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Why only take 2 detectors for backup.😉

Garrett Deepseeker ADS It gave me my best day, detecting gold 19oz in the morning and 7.5oz after lunch when I took my Wife out to the spot. The largest nugget was 7.5 oz found first in the morning. On the jewellery and coins side learnt how to discriminate and found 100+ gold rings during its life time. It was very hard for most people to get the hang of it back in those days but I had to, just to keep up with the wife tally. The runner up detector was the 2 Minelab GP 3000 that I bought when I retired back in 2003. It found heaps more gold than the Garrets as I was able to spend more time detecting and was able to live for 4 or 5 months a year in West Australia gold fields.

I take 2 PI The wife carries and uses one and I the other. As for backup if mine breaks down she has to give me hers😁 if hers breaks down she has to REST till its starts to get dark and we return back to camp. This works out OK for me as I only have to carry ONE detector.🤪

Then you would not left any gold for me. JR the Whites 6100 GoldMaster was great to see again that was the first Detector I bought for me. The Garrett ADS was my hand me down from the wife that I got for her new. She hated it and I had to get her a Whites 6000 but it got me away from dredging into detecting . Gerry those early top line detector cost less than a good coil these day.

I thought the Garretts 1979 model Deepseeker ADS 7.5" coil was a DD coil that was used to pinpoint our targets. Found this link from 1982 but they don't mention DD coils. Good read for how it was back then with the advertising.😀 ...........LINK 1982...........

There is a few amazing shapes JP, in those photos.

To be fair this unit is only 8gm or 1/4 of an ounce of gold. If it is worth diving then equipment is cheap compared to your health.

The crumb are more plentiful but you have to waste time digging them. Shotgun's pellets sound very close to crumbs and you have to get hundreds of crumbs to make an ounce, but their big brother could be hiding close by. 😀Don't leave big brother lonely by himself.😪

Found this old record of gold found in Victoria in 2004 before our first trip to West Aust gold field. Date Weight in gm Number per Weight Size Trip 1 Wednesday, 14 January 2004 1.6 gm 1 @ 37.6 gm trip 2 Sunday, 25 January 2004 1.8 gm 1 @ 6.4 gm 1 @ 6.1 gm trip 3 Wednesday, 11 February 2004 37.6 gm 1 @ 5.7 gm Wednesday, 11 February 2004 5.7 gm 2 @ 4.3 gm 1 @ 4.2 gm trip 4 Tuesday, 8 March 2005 0.1 gm 1 @ 3.0 gm Tuesday, 8 March 2005 0.2 gm 1 @ 2.6 gm Tuesday, 8 March 2005 0.6 gm 1 @ 2.5 gm Saturday, 9 April 2005 0.6 gm 1 @ 2.3 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.1 gm 2 @ 1.9 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.2 gm 1 @ 1.8 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.3 gm 1 @ 1.6 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.3 gm 1 @ 1.5 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.3 gm 2 @ 1.3 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.4 gm 2 @ 1.2 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.4 gm 3 @ 1.0 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.4 gm 5 @ 0.9 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.6 gm 1 @ 0.8 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 0.7 gm 4 @ 0.7 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 1.3 gm 7 @ 0.6 gm Wednesday, 9 March 2005 4.2 gm 4 @ 0.5 gm Thursday, 10 March 2005 0.2 gm 9 @ 0.4 gm Thursday, 10 March 2005 0.4 gm 5 @ 0.3 gm Thursday, 10 March 2005 0.4 gm 12 @ 0.2 gm Thursday, 10 March 2005 0.5 gm 5 @ 0.1 gm Friday, 11 March 2005 0.2 gm Friday, 12 March 2004 0.9 gm Saturday, 13 March 2004 2.6 gm 118.1 gm Total Saturday, 13 March 2004 3.0 gm Sunday, 13 March 2005 0.2 gm Sunday, 13 March 2005 0.3 gm Sunday, 13 March 2005 0.1 gm Sunday, 14 March 2004 0.5 gm Sunday, 14 March 2004 2.3 gm Monday, 14 March 2005 0.7 gm Monday, 15 March 2004 0.1 gm Monday, 15 March 2004 0.2 gm Tuesday, 15 March 2005 0.7 gm Wednesday, 16 March 2005 0.4 gm Wednesday, 16 March 2005 0.6 gm Wednesday, 16 March 2005 0.9 gm Wednesday, 16 March 2005 1.0 gm Wednesday, 16 March 2005 1.2 gm Wednesday, 17 March 2004 0.7 gm Wednesday, 17 March 2004 6.1 gm Thursday, 17 March 2005 0.2 gm Thursday, 17 March 2005 0.5 gm Friday, 18 March 2005 0.4 gm Sunday, 20 March 2005 0.2 gm Sunday, 20 March 2005 1.2 gm Sunday, 20 March 2005 1.3 gm trip 5 Monday, 11 April 2005 0.1 gm Monday, 11 April 2005 0.3 gm Monday, 11 April 2005 1.0 gm Monday, 11 April 2005 1.9 gm trip 6 Monday, 3 May 2004 0.9 gm Tuesday, 4 May 2004 1.5 gm Tuesday, 4 May 2004 6.4 gm Wednesday, 5 May 2004 0.2 gm Thursday, 6 May 2004 1.9 gm Thursday, 6 May 2004 2.5 gm Trip 6 Tuesday, 11 May 2004 0.5 gm Tuesday, 11 May 2004 0.6 gm Tuesday, 11 May 2004 0.9 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.2 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.1 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.2 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.2 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.4 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.4 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.8 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 0.9 gm Wednesday, 12 May 2004 1.0 gm Thursday, 13 May 2004 0.6 gm Thursday, 13 May 2004 0.6 gm Thursday, 13 May 2004 4.3 gm Thursday, 13 May 2004 4.3 gm Off to West Aust. On 4 JUNE 2004 2006 Vic-Nuggets.xls.doc

