Goldseeker5000

I got 1 piece of gold in that hole. Not good enough to stay in it. I moved below where my buddy is digging and started a new hole. Got three right off the bat. I'll get pics tomorrow after tomorrows tally of gold.

Got 3 today. Damn hot out! Flies are horrible.

Got these pieces today, in my drying up patch. There are high winds here  today and I felt it was safer to be more in the open than next to trees that are compromised due to no regolith to keep them in place. Yah that figures about ghost miner. I knew there was something I did not like about that guy. He sounded like a snake oil salesmen preying on gold hunters. I guess my gut feeling was correct. Everything I talk about is facts not B_llSh_t! The larger one is .64 g

Dig4gold- Jed? Who? Do you mean Jed Clampit from Beverly hillbillies?

rvpopeye- I am sorry this reminds you of ghost miner. I don't fancy being compared to him and his threads. I see him as a claim broker trying to drum up interested suckers to buy claims. Me, I am just trying to work my own claim that still has really good gold. The problem is beetlekill and forest service. Equipment can make this digging and testing the ground way faster as y'all know and I would much rather do that. This digging deep and big holes is for badger, not this old boy!😆

Jasong, we are not going to try this year. That is disappointing to me but the equipment belongs to two of the other three claim holders. If we do that we are opening a very nasty Pandora's box. Including only being allowed up there to work ten days out of the year, from what I have been told. It beats this digging by hand though. 😜

Well today was another long day digging and detecting every 6". No gold. 3 targets that turned out to be slivers off of my pick. Definitely no mistaking a target with the 6000. I am starting to have my doubts about this line we are digging. I think the gold on the edge where my buddy stopped pinched out for some reason. I have to keep digging though till the bedrock is exposed over the whole area I am digging down and layering. I may go back to my old spot and layer down. I know there are more nuggets there but I seriously doubt there will be any nuggets over a gram there. I have to see this hole through to the end, even if it holds no gold. If that happens then at least I have data to apply to other future holes, if I start seeing certain features.

Jasong, Valens Legacy, It is the gut of the gulch. The old timers were working the gut and working up the gulch and they never worked the ground to the emediate side of their trench because they were putting their overburden there. They were sloppy at working the gold. There is gold all along this side. The pay streak was wider than they were working. My buddy pulled over 41 grams out of this line to the side in two weeks. I am starting from the top end of where they visibly stopped and working back towards his trench. Bedrock at his trench where he left off is only 3ft down. The stretch between where he left off and my pit should have more good gold. Gold nuggets up to 6 oz have come off of my claim in recent years.

Not yet. I got two tiny ones when I took a break from digging and went down to my worked out patch. Then went back to digging. Tomorrow is a big day. Hopefully I will start seeing gold.

I made it down to bedrock finally. Just the small deepest hole within the big hole. I cleared more ground to start layering down and working down the drainage towards my buddy 's hole. I am right in line with him and his hole to bedrt is only 3 ft. I was afraid when I started this hole yesterday that the bedrock was going to slope down as you go up slope from his hole. Itt a deep one so now the fun begins removing all the material within the cleared boundary of what I prepared. I noticed the deepest part of hole when I hit bedrock lookes like a mummy looking back at me. You can see both eyes, nose, right nostril, cheek bones and mouth. Pretty funny. I am standing in the deepest part of the hole. The last photo caption "This sure the hell ist Rye Patch"

I totally agree Jasong, I am gearing up for a fight too. My friend Will just heard back from Hans Oak and he told Will that he and myself and my claim buddies will have to get bonded before they will allow us in on his claim to even detect. They put a gate up going down into his claim and he is having trouble getting a key to drive down to it.

Your spot on target jasong. On top of this if we get our excavator and D4 dozer in here we will have the forest service to deal with and we'll, we know how they call the shots according to their own personal agenda, not what the rules say they have to follow. A friend that has been dealing with them for 40 years now on his claim will be doing a chapter in my next book to bone everyone up on how to successfully fight the forest service with their claims if they have one on forest service property, and how to work each step properly to lay the ground work to sue them if they give you the runaround. This strategy to deal with the forest service sets them up in a legal trap should they try to push their personal agenda and keep you off of your claim. There is a lot to learn when dealing with them. It's time we fight them at their own game, and win.

