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12 hours ago, phrunt said:

All you need to do is a buy a Simplex+, it's audio sounds like a duck being tortured.

 

lol!!! 🤣  made my day, thank you for sharing!

The story goes on...

55 minutes ago, Sourdough Scott said:

I'm thinking two local wild animal mods for @klunker & I. The reason I want two different mods is to keep the interference down in close proximity. Klunker has to be a bear sound. If you have ever seen him before he has had his coffee, you will know why. I'm definitely wanting the Sasquatch mod, because I'm tall and smell wonderful. Please message me back on prices. 😜🤣

Wrote it down for the customer support, thank you. Hmmm, I think it's pretty difficult to get a Sasquatch sound, we will see, what we can do. But you inspired me to also add a smell generator. This would fit perfectly to Reg's aluminium sound 😄

35 minutes ago, Reg Wilson said:

I like it. Would build me a custom version?  I was thinking that maybe the hotrock signal could be the laughing Kookaburra. 

                                                                                                                Lead   a pigs grunt.

                                                                                                                Iron    A donkey's bray

                                                                                                                aluminium    Flatulent sound (fart)

                                                                                                                 copper     Laughter

                                                                                                                  gold    Cash register (Ka-Ching)

You know, I think you are onto something. Does Minelab approve your modification?

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate and I feel honored. I will ask customer support, if they can build a custom version for you. I especially like your suggestion for the aluminium sound, I'm right now recording it.

Minelab: Our lawyers are currently negotiating with the Minelab lawyers. Just kidding, of course, Minelab detectors are great. Seriously, I'm sorry for my nonsense humor, I hope I don't annoy anybody, that's not my intention.

Hi friends,

I started to make a few short fun videos, some of them are about metal detectors. I don't know if this is the right place to post it. If not, just tell me and I will delete it. But I thought, you might find this funny. Or maybe you won't 🙂 It's Swiss humor... 🙈

Anyway, have a great day!!

4 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Thanks, seeing it's an hour video I'll watch that one on TV with some snacks later 🙂

 

Yeah, that's an excellent idea. I hope you enjoy, you maybe will be laughing at me at some places 😅

Hello detector prospectors,

last May, a group of gold prospecting friends and me tested and compared our gold detectors at a creek in Switzerland. We are experienced gold prospectors, but no detector experts. We use our detectors to check our spots, where we hand-sluiced etc. i.e. we check the freshly opened bedrock or clay layers. So we don't need to optimize our detector settings for absolute maximum depth etc. We rather switch them on briefly to check after a long hand-sluicing day or so, when we are tired and have no "fresh brain" to really optimize settings etc. But it works very well to find hidden pickers in bedrock crevices or clay.

So as we are no detector experts, you may cut us some slack for our rookie mistakes. But we tested honestly and simply show, what we did.

The creek gravels in Switzerland have low mineralization, so the results may be different to USA or Australia gravels.

I was personally surprised and impressed by the old Tesoro Lobo Super Traq and the Whites Goldmaster GMT. Funny: when I planned to do this post, I had in my mind to maybe buy a "new old" Whites Goldmaster GMT, because my old broke. I guess I would prefer it to the Goldmonster, after this tests... But unfortunately, White's Electronics closed. Than I read the post about the new Garret Goldmaster 24k, which is great news for me...

But anyway, here is the video. I hope you don't kick me out because of our rookie mistakes 😄. Enjoy:

I'm very surprised. Positively surprised. I was thinking about buying a Goldmaster the last weeks, cause our comparison tests showed again, the Goldmaster is one of my favorite VLFs. That's really great, that Garret picked the Goldmaster up. I will start to look, where I can get one. Thanks for this detailed informations, I appreciate!

ps: Steve, congratulations to your success in Alaska! I badly miss Alaska... I hope for 2022

19 minutes ago, geof_junk said:

Look on the bright side, the greater the handicap the less will be competing against you.😉

yeah, exactly 💪🤠👍

40 minutes ago, geof_junk said:

In the early 1980 a mate of mine did have a bit of success with just specking specimens in creeks. It has not been my method of prospecting, but he has a lot of success with detecting creeks. 

OK, I also heard from a colleague, they do this successfully in NZL.

I'm sure if I was the first one with a detector in the Swiss mountains, I would find a lot. But meanwhile the easily accessible open bedrock has been detected thoroughly. Unfortunately, we have a lot of boulders and not so much open bedrock. Or I should better say, thanks god we have a lot of boulders, so there is still something to find for us, there are not so many prospectors willing to pay the effort to remove them 😃.

Hello friends,

I made a two-part video about how we use Gold Detectors in European creeks. I first was scared of sharing it here, cause we really are no experts on metal detectors and you Pros here will sure find some things, I messed up. But maybe it's entertaining for you, to listen to a detector-non-Pro 😃.

