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Good luck, hope you find lots of gold with it, keep us up-dated as you do find gold. 

Still good gold Lucky, I had 0 luck for a few days around RP after it rained  when I was there a coupple of weeks ago. Good luck nexk time. 

I still appreciate the Dealers I buy from and look down at direct-from-the -manufacturer purchase. Dealers are people we can meet or call and talk to, willing to help with problems, offer training, offer many other detecting products that you would have a hard time finding on your own or even knowing they exist. No, often manufacturers seem to be non-caring about individuals but look at us as numbers, it will be a shame if we loose our dealers and a big mistake for the manufacturers to ruin a good working relationship as it is now. 

Gerry, the 3 larger pieces of gold are, 1.9 and 1.3 grams, another 1.2, all others made up the balance. 

As I have become better at detecting, and finding gold in general, I watch less and less videos except for Chris Ralph's vids, he is very generous with sharing his knowledge.  

I used the 6000 for all but 1 day due to much up and down steep hillsides ( 7000 for the 1 day). The 6000 is prefect for this type of detecting, light, using just the speaker and no bungee, really good detector. I did send it in to have speaker work done due to advice from this forum and appears to work great, thanks. 

Doc! yes, cool, let us know when it is avalable. 

Wow ! a super store indeed. Can't top what others have said. 

I like it Doc, nice going. Would like this camo for the 6000. 

Spent 16 days in Rye Patch area in Nevada recently using the 6000 for the first time in gold country. Found 3 small nugets the first day, one the second and one the third, this is going to be good! Ha, went dry for the next 10 days and finaly found 2 more day 14 then 1 more on day 15 for a total of 6.8 grams. Not a large amount but found nothing last year in 10 days so I at least beat the skunk. Had 2 days of beat-down rain and one day of un-bearable wind, several days of cold weather but the last 2 days were beautiful. Met a few good folks also prospecting, alwasys fun to talk with them about finding gold. Good luck to all in your search. 

Will the 11'' 5000 cover fit the 11'' 6000?

Really nice finds schoolofhardnox, exciting to be in that part of the country detecting old war treasures. Sounds like the 5000 is working good. 

Had a Whites DFX for two years and found nothing, purchased a 5000 and first day out found a gram nugget, a few days later found a 11 gram nugget. I got gold fever really bad after that trip, still have that disease to this day. 

Beautiful work. 

Takes a lot of heat to twist a railroad spike. Heating then quenching in oil re-hardens steal/iron after turning red hot, then re-heat to around 200 deg. to give back some mailability to the object. Nice work. 

Way to be creative. 

Nice find hopefully many more. 

I hear you prunt, getting up and down several times digging even 1 target let alone several targets each time out can wear you out. I removed the short handle on my pick and installed a long shovel handle so I could stand up for most of digging a target until I need to kneel down to retrieve it. Much better on my legs and knees at the end of the day. 

Really nice finds Jeff. 

Looking for gold, usually from 7 or 8 in the morning to 3-4 in the afternoon with an on-site 1/2 hour or so lunch. 

Sure hope mine is glued up well. 

menyarito1, the folks giving you advice do know what they are talking about and really do care that you do not make a mistake, not one person is trying to mis-lead you. 

Cool story, thanks. 

Some good looking clean-up sluices, gold hog has a very good one also. 

Wish I could help.