Look what I found.....

Hi Everyone,
Do I love the new 5000???? Yep I sure do
I mentioned a few days ago I would post a couple of pics if our first try out with the new GPX 5000 was successful.
We had a great time with it and whilst we would usually use the first time out to try the many different settings and coil combinations, Brad put us bang in the middle of a very neat little patch! My first afternoon bagged a personal best for me of about 38 nuggets. Weighing just a bit under 48grams. And the second day I don't know how many for 53.4grams.
Brad tried to suggest I try a few different settings, I was switching between two settings using Brads favorite 17 inch Nugget Finder coil, so i figured at that time if it wasn't broke don't fix it. I was too busy digging targets.
The largest bit weighed over 15 grams.
To say I am a happy girl is an understatement. Cant wait for the next time out beeping!



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very nice well done BradShell
cheers
stoppsy

I am definitely going to spend my $6700 now! GPX-4000 going cheap.

Nice work for a couple of days with the new detector

Now get that smile off your face

Well done, Cheers

Very nice Shell! congrats and thanks for sharing!

Good stuff, did it come from old ground or new, if it could pull that load from worked ground i be interested, as most users of the new job cant use it here because of the rain etc

Great stuff very nice, but how many of them would you have found with a 4500???

Thanks everyone,
Gollstar it was new ground, I would be ashamed of myself if I left that much on an old patch First impressions of the 5000 were that it seems stabler and quiet in fairly hot ground. The nuggets were quite shallow, the deepest only down about 8 inches. Time will tell if it can punch down to reach deeper nuggets. We will get out and do a bit of testing very soon. Using various other coils. We are very keen to rework a few old patches just to see if we can pull anymore out of the ground.
CJ I believe I would have found most of these with the 4500, perhaps missing the smaller ones dismissing them as groundnoise. Brad was working the lower part of the patch with his 4500. He did walk away from 3 targets he just couldn't find the very small ones (.1 or .2gms) It was the sort of ground that when you scraped the top, the hole just made so much noise it was hard to pinpoint the tiny nuggets. Those nuggets were retrieved by Brad this morning using the 5000. ( I didn't include his finds in the above photo)
Shell.

Hi Shell...off the top of your head...do you recall the settings you were using? if you don't mind ofcause.

many thanks,

Steve

Hi Steve,
I will check them out in the morning and let you know.
Shell.

greatly appreciated but only if it's no trouble.

cheers!

Hi Steve,
These are the 2 settings, I'm not sure if the first Deep settings were adjusted by Brad from the Factory Preset or not.
SEARCH MODE - DEEP
SOIL TIMING - ENHANCE
COIL - MONO
G BALANCE - FIXED
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Motion - V/Slow
Rx Gain -14
Audio - Deep
Audio Tone - 38
Stabilizer - 6
Signal - 17
Volume - 17
Response - Inv
Tracking - Slow
Iron Reject - Off
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SEARCH MODE - CUSTOM/TEST A
SOIL TIMING - ENHANCE
COIL - MONO
G BALANCE - FIXED
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Motion - Medium
Rx Gain - 17
Audio - Quiet
Audio Tone - 65
Stabilizer - 3
Signal - 16
Volume - 16
Response - Inv
Tracking - Med
Iron Reject - Off
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Hope this helps,
Shell

Well done Michelle. Braddles had better lift his game to keep up with you now.

i5.

PS. Picked up my 5000 yesterday, but I will not be able to test it out for a week or two. Very interested in your reports.

many many thanks Shell!!

Congratulations on the finds... always nice to see pictures of gold.

How did the 5000 handle red clay areas? Was it wet out there? Did you get any false signals or ground noise?

Thanks for posting the settings you used.

Hi Censored,
The ground was damp from recent rains in our district. But it wasn't a heavy clay area. Highly mineralized laterite ground. The machine gave a few false signals in the fine gold setting, while Brad was having a go with it. I found it gave off a lot fewer false signals than my 4500. Which was great.

Jig(i5) Brad did really well himself out at this spot. It was a great trip all round. You know how well prepared he is, again it paid off for us
Shell

Thanks for the informtion,

I'd love to head out west one day, just love the look of the red soil.

One day.