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  1. The small nuggets I find I can and do sell for $80.00 a gram. As they get bigger and dont have much character then I still get $80.00 a gram. If they have character, maybe some quartz and character I get $100.00 a gram. If they are crystalline gold then I get $110.00 a gram. Goldnuggetsforsale.com has a very good resource for grading your gold nuggets and specimens. Learn your gold, learn as you go on how to grade it and don't back down on your prices. There are a lot of people out there that won't screw you over if you show you are educated on your nuggets, natural gold values and stand your ground. 

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  2. 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. 

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  3. On 2/5/2024 at 1:50 PM, HardPack said:

    Did everyone get that?

    Rumors claim X-ray glasses and dowsing rods may be covered in the next edition.

    “The Nugget Shooter’s Field Guide” 

    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. 

  4. 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. 

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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! 

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  8. 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. 

  9. 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. 

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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 . 

  12. 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. 

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