Goldseeker5000

Lunk that is some nice gold. Scott Thurber says you hunt around Murray. So do I. We should meet up over at Murray next spring and detect for som beautiful Murray gold.

You are correct Steve these headphone will be universal for their detectors. I'm tired of kneeling on my headphone cord for the Monster. Awsome detector, bad headphones.

There are new wireless headphones by minelab coming soon that will work with the Gold Monster 1000. I was told they will be in the ballpark of $125.

Hey Kiwi, do you have the 6" DD coil and the 15" DD both in HF? If you don't then you really should get them these two coils are my main go to coils for the 705. I find gold with the 5x10 but the 6" DD HF will hunt circles around the 5x10. If I need depth then I go straight to the 15" HF. The 15" is surprisingly stable with this detector. I will hunt an area with sensitivity around 20-24 then go thru the same ground with it set from 26-30. I will make a third pass with it set very very low until all chirping is gone and the threshold is very faint but steady. You may think that you will loose too much depth but don't worry as you will have retain more depth than you think. I have learned to trust this detector and what it is communicating to me. Also set your threshold to where it is a whisper but steady. As you increase the sensitivity the threshold will increase in volume. I truly believe they work hand in hand. If you run it hot you will just have to get used to chatter and distinguish between a good target and ground noise except for loudest of targets.

Regardless of the price you pay for the coil by coiltek or minelab, you have the same coil. Are you using this coil for coin hunting? If so keep in mind that it doesn't pinpoint well like a mono coil or smaller DD does. It is equally hot all around the coil. Ease up to the target with short side to side sweeps from all four directions using the top edge of the coil. You should really use a pinpointed with this coil choice. You will end up digging deeper holes with this coil so it may end up drawing unwanted attention if you are detecting in parks or peoples yards that you have permission to hunt. If you are intending to hunt gold nuggets then you need the High Frequency coil. With an air test on a 1 3/4 ounce nugget on a sensitivity of 26, I was getting a faint but definitely repeatable solid signal at a solid two feet.

If you have not read Jonathan Porters mastering the GM1000 on minelab treasure talk then I would highly recommend doing so over and over til his advice sticks in your mind out in the field. Mine will chirp when touching a weed or blade of grass but I don't see this as a problem. The monster is a very hot machine and I overcome this by realizing I am touching something and it sounds off so I will not dig. If you pump the coil up and down slowly and wait for the detector to go silent you should be good to go. Also you may need to back off of the auto sensitivity plus and instead hunt in auto sensitivity or manual backed off until this issue goes away. I have noticed that the hotter you run this detector the more it happens. I would also like to point out with this detector if you get a signal that says iron, iron, iron, iron, gold, iron, iron, gold, then you need to dig this scenario because that will be a very tiny or deep piece of gold. I have found several tiny and or deep nuggets, even flakes by digging this type of signal. Rake a layer away until the detector locks on to a positive definite target id. I have been able to hunt in extremely hot ground around a quartz outcroping by putting it in auto sensitivity and repeatedly pumping the coil til it goes silent then hunt until it becomes noisy again and repeat the process. Attached is a pic of my results of working my monster in this manner.