Had Doubts But Not Anymore.

G'day All,

Went out yesterday afternoon with Jen to a spot not to far away and started pinging Bird Shot. Well I said to Jen I am over these Bloody things, so I adjusted the controls into the General Gold from the High Yeild settings and headed off again pinged a bit of rust that wasn't very deep.  We were only detecting for about 1/2hr and Jen said my turn and she carried on from where I had stopped, as my arm was getting a little sore from the weight.  Anyway I heard the WM 12 give off a definite little change, I thought to myself that sounds OK. So I raced over and started to Dig, took a couple of inches off the top and Jen waved the coil over the scraped out hole and the sound improved slightly better.  So I started to really hack into it with the pick taking out another few inches.  This time the sound improved to a very positive signal coming from the hole.  Anyway to cut a long story short after cutting through 3 small tree roots we finally had the target out at about 20"/24" deep.  The first clump of clayey soil I picked up I could feel the weight and I knew it had to be Gold and a nice slug too.  
Well finally ...after a little well deserved rest. I said .well it's my turn now and just over 1mt away we received another slightly better signal and after digging down a ft  out popped another nice one.  


The 51 grammer was about 20 inches deep, under a few small tree roots.
The 10 grammer was about 12 inches deep also under small tree roots.





Were we happy??? you bet we were.      

Also.. For those who are going to ask the question. Did I have my gpx5000
With me to do a comparison test  nope. I didn't think to bring it along, I really didn't think we were going to find anything but shoty pellets.
We only had the sdc2300 in the car which we ended up using as a pin pointer.
This area has been hammered by us, with all the other machines, and large coils, this area has been camped on raked clean by others.
So for us, we now believe in this machine.

We have been back for an hour this morning. Nothing except for a couple of Bird shot. Didn't have enough time as we had to race into town.


Our young bloke hasn't found anything much bigger than what a sdc2300 can find in size, but deeper. Also more rust..and of course Bird shot.
Is he disappointed, yes very. He wasn't with us when we found these bits, so he has hope again, and says. It has to be in the ground and we have to walk over it.

Cheers  All.    Mike & Jen.

Fantastic....Congratulations to you both.......wow to think you nearly ditched the thing unbelievable

Farout
Cheers
Kev.

Video or it never happened........

Wow, that's a great result Mike & Jen, with a confidence boost like that who know what will be next.

Thanks for sharing your story and the pics of some great gold with the new Zed.

cheers dave

The question now is: how do you know a GP Extreme couldn't find this?









Sorry, joking

Mike54 wrote:G'day All,

Went out this afternoon with Jen to a spot not to far away and started pinging Bird Shot. Well I said to Jen I am over these Bloody things, so I adjusted the controls into the General Gold from the High Yeild settings and headed off again pinged a bit of rust that wasn't very deep.  We were only detecting for about 1/2hr and Jen said my turn and she carried on from where I had stopped, as my arm was getting a little sore from the weight.  Anyway I heard the WM 12 give off a definite little change, I thought to myself that sounds OK. So I raced over and started to Dig, took a couple of inches off the top and Jen waved the coil over the scraped out hole and the sound improved slightly better.  So I started to really hack into it with the pick taking out another few inches.  This time the sound improved to a very positive signal coming from the hole.  Anyway to cut a long story short after cutting through 3 small tree roots we finally had the target out at about 20"/24" deep.  The first clump of clayey soil I picked up I could feel the weight and I knew it had to be Gold and a nice slug too.  
Well finally ...after a little well deserved rest. I said .well it's my turn now and just over 1mt away we received another slightly better signal and after digging down a ft  out popped another nice one.  


The 51 grammer was about 20 inches deep, under a few small tree roots.
The 10 grammer was about 12 inches deep also under small tree roots.





Were we happy??? you bet we were.      

Also.. For those who are going to ask the question. Did I have my gpx5000
With me to do a comparison test  nope. I didn't think to bring it along, I really didn't think we were going to find anything but shoty pellets.
We only had the sdc2300 in the car which we ended up using as a pin pointer.
This area has been hammered by us, with all the other machines, and large coils, this area has been camped on raked clean by others.
So for us, we now believe in this machine.

We have been back for an hour this morning. Nothing except for a couple of Bird shot. Didn't have enough time as we had to race into town.


Our young bloke hasn't found anything much bigger than what a sdc2300 can find in size, but deeper. Also more rust..and of course Bird shot.
Is he disappointed, yes very. He wasn't with us when we found these bits, so he has hope again, and says. It has to be in the ground and we have to walk over it.

Cheers  All.    Mike & Jen.

Great stuff Mike, a couple of more days and you will have paid the 7000 off. Just wait till we get some moisture in the soil.

lenoil wrote:  The question now is: how do you know a GP Extreme couldn't find this?









