If You Found A Gold Nugget In The Last Year, What Detector(s) Did You Find It With?

[Steve Herschbach]

This is an informal survey, just out of curiosity. For those of you who have been out prospecting in the last year (back to Sept 2014) and actually have found gold nuggets, what detector or detectors did you find the gold with? The poll is not meant to prove anything. I am just wondering what detectors are most commonly in use now for finding gold nuggets by those who are actually finding the gold.


I am posting this on the most of the active US forums so please do not post your answer in more than one place. In a week I will compile all the answers from all the forums and post the results back to each one. Thanks in advance for you participation.


I own a number of units but so far in the last year my gold was found with the Minelab GPZ 7000, SDC 2300, and a few nuggets in trashy areas with the Makro Racer.

 

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[goldenIrishman]

1.24 gram nugget with a Minelab X-Tera 705 gold pack.

 

[chipbrown331]

Gpx 5000.

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[meMiner]

GPX 5000 for gold. Gold Bug 29er for native silver

 

[Hoser John]

Gold Bug 2 and Tesoro Lobo Super Traq worked out just fine for me-John

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Please DO NOT respond on multiple forums.

 

[emptyhole]

I've done very well with my garrett atx over the last year.

 

[chipbrown331]

Empty hole. If i was to do it all over again i would be swinging a atx. But i actually own 2 gpx 5k's that i cant get anywhere near my money back on. But...they are also great machines with a lot of coil choices.
The garret atx is a excellent detector!

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[63bkpkr]

Steve, since the replies have been limited and though I'm out of your time line, I thought I would reply. In NorCal I used a GMT to successfully and frequently find small pieces of gold and of course it sounded off on larger items as well. This was gold "in" bedrock (aka Lanny stuff) as well as behind a boulder gravel that I would detect before adding any further labor to it, no beep no pan, beep then pan. I would love to see more activity here, hope it happens......................63bkpkr

 

[Lanny in AB]

Hi Steve,

It's been a while since I've shot you a message. This season has been a nice productive season, and I've spread the finds among three detectors: the Minelab X-Terra 705, the Minelab GPX 5000 (of course), and the Gold Bug Pro (it's been sniffing out a lot of sassy gold lately).

I'm beginning to understand what you told me a long time ago, that all detectors that are genuine gold machines will find the nuggets if you get your coil over them. But, having said that, I like the three different detectors for very different reasons.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[TheHunterGT]

Probably not too many swinging a Scorpion Gold Stinger anymore...but it has found me gold in both Colorado and Arizona since Sept 2014.

 

[bug]

minelab super Z and GB pro

 

[el padron]

I've done very well with my garrett atx over the last year.

That thing is a monster isn't it? If every 1 gram piece of ferrous at 15 inches was gold I would be a..........

 

[kb173]

So far this year I've found a bit over a half ounce in small nuggets using the SDC2300 around Castlemaine Victoria Aust.

 

[Hamfist]

Outside of the timeline here too, but still an interesting survey.

Of my two MD's, I've only found gold with the SDC 2300.

 

[blynch35]

gold bug pro works just fine for me

 

[2cmorau]

about two weeks ago Fowledup and myself went detecting found these with the GMT W/shooter coil thiere should be three but fowledup stole one to give to his 10 year old grand-daughter that was with us that day, what a trooper

 

[NeoTokyo]

Nice Specimens!

 

[2cmorau]

thanks Neo, after a bit of a soak and under glass

 

[Hoser John]

Beautiful all rough and gnarly too-kudos on the weight-John