63bkpkr
Silver Member
- Joined
- Aug 9, 2007
- Messages
- 4,069
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- Location
- Southern California
- Detector(s) used
- XLT, GMT, 6000D Coinmaster
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
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2010 GMT & Nuggets
Hi,
I see this site has been heavily used (lol) so I thought I'd add my few nuggets worth.
I forced myself to get out and use the machine, stupid I know but that's what I had to do, and I finally learned some of its uses. I cut up an old junk gold ring and glued a small piece to a white poker chip, I use this as my field checking target. Using the test chip I found I could tune out the background and still have the machine find the target. Once I had this going for me I used the detector to check buckets of dirt I was digging from a spot behind a large boulder, could not swing the detector there. No zip zip and I performed no further work on the pile of dirt. Zip Zip and I panned or sluiced the sample and pulled gold from each sample the GMT indicated had gold. I also sluiced two of the piles that did not give a zip zip readout on the GMT, no gold in either bucket.
It is now 30March2011: I've purchased two new items, one of Doc's "swingy thingy's" and the 8 x 14 DD Whites coil for the GMT. I've not received the coil yet but I will post a comment on it that will compare it to the two other DD coils I have for it.
Good hunting...........63bkpkr
PS the attached picture is the gold from 2010 on top of a half dollar (not a dime as some happy fellas have teased me about)
Hi,
I see this site has been heavily used (lol) so I thought I'd add my few nuggets worth.
I forced myself to get out and use the machine, stupid I know but that's what I had to do, and I finally learned some of its uses. I cut up an old junk gold ring and glued a small piece to a white poker chip, I use this as my field checking target. Using the test chip I found I could tune out the background and still have the machine find the target. Once I had this going for me I used the detector to check buckets of dirt I was digging from a spot behind a large boulder, could not swing the detector there. No zip zip and I performed no further work on the pile of dirt. Zip Zip and I panned or sluiced the sample and pulled gold from each sample the GMT indicated had gold. I also sluiced two of the piles that did not give a zip zip readout on the GMT, no gold in either bucket.
It is now 30March2011: I've purchased two new items, one of Doc's "swingy thingy's" and the 8 x 14 DD Whites coil for the GMT. I've not received the coil yet but I will post a comment on it that will compare it to the two other DD coils I have for it.
Good hunting...........63bkpkr
PS the attached picture is the gold from 2010 on top of a half dollar (not a dime as some happy fellas have teased me about)