Sorry, joking

  We use to use our sons there 

Hi Mike and Jen, thats great news, im really happy for you guys So who's nugget is the 51 grammer? only joking, hopefully it might give some buyers and potential buyers some heart in the money they have spent.Great stuff

I forgot to say also, that with Jen's new Video camera we actually took a vid of the first 51gram dig, but we have to work out how to up load it to the forum. No we don't have a Utube Account, so as soon as we can figger it out we will try to put it up.

Cheers.

Mike.

goldchaser wrote: Video or it never happened........

Ok....Ok!!!! I have to make a utube account..
But you know what I did???
Well this is the first time I have used my new cheap camera, 
 and left it in the water proof case        How dumb am I 
So while you will see footage, you won't hear us.. 

Ok I am off to make an account just for all of you..

Oh so you got the lump!!!

Girl Power

goldchaser wrote: Oh so you got the lump!!!

 Girl Power  

Yes GC, she did it again, just like last year in WA she found the biggest one.

Thanks all for your kind replies.

Cheers.

Mike.

Well done guys, this is what we need to see !    
Looking forward to the clip.
Cheers,
Rick

Bravo M & J.


Hehe i like your line i got tired and Jan took over.


Just give girl some credit


Great start with a new toy.

Well done. Beautiful nuggets.


Cmon young Mick (just wait until he fires up )



Good luck guys.


GoldEN

Congratulations.... hope there are many more to come.
Cheers spinna

Jen58 wrote:
So while you will see footage, you won't hear us.. 

Ok I am off to make an account just for all of you..

That's ok Jen, your forgiven, you'll know for next time, coulda been worse, it might have been in black & white as well as no sound.

Anyhow they are very impressive nuggets, congrats again.

cheers dave

Mike&Jen
I thought I said that 51 gram would cover the cost of the cover It was a nice piece to have in your hand
It was good to meet you both today all the best on that patch.

David

Detrackozi wrote:Mike&Jen
I thought I said that 51 gram would cover the cost of the cover  It was a nice piece to have in your hand
It was good to meet you both today all the best on that patch.

David

Thanks David, yes it was great to meat up with you also and thanks very much for the cover, I will let the young Bloke know that he owes you 51grms for his new cover.

Thanks Dave for your congrats and the Vid is Giving Jen a head ache as she's trying to do it on the old Laptop and she's starting to crack it. Time for a smoke me thinks.

Cheers.

Mike.

OK All here are my settings I had the GPZ set in.

Gold mode : General
Ground type: difficult
Sensitivity: 14
Volume: 11
Audio smoothing: high
Ground balance mode : auto
Volume limit: 12
Threshold pitch: 48
Threshold level: 26

Also using the WM 12. Wireless Module Speaker.

Cheers.

Mike.

golden wrote:Bravo M & J.


Hehe i like your line i got tired and Jan took over.


Just give girl some credit


Great start with a new toy.

Well done. Beautiful nuggets.


Cmon young Mick (just wait until he fires up )



Good luck guys.


GoldEN

Hi Golden, yeah the oldies are sure giving abit of whoop arse to the young fella ATM but normally youth and determation wins out in the end Good luck Mick you got abit of catching up to do!!

Bloody fantastic effort Mike and Jen!

Great effort Mike/Jen, now we are seeing what the new machine is all about.
All we need now is comparison with the target still in the ground.

Cheers
Peter

Go Jen & Mike.  Its about time we heard of some larger,significant size slug of gold,found at very good depths,over Victorian mineralized soil conditions,with the GPZ 7000.
Well done to both of you. Hey Mike,me thinks the doubt scale on the GPZ 7000,has just gone down a few notches,whilst the faith scale,has just gone up by a few.

Cheers Kon.

Ditto, I'm really happy for you both....and this story I can believe....Hoo Roo

Good Onya Jen & Mike, Beaut Nuggies you got there. That's what we like to hear, A positive report with more to follow I'm sure.
My Zed rocked up today, Just putting it together and getting it all charged up. The West is beckoning !

Cheers
Ashley

Congrats Mike and Jen.

Well done Jen and Mike
You have gotta be happy with those
.

Mike and Jen -- good work. It helps everyone understand the machine capabilities. Are you using the harness and swing arm and how does that affect the comfort, as it does have a bit of weight as we found last week. cheers steve.

I am  everyone

I have made a YouTube  account, be buggered if I can work anything out tonight.
Tried photobucket .. Files to big.. Huh? I did a few short ones.
Tried sending them through to Goldchaser using email.. Files too big!!!
Yes I am pulling my hair out now!!!!  ( need hair pulling emoticon) 
Mike went for his smoke..  bast@@d left me too it!!! 

HOBO'Sgold is coming down tomorrow, I will put it on a USB stick and ask him if he can load it up on his YouTube..
Oh  Johnny ...  I need a favour..