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  1. 58 minutes ago, Ken Walls said:

    How you been doing Robert, was wondering where you went and how you have been doing.

    Hey thanks for asking. I'm still alive here in reno, but it's been a real rough couple of years. I've been focusing on my kids trying to supplement their education, tread water and so on and so forth. I'm dusting off my f75., I just bought the new 12-in coil , and will try to stop during my day whenever possible and get out my car and use it. It's not much, but it will scratch an itch a little bit

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  2. I'm trying to look for some people that have this detector and are using it for themselves and enjoying it. I think Steve is awesome and I love reading his posts and his experiences. But I'm wondering if all this is a lot of Garrett promotions? Was this the trip that you were on Steve? I can't really find any other forms talking about the detector. Doesn't matter much because I've sold everything I have I'm just wasting away dreaming about the day I could once again have freedom to look for gold.

  3. 13 hours ago, Tony said:

    and I have my first gold at about 1 gram like 1.5 foot deep.
    Sorry but a one grammer at 18” is never going to happen……ever. Not even the mighty 7000 will do this.

    I don’t want to sound confrontational but I have to call this out as it sets false hope for newcomers or people wondering why their unit only gets a one grammer at 8”.

    As you say “Don’t get caught up in the hype”.

     

    Hey earlier I want trying to offend you. Please see my other post. Not offense intended.

  4. 7 hours ago, Tony said:

    and I have my first gold at about 1 gram like 1.5 foot deep.
    Sorry but a one grammer at 18” is never going to happen……ever. Not even the mighty 7000 will do this.

    I don’t want to sound confrontational but I have to call this out as it sets false hope for newcomers or people wondering why their unit only gets a one grammer at 8”.

    As you say “Don’t get caught up in the hype”.

     

    Well I'm going to tell you 100%, you're absolutely wrong. My first gold that I ever found in my whole life was with my gpz 7000 at nearly two feet and it made a screaming sound as I got closer to it. And here's a picture and it's the only gold that I ever found. So flat out wrong about that Jack. Maybe you just need to learn how to use it to understand it's power.

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  5. I cant believe the way people are dissing the gpz 7000 on here. I have dreamed for ten years to find one, and I have my first gold at about 1 gram like 1.5 foot deep.

     

    I know its heavy... but Id carry it a thousand miles. Sayin its heavy is like saying you want an electric bicycle. I like to pedal my bike ...

     

    I mean... I cant wait to get back to what I am losing.

     

    But ....

     

    I have people in africa trying to buy my GPZ talking about how it would change their lives.

    I lived in China Nearly 18 years and buying my f75+ was a dream come true.


    Dont be caught up in the newest thing. Is there anything out there with more potential than the GPZ 7000?

    Dont get cought up in the hype.

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  6. On 7/12/2018 at 8:26 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

    It depends purely on the location and nature of the gold. In an area with nothing but fine gold a detector may find nothing where dredges, sluices, and even just pans succeed. Nuggets are the prerequisite for nugget detecting. Most dredgers get used to consistently finding gold and have a hard time with detecting, where you can go ages between finds.

    Legalities aside I would rather try and make a living with a dredge rather than a detector. It would not be a 1.5” dredge however, which I consider to be more like a gas powered crevice cleaner.

    this is different than what you said of your later when you're going to get rid of your dredging and stuff for only metal detecting. I'm trying to find out the best loose dry washer setup, and I keep coming across your conflicted feelings about quitting everything else but metal detecting

  7. On 3/12/2018 at 10:01 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

    Yeah, I am done with shovels into sluice boxes etc. Metal detecting is the only way I find gold from here on out. I spent decades doing all the dredging and other stuff. Great memories but been there, done that. Time to clear it all out.

    Just out of curiosity, a couple years later, are you still only detecting with metal detectors and no more dry washing?

  8. Hey everybody. I've been working my butt off to try to get ready to go find gold.Sometime seems like one step forward two steps back. A week and a half ago I was at the bottom of gold hill outside Virginia City, testing out the GPZ in the gold monster with my wife and kids, and when we put all the gear away I had my keys on the minelab vest, and stupidly locked them in the back of our car right at sun down. Being off the beaten path, and having to work had no choice but to smash my rear window to get the keys and get my family out of there. Just so happens that rear window is more expensive than my windshield at 500 plus dollars :-(.

    Had to look of finding a free spirit Odyssey 45-in tent for only $2,000 near San Diego. Went down and picked it up, only to find out that the so-called towing Springs that I thought I ordered, and we're actually tihuan springs for a golf, and not the towing Springs that I thought. My mistake ordering them, now my car sags, and I've got a cough up another $160 and change the Springs myself. Times money. To make things even better, on the way back through the Mojave desert my heater core went out. Fortunately it's got a CPo warranty, unfortunately I can't trust the local dealership so I have to drive to Sacramento to have the dealership fix it, luckily it's only 50 bucks. And that covers this sway bar bushings too which are bad.

    Yesterday I spent all day delivering doordash checking out Auburn and a little bit placer County. Forest Hill road and some other spots. Found an awesome mining store in Auburn. I like to get back today to metal detector it caught a land where I saw people excavating for a new home in placer County. I've got to work my butt off to pay off these bills, I hope I could get one or two hours.

