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Goldseeker5000 last won the day on October 5 2023
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Kalispell, MT
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Gold Detecting, Geology, Writing, Photography
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Gpx 6000, Gpx 5000, Equinox 800, Nugget Finder, Walco Picks, Solid Swinger Handles, Jackery Explorer 1000, Iceco 60 Ltr Fridge/Freezer
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goldseekerbooks.com, goldseekeradventures.com
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Gold Seeker Adventures Videos
Goldseeker5000 replied to Goldseeker5000's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Here is my newest video. I got bit by something very nasty. Watch through to the end, good video, nice gold, pain and trauma. 🤣 -
Goldseeker5000 started following Gold Seeker Is Pushing South To Quartzite , Lanny's Book , Attempt At Super Simplified GPX 5000 Settings and 4 others
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Glad you are making the plunge. It's a big undertaking isn't it. Putting it together can be simplfied in Quark Express or InDesign. Congratulations Lanny.
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Attempt At Super Simplified GPX 5000 Settings
Goldseeker5000 replied to Northeast's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
I never take the front settings off of deep. Ever! I mostly run in sharp or sensitive extra depending on the terrain. Occasionally I will run in fine gold timing. The only settings I will change are timing occasionally and gain/stabilizer that's it. It is super simple and it works on every size of gold. I also have my audio permanently on deep as well. I'm hitting on .6 of a grain dinks just fine and I am able to hit .6 grammers deep as well. Im consistently hitting deeper gold now with my 5000 than ever before even with the 6000. My 3 gram conflake nugget was 17" down and sounded like a 30 caliber rifle bullet sitting on the surface. No joke. Even my 1.58 gram nugget was 17" down in hard pack and caliche. -
I am searching mostly steeper slopes the last few weeks so I need to sell this. This coil will go deep but my shoulder from an old injury is acting up and I am looking to replace it with a lighter coil to use on steeper slopes, such as a 19" Evo. Selling for $425 or will trade for 19" Evo. Reese 1 (406) 309-1009.
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What Type Of Workings Is This?
Goldseeker5000 replied to Lead Detector's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
No worries, I went back to read through all the posts and it clearly looked like it was directed at wrong person. Alls good. đź‘Ť -
What Type Of Workings Is This?
Goldseeker5000 replied to Lead Detector's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Hardpack, you have someone elses post mixed up with me it looks like. -
What Type Of Workings Is This?
Goldseeker5000 replied to Lead Detector's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Hardpack, I don't know what you are talking about! X-ray glasses, dowsing rods? NO!!!, those WON'T be in my next book. I don't know if you are trying to be funny or not. If you are hahaha 🤣🤣🤣 if you are being serious don't start false rumors if you don't know what you are talking about. -
What Type Of Workings Is This?
Goldseeker5000 replied to Lead Detector's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Yes thats the one. -
What Type Of Workings Is This?
Goldseeker5000 replied to Lead Detector's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Clay diggins, I am happy to hear you talking about mass wasting and the importance and relationship to gold deposits. Everything I do with detecting for gold revolves around mass wasting and utilizing this natural event to put myself onto gold deposits. My book has a chapter on mass wasting and my next book will also be heavily involved with mass wasting. It is a major concept and truth for every gold nugget hunter to learn. -
Reese Townes, The author of The Nugget Shooter's Field Guide and YouTube Creator (Gold Seeker Adventures) will again be at the Quartzite Gold Show, sharing a booth with Dr. Erik Melchiorre. Stop on down and get a book and meet him. I am presently in Quartzite hunting gold. I have found a patch and will be working this patch until the show. Show dates: February 10-12
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Gold Seeker Is Pushing South To Quartzite
Goldseeker5000 posted a topic in Detector Prospector Forum
I haven't been on here in a little while. I got talked into leaving Meadview and Gold Basin for Franconia Wash area by Havasu City. This area is far worse off than Gold Basin and Meadview for hitting on gold. My first week there was a solid skunk. Just 50 cal. and 30 cal. bullets. I had a trainee come down for some training and I took him out to show him what I do at times to get onto gold. I led him out into an area that was heavy on my mind every day when I got back to camp and we stopped to give an area a swing. My hunch payed off as I found us a patch of nuggets. Video of that hunt will be in the works a few weeks away. We went back the next day and only one nugget was found a little ways away from the patch. The next day after we hit a wider area and couldn't get onto any other gold and then I went up a short feeder wash and found another patch with my Gpx5000. I had my trainee (Gold Dozer) come in with his 6000 and showed him how I work a spot like that with a dig and detect operation. I had pulled 3 nuggets out of this wash and he got 2 nuggets. It was a great time. We had three F-35's fly over us at very low altitude and that was way cool. The next day an F-18 Hornet flew over at very low altitude for another spectacular show of fighter jets. My time here is done and tomorrow morning I am pulling out and heading down to Quartzite to detect there until the Gold Show. I will have a table at the show again and possibly will be sharing a booth with Dr. Eric Melchiorre - Geologist, again. We will see what gold I can squeak out of the ground there. Jan 1, just before we headed out for Gold Dozers second day of training, I had gotten a call that my father had passed away at 10:27 that morning. It was not good news right before training. If anyone is down in Quartzite and wants to say hello at the Gold Show or before get ahold of me. It was good to get out and do some detecting with BMC as well. He is in the picture with Goldie the Roadrunner. -
I used to use Keene boots, but the quality, is no longer there in my opinion. They dot last long. I went on a search for a better boot and I found Thoroughgood boots. The genflex 2 boot is 100% non metallic, durable, stylish, has a composit toe cap to protect your toes from large rocks that you may turn over to detect around. I am quite pleased with this boot and am getting ready to purchase another pair to have as a backup or to wear on occasions when I am not out detecting. They were around $179.00 well worth the money. Double and triple stitched. You can get them through Boot Barn.
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In Need Of A Good Pick For Detecting
Goldseeker5000 replied to Gold Dozer's topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Either make your own or find a metal fabricator to make the pick head how you want it. Or, I would suggest getting ahold of Lucky Strike Prospecting or Reeds Prospecting in Australia and buy one from them. I am not a fan of the Apex pick. This is just my opinion, but I think it sucks. The hoe end is not long enough or wide enough. The welded magnet rings hinder the hoe blade from sinking into the ground effectively, the handle is too big in diameter. This doesn't help especially when their quality control doesn't watch for handles with the grain incorrectly matched with the striking angle of the pick. Also there are better woods for pick handles than hickory. Add to this they are way to heavy and the owners are too arrogant to evolve their picks and make them better. Or at the very least offer two completely different styles of picks. I will never give my money for such a worthless pick as the Apex. Try to get your hands on a Walco pick or one of the other picks in Australia. Osage is the best wood in the world for pick handles hands down. Get on line and find wood dealers around the US and have them send you a handle blank and shape it yourself with a rasp and an orbital sander. You will have a better product!