dig4gold

Pretty sure that if you get a replacement 11" coil from ML under warranty because your first one failed, the warranty on the replacement doesn't start from the date you got it but roles on from when you first purchased your detector. That kind of sucks.

D4G

I wonder if the 17" on the 6000 is a bit like the 19" 'dog' coil was on the 7000. Hasn't lived up to expectation. I can imagine what a nightmare the 17" would be like on the 6000 with the shaft twisting. I think I would be scared of breaking the shaft.

D4G

A gentle persuader.

You obviously weren't using discrimination. How deep?

D4G

On 9/26/2023 at 10:09 AM, Goldseeker5000 said:

It you are impatient to watch a nice nugget being dug out of the ground in a tough time consuming scenario then you are probably to impatient to actually dig a nice nugget out of the ground in a tough time consuming scenario. Let those of us who are patient know where you hunt for gold, if you hunt for gold and we will follow behind you when you get impatient. 😊. Being patient gets gold. Sorry Charlie! 🐟

I am probably the most patient person on the planet when it comes to detecting ground & digging targets. I don't pussyfoot around when digging a signal out. I go hard until it has moved. Then find it. Time out in the field is too important to waste. Despite what you may think of me, I do ok. I just don't advertise it. I don't think you would find much, if anything, if you followed behind me.

Wishing you luck.

D4G

Interesting. I too find the 11" a very good coil in our NZ mild ground conditions. Getting good depth on small gold. In fact I would say the best depth. But that kind of stands to reason being a bigger coil but obviously still holding great sensitivity, in our conditions.

To those of you in noisier ground & not liking the 11" & have both the NF 12x7 & CT 10x5, do you find the 12x7 gets better depth on same size gold as the 10x5 or is the gold the 12x7 finds deeper but slightly bigger. In a normal world one would think that was the case due solely to the physics of the coil sizes verses gold size & depth. In that case the 10x5 should find smaller gold but not as deep. The difference could also be the 12x7 running quieter allowing  very faint small gold to be heard if you consider the 12x7 to be smoother & quieter running.

Shows how desperate we are getting to find gold of any size these days, even the smallest of smalls. So the competition now is what coil can/will find the deepest smallest gold. Bit sad really.

D4G    

10 hours ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

I am down to $16.00 to my name

That is grim. Why is that & what happens when you have nothing?

D4G

Please correct me if I am wrong. So you are out there playing gold miner with your friend. Risking your life daily with hooligans who want your gold. While your wife is home alone with the kids for months on end. Doesn't seem right to me.

D4G

Nice...

D4G

6 hours ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

My walco pick was back at camp and the hole wasn't good to swing it in. Nox was back at camp too. Don't care much for the nox. Oh and by the way the nugget weighed 3.14 grams. I totally forgot to put the weight of it up on the video. My bad! 

Thanks for telling the weight of the nugget. As I didn't watch the whole video I was unaware of the size. Seems I wouldn't have known, even if I watched to the end. LOL. Nice find.

All Detectors have their uses.... even the Nox 800. Might not be all the time for the detecting you do but it isn't too shabby a detector.

The Walco pick would have been good just for scraping & lifting the material to the surface, without having to swing it. I am sure it would have saved you a bit of time.

D4G

5 hours ago, GotAU? said:

It was a edge of your seat thing- one does not read the last chapter of a good book first nor should they fast forward to the end of good movie…. 😉

I know what you mean. I just saw in his list of gear used that he has a Walco Pick & a Nox 800. I wasn't sure about the 6" coil but that set up is ideal as a pinpointer in those exact scenarios. Personally I don't use a pinpointer but opt for either the Gold Monster or Nox with 6" coil. Reason being, very often there is other smaller gold present in a dig like that that both those vlf's would hit on that a pinpointer wouldn't.

I kind of thought that the elliptical mono with its sensitive nose would act as a reasonable pinpointer to get a better location of the target.

No disrespect but I gave up watching the vid after the geo hammer got stuck into the side wall. Which made me think he had dug down past the target. In my mind the geo hammer is not the right tool for that recovery as you cant scrape out any material with that so I could see it dragging on. I had better things to do than watching paint dry.

D4G  

Where was your Walco pick for digging that sucker out, & your nox 800 with 6" coil for pinpointing it?

