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I got out to give my new Evo a run and it was a great couple days! Here's a video I live streamed to my friends, but I've shortened it in a more watchable and engaging way (hopefully)! Enjoy!!!

Hi! Mine reacts similarly for sure, but it's something to get used to. When you approach vegetation, proceed at a very patient pace compared to however you detect in the open. Some noise is sure to happen if you're careless even in the slightest when bumping and scraping across sticks and rocks. Also, be aware of bumping the cable near the control box with your leg as you swing and fatigue builds. However, be assured that your detector will react appropriately if you happen to swing it over detectable gold in the midst of a hail of sticks. Just look for those repeatable loud tones that make you swing twice, three times, and as many more times you want to swing over it until you dig it up! Unless of course, despite all the adjusting of settings, all the care in the world and a tightly plugged coil, your detector won't stop making baffling loud reactions. In that case, I'd recommend another attempt at an auto-tune/noise cancel and a readjustment of your volumes. Hope your detector is alright and that this may help.

😂 Still looking! ...after 34 nuggets in one patch! But still, looking...

Or "Dragon Skin," due to the scaley nature of it. Or "Chicharrone!!!" 😂 Loving this nugget!

Whoa! Very cool find!

You've got the Golden Ticket!!!

Indeed!!! Seems the plethora of coils from the SD, GP, and previous GPXs will still be able to rock on!

BTW!!! I'll be headed South from the Chico, CA area in a few days and I'm up for some detecting pretty much anywhere in the state south of here if any other honest detectorists are interested in a meet up! Was thinking about checking out this Ruck a Chucky place on the way down, but I am always up for a sufferfest to explore somewhere new. PROSPECTING is the name of the game I play. So please drop me a pm, I've my detector and batteries charged 😉

Indeed very cool stuff! And I've been thinking the same thing. That must be the goal eventually, fingers crossed!

Whoa!!! Are they really THAAAT bright at the right times?! I've witnessed a couple satellites from the desert which I thought were starlink just because they were moving along so close right behind each other, but not nearly that bright. It's so cool the way the plumes look when they launch at those times of day. I got to see one of the SpaceX plumes from near the coast of Southern California and back in 2012 I saw one from Afghanistan that was probably a failed Russian rocket launch because it began smooth like the SpaceX one above but spiralled into oblivion seconds later 😂 Still pretty neat, we all thought it was a UFO at the time but later I found a video on YT of someone filming the same thing from Syria.

Really cool technology! Now we just need Starlink to get up and running so we can keep an eye on our patches where there's no cell service! 😏

Some clarification on the video... I was running an 11" DD from my SD on my GPX because I had just passed off my 8" momo to a friend who I had promised would find his first nugget that day. Somehow, he was having no luck at all running my old SD, so I was feeling bad and I tried giving him every edge I could. Even placing him right in my path after finding a nugget, like after I found the 1.2 gram chunker shown below with it's 3 fraternal twins (cuz they were all born on the same day 😉). But still, he found nothing and I felt terrible... Probably didn't give him thorough enough instruction on what he was hearing. I even had him swing into a target that I knew was going to be gold before I disturbed it at all so he could hear all the ground noise, EMI, and then finally a golden tone. Anywaysss, here's the goods at just over 1/4 ozt. The angel wing here is quite the seductress, weighing in at eight tenths of a gram. My largest from the Cushions patch until I found the chunkys in the following photo on my last trip of 2020. Hopefully you all find the gold you desire in the coming 2021 year, just not any of the gold out there waiting for me 😁

Very short but very productive year for me, seeing as I only got to prospect from Oct. - Dec. and only about 8 days during those months. I'll post a few more photos later of my 2020 finds. But enjoy this semi drawn out nugget discovery to recovery 😂

Yikes! Darkness decends upon this thread.

Trash has managed to find its way into some pretty baffling situations. Just goes to show that some places aren’t quite as remote as we might think. “Why!?” -Me, every time I think I’m the first visitor in 140 years... heck 90 years!

Angry Orchard has been around that long!? Or is this photo a re-enactment 😂

At least in this hobby, we can make up excuses when we get skunks that make us feel good about ourselves 😂 Truly stewardship.

It was still a good day! It just started with a gross tease.

Don't get too excited, even when you have a low trash to gold ratio!

