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  1. Here is my newest video. I got bit by something very nasty. Watch through to the end, good video, nice gold, pain and trauma. 🤣
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. No worries, I went back to read through all the posts and it clearly looked like it was directed at wrong person. Alls good. 👍
  6. Hardpack, you have someone elses post mixed up with me it looks like.
  7. 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.
  8. I personally think it is a huge mistake to do away with both the Gpx5000 & Gpx4500.
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. Oh yes. I have gotten myself in cholla alot and these boots totally protect the soles and uppers. They are a very well made boot. I highly recommend these boots for detecting.
  13. 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.
  14. 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!
  15. Doc I don't use the minelab clip. I believe the quick connect clip I have is from down under. It is fast and works great. No need to change. The minelab guide arm gets put through a lot of abuse from me when strapping it down on my atv and the crazy terrain I go through. It has been holding up nicely. I do have a backup attachment joint as I am aware after a while they likely will break, but mine has been great for over a year of use every day throughout the year.
  16. I had bought Doc's guide arm and when I got it and saw it was enormously large where it connects to the shaft, I was thinking why is this made so big a diameter? It would not stay where you attach it and it kept flopping around. I used it two days and called up my dealer and bought the Gpz 7000 guide arm. This was ideal as it stays where you clamp it on and has more flexibility at the joint. You don't have to cut anything down and glue the knob on. The other one was going to be thrown away but I decided to give it away. I don't see the logic in making the universal attachment knuckle so large as to accommodate one detector shaft, that it hinders all other detector shaft mounting functionality. Sorry Doc, I am not trying to slam you at all but the universal joint doesn't work. Perhaps provide two sizes of joints that can be chosen from and make the guide arm length not so long that you have to cut and glue. Also a ball joint would provide more flexibility as well providing the plastic used is higher quality.
  17. Phrunt thanks for subscribing, I appreciate it. The 40 still does that, however a quick press of the power button and it quiets right down. The 35 you had to turn it off and back on which was annoying. This pinpointer is very good for prospectors needs. I have been using mine religiously every day I am out detecting. More videos with better results in the lineup for the Pro-Find 40.
  18. I am going to cut the bushes and brush out of the bottom area of the wash intirely, throw and roll boulders out of their resting places and shovel out all loose gravels and throw it up on caliche side bank. Right after that narrow chute it starts to open a little wider and there is a deeper bedload there. That is where I will start. I will have to be careful of tiny scorpions I have been finding in this wash down deep in the bedload and under rocks .
  19. Hawkeye I will see if I can figure out how to do that on my editing program. I will try it in next video. On another day back in April myself with the 6000 with 11",12x7, &17" and my buddy who is very good with the 7000 with the NF 17"x13" and 12" pounded it. There were actually two 7000's in there that day. Rocks moved, debris kicked away then detected in areas that that could be done in short order. That area appeared shallow and close to the caliche bedrock. No other settings and settings combos with the 5000 could even get a faint spike over the threshold. I'm going back in there tomorrow and dig that wash up like I dig and detect my claims in Montana. I am bound to find a few more nuggets. If I don't get any gold after 3 days of digging, I will give it up and go on walk-about.
  20. This nugget took almost a half an hour to dig up. It was 16" deep. I shortened down the whole process best I could while showing it was very difficult to dig up. Enjoy the video. Watch through to the end to see what it took. Some nuggets won't go down easy.
  21. This is what I am finding with my 5000 in the Gold Basin/ Meadview area with my Gpx5000, three different days out detecting, recently.
  22. I have been detecting full-time for gold nuggets since October of 2021 and the gold is my main source of income. My back is against the wall. Every day when it comes to finding gold, I must think outside the box and come up with strategies to keep myself in the gold. Everything I learn I share, just ask Gold Ryder. I am forced to produce. At times it is very challenging, stressfull and I am forced to persevere. When I pull something like this nugget out or my 18 gramer, it makes everything worthwhile.
  23. I got this nugget today by applying things out of my book today. If you happen to be out of the USA. I do ship out of country. It is definitely worth the extra shipping if you are.
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