Please cut me some slack. I tried to focus on the things, I do have some experience with and that's how we use the detectors in our creeks... Enjoy

33 minutes ago, FishBamboo said:

Well done. Enjoyed the story and video. Cheers

Thank you. I'm glad, you enjoyed it!

5 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Great video series, And, thank you!

Thank you, makes me happy!

And finally, part 3 is also online.

6 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Great video, thanks for sharing. The story at the end with the magazine is awesome. Also, how funny the swiss guy with the beard who says "It's cool man". You show him briefly for 2 seconds or so in between the story. This was one of my favorite chocolate commercials and was hugely popular when I was a young man, and we all would say in college to virtually everything: "it's cool man". I completely forgot about it. Until now 😁 Thanks for making my day!

Haha, it's cool man, that you know our lovely "cool man". He was a Swiss Musician and he became really famous with this ad. Later, he performed also the song "Geierwally, Geierwally, I love you" (Geierwally is the name of a girl from the mountains). Well, you could discuss the quality of this song 😃 but it was fun for sure. We had a lot of party to this song.

1 hour ago, GotAU? said:

Great story, well done interviews and edits!  Wow, he sold it for less than $170 per ounce. There are similar places where huge lunkers  like that were found in the area, some friends and I tried our luck looking for them in the 80’s when I lived there, but only found very small bits and pieces.

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate! Part 2 is ready in short time. They'll talk more detailed about the nugget and how it was found in part 2.

Price: It was in fact a quarz-gold nugget, i.e. not solid gold. This has to be taken into account, when calculation price per oz. On the other hand I also think, such a incredible piece should make a way higher price, because it is an extremely rare collectors piece. I think at that time it was difficult to find a buyer for something like that and who was willing to pay a collector price. They had about two years to find a buyer. Today with all the worldwide networks it would be way easier to find buyers, I guess.

Anyway, the DeRaps are such a great family, they didn't talk much about money, the story and the family ranks much higher for them. You will understand, what I mean, after watching part 2 😉

13 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Thanks. Your videos are inspirational and a pleasure to watch. Looking forward to see one from a gold hunt in the swiss alps!

Thank you very much for the feedback!!! Makes me very happy. I just love it, to make this videos, but it of course great for me, if you guys like to watch them... 

This video here is about gold hunting in the Swiss Alps: 

1 hour ago, Gold Catcher said:

Well done. Looking forward to the next parts! Where in Sierra county did he find it?

Thank you! Part 2 is completed and after positive review by the DeRaps family, it will be published around end of this week. Part 3 is almost completed, it will be published next week.

He found it in the south-western part of Sierra County. We wont disclose the exact location, to protect the interests of the current property owners. The DeRaps family lived in Alleghany at that time...

Hello detector-prospector friends,

I had the honor to interview the finder-family of the legendary "Ambrosha-Nugget", found 1983 in Sierra County, California.

Enjoy!

10 hours ago, Majuba Man said:

Great video, thanks, been there done that... good luck in the future...........

thank you! Good luck to you too!

I made a new episode of how my Alaska trips started. More episodes to come...

Have a great day!

Hello friends,

Episode 3 is online. This episode was pretty special for me, as my family is part of it. I hope, you enjoy it.

Schwendi

11 minutes ago, Gold Catcher said:

I wonder if the "experienced" detectorist always needs that many settings to play with. Take a look at the SDC. Practically no settings and yet it is being used by beginners and advanced detectorists alike. This is because the SDC is a specialized detector that is nearly perfect for certain ground and terrain conditions. Who knows, perhaps the 6000 has a similar unique area of dominance over other machines. One never fits all 🙂

 

absolutely! As Steve mentioned, the amount of buttons has no direct correlation to the power of a device. This is true in both directions...

But I guess, the advanced detectorist likes the possibility of "custom-tuning" everything to his situation. Anyway, me personally, I'm more focused on the place, where I detect, than on the detector settings and I do pretty well that way. But I'm not in Australia, I'm in the Swiss alps, so I'm for sure no reference, nor an expert.

7 hours ago, VicR said:

The early bird catches the worm but also its the second mouse that eats the cheese.

I really like that one! 😁 Exactly to the point. So let's be an early bird, but not the very first...😉

Seriously: I don't think, Minelab desinged a "trap", they are just too good for that. But it really could be, that their market analysis showed up a large market for high-end detectors for non-experienced prospectors, so they included that "feature" in the design roadmap. But fore sure, power was also a factor.

This points towards sophisticated balancing algorithms with machine learning technologies. I'm an engineer (optics & metrology) and all this machine learning stuff is a big topic for us. So I wouldn't be surprised, if the GPX6000 will be a big leap regarding machine learning algorithms for gold detectors. It's the logical conclusion, if you combine ease-to-use, more power and latest technology achievements. That would make sense from point of view of an engineer. But thanks god, we are not all engineering-nerds, so maybe I'm completely wrong 🙃. Anyway, I'm pretty curious...