D4G

I think you are being a bit hard on Jim & Vern. They made the decision that they didn't want to risk being killed any more & moved on with their lives. They had already dodged potential death many times in the cause of protecting what you had. The gold isn't every thing.

D4G

19 hours ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

I got 4 nuggets out of my recent patch and then went out to find another patch towards end of the day. I ended up finding another patch. Got 3 out of it. 7 for today. This is all the gold I got here so far. One of my patches I found was looking like it was going to be good and the second day I went in the my friend here went in there when he said he wouldn't and cleaned out 12 nuggets for somewhere between 3-4 grams perhaps. One nugget had to have been a gram. When I got there and saw he was already there cleaning it out, it pissed me off really bad. That is something guys shouldn't do when someone else finds a patch. Wait to be invited on the patch. I won't be sharing any more patches I find with him. I have found two in two days since that happened.. The loss of those twelve nuggets hurts when I am the one who found the patch and rely on every bit of gold I can pull out of patches I find. 

Lose lips sink ships. I know your frustration so best to keep quiet about your patch finds until maybe you think you have cleaned it out. Is a patch ever truly worked out? Not in my mind.

D4G

Nice finds. Good chance the broken chain is the reason it got lost. You most likely didn't cut it through.

D4G

7 hours ago, tazzzz said:

no, i got 2 batteries and chargers, dosent seem to matter which charger or battery i use the =green light on charger is li but battery showing red light 

Have you contacted the manufacturers? Any issues should be covered by warranty.

D4G

Truth or fiction?? I at times forget that this isn't always truth. 

D4G

Nice find Gerry.

D4G

Jacob has nothing to lose. No family. You on the other hand do. So where is your true loyalty? To Jacob & the gold, or your family? You are no good to your loved ones dead. You have a good amount of gold already. Jim & Vern decided the gold was no longer worth it & Jacob showed no respect to their decisions. Jacob didn't even have the decency to thank them for what they had done & wish them well. He is just selfish & I think he wants to go out the same way as his brother & old crew. Die fighting for the gold. As I said, he has nothing to lose, but you do. No gold is worth your life. Decision time for you now. You are not in a good position.

D4G

Maybe they are the sensible ones.

D4G

D4G

I am a dig it all guy. That way there is absolutely no doubt you may have passed up & missed a piece of gold. I do use a magnet & I have very often found gold in the same dig after retrieving an iron target that was most likely the initial signal. More so than I can remember. Each to their own & what you are comfortable with.

No right or wrong in this.

D4G    

You couldn't take that gold with you & you did the right thing. After all, they gave you many joyful moments in finding it. Like you said, they kind of had to accept it.

Thank you for your contributions to this forum.

RIP One Guy.

D4G 

Absolutely no doubt that Minelab make the best gold detectors IMHO. But there business model has gone to mining the miners. I guess it has always been going that way but none more so than after the GP, GPX series through to the 5000. With the amount of user adjustable control of settings & the huge coil selection offering plug & play to make those detectors the most versatile to suit most detecting situations that we will most likely never see the likes of again.

The 6000 went a bit wayward with its flimsy construction to achieve lightness & its EMI & coil issues that should never have happened to the final released production item but once eventually sorted, electronically proving a wizard on small gold. But again it has taken the after market coils to fill gaps. I guess we should be thankful that Minelab has allowed that. I kind of think there hand was twisted though.

D4G 

That is sad indeed. Sorry to hear this. It made me go back & re read his last gold porn post.

RIP One Guy.

I don't post on here often & living in New Zealand I don't know any of you on here but we all share the same passion that detecting & chasing gold brings. It has dawned on me lately that many of us are creeping into the twilight years of our time gracing this earth. Such is life. Getting out there searching is getting a bit more difficult & a challenge & possibly not putting in the hours we used to or would like to. Life catches up on us all.

I am noticing too the number of musicians that I grew up listening too & respect, don't live for ever either but their music, songs & their messages do live on.

Take care, stay safe & enjoy life thoroughly. One day it will be your last. None of us escape that day.

D4G

8 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Essentially a less automated 6000 with setting options that probably most advanced operators are dearly missing on the 6k (including me!).

Bit like the SDC 2300. That is ML's game plan to "make" you have to buy another detector to fill the "holes". Same with hard wired & no other choice coils. OR very limited coil selection. Putting chips in to stop aftermarket manufacturing of coils. Look at the crap fight that X coils caused by looking after us with choices on The GPZ 7000.

D4G