Goldseeker5000

To all, This is a learning process for me and I have had some setbacks and hurdles to jump over. I will have more! I wouldn't be me if I didn't have some kind of hurdles to conquer. That's the story of my life. Literally. I am aware of many things I can and will improve on with the videos. I am a perfectionist and I always strive for the best work I can put out. Remember how long it took to get my book to completion. This is a little different in the fact I can make changes along the way. The book I couldn't. But it turned out damn good. Thats the way I roll. I am not a person that will bend to advise if it means I have to change who I am. I am a smoker and thats fine. I choke up with nerves being in front of the camera. That will pass and then I will just keep striving for higher and higher heights. I do not care for scoops that have a gravity trap in the bottom. There are words I have to stop saying in my videos. That too will come to pass. I had an issue with one video having the wrong video but correct thumbnail. Just re-uploaded it this evening. Hopefully I got it right this time. I will see in the morning. It is my third attempt. Got alot of footage to get up. I will have some videos with Aquachigger as he is a friend of mine. He came down to Meadview to hang out with me and detect and shoot some joint videos. Oh and if any of you don't like something I am doing in my videos, that is fine. Just don't be a Karen. We all have had enough of those these last 6 years. To all who are subscribed to my channel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your following my channel will propel me to strive for perfection. Thank you. 

Bishop, I may be interested. I just purchased a GoPro Hero 11 Black. Don't have any of that camera footage up yet but soon. Very soon. 

Hey everyone, just a shout out to y'all that my YouTube channel is taking shape. Got a video up today on Gold Basin and I am uploading another this very moment. Check them out and leave a comment. I have a few things to work on and improve. Words to stop saying, nervousness to overcome, looking at camera more often, yada yada yada check it out and please like and subscribe. 

YouTube Channel: Gold Seeker Adventures 

Dig it, when you get down here get ahold of me and let me know you are here. 

I got one little nugget today and an old arrowhead I found while digging a bullet. 

I'm back in Meadview, Arizona and it is good to be back. My claims in Montana have treated me good with gold, but I am tired of having to dig, dig, dig to even get to the gold, and having to throw large slabs of rock out of my holes. And then having to fill these holes back in daily as stated by Forest Service. I am enjoying just walking and detecting for a change. I sold the Chuck wagon Taco and bought a 2003 Silverado 2500 to be able to pull my ATV trailer and gear and have more room to sleep in the back of the truck. At first I missed the taco but not anymore as it is nice not struggling on hills and passes. I bought this X7 tent canopy by Extreme Canopies and I am liking it alot. It is said to withstand 55-60 mph winds. Something you would not want to try with Ezup tents. This thing is heavy duty. If any of you end up in Arizona in this region, stop by and say hello and we can go swing the detectors. 

The nugget was around 18" deep. Deep downin a bedrock crack. It took him over an hour to get it broke out of the crack. He was using the 11" mono. 

My buddy and claim partner got a hell of a nice score yesterday on our 2nd claim that we just purchased last week. Both of our claims have big gold. 

Dealers can't be testers for Minelab anymore from what I was told. Conflict of interest. 

I will pass. Holding out for the 8000.😁. Oh by the way a friend up here in Montana is selling his claim. Very rich claim with big gold nuggets. Fairly close to my claim but way richer than my claim. I will be putting some pics and more info on the classified section next Friday. This will be only for the serious buyers. $110,000. It has never been worked, except detecting a little while by him. Old timers never found this deposit. 

That was a good story of what happened to you General Mayhem. I got a really good visual of the incident. Where abouts are you from north of me? 

Didn't go detecting today. Instead I sorted out an ounce of gold and got it cleaned up with CLR. Sure came out pretty. This ounce is paying for my share of our new claim we are buying. Had a hell of a hail, thunder, rain storm an hour ago or more. Did a number on the road into the gulch. 

Got 6 small ones today. I am liking this coil. It is sensitive for sure. EMI wasn't too bad today. Even with EMI you know when you have a target. Even when it doesn't repeat both directions, and is incredibly faint, it will get the tiniest pieces of gold. If Coiltek is reading this, you really should bevel the bottom edge of your coils. It makes a huge difference, preventing coil from catching on everything. 