    I had went to Cold Springs to get some Paydirt with my wife from the bedrock that was exposed. So far I found tons of iron. Bringing it home to our kitchen, where I spent about an hour and a half learning to pan for the first time. With a five bucket gallon, it took me about a good hour to find a good rhythm. Wow am I a slow panner:(

    I'm working on it, ordered some classifiers, and realized I need to get a sluice box or something to make that process go faster. I totally don't have any cash left to do that though...

    So I also wanted to figure out how to make my GPZ and gold monster operate better where there's tons of iron. Sitting in bed right now I was just trying to set my machine with Steve's super hot settings, which apparently were not as hot as the ones I was running, when the ultimate nightmare happened.

    Not even dressed, GPZ in my arms, I can see a gray line going down the center of the screen. Un freaking believable. I hardly used my GPZ yet. Not the hundreds of hours required. I've never dropped it I have no idea how this happened. Every free second of my day I try to spend looking for gold. there's no way I could afford to part with it for a couple months to send it to Australia. I'm hoping there's some way to have it fixed we're able to fix itself. Has anybody ever seen it a grey line in their display?

    Now my f75 LCD is worse than my GPZ, and my poor GPZ has a line through it... I never let it go in lower than  15-20°....

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  9. Hi everyone. Slowly building up our kit, Ill post another thread about it later on when I get a chance. Drivung Uber all around, stopping whenever i can at interesting places to detect.. I was wondering if anybody could help identify whether or not this is silver. It sets off my GPZ pretty well and I think I know where it could find a lot more. There's a lot of excavation going on around Reno which is exposing a lot of bedrock and other things haven't been seen for a long time. If this is silver, and there's a lot more is it worth any value? I'm pretty sure it's from ground that's never seen the light of day before. I picked it out of some veins /crevices in this huge buried volcanic rock type. I thought it was the type of iron before, but after thinking about it I think it might be silver. Maybe it's fine gold and crusted on it? I actually thought it was more rust so I took a picture of it.

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  10. 9 hours ago, geof_junk said:

    Rob I enjoy your post especially your photo of the kids be involved in prospecting. I included a photo of my youngest son taken years ago. He is now 48 years old and had a go with a metal detector, but got married and had 4 kids at a very young age. Married responsibilities and distant form gold areas prevented him taken up gold prospecting.

    The photo was taken in a very deep mine shaft area. What he did was hid in a shallow hole and shouted help. This caused his Mum to panic thinking that he fell down a deep shaft. We had a big laugh afterwards and he avoided a decent hit for his Mum.😀

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    Hey 3 years of my older brother 🙂 I hope he can get back into it. The gold will always be waiting for him. Actually you know I was thinking, it'd be really cool if we had kids prospecting days. If anybody ever sets up a get together for all the kids, let me know. I'd like to get those kids on the list. 

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  11. 3 hours ago, phrunt said:

    Great introductory post, I had to make a coffee at half time 🙂

    I don't think you'll find a way to get the Fisher pinpointer to play nicely with your GPZ, believe me I've tried with it and others, it's why I've been in pursuit of the best prospecting pin pointer, especially one compatible with the GPZ and so far for playing friendly with the GPZ it's the Minelab Profind 35 but I'm not ready to call it yet, more to try 🙂

    Hey thanks for your reply. Yeah I really need to find out about that pinpointer. It's a real time server. I think the fisher are pinpointer is actually quite good...... I haven't had the time yet to try to change the channel on the GPZ after turning on the pin pointer, and I haven't tried to turn on the pin pointer before turning on the GPZ and doing the reset. I know that the Fisher has an ability to set channels. But the morse code like cryptic channel selection is something I need to reread about. When I was using it with my fisher f 75 I never even understood the reason I have different channels on it, until I realized after getting the GPZ that it changes different channels to avoid EMF. So much to learn about this stuff. When I figure it out I'll put a post up about it. I haven't even had a chance to search yet. Needing more minutes in my day .. happy holidays to you and your family. Good luck out there.

  12. 9 hours ago, Hard Prospector said:

    Record post it would seem, had to make more tea before finished reading!  Its all in the adventure, and welcome aboard. 

    Good luck and stay safe

    Hey it's amazing that somebody read it 🙂 the wonders of voice typing with Google. There might be a million mistakes, as I really didn't have the time to read it myself. I hope the Google kept up okay. It is a great adventure. Thanks for your wishes and have a great holiday with your family. Good luck out there

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  13. 9 hours ago, LuckyLundy said:

    You keep that dream and the adventure of the hunt!  Your armed and dangerous to any Nugget now, you’ll find your Huckleberry Nugget soon.  If not touch base with me, I’ll give you a pointy finger!

    Rick

    If we're not trying we're dying. It's truly a strange trip to be back in the US, for a million different reasons, with passion and necessity, for the strange times and the unforeseen coming future, as Plato said... History repeats, it's not such a bad idea to let the Gold Rush history repeat.. if not for all the people in this room, it is definitely going to repeat for my family and kids. Up there with giving them a fish to feed them for the day or teaching them to fish to feed them for their life, replace those keywords with gold 🙂 whatever happens ... There should be enough gold to go around. And if they can't get it, we can't get it, that must mean we didn't try hard enough. Look at what the old timers did was so little. if I could see further it is from standing on the shoulders of giants.. I'm all ears gratefully 🙂

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