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  1. fantastic work mate!! Got to be happy with that, but also confused
  2. Hi JW The area I work is mineralised ground, I can get away with High Yield/ Normal that's usually my go to when I start. I auto ground balance with the ferrite, but I should check the ferrite balance more often. I try to keep a clean smooth sweep action, I didn't use the swing arm at first but i did last time i went out and it does make detecting easier. I have tried steves insanely hot settings, bit odd at first to be "in the dark" i wouldn't detect like that all the time but maybe on mullock heaps? Your a champion JW thanks heaps for the help, i cant wait to get out this weekend and get on the hunt
  3. G'day Mitchel, Thanks for the advise, I have thoroughly researched the area I am detecting in and I have found gold there. I just wanted to get advise on settings and adjustments as wanted to get some confirmation on what I was doing and where I needed help. I didn't want to know your "patches" Thanks all for the info guys.
  4. Thanks Wes, I will search around a bit more. Thanks JW Sweet link, I have read some of phasetech's posts but I hadn't checked his site through properly. Very helpful mate!!! Cheers
  5. Thanks all. I really appreciate everyone's input here!! I am confident now that i know what to do in field regarding adjusting and setting up my machine I usually run in "normal" "high Yield" when starting in a new area, maybe your right I haven't walked over smaller pieces yet but i honestly doubt that. I think its more to do with me and getting my "ears in tune" to faint signals. I will put all this into practise this weekend!!! And yes Fred, I am in Australia my hunting grounds are in Victoria's World Famous, "Golden Triangle" Just one more thing..... When you are setting the volume, should the target volume be higher than the volume limit? Eg, target volume: 12 volume: 8 or have i got that backwards?
  6. Cheers JW, That's just what I was looking for , I appreciate your help. Thanks man!!
  7. Thanks again Steve, I will stick to what you recommend and keep using the ferrite ring. My only other concern is.... I'm just worried when I'm out that I am not picking up the smaller pieces.... I have only found 1 piece so far, it was 2..5g at about 2-3 inches max depth and it screamed at me, I couldn't miss it!! Maybe I just need to get more confident tuning my ear to the faint repetitive breaks in threshold. Sometimes I just worry I am digging at ground noise and second guess things... Time and experience will hopefully fix these bugs for me.... Thanks again for your input, I really appreciate it mate!!
  8. Hey PhaseTech Thanks for the reply mate, I have always used the ferrite but I wasn't 100% if that I should be doing the walk and sweep method as well. All good now mate, I was doing it right but confirmation builds confidence in the field.
  9. Hey STEVE!!!! I have read heaps of your posts, Amazing work mate!! Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply to me. I will go through the above links you provided and I'm sure that will clear a lot of things up for me. Good luck with your "mission" and I look forward to your future posts
  10. Sorry Fred, You mentioned "tuning your ears" for small sized gold. If I have my machine setup in HY/NORMAL, sens: 6, smoothing off, will that pick up small sized gold? I understand you have to listen for the faint breaks in threshold but is there a settings combination that focuses more on smaller gold?
  11. Thanks Fred I usually do the figure 8 pattern with the ferrite but I wasn't 100% if that's all that needed to be done. So, if I have this right.... You can either do the "walk and sweep" or The "figure 8 pattern with ferrite" They are 2 different techniques to GB. Thanks again,much clearer now and reassures me I am correctly setting up my machine.
  12. Hi All I was hoping some of you might be able to clear somethings up for me please. When you GB, Do you do the "walk and sweep" method and then "ferrite balance"? or Can you only pick one method? IF only one method allowed, then how do you decide which one to use? Also, is there any "list" so to speak of showing different gold modes and ground types combinations to help know what depths and sizes you are targeting? Eg, HY/Normal = ? Hy/Difficult = ? Hy/Severe = ? General/Normal = ? General/Difficult = ? General/Severe = ? ExtraDeep/Normal = ? ExtraDeep/Difficult = ? ExtraDeep/Severe = ? I have found "info" regarding settings for large deep nuggets but what if I also wanted to check for small shallow gold? What settings would suit small, shallow bits? Sorry to ask so much in one go :)
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