Gold Ryder

Good to hear. I figured why not. Ive got two 6000s, monster, and a Manticore. Ive found hundreds of nuggets with the 6000 while the 5000 collected dust. But on our mines at least I think we are hitting the limits of what the 6000 can currently do on the surface ground.(will continue to use it for dig and detect) and if the mod and some updates like a gold snitch booster and a 15" coil for the 5000 open up new a avenues. Im all for it. It doesnt take much gold to make it pay off if it benefits even a little bit.

Yes, found that yesterday. Good stuff.

Just sent my 5000 to Mick at Detectronics. Any good advice on settings when it comes home. Sounds like 3oclock is the sweet spot on the gain. We have pretty easy ground here in Montana in most places but do have some hot spots here and there. Also with the new level 4 mod sounds like the evo 15" is the go to all around coil. Thoughts?

Saw this one on FB. I wouldnt offer much more than $2500 if it were me

Come on 8000 show yourself. One of the beauty things about PI detectors is they keep the masses out of the price range. I see the Algo as good for the dealer's but not so good for the crowds in places that are already being crowded. Give me 8000 let it punch to the earths core. Ill dig it.

It can be real sporty here in Montana. Especially near our claims. Where in a 50 mile radius there are over 40 known grizzly bears. Really gets the blood pumping.

You wait to go find gold your not gonna find much gold. Not too often the soil drys out here in Montana and we find a whole lot of gold in muddy soupy ground.

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Agree 100%

Man I just dont get the performance of them on speaker versus the buds. I get more EMI and waaay less signal quality on the speaker. Im on my second pair, I overworked my first pair and use them around the house working on stuff now.

The Torus are spot on for Latency. Ive been pulling tiny tiny pieces with them. Not sure how 60ms will be versus 40ms. But I agree Phrunt it cant be low enough. Ill take a dose of really good sound quality though. Can somebody explain if these new ones mentioned are completely wireless on the 6000s?

As someone who owns half a dozen claims. We have some claims here in Montana that have very good big gold on them and no water. So on these claims we dig holes in layers to bedrock and detect. There is still good close surface gold to be found on the claims as well but its a fraction of what is at depth. This to me is the type of ground that is logical to claim if you can find it. But if I was strictly a surface or close to it detectorist. I dont think it makes alot of sense to own your own. You would work out a 20 acre claim fairly quickly and the cost and government red tape is just not worth it. That being said with gold climbing good unclaimed gold ground is gonna get trickier and trickier to find and hunt. A classic example happened to us this year. All the previous unclaimed ground around us 4500 acres roughly just got swooped up this year by a large scale mining company. So now we are hog tied from exploring very much new ground around our existing claims.

Only true reliable way these days is not the BLM, not My Land Matters, nothing except the local county courthouse.

Bates! The best Ive used. I like the Keenes but I get almost zero foot fatigue with Bates.

Here is my Picketts pick. Its a pretty sweet design. But I still like my Apexs (Sorry Reese🤣) for the heavy mining work in the bedrock at our claims. But the Pickett has a big long tooth and wide hoe that works great for surface detecting. I just need to put a 34" handle on it. Too lazy kneel down or bend over all the time. 🤣

I really like my Apex picks for dig and detect mining good heavy big rock moving tools. But for cross country hunting there are better options. I have a custom from Picketts gold in Australia its made from truck spring steel for that.

Its good in all conditions. I have not seen the problem you speak of. This was in the brush today. And we hunt in the rock alot with them including horizontal dig and detect mining through rock layers on top of bedrock so most of the nuggets are forward and to the side of the coil not under it . My hot coil spot is about 11 o'clock. Reese had the 10x5 and ditched it, it just doesnt move well across the ground especially in grassy areas like 12x7. Pulled a couple hundred nuggets from .023 to 4 grams since I got tge 12x7 in March. The 12x7 is ALOT more stable than the stock coil too. And it punches plenty deep. The .2 today was right at 7".

Ive found close to 500 nuggets on Auto 1. But my smallest nugget was on manual 10 at .023. Personally I think A1 is the deepest most stabile setting. 12x7 nugget finder.

Second Reese's book for thinking outside the box and getting out of the streambed.

Nice nugg

exactly why I got the Maticore. Here in the Helena MT area the 100 plus year old tailings are endless and 90% are untouched. Ive even got a few on my new property.

Move them out of the way and work under them. Its usually virgin ground. Ive done it for two seasons on one of our claims. Pulling ounces.

Its not bad at all. My only complaint is its a little "soft" on target signal sound. Its pretty stable. Im looking forward to the bigger exceed coil because if it has target sound like the 12x7 and punches deep its gonna be a game changer.

Outside Helena Montana today. Massive prairie rattler.

No it wouldnt have. It was too tight of quarters for anything other than he was using. Its dig and detecting its not like surface hunting where the Walco works well. My go to in the holes this year was the Eastwing Geo Paleo. Reigns supreme over walco type picks in deep tight holes, and the massive rocks we deal with daily. Pulled several ounces with that pick.