I know what you mean with camping in the back yard. The back yard at my son's mom's place had a black bear and cubs a month or two ago, right in town. The high river prevented her from getting her cubs across so she just hung out in the neighborhood till the fish and game got them back across the river. I had a good day. Lots of iron and wire and 1 nugget. 

I had to move my camp 50 feet because a miner/rancher was complaining about me camped where I was since May 22 to the BLM cops, so the nice cops came back and said just move 50 ft towards the creek and you will be good til end of September. Well that flying squirrel moved with me. 😆🤣. He is active at night and has big eyes. He reminds me of something you would see in Australia. Check out the heart on the big nugget I got yesterday. I just noticed it last night. Back up today to get some more yellow metal 😊🪙. Y'all be good and have a great day. 

Im looking forward to getting the 7"x12.5" Nugget Finder and 10x16. It is crunch time with getting the gold before I head south at end of October. I have a goal of another 1 - 1.5 oz. This camping in griz territory is stressful. I have been camping amonst them since May 22 and all the critters I have had to deal with is annoying and taking a toll on my moral. Fly's trying to get into your ear canal constantly, mosquitos, silk worms, millers, centipedes, other types of worms, mice, a northern flying squirrel woke me up last night. It was on top of my tent at the peak 10' high chewing and scratching. I first thought it was a bear outside my tent getting into something, until I realized the noise was coming from the top of the tent. Then I smacked the roof panel of the tent with the broom and a couple minutes later you could hear it walking down the fabric and jumping back onto the tree behind the tent. It ate the screen mesh of one of my tent windows a month ago or so. 

Well "Smaug's Gold" my claim, has alot of EMI and there is no avoiding it. Some days are better than others. I will need to observe it over the next several days detecting with it. There is alot of smoke in the air up in these mountains and alot of airplane traffic. Might be that, might be solar flares. I don't know, but it is getting gold on ground 2-3 of us have pounded with 3 6000's using the 11" and 17". I suppose each coil they make could vary on how hot each one is. Perhaps I have a hot 🔥 coil. I don't know if that is possible but I am liking it. It feels almost twice as heavy as the 11". I really love the Minelab 17" coil. It's gotten me alot of gold. I'll let y'all know if coming days it quiets down. 

Got my new Coiltek 9x14 mono GoldHawk yesterday and this morning I went up to my claim. I got a slow start getting onto gold and was thinking I may not like this coil. The last part of the day, I hit the first nugget, and I thought, it's about time. After that the nuggets just kept coming. It is noisier than the 11" and 17" Minelab coils and it falses alot. Tried several sensitivity settings and had to do a factory reset twice and noise cancel a few more times, but each time I passed over one, it heard it. 

Trevor, I just received my 9x14 GoldHawk and was wondering if it is flat wound, bundle wound or a combo of the two? 

Geof_junk, that is what I saw about his pick as well. The guy at Apex claims that their picks are precision engineered and that they wont take any gold hunter's tips to make them better because they make the best pick. 🤣 Hahahaha. I will take an Australian made pick any day over an Apex. I will be ordering some Osage Orange handles for mine and my buddy's picks. Hands down there is no other wood better for pick handles than Osage worldwide. 

Got another 7 today. Wow my patch is still giving them up. My buddy's Apex didt last long. He got it 4-5 months ago. 

Got 13 today. 1.58 grams. Forgot my knee pads so I decided to just re-search my old open area. The 6000 impresses me every day. It has some quirk's but it is getting me gold every day, even in areas I thought I had hunted it to death. I am looking forward to hunting it with the coiltek 9x14, come Friday. I couldn't wait for the NF coils to come in. I will get those when they do. 

I got only 1 nugget today, but it was a nice one. 2.7 grams. Oh yah, I also knelt in fresh cow sh_t twice today digging targets. 😆🤣. Ended up getting it all over my knee pads, my pants, my pick, my detector and my hands. I was very pissed at these cows. 

This person was in Australia with the guys testing it.