Joe I gave up when the hit $3 a pack of 50 now they are close to $50 but I know that gold finds are well in front of saved money unless you include cancer surgery that we might have had if we did not Quit. 🤑 but then only the good die young 😀

Or do you mean that sometimes a good day is completely turn upside down. 😁

Gerry on one trip to Queensland Aus. for a few weeks I found over fifty heavy gold rings most were 18 ct. Since my brother in-law had got 300+ rings before I got there I had to detect up to my waist in the saltwater. used my Garretts DeepSeeker as the 7" coil heavier and less buoyant than the larger 8" Whites coil and prevent the wife from using her Whites 6000 Coinmaster. I just remember that it was over a Easter Holiday period so had the advantage of the king tides as easter is based on the moon "Easter is traditionally celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (an approximation of the March equinox)"

The belt needs to be adjust to max but at least I got something to rest the detector on if I pull that one out of retirement😉

Simon, It was the first Goldmaster an Australian model (Not coinmaster eg 5000,6000) I think Jimmy “Sierra” had a cutdown version of it. Here is a photo of it that was taken 33+ years ago and the wife has a Whites 6000 Coinmater. I just noticed that we were both smoking back then but gave it up 30 years ago. The ear phones were top class that I put in a home made frame and the moving coil ear phones in a plastic holder.

While trying to keen up my record before I upgrade my computer, found this old receipt of refined gold (Panned Gold) that I cashed in to get a new Whites VLF detector. There was a bit short of 3 oz I am happy that I did not cash in any nuggets back then. The purity was as close as you can get to 92% when cleaned 91 grams but AUD $16.12 a gram was good but now it is AUD $82.36 but the price of a top detector has risen high than the gold price. PJ Williams Precious Metals.pdf

There must be heaps of falling stars. When you are out in the desert with no light pollution you can see a few every night. Ran out of likes mn90403

On one of my early West Australian trips we were camped out in the Desert sitting around the camp Fire and the sky lit up as a meteor (or maybe fallen space junk) went by. It sure made an interesting night for all of us.

Paul that is our secret weapon, you were supposed to keep that Quiet 🤐

Compass the first and only kayak I built was during 1972 I completed it just before I went to Papua New Guinea for nearly 7 years. I hope you do better than me as my departure from Australia prevented me from launching it. A workmate bought it and used in a local club as a training kayak and claimed it was fantastic. I now paddle a 5+ meter (17 ft) Carbon Kevlar Kayak. Please post a photo when you launch your canoe.

Lets hope it is available to put under the xmas tree, in years past it was the Easter Bunny that dropped the presents (or was that the nuggets😀)

" I was there about 3 hours, and only worked about a 5x20 foot area against the shore, but the targets were layered and plentiful!" It is very tempting to move on but that's a good haul. One of the old schools that I detected many years ago put me is the same boat as you. The school and village closed in the late 1950s. Back then us kids had free milk in small bottles with the then modern aluminium tops instead of the old wax cardboard tops. Due to atomic bomb testing in that era we had iodine tablets and took them with the milk. Of course we screwed up the tops and flicked them at each other. Back to junk targets you will know how much effort had to be done to extract the coins from that school.

Simon although most parts are made on site the materials to make them may beheld up at their source. Rohan was very sincere and accominating way back in 2006 when I had a problem with a 16" coil and have not had any reason to think he has changed since then. I believe the 12" will be the best size for prospecting and will be used almost as the goto coil, except for some of those tiny bits less than 0.01 gm bits.

You have displayed those silver finds spectacularly, I am really impressed with your layout.

One thing to remember that using the same Detector,Coil and Earphones to double the depth there has to be 64 times more power travelling through the Coil. My view is that the coils have to be more stable and sensitive, the feedback signal has to be amplified with a more stable and more powerful electronics. There is two main types of finding gold Fossicking (looking for tiny missed nuggets) on flogged ground, and prospecting for new ground for easy detectable nuggets and then grid,grid grid so you only leave the really hard ones for the fossickers to get. The future (well for gold anyway) is a detector that can get tiny nuggets deep and another that can cover a large area quickly and get shallow gold first with out wearing you out by carrying a heavy beast of a machine. I made my first pulse induction detector before 1985 that was before Eric Fisher detector hit the ground in Victoria Aus. it had great depth capabilities and could go deeper than our Garrets and Whites VLF detectors. This was well before Minelab made the SD2000 The big problem was although I could change the frequency and the delay time. It was useless for prospecting as the audible was like a “Geiger Counter” with a clicking rate change. This was impossible to use and cover ground fast enough to be practical in the goldfields but I did find by replacing the components with the latest technology parts I was able to improve its depth a bit.

This was done in the early 1980s and I know of quite a few prospector that did this and their prospecting partners dug up the ignored signal got a 32,36,50+ ounces that were only an inch or two deep. They were lucky they were sharing finds. My first nugget over an ounce was a 4oz sitting 2 feet from the edge of a sealed bitumen road and I though it was a coke can. I was having a look at a flogged surface patch and decided to have a look on the other side of the road see what was there. At the time my prospecting mate was a local policeman and was working to lunch time and both of us were planning to have a look for a new area. I took the 4oz into the Cop Shop and we used a scrubbing brush to clean it up a bit. Only got a 12 gm piece on the other side of the road.