vanursepaul

Isnt this barra season???? lolol

I find it a little too wordy...

Plus you need the 2300 for pinpointing those deep holes.....lol

No updates except I could never get the belt glue to hold it together…

Failed in R&D 🤠

 the idea is sound the application was subpar 

On 2/18/2022 at 7:23 AM, Off Grid said:

In North America or Aussie if you are nugget shooting with the claim or land owners agreement, subject to them getting a piece of the value of any finds, what would be typical percentages for their "take"? I assume it would be based on the spot price of gold and you'd have to assume 100% fineness?

 

If you have to get that detailed

i wouldn’t want to do it

doing a % is way easier for me.
 

Plus…..The Taskmaster continually amazes me at the reasoning why the percentage goes up fo him periodically🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣and explains it in a way that makes me feel like I’m making more😝

 It’s all good if you trust and don’t let greed get ya 

Therein lies a big problem for some folks…

Thank God the Taskmaster and I do not have that issue.

We enjoy ourselves…

I mean I enjoy myself…

I think he probably does too because I believe when he swears and yells it is cathartic for him. 😂
 

So I feel like I provide therapy by screwing up things and asking dumb questions he has answered a million times before.
Yeah can’t wait to get back.

 Percentage is the go mate.

On 2/4/2022 at 7:33 AM, beatup said:

I have made two searches uphill of the patch nothing so far save for some sweet sounding hot rocks

No more keys????

Great looking gold… 

in a new area too.!!

On 12/14/2021 at 2:12 AM, Gold Hound said:

Hi Flakmagnet

Sounds interesting, what dose it cost to use and subscribe?

I use a inmarsat sat sleve that caddies onto a smart phone.

Its very expensive but needed insurance when working remote.

It is a little known fact that in Australia the real average recovery time for an eperb is about 12hrs! Where as the average recovery time for a sat phone is under an hour.

If bitten by a Brown or Taipan you have around an hour before you go blind... I know what I would rather have!

 

I remember when I got to OZ with my new super dooper Epirb—- the latest greatest 406

Tremain and you looked at it attached to my harness with a noticeable amount of amusement.....

I said what’s so funny and one of you said——

We see you brought along your “body recovery system”........
 

The WA Taskmaster was not as delicate in his description of the piece of equipment... 
“Get that bloody f..g thing off before someone I know sees you with it—— hahaha

Maybe a new trip in 2022 ???

Covid is ruining my retirement plans!

Rent the best one you can get hold of--- 

Both if your in the wide open....

Not all are poly----

Mine breathe ok --

they have a million different styles=---

i was looking at them yesterday--- but yes--get the breathable ones or you will be in a sauna!~

Grundens bibs, ---because  you dont have to re-adjusts your jeans every time you stand up -----

And couple of pairs of cheapo rubberized palm gloves

Hershey bars🤠

That’s part of the whole “ experience“ mate

 Why would one even come to OZ and not get the... “full” experience??

Yeah mate i heard the dingos

 are him...... but if you go to Australia you need some basic gear

 Body  recovery system— Epirb

 they won’t find you in time to save you—- but they can pack up the rest of your remains  the bungarrow  didn’t rip off... for the family back home.

 I’m on my phone so I can’t type fast enough.. leave it said

 you need heavy , thigh high SnAkE Boots, extra wide brim  green fishing cap for the vicious summer sun ....

and spider proof swag....

 much more others could add..

prospectors 🤠

Thats one of the best of the VLFs over the years,

I would be looking for a used PI Minelab 3500- 5000 series for the money you have.

Since the new ones are out the prices have dropped considerably

(dont know that 2k will be enough --depends on how good a wheeler dealer you are)

37 minutes ago, Rob Allison said:

Hey Gerry,

  I sure hope, at least on Debbie's sake, they are not having her now train around the US beyond all the other stuff she is loaded down with.  Heck, I might need the training, years ago a random detectorists said you have found thousands of nuggets, but you don't know how to run your detector .... LOL  

I told him it was easy finding thousands of nuggets, I'm eliminating all the iron rubbish and digging all gold using the new "Multi-Pulse Discrimination" mode.  As I walked way, the prospector was messing with his settings for about 30 minutes, I think trying to find that mode 

Rob

Yea, Rob I noticed that too--- you really should take the training!!!! lololol

My folks used to live up in Channing....

I didnt have to much luck there because the ground was as hard as concrete!!

1 hour ago, klunker said:

 Now I understand why I get so many adds for snow white wings, halos and harps.

Thanks again Mr. H for keeping this forum the absolute best.

Dont know if i would be wanting to get those type messages-----😉

1 hour ago, Steve Herschbach said:

It should be getting obvious the GPX 6000 is a great nugget detector. I think it also has great possibilities for beach detecting for jewelry.

