Headphones “Care and Feeding”

Headphones Care and  Feeding I’ve owned so many pairs of underwater phones that I”ve lost count.  Not many have survived—some were not great quality but many  stopped working due to my  own neglect.  Here are some of the simple methods I've learned to get longer life...

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Legend Beast Mode Full Sequence

Legend Beast Mode Full Sequence The more I use this mode, the more impressed with it I am.  It allows for very high Sensitivity settings—producing amazing depth on small targets.  The audio is also very descriptive although it takes some getting used to.  This is a...

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Reading the Beach 101

SOME MORE TIPS FOR THE UPCOMING SUMMER SEASON IN THE DRY SAND .... I found a great article on the Treasure Coast blog the other day and I want to share with you here... Many of us take winter getaway vacations to warmer climates, and many times we bring along our...

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Minelab Manticore Deep Silver Settings

Minelab Manticore Deep Silver Settings All Terrain High Conductors Recovery Speed = 2 Ferrous Limits = Upper 7 (to start with)...... and Lower 3 Ferrous Volume = 2 Volume = 25 (Wired KOSS QZ99 phones) Nothing notched..... nothing Disc'd out Discrimination Pattern =...

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A Few Notes on the Minelab Manticore 15″ Coil

Finally got hold  of this coil for the Minelab Manticore and had it out for a few spins .  You  could say that my experiences with the 15" NOX coil gave me the knowledge base  to begin  my comparisons with.  The NOX 15--was a good good, deep coil but chattered  in...

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3 Minelab Manticore Tips

3 Minelab Manticore Tips 1/ Where you are having trouble stabilizing the  unit—go to one of  the modes  that has a  lower frequency weighting.  (A/T High Conductors, A/T Trash Reject, Beach General).  These are more stable. They also work well at bringing up targets ...

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Minelab Manticore: Hunting Iron-Infested Sites

Minelab Manticore “Degraded” Responses Learning a new machine is probably easier if you start with your “ideal” signal and work backwards from there.  This way when you have something that is a poor response but has some of the elements of a good one—you are more...

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Minelab Manticore Beach Treasure Hunting

The Minelab Manticore is a beach gold hunters dream.  It has great depth in both fresh and salt water and offers you a wide range of overall settings, audio options and frequency weightings to suit your beach hunting preferences.  It's important to learn what this...

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Minelab Manticore Settings and Beach Hunting Methods

Decided to take the Minelab Manticore out for a late season one hour hunt at a heavily worked beach. This was a land hunt and I focussed on those areas which were not the actual beachfront but back where beachgoers would be getting sorted for the walk to the parking....

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Manticore Care and Feeding: Charge System and Co-Axe Jacks

Minelab Manticore Care and Feeding Charge System The Minelab Manticore has is a pretty solid charge system although the actual cables have a limited life. Oxidization is your worst enemy. Second are iron filings. When you see that the charge won’t start or complete,...

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A Few Notes on the Nokta / Makro Legend’s “M3” Mode

2. Multi 3 (M3) has been added to PARK and FIELD modes. This mode is more heavily weighted towards the low frequency response of the Legend (4 and 10 kHz) It’s Ideal for humid, wet and/or conductive soils. It eliminates the moisture in the soils which can cause...

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Recognizing Bottle Caps with the Nokta Legend

Recognizing Bottle Caps with the Nokta Legend No detector--even a sophisticated one like the Nokta / Makro Legend will take the place of basic skills and bottlecap responses are a good demonstration of why this is.  I see one prominent “YouTube” personality who hears...

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Clive’s 20 kHz Nokta Makro Legend Gold Settings

Clive’s 20 kHz Nokta Legend Gold Settings. Here is an example of how using basic skills and an understanding of the various target types can improve  your success with the Nokta Legend at bottlecap and foil--laden sites. This is a setting that shows what the Nokta...

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A Few Notes on the Nokta / Makro Legend

A Few Notes on the Nokta / Makro Legend by Clive James Clynick The first thing I noticed about the Legend was it’s processing. Like the Anfibio—this processing makes for super clean audio in iron or dense trash. With the Legend however, this processing is fast and...

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3 Good Gold Testers

Want to learn to find gold among trash?  Here's how to develop your skills.  From left: 1/ A solid gold target or dense, round foil.  These respond in a unique way--soilid, clean and with a narrow meter reading.  What you want is something that does not change that...

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Some Silver with the Legend

Some Silver with the Legend There are guys up here who specialize in hunting in the woods. They find a ton of silver by doing detailed research and knowing what to look for in the forest. I spotted some old trees beside a river and decided to give it a try. The Legend...