I'm hitting on gold from 2" down to 12-13" got one with my 5000 at about 14" that I missed with my 6000. I will be bringing in my 25" DDX coil as soon as I clear some ground to swing it. 😆

All of these nuggets were hit from the surface. Some had just gravels and clay to go through, some were under an additional sod layer and some were in the gravels under duff anywhere from 1" to 6". I pulled 92 nuggets out in 16 days. We are getting gold up to 12 grams a nugget. A buddy of mine and fellow claim holder pulled this nice 8.55 Grammer out his first trip to our claim. We have decimated most gold that we can hit on from the surface and now we have to dig to get to bedrock. The old timers were sloppy to say the least. There is bigger gold in our ground, and we will find it. I still haven't hit bedrock in my hole yet but here soon will show what I find.

Been camping out in Grizzly country since May 22,2022. The 6000 is killing it on the gold. Before here I was in Radersburg MT. My buddy saw a Griz, he figures was about close to 4 ft at the hips. I have been lucky not to have seen any. Did see three black bears and a Wolverine. Got game camera's up all over my claim. Won't tolerate claim jumpers. So if you hunt in Montana at all don't try to find it. I'm there every day. Next book is coming along nicely with the writing.

Just how many people have had problems loosing your nuggets out of your scoop to need riffles and a gravity trap. That might be good for those who pan gold using water, using it as a quick sampler scoop. In my opinion, and this is just my opinion, but the Gold Monster scoop is the best scoop out there hands down. Not trying to rain on your parade Doc.

Ladies designer purse 👛🤣.

I have had other issues with the 6000. I feel they really took to heart everyone's complaints about the weight of the detectors and with the 6000 being so light I think they designed some things with thin  and narrow tolerances and with lighter plastics. I think a problem with these lighter plastics is they are brittle. A screw worked loose inside the control box and I took the speaker plate off and found the noise flopping around inside. I put the screw back in and tightened it down. I aligned the tab ears into their slots for the hinge and gentle swung it down to begin threading the screw tight and snap!!! One of the tab ears broke off with very light pressure, as I closed the speaker cover. It has been replaced since this. Every time I pick up my 5000 to hunt with, I exhale with delight at how tuff, robust, solid and what a joy it is to hunt with. I don't mind too much that you are tethered to it with cords. The thing is smooth, stable, solid and a joy to hunt with. I am hunting an area now where the magnetite rocks are causing such a huge problem as they are everywhere and I have dug some sweet mellow tones only to find out they are all magnetite rocks. Some have been the size of dinner plates. My next couple days out detecting, the 6000 is staying at camp and I will be hunting with the 5000 and Evo coils.

The rod twist is annoying to me. I have to adjust it many times a day. There is one good point to it though on the flip side. I have been side hilling or going down a slope a few times and lost my traction and slipped and fell. When my arm and detector end up hitting the ground, the shaft being loose, I feel keeps things from breaking, like near the coil/ shaft ears. I have to re align the shaft and coil every time I take a fall.

You know, I really wish Minelab would make a pinpointer geared specifically for the gold nugget hunters that is ajustable with sensitivity but has the ability to hit tiny pieces of gold and hit them deeper than all other pinpointers. Maybe have a clear tone difference to alert you of wether it is iron trash or non ferrous. The two tones on the profind 35 are to close to really differentiate between them. Maybe a setting for deep mode and interchangeable tips with the standard tip and a tip that is a 2x3 tip. I hope Minelab reads this. I know some that will carry around the nox or monster shortened up to pinpoint the targets, but what a pain in the ass that is. Just saying.

Welcome to the club Phrunt🎧. JP is right on the money about the six. Both parts.

I lost my headphones for the 6000 a few weeks ago and don't have a clue what I did with them moving from one camp location to another 200 yards away. I bought the Avantree Torus and with the earbuds in it seems better than the headphones that came with it. 

Nice to know that geof_junk, my luck, I would miss a small spine and it would get stuck in the roof of my mouth 😆. I always wondered if Australia had cactus. Prickly Pear in Australia?!, man, that stuff is everywhere.