If somebody was to ask me about relic detecting, I’d tell them the same thing I say about the GPZ 7000 - way too sensitive to tiny ferrous. There is such a thing as too sensitive, and the fact that the GPX 5000 can be set up to miss the tiniest ferrous is actually an advantage. The 6000 will bang have on the tiniest slivers of ferrous stuff.

However, it might be something those who already have the machine might want to play with, and I have already been learning a few discrimination tricks while beach detecting. Anyone familiar with the Minelab PI detectors knows you get two main tone responses, either a high tone, or a low tone. The simple way to think of what these tones mean is high tone = small or weaker / low conductive targets, and low tone = large or stronger / high conductive targets. The dividing line between the two is not fixed, but varies with the ground balance setting. This means people in lower mineral ground will not get the same results as those in high mineral ground. It’s a complex subject, one I go into great detail at here.

The GPX 6000 has one bit of magic for this task. The Normal/Difficult ground setting button. It allows a change in the tone response by simply pressing a button. I do not know the details of Normal vs Difficult, but it changes the timings enough to flip the tone response on many targets. I found I could use it to get four different target classes.

1. Hi tone normal, high tone difficult = Aluminum foil, misc aluminum, wire, most bottle caps, misc small ferrous - low VDI targets. Small gold.
2. Hi tone normal, low tone difficult = Nickel range targets, larger aluminum. Larger gold.
3. Low tone normal, low tone difficult = Zinc penny range targets. Even larger gold.
4. Low tone normal, high tone difficult = Quarters, dimes, copper penny, high VDI targets, nails (larger ferrous). Silver rings.

The results closely mimic my coin detecting results with other ground balancing PI detectors, but with a big difference. With all the other machines I had two classes of targets. High tone small stuff, low conductors, and low tone large stuff, high conductors. This new method delivers four target classes, potentially a big step up in discrimination capability with a PI. Ferrous can show up in any of the ranges, just depends on size and type.

By digging the fourth category, it’s basically just high conductive coins, and nails. Not good if you have lots of nails, but I will be doing this in a park soon, as many parks are not loaded with nails. Others might be, so it’s site specific.

The other big caveat I already mentioned. This assumes bad ground, with a ground balance setting to match. The GPX 6000 is automatic and sets it’s own ground balance. You have no way to set and lock it, unlike a TDI. So I have no idea where the tone shifts will occur in other ground. The good news is that you really don’t need a PI as much in low mineral ground. This might allow people to get more depth on silver coins in really bad ground. The DD coil also skews results, depending on which mode it is in, salt or cancel.

In other words folks, I’m looking for people who are willing to experiment, and document. I will be doing more of this and adding new information here as I go. Any adventurous souls, please do the same. There is a definite crude discrimination system included with the GPX 6000, by way of an easy button push. Let’s figure it out, and it may open up some new detecting possibilities. 

I blew it on my first go at this, as I dropped finds into different pockets of my pouch, to separate them by category for a photo, along with the trash. Then I got home and by habit just dumped it all in my sieve to sort the sand and trash out - oops. So will do better at that next time. Bottom line is I got real good at calling out the coins before digging. There are some real possibilities here for the adventurous types - PI naysayers need not apply! 

I used to have an app on my phone that would allow me to take a picture (maybe a video) of a nugget and then a short description--- Of course this would definitely be a pain unless you were really interested in delving in to the inner workings of the machine. I think it would be fun. 

Im not sure if that program arbitrarily logged the gps coords or not--- remember to set your location button the right way so it wont send it to the internet.

When in WA, the Taskmaster always had me set a waypoint on my mapping program (offline) when i found a nugget .

After we were thru with our push in 2018, it was fairly easy to see how the new nuggets that popped up right between two or more other patches already worked. But the push helped because there were many old piles we had to get moved.

Point being, recording finds could be managed fairly easily-- if it were nothing less than a pencil and a small notebook.

Something about hearing those tones though that puts the info at a higher level of comprehension.

And yes i am rambling---lol--- it is raining this morning in Klawock AK and im just enjoying a coffee and the forum.

Good luck to y'all

Klunker,

It's what's behind the machine that makes it magic... go ahead and bust out another thousand or two and get one...

So i can borrow it🤠

are they .....40% deeper????

🤠

I need help--- just cant let it go ...lolol

On 9/4/2021 at 3:28 PM, strick said:

I've always been fascinated with what attracts and repels insects...why some people are constantly bombarded and the person close by is left un bothered...from studying this photo it appears that dressing in all yellow may be worth a try...maybe time to pull out the old disco outfit from the 70's just hunt alone the first time. 

strick

Good eye!!-- I didnt notice the mob circling the yellow dot.

Steve: OZ has the wonderful March flies that will bite like a crocodile and hurt worse...Kinda like the black flies down near Hope-- i was allergic to them...man they swelled up with big red welts and itched like dammit

I think you nailed it

We did