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My Anfibio Dense Trash Gold Method

Im still writing about the Anfibio because I love this detector.  It's signal  tone is so  clean, it's ID so accurate that Im going into parks I've worked for 40 years and picking out the gold.  Here's how I do it.  I favor the elliptical KR24 coil.  This coil is like...

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Nokta Makro Legend, First Look…

Nokta Makro Legend, First Look... -very, very nice build quality—very solid feel but much lighter than the Anfibio. Wand telescopes in and out much more cleanly. Coil is a tiny bit heavier than the AF28 to accommodate the MF winding. -overall a nicely balanced...

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TOP 8 MINELAB EQUINOX BEGINNER MISTAKES

TOP MINELAB EQUINOX BEGINNER MISTAKES (I know ‘em, cause I’ve made ‘em...) 1/ Never using the cross sweep to determine how consistent a signal is. This results in a lot of elongated / micro targets that sound good in one direction getting dug up. 2/ Never using...

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Minelab Equinox Tip of the Week # 8: “Resolution”

Minelab Equinox Tip of the Week # 8: “Resolution” One thing that makes the Minelab Equinox challenging to get used to for hunters that are coming from a simpler platform is the amount of detail that you hear and see on the meter.  In the manual this is termed...

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Minelab Equinox “Tip of the Week #4”

Selecting and Using Differently Weighted Modes 4/ Try alternating between both high and low weighted search modes. Each has a different way of responding to targets and the ground. High frequency weighted modes such as “Park 2” and “Beach 1” will have a “bitty” and...

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Book Excerpt: “Anfibio Dense Iron Methods”

Anfibio Dense Iron Methods (Excerpt) ... an important tool is to just slow the coil down as you make your ID’ing pass. What this does is it changes the ratio of the detector’s processing power versus the amount of data from the ground, iron and targets it needs to...

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Minelab Equinox: Tip of the Week #3

3/ Gain, Recovery Speed and Iron Bias all affect one another. Try and get a feel for how each changes the way target sounds come in. This takes time and practice. Running 2 Tone will help here too. Try running each one at full--then minimum--with the others at preset....

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Minelab Equinox Tip of the Week #2

"Try running Two-Tone for starters. This will help you to get a feel for the Minelab Equinox’s signal tone and how quality responses sound. Remember--the more peaked a signal tone is—the more distinct from the ground your target is."  For more Minelab Equinox Tips,...

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Minelab Equinox “Tip of the Week”

A high gain detector that includes high frequencies like the Equinox tends to sound off loudly on small targets. These may or may not be round and solid. A good way to check them is to use the cross sweep to test the consistency. Where you see a dramatic change in...

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A Couple of Notes on Nokta Makro Anfibio Multi

A Couple of Notes on Nokta Makro Anfibio Multi At any given time I have around fifteen detectors on hand. They all do different things. Of them them all however, one stands out. This is the Anfibio. Im continually impressed by what a well made, well designed great...

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Book Excerpt: Equinox Operating Characteristics:

Book Excerpt: Equinox Operating Characteristics: Extreme High Gain. These detectors all have what borders on gold field capability--responding to very small targets.  Their modulated audio acts to make these small objects sound bigger.  As well, though some iron can...

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Want to Find Gold? Know Your Junk!

Its gotten a lot harder to find gold at land detecting sites.  One thing that's helped me is testing.  I test every detector to determine: 1/ How they respond to foil / gold range targets. 2/ How some of the various targets read on the meter. While there will never be...

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Two Rare Birds

From top GQA2 and a CS6PI both in BHID cases boards shielded on all sides.  These are great cases rock solid and no condensation. cjc

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Quite a Big 22K Emerald Ring Today

Setting is 7.3 gr. 22K.  Spot where a nice band came up last year--it has the numbers--lots of high end cars in the parking, chest deep--still has the numbers but lost items are not so likely to be found. cjc

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“Why I like Bottlecaps…”

Please hold your hate mail and hear me out.... I like bottle caps because of what they teach. A normal signal--such as dime only teaches you the bare basics. You hear a tone, see a meter reading and dig. It would be great if that was all there was to success with a...

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How Many Target Types Do You See?

I see way too many new hunters who hope to find some gold but think it's the first thing they are going to find..sorry bad news--its not   In most conditions, random digging is not going to do much for you.  While its good to dig a lot of targets, the key is to...

