DolanDave

Now here is a cool harness for heavy detectors..

They are selling pieces of it at Tucson gem n mineral show...huge find. There was a large bolide over IL last night hope someone recovers that...

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On 1/28/2017 at 10:51 PM, vanursepaul said:

How about an on demand gps tracker that can be activated by your personal code from the internet.

 

They have the small gps trackers for bikes, its like the size of a coin, its called the Trakr Bravo, but you need to be in the city for it to work affective, but I bet if you had one in the machine, you could have tracked it by now... but like myself Im lazy, and would not do it, or forget to change/ charge the battery...

Dave

Fred, also select all your waypoints (checkbox), then select file in upper left hand corner, then save as. 

One of the major issues I had with the atlas support, I was getting it snagged, if I went into brushy areas it always snagged. The Coiltek skyhook should have gone with fiberglass rods, your right on setting the detector off with metal. Minelabs pro swing harness, I can use it all day, and my arm still feels good. Wish they put a hydropack on it though....

Dave

On 1/23/2017 at 10:08 PM, Reno Chris said:

Hi Dave - Hey I don't remember seeing you there and I did look around for folks I knew. Perhaps some dealer who was in attendance took you into their confidence?

Dave - about the coils - I've wondered why detector makers (not just minelab) allow others to peel off a portion of their business by allowing others to make coils for their detectors. Its easy enough to make the coils proprietary. Its sort of my understanding that the design of GPZ coils are more complex than the making of most VLF and PI coils and its not just a matter of pressing a button and stamping out 10 different sizes. Did your dealer friend remark on Coiltek's over the shoulder sky hook to support the GPZ with the 19 inch coil?

Hi Chris,

  No wish I could of attended, but didn't get an invite :(....  Sounds like a bunch of great folks went. 

  I did not hear about the shoulder sky hook, but funny you mention the sky hook. If it's anything like the picture, I used one on the 5000 when it first came out using the Atlas support. But to me the pro swing harness by minelab is much better.

  I also heard about the new coil for the ctx 3030, which will be nice.

 Dave

Google earth is good for locating faults, mineralized zones, ect.... another neat trick I use is overlay Bing Aerial maps on google earth, you will see so much more, that google earth colors dont show...

Dave

Hey Chris,

 Good to hear it was a fun time and success, I did not have to sign a paper, so I could spill a little of the beans.... seems a new gold detector called the monster is coming out... It will be under $1,000 , possibly a VLF??? Also new handheld probes, ect... but no new big gold detectors above the 7000....

  Really stinks since there was an aftermarket coil company there, that they cannot make any aftermarket coils for the GPZ... wish Minelab could release the info so different coils could be made.

Dave

Got to get out today with a friend today for a few hours, I dont think I have been that wet since I was 18.   Managed to squeek out 3 nuggets for a little over 4 grams total before heading back home. Gotta admit the ZED held up pretty good being soaked hunting in the rain....

Dave

Steve,

  Now we know the reason for manning Mars....

Thanks for sharing....

Dave

Top Picture- Yelland in Northern Nevada...

Bottom Picture- Tungsten Mountain- Central Nevada....

Dave

Nice Franconia Lunk....

  Don't those suckers sometimes just stick out like a sore thumb.....

Dave.

Fred and Lunk,

  Very nice pieces, and finds. I have quite a collection, with a cold find. My largest find is a 17 pound found in Gold Butte, Nevada.

Dave

Good topic,

Steve, you should stick your and Chris's advice on this forum, and just forward anyone with questions to it. 

  Hate to see people get screwed out of their money. 

Dave

Got out today to the Pahrump / Johnnie NV area today. Still new to the GPZ , since selling the GPX 5000 not to long ago. But learning from everyone here sharing their experiences and settings on the GPZ got me on top of a little gold today. I have to say, Im pretty impressed with this machine. Its got me on some good gold and meteorites in the short time Ive had it.

Dave

Rege,

  I love using the display on the CTX 3030, most of the time while the machine is discriminating and blanking the sound out on iron and trash, the display will show a coin or something good most of the time, if it is near the trash on the display.

  But your right on machines that dont have them, a display, even light like Jin Shows, for the hearing impaired would be great !!!  I saw these new type of headphones here in Las Vegas CES show, that dont actually go in your ears, but rest on your face near your ears and use your skull for sound, would be interesting to see how well these work... even leaves your ears free to hear those darn rattlesnakes, or your surroundings.

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Dave

A couple months ago, had Ch.3 news contact me, wanting to follow on one of our meteorite hunts...

Dave

Hi Brian,

  Thanks for the testing....

  My main coil for years on the GPX 5000 was the 12X15 commander, that coil has some great punching power, and heavy for its size.  But like Steve says, it would not do to good on Specimen gold, but the GPZ I have now, and been finding out, is a killer on the Speci gold.... 

  Jason, I have been finding some large meteorites with the GPZ that the GPX would not even hear, and they are only a few inches down, not to deep.

  Just neat to hear the different scenario's everyone has. I love comparisons, especially on video.... keep em coming guys..

Dave.

Northern Sonora Mexico

I came across this website, and their youtube video. They state the Pulse Induction detector discriminates even lead and aluminum, and it also shows an image. Anyone seen these?

Dave

Man, how many pounds is that in Lego man terms 

36 minutes ago, Chris Ben said:

That has been the method I have found most of my gold. It's a lot of work to dig off overburden. Never really found a patch where I could just detect nuggets. Found a few stragglers, but not patches...unless I dig off the overburden. Sometimes 3+feet... yikes.

Chris

Chris Ben you need to try the ZED , but some of that stuff your getting is beautiful...

4 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I have always believed that Minelab can trace their success to not underestimating what people will pay for high performance detecting gear. I too many times when making a pitch to detector companies in the past was told "people won't spend that much for a detector". Gold detectors in particular got treated as a niche market by the U.S. manufacturers and Minelab took full advantage of that fact to eventually dominate the market in that respect.

People think of places like Africa as being dirt poor. Yet for a couple years Minelab could not build and ship the GPX 4500 quick enough and every dealer in the US got calls from buyers willing to pay over retail to buy detectors ten at a time, which they then sold for double or triple retail in Africa. It does not surprise me the GPZ is selling well in Africa and probably in greater numbers by far than anywhere else.

I remember when the Africa craze started a while back.... I sold 2 Minelab GPZ 4500's on ebay for $10,000 each...

Dave

Hi Steve,

  I have had the same train of thought, going low and slow over pounded out areas, but a while back while I was hunting Gold Basin, (a real hard pounded out area), a young man I ran into was using a minelab, showed me the amount of gold found , and his method was go fast !!!  He found more gold in 1 weekend, than I found in the last 3-6 months going slow.  So I decided to put this to the test...and hunt fast. I found 3 times more gold hunting fast, so now I have stuck to this way of hunting. I still do the low and slow on washes I have already visited.

Dave