Goldseeker5000

I am very impressed with the 5000. Even more so than the 4000 I used to have. It compliments the Gold Monster 1000 perfectly.

Detector Pro made a model for the gold monster. Very nice well made headphones with a 1/8" jack. Givve Ronnie a call at Detector Pro.

Steve, that is some very nice gold congrats. Your comment about a single lone nugget in a given area makes me smile and shake my head as there are areas like that in Montana. The largest gold nugget ever found in Montana was unearthed by Ed Rissen in the 1800's in Deadwood Gulch. He was digging a ditch to carry water to Snowshoe Gulch when he dugit up. It was a 27 pound solid gold nugget. Everyone abandoned what they were doing to focus on Deadwood Gulch but no other gold was ever found there. It really makes one wonder how in the world did it get there and not have any golden friends with it.

Great gold Lanny! What was the total weight? I wish I could get my Son interested in gold detecting. Heck, even my wife for that matter. Neither one of them understand all of the benefits those of us who hunt nuggets receives from gold detecting. Especially the memories and family bonding.

I bought a GPX 5000 and a profind 35. I used to have a 4000 but had to sell it. I loved that detector. The 5000 is impressing me. Ilike the versatility of the 5000. It will compliment the monster completely. Discrimination works flawlessly. Have no interest in ever upgrading to the 7000. It has no smaller coils, no discrimination and in open ground it might be great but the places I hunt it is worthless. The 5000 will excel in these locations. Had to send in my profind 35, no sound. Got my replacement and it works great with no issues.

Yah i found a tiny 1.4 gn piece at another undisclosed location and Andy found a little dink in an old timers pile in the middle of a thick grove of saplings at top of a mountain. All three pieces were found in different locations about 4.5 miles away from each other.

I went to a new spot with a buddy of mine and decided to try a couple new locations I have been to once before. Wow what a great location. Top secret for sure. I missed this nugget by roughly a foot and my buddy Andy hit on it. We were both using Gold Monsters. It was only a couple inches down under an ancient cobble.

I don't know if you know how to test if it is lesser jade or the good stuff but in that area there are both. Take a knife and scratch the rock with the tip of the knife. If it scratches the rock and leaves a white line then it is jadite (lesser jade). If when you scratch the rock and it leaves metal on the rock, which will look like you wrote on it with a #2 pencil then it is the good stuff. It leaves metal on the rock because it is harder than the knife blade. I was there for a month prospecting in febuary of 2009 and detected around indian creek. I will take some pics of the jade I found this weekend but I had one around 10 -15 lbs and was dark green with much darker green inclusions and I found another on the klamath river which is about the same size and weight but is sea foam green with dark green inclusions. Both specimens left the metal on the rock all around the boulders.

That new hot spot looks alot like the same hydraulic digs. Nice gold Lunk.

How have you been Lanny? Are you still using the 705?

Thats some very nice gold, Peg. Congrats. I like the elongated one. What did it weigh?

Hey Steve is it possible to make a slight change to a username?

Laughing, yah I was thinking about the username too of needing to be changed. I have intention of getting the sadie, the nf 8x12 or 9x14 and perhaps the 15" round. I had my gpx4000 for 5 yrs with mono coils. It was sweet and I didn't want to sell it in 2012 but had to. The 5000 is the end all pulse induction detector for me. I have no interest in the 7000. Every where I detect, there is tons of trash from the old timers, so having the discrimination is important. It never lied to me with the 4000 and judging from my targets using it, it is just as accurate with the 5000. I have heard people say it is not accurate with the gpx series, but it has never been wrong with me. I trust it. Learning to trust what your detector is telling you is very important.

Thanks. The weather is turning bad quicker than normal this year. I may not get to get out detecting many more times before winter, if at all. It was supposed to snow the day I found the heart nugget with the 5000. Luckily it didn't.

I was able to get out with my new GPX 5000 for the second time since buying it and my destination was Libby Creek in Montana. I had worked up stream on saturday with the monster and had a huge amount of bedrock to detect, but finding a nugget up stream was not to be on saturday. On Sunday morning I decided to let a friend use my gold monster to give him an opertunity to find his first nugget with a detector and I would use my 5000 in search of it's first nugget. Shortly into instructing him on the monster he found two small pieces and a little while after that I got signal with the 5000 that turned out to be a 5.6 gn nugget shaped like a heart. I think I am going to like this detector way more than I did the Gpx 4000. I got a 2.4 gn nugget saturday evening with the monster as well. 8 gn's for the weekend.

Steve, I purchased the phone app OnXHunt because it lists private property and the particular person I was told for the last two years owns 700 acres stretching across that south facing slope up behind town doesn't own that section at all. He does own some parcels of land up in those mtns but it doesn't even come close to 100 acres. I believe that particular ground is blm. We shound look into it further. I talked to Scott(Oneguy) and threw an idea by him that if it is indeed available that Oneguy, myself, you and Lunk should get together and file series of association claims in the area. Give me a call. I will be over there this weekend.

That sucks about the signs Steve. I have other areas there that can be good as well. Let me know what you find out. Here is my number 406-309-1009 let me know what other info you find out about it.

Steve have you ever read the book "Gold Camp". It is about the gold rush of Virginia City, MT., Bannack, MT., and Alder Gulch, Henry Plummer and his Road Agents who robbed all the miners in the territory and the inception and begining of the Vigilanties. You would love this book and so would everyone else. This story would make for an amazing epic gold rush movie and the colorful people who lived thru it. Look it up if you can't find it I will find the book in my room and get you the authors name.

That is really funny you said that ophirboy because I bought a gpx5000 last week and didn't tell my wife. I was going to wait till I found some nice gold to break the news to her but she startled me one night while I was in bed and she walked in while I was reading an email on coils for the 5000. I panicked and hid the phone when she walked into the room and she thought I was being unfaithful to her. I knew telling her would open a can of worms. So now I had to tell her I bought a detector, not that I was fooling around. What a predicament I got myself into. Things are better now that she knows it was about a detector. I paid our bills and it was my left over paycheck money but wives don't see things that way. You may want to tell your wife you really want that detector. Lol

Ophirboy, what Steve said is spot on. I will add one thing to what he said that I look for with the meter scale. If it bounces to the iron side and still makes a sound, signal, then I will dig the target because I found that it can still be gold. If it bounces to the iron side and doesn't make a sound while in gold mode then I walk away from it. A deep target or tinny target or even a nugget with a coating on it like a patina can mask an absolute positive non ferrus reading. This is what I explained to oneguy and it has helped him reach his 100 bits of gold.

Excellent job Scott.

SD miner the review has been written and emailed off to Ronnie. I work in the gravel and asphalt business and we have an enormous amount of work. I drive a water truck and I put in close to 70 hours a week. That doesnt leave me with alot of time to get much of anything done when I want and need to get it done. But the review is done and in Ronnies hands. It really is a great pair of phones and I would highly sugest getting a pair soon as he gets them going to send out.

I was up there about 3 weeks ago and found 10 in less than 2 hours. That area has been hit hard . Strange the zed didn't hit t on it. My next trip there I will be using the 5000 I just bought.This might seem wierd but I think there are strange low lying anomylies in the atmosphere close to the ground that can affect signal responses from one day to the next.

I believe I recognize that spot. Lol congrats Lunk. Same place we ran into each other?

"Klondike" is my favorite. It's a 3 part mini series on the klondike gold rush based on real life people. If you haven't seen it or heard of it, then get it you will never get tired of watching it. My second favorite is "Paint Your Wagon" with Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood.