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41 minutes ago, PG-Prospecting said:

But for the life of me, I have not been able to get a nugget with the GPX.  When im out detecting i find plenty of buck, shot, bird shot, small pieces of old square nail and other things that tell me if there detectable gold for the gpx id hear it.  

 

Seeing what the GPZ is capable of in regards to detecting small gold at depth is what impresses me the most about it, and i think it is that ability that would give me the best chance of finding gold here in VA.  The soil here ranges from mild to fairly hot.  The biggest interference issue would probably come from EMI since civilization is never far from any location.  

 

It sounds like you are doing everything right with what you have been finding and the 7000 would probably give you the best chance, but seeing you haven`t been able to find any gold detecting, I suspect you would not do a hell of a lot better if you laid out the $$$ for a 7000              Dave

Hey IronDigger. My bad, I didn`t multiply the dry weight by 1.9.  The correct answer with my formula is minus 239.7 grams Dave

Hey IronDigger

I`ve always used the formula  3.1 x the weight in water, minus 1.9 x the weight in air.   With that formula you speci has minus 21.9 grams.  Dave    

Congratulations billdean, that`s a very impressive collection ☺️

Peter that`s a terrific piece of gold mate, what`s it weigh?

Well done Chris, that`s terrific gold to finish up the year ☺️

In my mind there is no doubt the 7000 is the best detector for depth I have used but the last couple of years of working low and slow, my results have been anything but stellar.   The depth of some of the gold I have found amazes me, but the 7000 just wont find gold that`s not there.      This year I am going to concentrate more on ground coverage than depth.  I used to find reasonable gold with my 4000, but when I bought the 5000 the amount of gold I found went up and the weight of the pieces went down.   I no longer own the 5000 but I still have the 4000 and I think the 4000 is a very capable detector on gold a gram and up.
   So the new plan is more ground coverage away from the recognized gold areas  and I`m thinking my 3 main coils will be the 24x12 UFO, the 18x12 Goldstalker and the 14x9 Blitz.   I remember years ago, before the 5000, I was hooking in with the 4000 and UFO in open ground, I got this terrific 7 grammer at about 8 or 9 inches.     If I want to do deep work, I`ll go to the 7. 
 All the best for 2019 everyone, may we all get more gold in `19 than we got in `18. 

Good stuff Gerry ?    I love the look of the country where you were detecting.     

Who won the day out of the high end detector and the 2300?  I would think it would be the 2300, but then again, Lunk is no slouch with a detector ?

Because of my almost complete lack of success lately I`ve only been getting out for a couple of hours a day.     The one on the dime is a 2 grammer and I think just about any detector would have got it. It was a big broad signal and I just happened to be the one that waived over it.  The other one, I got out at Waanyarra the other day and thanks to the wonders of usb microscopes, it`s a hell of a lot smaller than it probably looks. ?   Dave

1 hour ago, nighthunter said:

Why do a lot of people say the SDC is great at tiny gold but rarely talk about it's obvious ability to get bigger nuggets too? Yes I understand the small coil limits its depth compared to my 18" NF but still, Ive seen pics of SDC's finding 1/2oz pieces down a ways. Sometimes it sounds like if you use an SDC you are only looking at 1g or less, if anything.

Now I`m really confused.   You`ve gone from not being able to find a piece of gold to saying the 2300 is a good detector for finding half ouncers at depth.

On 11/29/2018 at 3:33 PM, nighthunter said:

Though as far as the SDC goes, I have heard the opposite at least once. I think it would be very useful or even more so for some of the spots I was in.

Hey nighthunter.   Very rarely do I use my 2300, I just don`t want to chase point oners anymore, so a lot of days I come home empty handed with the 7000, but if I absolutely need a gold fix today, I go to the 2300 every time.  Yesterday I went to a spot with 2 mates that has produced a lot of gold for detector operators and me and the guy with the 5000 got one small piece each and the guy with the 2300 got five.     Dave

Gerry that is a terrific find. What a great piece of gold ?  Well done mate

On 11/27/2018 at 11:48 AM, phrunt said:

I'd like to see inside the GPZ coils

Here you go Simon. The big centre copper wire is the transmit winding and the 2 smaller outer coils are the recieve windings.   Dave

Minelab GPZ14 "Super D" coil for GPZ 7000 internal configuration

I haven`t been posting any finds recently because, well, I haven`t been finding much.   I`ve been spending a fair bit of time in a area where years ago multi ounce nuggets were common, but most days I come home empty handed.     Today I got one of those "is that a signal or isn`t it?" targets.  I run very conservative settings now and because the detector runs so quiet I dig a lot more ground noise than I used too, I thought this was another one.  It was just the tiniest change in the threshold.  When I was down about 4" it was giving off that lovely electronic warbly signal I like and somewhere down about the 8 or nine inch mark this little speci popped out.

Good on you Peg.   That`s nice looking gold and you covered the cost of the lease doing something you enjoy doing.   How good is that.☺️

Lunk what a terrific collection of finds.   Well done mate ?

Terrific photos and nice gold ?

That`s a nice 5 ouncer ?

If talking about gold prospecting only, I think the 7000 comes pretty close, but it doesn`t do it all, no discrimination and it wont get the small stuff like a 2300 can, but the 7000 gets good depth, amazing small stuff, and gold a GPX just cannot hear. A while ago, i got this speci at 6 or 7 inches and a 5000 can hear it at 2" max.

Yeh JW I think it`s ironstone staining.   If I drop them in acid the`ll look clean but I`m not in any rush to do that.
It`s funny you should mention that bit of trivia about the Endeavour.     Only in the last week or so they have announced they think they have found the Endeavour on the bottom of Newport Harbour, Rhode Island   
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/captain-cook-s-hms-endeavour-may-have-been-found-in-us

Congratulations goldseeker getting your first gold with the 5000.  You`re right, the 5000 is way hotter in fine gold than the 4000 was.  The 4000 is a terrific detector on bigger gold but not in the hunt when it comes to the small stuff.   Dave

A mate of mine gave me a New Zealand 50 because I`ve been posting with American coins.   I`ve not been out much in the last couple of weeks because of vehicle trouble but I got out a few times.   These were all found on new ground away from diggings and I dug some sweet sounding targets but still nothing big.    There is always tomorrow.   This lot goes 1.58 grams ?

That`s nice gold Chris, well done ?

Peg that is terrific gold. I especially like that 3.9 grammer.  It looks like it hasn`t traveled far. You could be near the mother lode with that one ?

3 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Where did you get that dime?

I found it one day when I was sailing on the good ship SS Ebay ☺️