Afternoon Dinks

[Lunk]

Well I'm laying over in northern Nevada for some detecting before heading back to Idaho and my summer job, and decided to go revisit an old dink patch with the GPZ 7000 this afternoon. Since I've hit this place pretty hard, I figured I better use a higher sensitivity setting to see if it would light up some bits that were missed last time using a lower sensitivity that helped keep the alkali rich ground feedback under control. Needless to say, I had to move the coil painfully slow over the really noisy areas, but the extra sensitivity started working its magic right away, as I got a faint but repeatable little wobble. Digging down about 3 inches or so revealed the first little bit of yellow. 🙂

 

Soon there was another signal a few yards upslope; another shiny golden bit, this time a little deeper.

I couldn't help but wonder at this point how much deeper the new GPX 6000 will be able to snag dinks like these, and how many the Zed is leaving behind. 🤔 Guess I'll find out when I finally get mine. Just then I was awakened from my wonderings by a sharp response from the Zed; sounding pretty shallow, the tiny target was out from under a bush with just a boot scrape. And I mean tiny!

One more golden goodie sitting on bedrock ended a splendid, sunny afternoon in the goldfields.

Total weight of todays finds, zero point six of a gram.

Good luck out there!

 

[sturt]

Nice looking weather. Just looking at the soils in the photos. Totally different from over here on West side of Australia. Keeps your detector looking new. Our red dirt gets everywhere. Nice finds, cheers sturt

[Glenn in CO]

Looking forward to see your review on the GPX 6000.

[sturt]

Hi, i wanted to include some finds in with yours. I just got back yesterday from a short trip out to WA goldfields to give you a comparison of what can happen between different years. Shows how easy it is to miss a target with different machines. The first photo is from mid 2017 of a find with my 5000. Top of the world and sent off photos to the family etc. as you do.

Just below the bottle top

I think was about 3.5 grams.

Last week went back to the same location. You will note the ground is much dryer, a bad water season. I used my Z7000 this time and picked up a 2.07 gram piece shaped like a bent nail. Its on the top of the coil. The location is within a meter from the last find. Would love to have a 1.5 ton excavator to scrape of the soil cover. You can see the hard rock which drops down to the creek level and all finds have been on the top of the rock level and all look long and skinny in shape. Plenty of nuggets still to find I think.

 

The next photos show a find the next day which blew me away. A different creek that has been well worked over and plenty of pieces found over the years. This shows how important to move fallen timber although these branches where not large. The 7000 gave me the reversed signal tone. My settings were high yield the difficult due to the hot rocks etc. Cheers sturt

[Valens Legacy]

Seems like some great finds when you know your detectors, and I am going to be learning mine.

Thanks for the stories and pictures, and as always good luck on your next hunt.

 

[Goldseeker5000]

Very awesome thread Lunk and Sturt! This kind of thread gets me fired up to get back to my gold fields and find some gold when ever that will be. I might have to find new ways to dig up targets from how I normally would being I don't have anywhere close to the range of motion in my foot/ankle that I used to have. I also will have to be mindful not to move my left leg in  a few different ways, so I don't get a sudden, shooting, dagger pain in my hip as well. Time will tell down the road, but for a while longer I am happy seeing and hearing all you mates finding gold like this. Congrats to both of you on your splendid gold finds.

[Lunk]

8 hours ago, sturt said:

Hi, i wanted to include some finds in with yours.

Thanks Sturt, heaven knows this post can use some more and bigger gold.🤪

those are some fantastic finds, well done. Digging some nice lumps out of that beautiful red Oz soil is totally on my bucket list.😎

[LuckyLundy]

Lunk,

Your giving away Secrets of Rye Patch with low sensitivity and extra slow coil speed.  Eager, to hit Rye Patch but which Patch first with the 6000 😂

Rick

[afreakofnature]

Nice dinks Lunk!  The title of your thread made me think of that song “afternoon delight”. I think you should change the title to “afternoon dinklight” 🤣🤣🤣

I love.......gold 😁

 

[beatup]

well done Lunk