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Book Excerpt: 2/ The Anfibio’s Strengths: Audio

Book Excerpt: 2/ The Anfibio’s Strengths: Audio Every Nokta / Makro detector I try seems to have better, cleaner, more informative audio than the last. The Anfibio is also what would be termed a “high bias” detector in that when you learn to listen for extension in...

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A Few Notes on the Notka / Makro Anfibio

I like this detector's raw, powerful signal tone.  This combines with its super fast processing to give you a lot of target information--especially in dense iron.  This makes simple basic target tests--like using the cross sweep and pinpoint mode to check signals much...

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A Couple of Reviews…

Clive's books are a treasure trove of information! They open up a whole new dimension to the Equinox. I have all of them. DH ..a review... ...the two nox books are just what the new nox owner needs. I got my nox back in march 2018 and feel only now that I now how to...

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From the “War Room” A Few Big Coil Tuning Notes

My CTX had been in the shop for quite a while--it had the old config and leaked more than once.  One bulkhead, one set of clips and two lithium cells later she was still drinking brine.  Thanks to  Minelab I've just gotten a like new machine and am very excited and...

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My First Big Minelab Equinox Find: 34.9 gr. 18K Bracelet

Proceeds of a brutal trip--sick half the time. Bracelet is 18k 34.9 gr--a lunker. Also a couple of small bands one 22k and some silver. Kept at it though and had some luck with the Minelab Equinox--running in my 2 Tone "Pulse" mode. Also--I run at "19" Sens--seems to...

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Some Gold from the Last Few Years

...quite a few actually.  During that period I used the CZ20, the Dual Field, The Barracuda, the Goldquest, Sovereign, and more recently the CTX3030.   If I had to pick a favorite it would be the Dual Field. Good Luck Detecting! cjc

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Some Silver from the Last Few Years

Some of the better ones "little nickels" (a few Edward and Victoria) and some favorites including a Standing Liberty and my one Seated coin a half dime.  Holed or not I will take it.... cjc

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Some Deep Coin Methods for the Equinox and Anfibio

Its unbelievable what these new super fast machines like the Equinox and Anfibio Multi can do at the old sites.   Anywhere you have old, original ground that's produced before is worth "having another crack at" with one of these machines.  I've had good results with...

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The Early Days…

My first few gold finds (around 1981 with the Eagle 2--later XLT and CZ5), The signet "C" no less was my first gold-- got with a buddy's Garrett Deepseeker --state of the art at the time.  Then I bought the 6DB. The big sparkly white one  on the right also started it...

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A Review…

Clive your 2 books are Excellent and well worth the $15 bucks a piece. I have dug a hell of a lot of GOLD with your advice. More then the $30 I spent. Good, informative reading, Tinfoil –  

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Some Gold: Equinox, CTX and Excalibur / WOT

Still learning with the Equinox but getting better and better results.   About 8 of these are Equinox finds.  The high frequencies in the mix bring up a lot of ground noises and small micro conductors.  It's a good consistency checker though especially when you learn...

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Securing Your Coils for Travel.

Seeing so many horror stories (and pictures) of damaged coils these day thought I would post this.   Even the trunk of a car can be a dangerous place for a coil with stuff being knocked around.  This is a good way to protect your coil once and for all.  Take a length...

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Some Gold with the Equinox

Not a bad haul--1.9 gr. pendant 14k, 8.3 gr. band 18k 4.2 gr. band 14k, and a 14k men's ring with a little rock 7 gr.   Using an "undertune" B2 system with 2 tone to search (very lively--almost like a pulse) and 50 tone to confirm some targets.  A tip: I have not...

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Gold 2 as a Beach or Pasture Mode for the Equinox

This is an excellent mode (G2) for using the Equinox's speed and bias to pick out clean metal amongst alloys and iron. I run it with some disc (to +6) to stabilize and use the cross sweep to determine how an object relates to the surrounding ground.  (This disc...

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The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide: Book Reviews

...a few more Minelab Equinox Book Reviews... I’m so excited about this new Minelab metal detector, I’m a newbie, and your “An Advanced Guide”, Equinox series is filled with readable and understandable information and instructions, you’ve made my day!  KC Great 2nd...

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An Indian Head and Two Wheats

IH is 1898 two Lincons 1919 and a 10 K GF with sterling band from down at the same level.  Quite a good hunt for a heavily worked site although some silver from that era would have been nice.  

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CTX in Tadpole 4

So this is not a find to shake the earth but where it's from makes it a biggie for me. We have a truck grove here that even Victorian stuff comes out of.   It's hunted to death but there's a lot of iron.   Ran Tadpole 4 with Ghost as a checker and right were I had...

