Hi guys, Chris here from So.Cal. In the mid 90’s I bought a new White’s Goldmaster V-Sat and drove up and spent the summer at my brothers house in Folsom using it as a base camp to prospect in N.Cal. Over the course of that summer I added 3 more loops .. the little White’s Shooter DD, the big Sierra Max, and the rectangular Goldfoot Magnum Force. After taking a 2 day class with Larry Salle and Sue Thompson at the Alpha Diggings .. I spent the rest of the summer in the various Hydraulic Pits above Nevada City finding small grain+ size nuggets/flakes with the stock red stickered White’s Goldmaster coil. I had intentions of using the other loops and experimenting but never got around to using them. After that summer when I got back home here in So.Cal. I thoroughly cleaned up my detector kit and put it all away still looking like new in plastic bags .. into the closet .. where it’s all sat unused ever since. Recently I started watching nugget shooting/prospecting vids, checking out spots on Google earth, checking out claims on land matters, reading this forum and Bill Southern’s, and am contemplating taking the hobby up again .. but this time trying the desert since I can’t really afford the gas to go back up to Garden Valley/George Town where my family now lives .. and then driving around every day while up there scouting out spots. I’m only a couple/few hours from the Mojave Desert areas like the El Paso’s which is more doable with my budget.
So with that background .. I’m hoping maybe some of you old school guys/gals that use to use the V-Sat back in the day could explain the different coils I have and in what situations I might use one or the other since I never got around to using any of em except the stock coil. I know technology has well moved on with the newer machines like the Minelab PI boxes and Goldmonster VLF, or the Goldbug II, Garret machines, etc., but I need to get out and swing with what I have to make sure this is something I physically can .. and really want to do again before making a large financial commitment on something like a 6000 or Axiom. I tested my box and the loops today out in the yard with some buried test nuggets and everything still works great like I remember it working all those years ago.
Thanks for any help/advice,
Chris