Reply #439 on: January 29, 2011, 11:07:17 am »

Hi GD,

Yes I have got my Ace back Wink

It is a fantastic machine to have.... Although as you know, In South Africa we do not have nickels and dimes etc.... so the display does not work the way intended by Garrett.... In fact all our new currency shows up as iron.... which in the USA is generally scrap Funny

The only part of the display that shows correctly here is the Pulltab, gold, and silver.... But other stuff is also found on those areas... so it is difficult.... but I am getting the hang of it.... One thing I find is that it chews batteries..... And is intermittent when it reaches the last two bars on the battery indicator..... I am also battling but getting better at the pinpointing Great

But on a whole, I am loving this machine.

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