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    What Bugs Me... Lone Gold Nuggets

    in Detector Prospector Forum

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    I've used a Gold Bug Pro, GPX 4800, SDC 2300 and GPZ 7000 all down at Greaterville.

    Hunted a lot down there the last few years but have only found gold with the SDC and GPZ.

    I think it had less to do with the equipment and more to do with practice and experience. Once you find one nugget you gain so much knowledge from that experience that sometimes they start just rolling in.

    PI detector would probably be your best bet for down there unless you want to use a VLF to play around in the washes near bedrock where most of the trash is.

     

    I got to say, I do this for the pure enjoyment, of being outside and getting
     a little exersize, I have lived in this desert all my life and find walking 
     through gullys and washes listening to the buzz quit tranquil.
     
    I don't understand why one would gain more knowledge finding a gram of gold
     then a gram of lead? Witch I have found both.
     
    There is really only one reason I want another detector, cause I do love toys. 
     
    The GPX 4500 for 2600.00 is a good price that I would not mind paying, what 
     I really don't like is the weight of the machine.
     
    I can't imagine digging 1 foot or 2 foot holes with a GPZ 7000, it looks like 
     hard work. I can't imagine a machine costing 10k, its plastic a coil is mag
     wire and plastic and how could the circuit board cost 7-8k. The biggest
     and most power full computers don't cost that much. Value for money. Not me.
     
    And when I walk back to my truck, that beer really taste good even if
     I didn't learn anything...
     
    Ivan

    What Bugs Me... Lone Gold Nuggets

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    Ivan,

     

    I too spend allot of time in Greaterville. I haven't been able to crack the code detecting a nugget but I can always pull gold dry washing. Im guessing your waypoints are spots you found stuff. Im surprised you found gold as far south a cave of the bells. I have a book from the early 1900's that talks of a stamp mill near onyx cave so Im guessing there may be gold down there as well. I agree about detecting weekdays I sometimes take time off from work to detect and its nice being the only one out there. Have you ever tried box canyon area?

    Are you talking that road that takes ya back to Tucson I-19?

    Went through there once along that huge wash, river and was thinking,

    got ta check that out, but got too many other places to go first.

     

    Those  waypoints are locations on the map the placer gold spots, and ect....

     

    Ivan

    What Bugs Me... Lone Gold Nuggets

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    That's a good looking map, shows the old placers areas right there.

    What type of detector do you use down there?

     

    Gold Bug 2  right there in my tag line, I have been looking at a pi and can't decide,

    the gpx 4500 price is way down, but I have this thing about minelab, value for money.

    Its a personal problem, maybe I should talk with Dr Laura..

     

    Some Beginner Advice And Field Training

    in Metal Detector Advice & Comparisons

    Posted

    Hi Robert
    I have a friend that I MD with and he has a GMT, I use a GB-2 we have detected side by side and got a say both of these machines are the best, I love the GB-2 cause there is no screen, just sound is what I prefer. Buy a machine and get out in the back yard and practice with different buried items, buy some  small nuggys if need be. It will build your confidence in using your metal detector.
     
    Ivan
     
    Gota add one more detector to the mix,
     
    Whites GMZ same as GMT no screen. maybe should not say same as.

    What Bugs Me... Lone Gold Nuggets

    in Detector Prospector Forum

    Posted

    WOW, Just read the article in ICMJ and got to agree with Steve, good article.

    I spend a fair bit of time in the Santa Rita Mountains and belong

    to two different clubs for the claim access and can't believe how

    many club members will congregate in one small area, I stand there

    looking and think, Ya right. I usually go out during the week, when

    its quiet, I am talking nobody around. This is the part that really

    bugs me, I have found some virgin ground and small 1/4 to 1 gram

    nuggys, and just when you think you have found the mother load, you

    don't find nothing else. It really makes ya wonder how did that one

    little nuggy get there? Where is the rest of that little nuggys family?

    Ivan

    Other Coils For SDC 2300

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

    Posted

    Ivan- Maybe that's why I feel like I do. I find gold with the SDC just about every time out. Now, is there more lurking down there just out of reach of my fixed stock coil? Perhaps.. And this is where a larger coil would be nice. Or, you bring in a different machine that was designed for multiple/ larger coils, as Rick just pointed out, and check it out.

     

    Dean  

     

    So just what would make you happy? 

     

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    Or this

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    Other Coils For SDC 2300

    in Minelab Metal Detectors

    Posted

     

    Ha, I kind of have a different thought on coil changing.

     

    Lets say one goes and buys a new detector, first day out finds gold

     second time out finds gold (boy are we dreaming) ect. ect.

     

    Now why would ya even think about buying a new coil?

     

    Which leads me to think, when you see a detector for sale with a

     half dozen coils with it, they never found gold in the first place.

     

    PS: Am I right or am I wrong?

     

    Ivan
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