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  1. If the wife won't pay for the trip you should by OK as meals are provided in this add. 🤣 .....LINK.... https://www.akaugold.com/pricing
  2. A YouTube Link of find. ......YouTube LINK..... The two bits fit together perfectly I wonder if he hit it with his pick.
  3. "It weighs 4.6 kilograms and that includes 2.6 kilograms of gold." It must of been riddled with gold. My 3½ Kilos bit only had 16+ oz and it was 3.5 kilos and he got nearly 84 oz 😢 It remines me of the early days when big nuggets were released to the media near public holidays (School, Easter and Xmas or New detector release.) those were the days.
  4. From Victoria Channel 9 News. "oh wow, the wife's going to be happy with that." ......Link.....
  5. Bonanzas gold finds in Victoria from the 1850s. The following is from ProspectingAustraliaForum ...........Link........
  6. Not all long range devices are fakes. My G&J device works all the time but I don't sell them but do hire them for less than $1,000 a month. 🤑 Go to my LINK .............. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hoodwink ....Click HERE....
  7. Steve Quote from the link above sums it up from my experience too. ............. "I do know one thing. If you are using normal size coils, going to smaller coils almost always gets more gold. Going to bigger coils? Not so much. No matter how you slice it big nuggets are very rare." ........... But it could be a nugget of a lifetime.
  8. The 1 gm that the 25 or 24" coil could locate would of been found by the 14" coil if it went over it.
  9. If you are located in Australia have a look at OziExplorer Web site. It does everything anyone needs. https://oziexplorer4.com/au/ I have used it for 20+ years initially shareware it was so good got a reg version soon after. Used for bushwalking and prospecting (keep all my nuggets locations and maps with it.) By the way it is able to do any country.
  10. "Quote'' GC your not wrong about Garmin manuals, I started out in GPSs with the Magellans back in late 80s, early 90s. They were more user (read mug😉) orientated manuals and operation. But the Garmin Rino like Strick has found are magic for knowing where your mates are, anyway was the Rino that swung me over to Garmin. Those words are the same as mine. I got their first 2 channel multiplex Magellan's (very limited back then till they went to 8 channels version) and upgraded till they ceased manufacture of their platinum model. When the Garmin Rhino first came out, I got 4 in a two for one deal for Carol and Me with one spare and one for my oldest son. Their features covered all my prospecting, bushwalking and kayaking needs and as you say it bonus of seeing were your partner is located and not having to carry an additional two-way radio. I even got a RV GPS for my 4WD and Van since then.
  11. Thanks for the update. Keep us in the loop with how she likes the hobby and her finds.
  12. The super magnet is a time save, but they will not work on gold😀. The nugget I had disappear was never found. The situation was a signal about 5 gm strength in a large conglomerate bolder about 8 ft high. The target was at about eye level. After trying to remove it with a geo hammer it went flying. Spent 2 hours gridding the area around the rock, no non ferrous target was found even though very little rubbish in the area. 😭
  13. In a spot that my mate got a 2 oz nugget near a tree root. I got a good signal near a tree. I was getting a good signal all round the tree. After a bit of digging things did not add up. going nearly 2 foot up the trunk of the tree I zoomed in on the location. The tree had grown over a horseshoe and completely covered it with bark.
  14. Today it's 50 days and tomorrow it will be 7 weeks. 😒
  15. Well Jeff this Geof with one F not 2 like you. It looks like you need me to rescue your single nugget from all that junk attacking it. 😀
  16. Do you use a clear lacquer to keep them from oxidizing again.
  17. Junk has it benefits..........In a worked patch it tells you that they have not got all the targets. In a heavily rusty junk area it tell you that most people have walked away and that beloved old VLF can come out of retirement and get the larger nuggets like it used to get when detecting was in its infancy. When hunting virgin desert areas, it let you know some one has thought the area may have been worth while. Besides not getting a target for hours or days, it wakes you up again, and gets the concentration working at it's peak. But remember junk will beat you some times.
  18. Most of the time it is not a matter of how deep a PI or VLF goes or how small a nugget it can see. It is more about the ground you are detecting. You have VLF experience so to get or beat a small nugget a PI can match or exceed a VLF with a change of coil even if has to be smaller than a VLF coil. For medium coin size target a PI coil the same size will exceed the VLF in depth by ¼ to a ½ in most cases. The ground (location, mineralisation, depth, other rubbish targets (junk and hot rocks) and terrain will determine the best type of detector to use. As I mostly hunted for new patches in shallow ground in Victoria Aus. high mineral soils I found the Minlab SD series features were not worth changing from my VLF's it was not till I detected West Aus. gold fields that I changed to the Minlab GP series as the false hot rock signals there in 2003 onwards. So select a detector that suits the gold size in the location you will be in. By the way every new detector from some manufactures claim 20 to 50% more depth than the previous model but beware the are not using the same target as the previous model best size target. So it's a different ball game, but in a worked out spot/patch it may find nuggets that previous model was not good at.
  19. Doc said..... In gold country over here we are always searching out Old Timer diggings and looking for missed gold. Those sites are almost always productive but they are so trashy. The old timers threw all their scrap iron, cans, nails, everywhere. And some of those things are amazingly deep. Yes we all want discrimination. The old timer's junk won and I had to quit. 😭 It was not the large rubbish, they can be kick away but those millions of small bits with every swing.
  20. I am sure there is a few more members that had the same finds.
  21. Super impressive..........bbbbb but where are the long range detectors I can't see them.😁
  22. I don't use any, just squat so the knees are not near the ground.
  23. The Nugget Finder Sadie was a great coil I could not get it off of Carol even though I won it. Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:47:03 +1000 Hi Geoff Thank you for entering our “Name The Coil” competition. Unfortunately your entry was not the winner however it was one of 5 finalists. As a finalist you have won yourself an 8 x 6 mono. Please supply a mailing address and your coil will be sent out within 2 weeks. Thank again for your entry Regards Rohan Johnson
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