Would like to hear from Minelab GPX4000 users.

[goldseeker4000]

Hey GPX4000 users would like to hear from you all on this wonderful gold machine. tech info, tricks, success stories, anything if you are a GPX 4000 owner.

 

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[JDS]

Great machine! Go to arizonaoutback.com and check out the forum. If you don't find enough tips there send Chris an email. He will be happy to help even if you didn't buy it from him. I had the best luck with a 14 inch mono. It will find the smallest nugget and go as deep as you will want to dig. On a windy day the threshold will sound a little unstable but if you know that is what is happening you won't have to spend time trying to balance it out. If you are using it for relic hunting be prepaired to dig deep! The GPX is well balanced and easier to swing all day than my e-trac. A Dtack speaker was more comfortable in the hot weather and I don't believe I missed any signals. Just turn it up. You will probably need a good pin pointer. I use a vibra probe but it does cross talk some.

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[goldseeker4000]

JDS , good to hear from you. I have had my 4000 since 2008 now. Had good success finding gold nuggets. I have the standard coil, an 8" Commander mono and an 11x17 Nuggetfinder superlight mono. I haven't found any gold with the 11x17 yet but I have dug some very deep holes with it. one hole almost 3 feet and at least 2- 21/2 ft wide only to find a nail. I didn't know there was a forum on Chris's sight. I talk to him all the time. Bought my nugget finder from him. Thanks for the info. I will be trying the 4000 out this yr for deep coin hunting as well. I will be going on a burried treasure hunt hear in MT for one of the saddle bags of gold that Henry Plummer and his road agents burried in the 1860's. I know the general location and I think I have a very good idea where in this location they could have burried it. It is where I would burry it, if it were me. Very good constant landmark formation there in case it was yrs later that they were able to get back to it. They have gold burried all over western and central MT that they stoled in 1 yrs time. They never had time to spend it and at the end of that 1 yr they were caught and hanged. Some were shot.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

goldseeker, you say that in addition to gold nugget hunting, you also plan to take the GPX out to do coin hunting too? Just be aware, that ........ while you can certainly get a coin down to 1.5 ft. deep (much deeper than any coin/relic/jewelry machine can), yet you might go crazy availing yourself of that sensitivity.

Believe it or not, as much as it might seem "the more sensitive, and the deeper, the better", yet it's not always true. If you took the GPX out to the average urban park, thinking "I'm going to get the older coins that are deeper than the poor saps with coin machines are getting" you will be a sorry fellow indeed. I mean, while a nugget hunter does indeed want to hear every piece of birdshot, staple, etc... (because nuggets found in nature are rarely ever larger than grain-of-rice-sized), the average coin/relic/jewelry guy DOESN'T want to hear every birdshot and staple. Do you have any idea how much little flitty junk is in the ground, at the average park or school, for instance?

As far at out in the boondocks anywhere (like for cache hunting, for the legend you speak of), yes, you may be away from the junk of urban blighting. But it's still not meant to be a cache hunter either. Again, you will go crazy hearing every nail or paperclip along the trail. A better cache machine is a 2-box unit, that specifically DOESN'T hear anything smaller than a soda can.

And be aware too, that most such treasure legends (lost mines, and other such lore found in all the old dime-store treasure books) are usually .... well ....... just embellished legends. Easy to believe, because the human mind wants so hard "not to be left out", but when you scrutinize the stories, it's ...... well.... stories.

 

[goldseeker4000]

Tom_in_CA, hello, I am not intending to use my GPX4000 for park hunting or any other detecting in city limits. Diging holes that deep would draw way too much attention to myself. Not going to do that! I am talking about using it for abandoned ranches, farms and homesteads here in Montana. With the 11" DD coil I will have discrimination, which I will use with descretion. And in regards to the legend as you call it, Henry Plummer was a real person here in Montana and he really did rob prospectors in and around Bannack, Alder Gulch and around Nevada City. He robbed miners every day for a year before people got fed up of people showing up dead on a daily basis and formed the Montana Vigilantes. This group of men shot and hung Plummer and his road agents. They know of areas that they burried gold that they pulled out of them before they hung their sorry butts. I know of one such burried saddlebag with gold being found west of Great Falls. It is no dime store legend. And 3rd, aren't you a detectorist out there hoping to find coins of value or some long burried cash that some poor bloke burried. Yes I think so! We all are! Some find these cashes, some don't, but if you don't go try, you will never find it. You will just be the guy that hears the story of someone else finding these cashes. the discrimination on the 4000 is pretty good. It works down to 6 inches and I don't mind digging up trash. You see those of us that detect for gold have to dig x amount of trash anyway for every piece of gold we find, and it is alot. I am not affraid of digging lots and lots of holes. One of those holes just might be the one that pays. you have to be an optimist not a pesimist. Capieche!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

goldseeker, you say: " I am talking about using it for abandoned ranches, farms and homesteads here in Montana."