Thank you for all the good deets! And I especially appreciate the link to that write up, that kind of stuff is very helpful and exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see. AGAIN, I am very interested in what exactly is going on when various settings are adjusted. btw, I meant to say Sens Smooth not Extra... I actually have a personal video of a nugget recovery and after reading Nenads write up, I can hear the detector not having the greatest response which I believe is possibly because of my use of Fast Tracking. I will be playing with these settings next time I get out, especially curious to see how adjusting the threshold like you say might smooth things out and bumping the Gain all the way up for my tune. But I must say, I've been avoiding the DD because I don't want to get too addicted to the quieter, luxury detecting experience it might bring me 😂 I have been detecting this area in a patch hunting style at a quicker pace, mostly expanding it as much as I can out of curiosity of how large of an area I can expect gold to be in before I slow down and really disect it. At least that's what I'm telling myself to feel okay about my horrible technique. I can go low and slow, meticulously. I think my methods right now are simply a product of my excitement of finding a patch with easy gold...

Hello! I’d like to hear from some folks experienced with the GPX detector sounds. There is a lot of talk out there of how much quieter these model detectors are over their predecessors, but I am not so sure. I have found that hot rocks my old detector would scream on are ignored, though as for noise, there is a lot of it. I’ll do my best to describe what I hear in a relatable way, a bit deeper than the general listening to little harmonicas in the headphones. To begin, I can absolutely discern a nugget response. I am lucky enough at this point to have found nuggets every day detecting with this detector since I’ve owned it. But questions, they have arose and I hope that by sharing my curiosity and (hopefully) receiving feedback, I may learn to use this machine more effectively and shine more light into the world for other GPX operators. I thoroughly believe the ground I have been hunting is quite hot, maybe even on the severe side. I have not been able to run my detector very quietly at all. Don’t be too harsh on me for saying this, but I have not tried running it in Sens Ex yet. Fine Gold is finding me nuggets fairly easily with a Gain of about 8, Stab about 10, Tracking fast, and Motion medium. I tried out Enhance once and it didn’t seem to make a difference, so I stuck with what’s been finding me nuggets (3 trips-14 nuggets). The noises, I’m looking for some confirmation or identification if you can deduce my rough descriptions. First I suppose I will start with the threshold. This sound I believe is very obvious to pick out, to identify it I simply adjust the threshold up until it’s loud and obvious, then I turn it down until it’s hidden and then back up until it’s quiet yet something I’m able to focus on. Now sometimes this very faint drone will go blank for moments, but so far I have not found an instance of it being repeatable. What’s happening? Other times it seems like some sort of audio boost kicks in without any changes in volume or pitch, almost like just another layer of the same sound is being superimposed over the threshold and noise, also no instances yet of repeatability. What’s this? Second, I’ll ask about ground noise/ground balance. I seem to be getting quite a bit of noise from the detector which I am assuming is, the infamous ground noise. I’d describe this noise as a chatter and all the likes of little burps and chirps that are not repeatable. Now I assume I could quiet all this down via settings, but again, I’m finding nuggets so I’m willing to endure for now even with the awareness I may be missing nuggets at the same time. But I think my big curiosity with this is the fact that sometimes it seems like I can’t ground balance. I even am careful to gb over multiple spots in case I was trying to gb over a target, but it just won’t smooth out. Though it seems to smooth out once I start going even though it wouldn’t during gb. Is this common at any level? I made a sorry attempt at a specific balance once, but I was finding nuggets still, so I haven’t really been diligent about pulling off a good Sgb. Now my last noise question is about EMI. I can identify when I’m getting false bump and vegetation signals, but what I’m thinking of as EMI can be really bothersome and seemingly malicious! Is EMI the totally false booming signals that sound like a target but are not repeatable and also don’t really match up with my sweep speed? I’ve tried playing with some manual adjustment after doing a tune, because sometimes this noise that I’m thinking is EMI is so bad that I’ll do an auto tune every five minutes or so. I wouldn’t really think the area I was in would have so much EMI. Maybe the Sun has been a bit more excited lately??? I know I’ve just asked a lot and I have even more questions than this, but if anybody would be willing to even partially help out. I’d be very grateful. I’m very interested in the way that the GPX settings work and what’s actually going on even deeper than what’s described in the manual. So if there is any literature out there with some more depth into this machine, I’m asking to be guided. I absolutely love the GPX and I want to get a couple aftermarket coils for it now that I’ve seen how it is with the stock coils and reading about how much more of a performance boost some of the coils out there can give it. Thank you!!!

Maybe there aren’t any rumors about the most extraordinary capabilities because those are exactly what will be giving the 6 it’s edge??? Ehhh? Ehh? Surprise!!! 😂

Yikes! It is getting hot down there for you guys! Looks like some good depth for that little bit! Nice!

Yeah I’m seeing a granite cobble, possibly a pegmatite. Those are some pretty coarse grains, even outside of those larger vuggy zones.

Pretty neat seeing a photo of the proto! And in action making it happen!!! That is one B-E-A-utiful specimen! I bet that was sOme feeling to see what emerged after soaking it! Excellent!