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....and don't forget the McDonalds Big Mac voucher for a snack on the way home.... 😉

There's a big difference between informative or instructional... and entertaining to watch. Not many of the US Youtube sites are 'entertaining per se. Pioneer Pauly and Dan Hurd I watch, mainly for the scenery (and Pauly's ludicrous sense of humor) but they are Canadian of course. Bill Southern can be informative, so he's worth a watch. Mount Baker mining is also instructional, but for mining info rather than actual prospecting. The Aussie ones to watch are: Outback gold fever Vo-gus prospecting West Oz Adventures Savage Prospecting Buckshot Prospector (absolute lunatic lol) Rob Parsons Tassie Boys Prospecting Gold Magnet JB Heli-Prospecting

A crushed coke can is a fairly good analogy to a less-than-ideal gold conductor. A solid lump of aluminium or lead would be heard far deeper. Aluminium is of course, in the same conduction range as gold, but because the can is not solid, its similar perhaps to a large specie.... Almost 1 meter depth is pretty good. Yeah some X coils on his 7000 would be an interesting comparison for sure....

Blackmans Lead at Maryborough. Ive got gold quite close to that. According to Dunn's nugget book, it was found at a depth of 6ft on 15th Jan 1858. I also first saw the monument back in the 80's. Brings back memories....

My experience with the 17" ellip mono was poor. Way too noisy, had to dumb it down to manual 1 or 2 just to shut it up. Trialed another from a friend, same deal. But others have had no such issues... I aint buying any other coils except NF ones...but the wait is now painful.

If its the 8" green round coil, then its certainly sensitive. BUT when I owned an ATX, I got a dud one in the box...was terribly bump sensitive. I got a warranty replacement and that one was bump sensitive too...but not as bad. But still, In rocky areas, it was totally intolerable. If you can get a chance to test it before you buy...do that.

Ha, you're full of great ideas Chet! Re-use the cable and chip for multiple coils....brilliant! Giving me ideas now... 🤔

Cool, thats the smart way to do it, keep the coax attached to the chip and remove the whole lot. Shielding is spot on. Are these results all air tests??? Were you able to ground balance any of the larger coils or were they all board-builds only....without shells???

So you plucked the 'handshake' chip out the stock coils and made up an adapter for these tests? Fascinating results... The 6000 is not regarded as a deep-seeking detector, with both the 5000 and 7000 obtaining better results in all tests that Ive seen. But, these tests seem pretty good. All obviously mono's with but with proper shielding????

Maurice Coppola (a very well known Golden Triangle prospector) has another video comparing various detectors and coils. Well worth a watch.

I asked Dilek directly....she declined to answer which 'normally' means something is still happening...

A magnet on your pick assists in those occasions...

Yes......good ones are a total rarity these days, your chances of finding a 'good'un' are low. A great saying is: "Dating in your 50's is like looking into a box of used toys....wondering which one is the least broken" From my experience, your odds of finding a 20oz nugget are better than finding a good woman. Plenty of fellas have been lucky....but not me 😞

I think the boundary between 'picker' and 'nugget' has moved somehow... anything over 1 gram is a nugget in my eye. But I'm sure Reg will disagree 😉

Ive built a few dozen coils for myself over the years, hardest ones to try are the CC and DD types, where distance and sizes between the 2 loops for tuning, sensitivity and depth purposes are the most critical parameters. Obtaining the inductance and resistance values for said loops is the 1st step. Shielding method is the 2nd. Correct parts (shell, cable, connector and wire) are very type specific too. Lots to think about when you first start out.

Very few project detectors have effective ground balance and therefore, are largely useless for prospecting. All of the PI projects have poor pulse delays (not great sensitivity) and the required CPU coding is often proprietary and not available for further development. Unless someone has recently brought something new to the table, don't waste your time.

I haven't spoken to Nev for quite a while, but a friend knew he was near the end last month. Sold a lot of gold to him in the past and he was always a very fair buyer. Integrity and honesty always. A huge loss to the community here in Victoria. RIP Nev, Your fight is over.... Condolences to his Family.

I sold almost all my detectors to afford getting my GPX6000 in May last year. The 4500 and 24K were the first to go.....sad but at least it paid off in the end. I am paying off a Nokta Legend and that will become my new HF VLF replacement for the 24K....just needed something that was more 'multi-purpose', even though I severely miss the 24K. I'll also be sourcing a Legacy Minelab PI for ultra-deep modding and using BIG coils only. With every downturn in life, there's always a new opportunity if you let yourself take it. 2024 is just that opportunity I feel. Thanks for the kind words :-)

I'll try to do better next year....promise 😉

I think my last days detecting for 2023 is now done. Gotta head off to catch up with Family for the next 2 weeks and take stock of what I'm doing next year. Single again, homeless and unsure of what direction to take. 2024 is gonna be interesting! But, my gold take has been an eye opener....almost exactly the same weight as last year, around 5.25oz but the number of pieces of gold has skyrocketed! Last year I managed to find 774 pieces...this year its 1604! Over double.....no doubt attributed to the GPX6000. Next year, I'm gonna dabble with getting a Legacy Minelab PI modded up and using CC coils or anything else that gets me depth on the big stuff. By this time next year, I'll see how that has panned out. Think I'm gonna need the money somehow lol. Just putting up a few pics of just some of the gold I've found this year. How has everyone else done? December is 'pic time' 😉 Merry Xmas everyone, and here's wishing you all a golden 2024!

I find the Bounty Hunter section totally baffling.... why so many similar and collectively useless detectors in their line-up? Surely none or very few of these are actually being manufactured? I am hoping they just have lots of leftover stock from decades of zero-investment and sales.... any newbie looking at that website would be totally bamboozled and confused as to what to buy. Fisher and Teknetics are less cluttered but collectively, thats a sh*tload of detector models to browse through.

Its happened in so many industries, its sickening....even Minelab are having their cheapest, crappiest detector built in China now. Manufactured to fail...

Oliver boots are now made in China and hundreds of bad reviews are now showing that the quality has dropped dramatically since. Most Aussie detectorists are using Redback and Blundstone. Myself, I use nothing but Redback 'Banana Suede' slip-on work boots and have for many years. Super comfy and last for 2-3 years before replacement is needed.....I wear them every day without fail. In a single year they would walk 2500km (thanks to Samsung health app) and boot-scrape C.50,000 metal detected targets. Worth every penny 🙂

These guys only mine their customers..... 😞

'Englands History' channel on YT has a good overview on the Accupoint, he shows a tiny bit of foil being heard where his XP pointer doesnt. Check it out here: Accupoint review