afreakofnature

Merry Xmas! 🤣🤣

Thats impressive. wish it was smaller coil though.

Would you mind taking a few pics of what is in the Doug Stone “Gold Prospecting” book? I have the “metal detecting for gold in Australia” book by him but I was always curious what is in his “gold prospecting” book and I cannot find any copies here in the United States. I was just wondering if it gives locations in Australia or if it gives techniques or if it is actually just so some of the things that he says already in his big book. I see the latest edition is 1999/2000. For example when I was researching Jim Straight’s “Follow the Drywashers” I wanted to get all the editions to see what new information he might’ve given but in the end if you have editions 6, 7 or 8 they’re basically the same for metal detecting technique and information. Not putting that book down because it’s one of the best actually. You just don’t need each edition. Thanks 🙏

I like how there is a Playboy in that collection too 😊

Minelab is gonna record all your gold locations then sell that info to.....🤣

I was one of the enthusiastic ones but i guess i was delusional to think it might cost as much as what coils used to cost. Like around $500. But it is like Steve said, if we all say we will pay, they are watching. I am going to bank on research finding me more gold vs new equipment. It has worked so far and the SDC has found more than my Z, and it is $5000 dollars cheaper! Explain that one 🤣. Here, I’ll explain it. I’m not a pro nor do it for a living. I’m a hobbyist and go out on weekends until the ground is frozen, then I sit and wait. If I calculate out what that costs me per weekend (in unfrozen ground since at that point depth does not matter), it would be $50 a weekend for a detecting season (May-Oct, if i go every weekend). That is a gram of gold every weekend for one year to pay for it. If I can find a gram of gold every weekend as a hobbyist, i would be pretty stoked.

Saying it is reasonable based on other prices that also are not reasonable does not give it justification. Overpriced all the way around period. Unless you just have money to blow I guess.

Says USD right at the top

No not AU it is USD! At least according to the link posted

OMG! $1300! I think that I would rather use that money to take a trip to some awesome gold country and then TRY to find enough gold to pay for it 😂. Looks like I will be at then end of the pack to get one. I will wait, see what others think, watch some videos, etc...then if I like it, buy a used one for half price. 😂

You probably should’ve kept the Lucky seven nugget. Having gold around always seems to bring more gold around and with a lucky seven on it might’ve been a jackpot 😊😊

Look.....maybe the easy gold is gone, but I believe people think detecting is just gonna put gold in there pocket. I have said this many times before. Prospecting (detecting) is 85% research and 15% boots on ground. And in that 15% you have to learn how to use your equipment correctly and prospect correctly. Most new people fail first because they do not research and second they don't learn. Getting access to places to go and obtaining knowledge from others is not as easy as just going up and asking, you have to provide something. I worked 10 years forming relations with a family to be able to go on their land, now I have lifetime access. If you want to gain knowledge from an experienced prospector, you need to give up some of the research that you have did too. They might already know everything you researched but that begins the trust factor. Plus if you want to form relationships you have to show trust and not greed. One guy that I was detecting with (name will be left out) was showing me some ground after I made attempts to say we should go to where I researched, but after 4 days of getting next to nothing, we went to his spot and I found a patch within an hour! Instead of keeping it all to myself, I called him over and said I found a piece over here lets grid this out together. He said he had never done that before with another person. I just said we keep what we find, lets just get all the gold out! I would rather us both have fun together than one person getting left out. I think that a trust factor was formed there, I gave him all my research for that area in the end, mainly cause I wanted to see if more gold could be found and so that I could have a detecting buddy in the future too. In the end he also showed me exactly where he found an over ounce ripper, that's gotta be trust. I have a mining buddy where I live where both of us have shared researching responsibilities. Having two work at it has been even more rewarding than what I could do alone. We now have both lead each other to patches. Including one this fall that as a geologist I would have never expected gold to even be. Nuggets at the surface and not on bedrock..........just like the references said. BTW I have only started detecting maybe 6-7 years ago maybe less, prospecting though for 14-15.

Right on Lunk! I’d love to see that video. Gerry post a link! Unless it gives away too much information.

I think it would really pay dividends for you if you could have a chance to take one of Gerry's classes. You could have had that target out in no time when you learn the proper techniques instead of hauling that all back home. The faster you get targets out, the more ground you can cover thoroughly, which equals more gold!

I always see people saying this. How often do you have to change a drive belt? Do they go bad from just normal wear? I would think that they should last a long time, I mean the old chain and shaft drive ATVs never really wore out.

Thanks guys for the input on the 570! Initially that was what I was going for, then I got side tracked on ATVs. Was really looking at the Can-Am Outlander MAX XT. Its a 2 up machine but now I think I am going back to the RZR. It just sucks that these machines are almost the price of a small car and none of the dealers around here have any to test. I really want to ride on these like you would test drive out a car. I think in our area that everyone is buying so many of these kinds of toys (campers, etc.) that there are none around to look at or ride. Plus side, there might be a bunch of lightly used ones coming up for sale next year. LuckyLundy could you reply to your other threat at "Day Hunt At Rye Patch." I was hoping you might give a little review on your SDC coils. Thanks!

Glen being in CO do you find it has enough power? I really wanted to get a 570 but all my friends are saying I need to get some thing bigger engine wise like the 800. Or maybe it’s the 900 now I’m not sure. I thought that the 570 would do just as fine for dinking around and exploring. I’m not into sport/racing or going fast to tear shit up. I just don’t want to have two large adults in the machine not make it to the top of the hill LOL.

How do you find the sensitivity on the larger one compared to the stock and small one? I have seen next to no reviews on these coils anywhere. I’ll ask the silly question too, how does it compare with the Z?

Do you have the larger coils or just the small one?

What are you using for a black light? That one seems pretty powerful. They supposedly work real well for agates too.

That is so true. There was a claim around here along time ago that had a name “gold brings out the worst “I’ll never forget that claim name.

So Phrunt when do you want to start making these for folks and charging for the service? It’s probably the most professional looking plug I have seen so far. Granted I have not seen that many, just on the forums.

Most of my gold came from the SDC, my first real gold detector. Its my go to machine before the GPZ and still to this day it found my largest chunk! If the Z could get an 8” coil, I might finally sell it.

Gold’s all gone

Wow nice find for sure! That SDC is barely scratched 😄