Lanny

Nice finds, Montana has some nice gold!

You're really doing well.

All the best,

Lanny

The video looks like another click-bait scam, nothing to do with the real sweat and toil of finding genuine gold.

Plus, the coil is flopping around, and the swings are so wild and random, if there really were nuggets in the ground, they missed 80% of them. . . .

All the best, and be safe on your trip,

Lanny

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You'll always remember your first find.

Congratulations, and all the best,

Lanny

Nice to see you're having such a great season.

All the best,

Lanny

Great finds indeed!

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny

Great finds. Is there a spot available for you on Aussie Gold Hunters?

All the best,

Lanny

Incredible finds, nicely done!

All the best,

Lanny

Sweet looking outfit!

Congratulations, and all the best as you get out there to chase the gold,

Lanny

Nice finds indeed.

Running out of steam is what's starting to happen to me as well at times. . . .

All the best,

Lanny

Congratulations!

That's some sweet looking gold.

All the best,

Lanny

On 9/14/2020 at 10:26 AM, LuckyLundy said:

I was back out to Rye Patch for a short hunt with Condor, Steve from Yuma!  It was in the mid 90’s for this hunt and needless to say it takes a toll on your mental ability and cold water supply!  But, we both found some color!  Here’s my slim pickings poke and looking for cooler weather and more quality time behind my coil on some of my favorite grounds.  Until the next Hunt!

LuckyLundy

 

 

 

Really enjoyed your pictures of the gold you found, as well as of your little dog.

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny

Whenever I'm detecting in the desert, I wear my snake gators that I got from Doc, sound investment indeed.

All the best,

Lanny

My nephew spent two seasons trying to find that treasure.

He saw some beautiful places he otherwise never would have seen, and it got him motivated to do something outside of what he normally would have done.

Regardless of what happens to the find/if the find was real, etc., it generated a ton of interest and a sense of adventure for many people.

As for those that died, that's truly sad, as it is when anyone dies in the pursuit of anything they take a keen interest in.

All the best,

Lanny

On 8/15/2020 at 2:18 PM, Jonathan Porter said:

Good ergonomics are vital to comfortable detecting. Overall weight is a weird one, for instance I find the GPZ really nicely balanced in flat terrain but can understand how people in steep areas would suffer terribly, I also prefer the weight to help maintain a good range of motion control over deep edge of detection signal responses, this controlled ranged of motion is especially important for a DOD coil design as they are a slow coil by nature, good control also helps in avoiding saturation signals. One thing that does drive me nuts with the GPZ is the delay in the menu button pressing, absolutely slow as a wet weekend. Seriously it’s Commodore 64 on dial up slow, its so slow it actually hurts my brain thinking about changing a setting, press button, think, think, think.... think some more then a tiny bit more then as your about to give up and try again chirp!!!😳🥵

I also find the SDC a nightmare to use because of the left right swivel knuckle and general klunkyness, yet they sell like hot cakes both new and second hand😬,  an all time ergonomic Frankenstein nightmare that just keeps on going and going, our hire machines cop an absolute pounding year after year yet step up time and again begging for more!!😅

Time will tell on what ML are actually offering, the usual catalyst for what people are willing to pay is the results from the early adopters, a price tag as described suggests ML are confident in what they are doing. 

Steve I’m interested in the Impulse too, is there a release date announced at all? (I’ll go click on your link so this question might be silly)

JP

Yes Jonathan, for those of us that spend 90% of our time detecting in mountains, the weight of the heavy Minelabs really is a killer.

I'm with Steve on looking forward to someone that will come out with a top-notch much-lighter-weight machine that will do a comparable (or better) job to the heavy Minelabs. I can only dream about detecting in flat areas because our gold is mountain bred and often requires hanging on by the toes while swinging a coil.

If Minelab gets the weight down considerably and it truly offers something remarkably different in their new 6000 model, I'll take a look, if not, I'll look somewhere else.

All the best,

Lanny

Great overview of how the gold's been chased in Australia!

Learned a lot of things I did not know about the gold rushes in Australia.

Thanks for posting, and all the best,

Lanny

Thanks for the information Steve. Haven't tried it yet, but now I will just to see how it functions.

Appreciate the extra efforts you make to educate.

All the best,

Lanny

I had no idea Steve, the things you do to keep your forum running seem endless. . . .

Thanks for your dedication and hard work, truly!

All the best,

Lanny

Nicely done!

Thanks for the pictures, and all the best,

Lanny

Nice chunk of sassy gold!

Well done, and all the best,

Lanny

Thanks for your continuing hard work to keep your forum updated and running smooth Steve.

All the best,

Lanny

Loved the pictures of the inside of the mine, too bad you didn't get any gold, but it looks like it was an interesting day regardless.

All the best,

Lanny

Ray is a great guy (he's unselfishly helped me out with questions in the past), and you are indeed lucky to have had some personal instruction time with him.

Good to know he's still out stomping around in the hills.

All the best,

Lanny

Interesting post that really shows the progress made today over the earlier models.

Thanks for posting the information, and all the best, 

Lanny

Wanted to post some pictures to go with the last couple of stories from this summer:

 (Half an ounce of goodness found by my son with his X-Terra 705.)

 A 3-gram nugget he found on a lonely little shelf.

 A nice piece my son found all by himself, his first time using the 705 for nugget hunting (he has over 500 hours on it coin-shooting though).

 It seems to be good luck to wave your hand over a pan of gold before you start detecting, certainly worked for us!
 

The main haul we both made the first day, largest piece 6-grams.

All the best,

Lanny

3 hours ago, G.B. said:

Good replies everyone. I don't know what is worse getting gold straight away then nothing for rest of the day or getting a bit at end of day and having to wait to go back to detect the spot and then spending a day or two only to discover it was just a loner.

Always a bit of a bummer to only locate a loner, but always better than no gold. However, I do understand the frustration of hammering the rest of the surrounding ground and coming away nuggetless.

All the best,

Lanny