Abandoned ranches, farms, & homesteads, would have the amount of targets that an urban park would have, if not more-so (especially in the iron dept, as places with structures, have more iron, that places that were/are strictly recreational turf).

Glad you realize that the disc. is good down only to about 6" (at most) on that machine. Beyond that, everything sounds the same. It might be easy now to say "no problem, I'll just dig everything", but ........ time will tell. I can imagine some old home sites where you might spend all day in a 10 x 10 ft. area. I can think of homesites where it's just an endless bed or iron (a continuous en-ending signal, in the zones where the structure burned down). We can see through a lot of it, by going to 2-filter machines, or a 77b, etc.... But to try a nugget machine in such a mess? Let us know how you do.

As for the treasure legend reliabilities, try this: Get yourself a bunch of treasure mag's from the '60s and '70s, and you'll have scores more to go after. Back then, every issue had 5 or 6 more sure-fire leads They all sound sort of like this: The dying miner drags himself into the wild west saloon. He's the lone survivor of an indian attack. As the curious onlookers look on, he spills the story of fabulous wealth, in his hidden mine! He gives out 6 or 7 tantalizing clues, and a cryptic map. But he dies before being able to go back and claim his fortune! Now it's just up to you to dicipher these clues

 

[Badger 5]

Gold seeker
I run the 4000. Great detector,But it takes some time to learn to use it to its max. One thing I did was put a volume AMP on it made a big difference. I have found gold nuggets and soda tops 33" down. I would say one of the hardest things is pin pointing,PI's don't have a pin point and I have a 18" round coil and I end up pulling out my VLF with pin pointing to help find my targets.

 

[goldseeker4000]

Badger 5, I have the amp also attached to the side of my 4000. Also got a 11x17. Damn I have to did some deep holes with that thing. I have been working that detector heavy every year since 2008. I run it hard from first of June til mid Oct. Where do you shoot for gold?

 

[Badger 5]

Hi Goldseeker
I'm in N. Nevada,We have a lot of places to go, Rye Patch,Rabbet hole, are two we do a lot.I could spend a life time looking at new places.

How do you like the AMP. its helped me a lot.

 

[goldseeker4000]

Badger 5 I guess I like it ok. I have only found maybe two oieces of gold since I put it on my 4000. Most of my gold the last two years have been found with my x-terra705. I like both very much. I think I am going to buy a Universal Antenna Rod for dowsing for gold weither it be nuggets or coins. I spoke with the man who sells them at Simmons Scientific Products and asked him some questions. He asked what I want to do with it. I told him I want to use it to locate the gold from medium distance to long distance and narrow it down to very small area and determine the depth. Then pull out the 4000 or 705 and locate it and pinpoint it. It is fasinating how this thing works. It will locate gold, silver, mercury, lead, copper, diamonds, oil, water and other substances like Garnets, black sand, rubies, Emeralds, etc.. It will enable me to find large or very small amounts of gold at sort or long distances away. It will locate silver or gold coins weither it is one coin or a jar full of coins. Russ is a leading authority in the world of dowsing and teaches and has written books on how, where and why to dowse. the technology has been used with great success with the spaniard many years ago. I am willing go give it a try if it will help in finding the gold. How cold does it get in Northern NV? Can you detect there thru the winter months? Very interested in this posibility. If so it will beat sitting in front of a tv here in Montana in the winter.Lol! Would like to talk to you more on this. Perhaps on the phone. Ever detect for gold in Montana?

 

[Badger 5]

Hi Goldseeker
Funny that you bring up Dowsing,I have been playing with them for the last week, My girl friend says it works. We are going to try some this year and see if it will help.
Winters in Nevada can get cold and we do get snow,But every year can be different. We did go out for a week in Jan. this year temps. 40s to 50 not to bad and in the past we have hit 10 to 20. We just watch the weather.
I used to live out side Whitefish MT. Moved here in 96. I didn't do much gold hunting in MT. More Elk and Deer hunting.
There's some good nugget hunting in Nevada,Lots of open land and you have to work for it.We take ATV's and cover a lot of land that way. I've only been detecting for 4 -5 years now so I feel I am still learning every trip.
The mining history is unreal in NV. You find signs of the old times out in the middle of no where.