Popular Post Steve Herschbach Posted September 21, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2017 My last outing everything seemed to be fighting me - weather, equipment, and deep grass. Only managed a few dinks, 14.7 grains or 0.96 gram. All found with the Gold Monster 1000 and 10" coil except the smallest, flattest one. I decided to give the 5" coil another go. I rarely use it and with the reports on coil sensitivity issues I wanted to revisit it again to see if I am imagining things. Scrubbing the ground the coil was quiet at manual sensitivity 5 and the rocks started bleeding through at 6. This was not touch sensitivity - just that having the coil on the rocks would start giving a little mineral response from them at 6. My 5" coil does not exhibit any signs of actual knock sensitivity until I run it up to manual sensitivity 9 or 10. Even then it is no worse than I experience with my Gold Racer, for instance, when cranked all the way up. I have no way to know but I suspect at least some of what is being reported as touch sensitivity is the detector popping on mineralized rocks, which can happen at fairly low sensitivity levels with the 5" coil. If a coil is fine in low mineral ground and then exhibits "touch sensitivity" in more mineralized ground this is probably the case, as true knock sensitivity should exhibit no matter what the ground mineralization is. Genuine touch sensitivity is triggered even by grass or sticks which are not detectable. Anyway, the little flat nugget, third from right, was detected with 5" coil at sensitivity setting of 5. One nice thing is that the little coil is easier to run in deep grass than the 10" coil and that's where this little guy was found. I am NOT saying that nobody is having issues with the Gold Monster touch sensitivity. My unit is like a just prior to actual production model however and I am just not seeing it. That being the case my final comment on the issue is if it is happening to you, it sure is not happening to everybody and so there should be a fix simply by replacing the coils or detector or both. However, if it is a case of running hot and eliciting responses from the ground or rocks by doing so, it will never get sorted out. I do sympathize with those having problems and hope it gets fixed via your dealer or Minelab or both. One last note. I was trying both my Gold Bug 2 with 6" coil and Gold Monster with 5" coil on some quartz specimens I have from Alaska last night. They were originally found with a Gold Bug 2 and 6" coil. My method at the time was to visually find quartz specimens and then manually rotate them over the coil. This is because some of the gold in them is so tiny that the thickness of the rock blocks the signal and so the rocks often need to be rotated just right to get a faint little gold hit. This is complicated by the need to keep my hand away from the coil since these hot detectors will pick up a person's hand because we are faintly conductive (blood saline and sweat salts). Anyway, the GB2 with 6" coil and GM1000 with 5" coil are really a match for detecting tiny gold in samples like this. The main difference is the Gold Bug 2 signal tends to fade away in a more linear fashion, whereas the Gold Monster 1000 tends to remain louder and then drop off very quickly. Click or double-click for larger photo size... 13 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IdahoPeg Posted September 21, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 21, 2017 Hi Steve...nice bits of gold! I also notice I can scuff the little coil and it will only sound off on small hot rocks mainly, and of course if I bump the cord. I am fortunate to be in milder ground here so usually run at 10 sensitivity....check out these tiny dinks from several days ago! Makes your gold look much more impressive lol! :-) 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au4Gold2 Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Thats some incredible detector control.......way to go Peg !! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnedoe Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 I really have to admit I just don't have the patience to go after stuff like that with my detector..... I will stick to beach mining or crevicing and a pan. But you absolutely have my admiration in you recoveries.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted September 21, 2017 Author Share Posted September 21, 2017 I always believed the true test of nugget detecting skill is not how large the gold is but how small the nuggets are that a person recovers with a detector. Good going Peg! 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoPeg Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 I apparently have way too much time on my hands lol! ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 7 hours ago, IdahoPeg said: I apparently have way too much time on my hands lol! ? Time well spent. You could have been at work like me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnedoe Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 Remember...... The worst day detecting or mining is still better than the best day working....... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnedoe Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 8 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said: I always believed the true test of nugget detecting skill is not how large the gold is but how small the nuggets are that a person recovers with a detector. Good going Peg! True but I still like to see something at the end of my day even if it is only a couple grains. At least on the beach I always get to bring home something...... Just my nature.. I have to see some reward for my efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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