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The Equinox in Aluminum Trash-Laden Sites

I recently got a note from an AUS buddy who asked: " have been working a site for the last year, it's a  site that's had hundreds of people camping weekly from the 1850's to 1960's. I have managed to clean out hundreds of silver coins along with 40 silver rings. I...

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A Couple of Minelab Equinox Basics

Saw a new Equinox 800 user asking for some solid basics to get him started.  While these ideas are hardly specific to the Equinox--they apply much more to this type of a high-gain  low-conductor-sensitive machine like the EQ. -Listen for the more solid, centered...

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Book Excerpt: “Equinox Accuracy and Skill Building”

16/ Accuracy and Skill-Building with the Minelab Equinox I can’t say enough about the importance and value of learning some theory and basic skills.  These form a “template” upon which all later learning about accuracy and site-specific applications can be ordered. ...

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2016 Gold

Kind of old news but a good picture.  Cross is 14k 18.9 gr.  Whilte gold lunker is also 14k 18.5 gr.   Try my pre-hunt mantra--"big heavy gold--big heavy gold..." clivesgoldpage.com

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Adaptability and Versatility with the Minelab Equinox

In the Caribbean this week --really having to work for my gold here with a number of pros working the same sites.  I feel very lucky to have had some good teachers who showed me how important it is to be versatile.  Ive done some pulse hunting in the deep low...

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Some Minelab Equinox Gold-Hunting Tips

  The first thing I would point to is coil control.  With this detector--coil control is the activator of all the other target info coming in.  When you learn to use the Equinox coil to perform tests (sweep direction, length, speed) the results will be there in...

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A Few Shoreline Tips

I'v e been looking around for some really solid advice to put into a post and what seems to come to mind is to recognize that a detector does not "punch down" through the ground to detect metal.  What it does is to separate ground and interference from metal.  When...

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Signal Balancing Big Coils

Special Delivery of a WOT! Been looking around for one of these for quite a while got great service and deal from Serious Detecting in MI. Every time Ive sold a WOT it becomes clear that another one needs to be gotten. This is the coil that taught me about signal...

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Keeping Your CTX 3030 in Top Shape

Couple of things I've learned the hard way: 1/ Any rotating of the coil on it's bracket causes the hardware to wear. This might not be evident but it is happening. Once the pigtail wears and breaks --the coil cable is not far behind. If you see this happening try and...

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…A satisfied customer…

I have purchased virtually every book that Clive has written. All have paid for themselves many times over. These are not rewritten user manuals, these are well written books that teach you what questions to ask, and teaches you how to answer them. A good critique of...

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Minelab Equinox–Simplified: Beginner Skill Building

Minelab Equiniox--Simplified     ...a few points that I found to be central to skill building with the Minelab Equinox. 1/ Stay away from 50 tones to begin with—especially with Sens over “20”--too many sounds.  Later on, 50 Tones can help you to learn how to...

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Review: “The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide”

The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide Excerpts from JR'S full review... Both books in his Equinox series are in 110-120 page range and small standard format of 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Don’t be fooled by the small number of pages. A lot of very specific Equinox information...

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Announcing: “The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide.”

Announcing: “The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide.” By Clive James Clynick Our postal workers here in Toronto have been ordered back to work—clearing the way for me to begin a full-on book launch of the new one: ”The Minelab Equinox: An Advanced Guide.” Thanks to...

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New! The Minelab Equinox: “An Advanced Guide”

Here's the new one... Clive James Clynick is the author of some 22 previous detector “how-to” manuals, numerous articles and product reviews. In this detailed and informative book he explains the Minelab Equinox’s ground breaking technology and how it can help you to...

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Book Excerpt: “Surface Hunting”

Artifacting and Surface Hunting I thought I would include an appendix with some information on surface hunting in order to impart some general “treasure awareness” to my readers.  Surface hunting is not (for most of us) about finding arrowheads although that may be...

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A Minelab Equinox Tip

While  my first Minelab Equinox book “…From Beginner to Advanced” suggests that you use a couple of tester to get the hang of looking for solid middle range signals, this same kind of testing is also valuable to teach “hand to eye to ear.”  By this I mean the ability...

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Some CTX and Equinox 800 Gold and Silver from Last Week

Class ring up front 11 gr. 10k next to it 6.7 gr. 18 k back row some 2 point somethings 14 and 18k and assorted silver and glasses. Mostly with the CTX and some with the Equinox 800the conditions required both accuracy and coverage--Im normally a pulse hunter.  Did a...

