californiagold

Sorry about your dog bro. I know how you feel. Back in feb. 2001 my grandpa died, my favorite race driver died ( dale earnhardt) and had to put down my favorite huntin dog all in the same week. I haven't had a dog since. Rip

Sandy mentioned he tried this on a 4000. Is this a valuable trick on the 5000?

Hello spencer, First off since you have the pro pack. If you are hunting a spot with really small gold. Usually you'll get a little better target identification on small gold with the little 5" coil. But traditionally small gold target id's jump around on most detectors that i've tried. Mainly cause they are either almost out of reach of detection range or they are so small that the detector is having trouble identifying them. Usually if you are scraping the coil right on it, the id will be more true. Tiny pieces of gold usually id in the 40's on fors. Bigger coils have just a little tougher time identifying tiny gold. So you might try the 5" coil. When it comes to hearing the little ones a little better. I run my id masking turned down from 10. To 4-5. But if the mineralization is hot, turning down id mask will make it even more noisy. When you can turn it down, it makes the tiny stuff more apparent on the signal. As far as digging lead, brass, foil, tin, copper etc. This is normal. I have buckets of these targets that I bring home and throw away in my street garbage can. At least it gets consolidated in 1 dump instead of scattered throughout the goldfields. As far as signals. If you try a erratic shaped piece of lead and a piece of gold around the same size, the target id's will be similar. After awhile you will recognize some signals. Usually because of their uniform shape. Like a 22 bullet tip that isn't mushroomed. Or a 22 empty brass. Pellet gun pellet etc. I still dig every signal that goes off over 40 on fors. Even if the signal jumps back and forth between iron and gold. There has been many that surprised me. When you set your sensitivity, I usually run mine in boost mode and sens. 80-85. It is a little chirpy. But if you have too much ground noise and chirping going on. Just turn it down 5 sens. at a time till your comfortable. Thats it for now. Gotta get going. Maybe Steve can mention some of his tips with the fors or vlf in general. Good luck

Yes success is based on how much research you do. Whether its reading or walking around and looking for gold areas. Or maybe some people are just very lucky. I know ive bought alot of books thru the years, or looked at others, that tell you where to find gold in my area. And also there is some usgs data. But all these resources together probably only told about 1/4 of the actual areas that one could find gold around here. But some of the best info you get is from the vanishing old timers of this area. And old newspapers. I think I read over 10,000 old cali newspapers. There is alot of gold finds in those little paragraphs. Alot of places that I didnt even know had coarse gold. Right under my nose, close by. people always ask me what creeks I go to find gold with a detector. Actually we dont go to creeks very often. There is gold in creeks. But we usually hunt the deposit areas. Sometimes there isnt a creek for 1/2 mile or more. But theres gold. Sadly alot of the old newspapers that I had access too long time ago werent digitalized. Some were. But alot of the good ones just got put in cold storage somewhere in this state. But that is some examples of research. Once you read about a coarse gold find. You go there walk around and look for old diggins. Usually they missed a deposit or two inbetween their diggins. If the gold mineralization is good. Sometimes you can find your own virgin patch. But thats it for now. Thanks again for the comments.

Thanks Steve and all the members for compliments. Really its about tons of research, good places to go, a good detector and a good partner. Thanks to extensive research, we still have many many places to try. Some are a bust. Or turn out to be mostly fine gold. But are good to return to if a dry washer is needed. There is a few shallow blind pockets in alot of our area. Hope to find another again someday. With detector tech getting better, im sure we will see people finding previously unreachable gold. Glad I have the fors gold to detect these days, it has been an awesome detector. With my partner running her gpx 5000 with that new camo coiltek mono elite, it also makes things interesting. I would like to see how close it comes to keeping up with the 7000. Hopefully we can get the dang hobos out of our property soon. They are making a heck of a mess. Thanks

Hello I'm new to this forum. So wanted to say hello to all members. Ive been detecting for years, but been detecting for almost a year with nokta fors gold. Got out today to do some detecting at our property where we have found good gold before. There is many mounds in the ground sluicing areas that we never detected before. They are covered in several inches of pine needles and sticks. So we took a lawn rake and raked down to dirt to see what there was. I found 10 pcs of gold with fors gold at great depths. Also found 1 pc of gold at 8" with gpx 5000 and new camo coiltek mono elite. All in all was a good day. Gold weighed 1.9 dwt. Again wanted to say hello to the members and Steve Im sure ill enjoy reading post on this forum. Seems pretty busy. Take care