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Book Excerpt: “Old School Wisdom”

2/ A Few Maxims--and the Wisdom Behind Them I recently asked a top local hunter for any tips that might go into my next book.  He replied: “Get yourself a big box of Q-Tips and clean all the wax out of your ears so you can hear the deep ones...”  Thanks--I wish it...

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Last Weeks Loot Minelab Equinox 800 and “Cuda.”

Had some luck with the Minelab Equinox and Cuda last week. The Equinox is a great edge cherry picker--gets right in amongst the caps and pins. Trick is to recognise the junk first--especially those "cap patterns."  Cuda is a great workhorse deeper than any VLF. A tip...

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A Quick Pulse Hunting Primer

When you go to the lower uSc ranges--its necessary to do certain thingss to mediate the micro conductors. This may involve coil control (determining the solidiy) using the cross sweep and multiple passes, or doing some "foot digging" to make sure the target is not a...

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Quite a Nice Minelab Equinox 800 Find Today

Scored a band today 18k 9.6 gr. with the  Minelab Equinox 800 using Gold 2 / confirming with Park 2 A/M. set as "User Mode" Qiite like this sytem G2 is super deep and tells the size well, P2A/M tells the consistency and also makes a nice search mode in iron or where...

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3 Cudas

Best gold-optimized pulses ever made IMHO, 9v, stable, black sand beast.... All working-I'll be buried with them... cjc clivesgoldpage.com

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…a satisfied customer–thanks!

I have purchased virtually every book that Clive has written. All have paid for themselves many times over. These are not rewritten user manuals, these are well written books that teach you what questions to ask, and teaches you how to answer them. A good critique of...

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Book review- Water Hunting: Secrets of the Pros Volume 2

Book review- Water Hunting: Secrets of the Pros Volume 2 I recently had the opportunity to read Clive Clynicks latest book called Water Hunting: Secrets of the Pros Volume II. If you have ever read any of Clive's books you will understand that he is a very passionate...

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Book Excerpt: “Coverage”

Coverage As touched upon above--some sites just need to be covered.  The trade-off here is that the large coils which cover ground best, are usually heavy, and exhausting to drag though the water or swing.  With proper preparation (stretching beforehand, using a back...

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Book Excerpt: “CTX 3030 “Trade-offs”

II/ CTX 3030 “Trade-offs” As with any detector, getting the best performance from the CTX requires that the operator understand and mediate a number of “trade-offs”.  These consist of a choice and one or more ways (adjustments or method changes) that allow you to...

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Book Excerpt: “CTX 3030 Gold Skills”

1/ Spuriousness and Distorted Responses In some ways the CTX is highly accurate--other not. a/ Target Size. The CTX’s high Gain circuitry acts to make all targets sound bigger.  This sometimes makes it hard to identify objects that are too small to be of value.  The...

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CTX 3030 Book Excerpt: “Learning from Adversity”

27/ “Learning from Adversity” One thing that’s helped me to understand this detector is learning what it won’t do.  When you hope to acquire and identify the smallest, weakest signal out there –in the worst, most inconsistent environment, having this mental...

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CTX 3030 Book Excerpt: “Using Gold “Checkers”

9/ Using Gold “Checkers” You could say that the preceding information about: -the target acquisition properties of Automatic Sensitivity. -how closed screen programs need a delicate sweep. …and… how not all target sounds on the CTX represent the total object that's...

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Discriminate Problems

8/ Discriminate Problems I find most of my stuff going in behind hunter who want to speed things up by relying on discriminate mode. The reason for this is because I’ve learned that any discriminate feature is basically at the mercy of conditions.  For example, there...

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Book Excerpt: Multiple Machines: “Matching the Hatch”

3/ Multiple Machines: “Matching the Hatch” The advantages of running multiple machines is a subject I've touched upon in previous books.  Since then I've learned a lot more about how matching the strongest features of a given detector can help you to act upon what you...

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Book Excerpt: Trenches and Gullies

Trenches and Gullies Often where you have high general sand levels, the only productive  ground will be at the bottom of any trenches or gullies.  This can be only a six-step “swath”sometimes running along an entire beach.  As well, the actual shape of these trenches...

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“Understanding Edge Changes”

Thought I would dig this illustration out of the new book and post it for those who want to sharpen their shoreline observational skills.   These are the ways that a sidewall can change and when you know to watch for  them it's possible to predict strip-outs--when new...

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