⭐ Gold Detecting Show'n Tell

[Hawkear]

Hi Hawkear,

Sorry if I am "telling grandma how to suck eggs" but it sounds like you would prefer to have the Threshold on whilst you have the 6000 in Auto or Auto+ ? You can do that by long pressing the Normal/Difficult button for 2.5 seconds.

I really disliked the Threshold off when I had the 6000 as I am sure it misses targets, but my mother only ever uses hers with Threshold off as she hates the noise.

Again, sorry if I'm telling you something you already know

Not at all Northeast, Relatively new to the 6 and learning by experience. Like most guys I’m a “who needs to read a manual guy” and hadn’t read that the soil button was a way of turning on threshold in auto and vice versa turning it off in manual.
I actually prefer to have the threshold off and not having to continually deal with noise variations. I used to run my 2100 and most of my earlier machines silent by turning down the threshold until barely audible and then just twitching the threshold control until just below audibility. Worked well for me.
After your post I went out and tried the auto settings with threshold on but also experimented with the maximum manual setting with threshold off. That produced three small nuggets from the Hard hills which is another very thrashed area of Wedderburn. I did however seem to get a bit of interference that was not evident in the silent auto settings.
A bit more work to be done there, but thanks for the advice.

 

[Hawkear]

Yesterday's result. 13 bits for 4.8gr. My best for a long time. Getting to grips with the sounds of the 6. Pity as have to head home today.

 

[grubstake]

Yesterday's result. 13 bits for 4.8gr. My best for a long time. Getting to grips with the sounds of the 6. Pity as have to head home today.

That's a brilliant day for heavily hunted Wedderburn in 2024, Geoff - wow!
That 6K is working very well indeed for you - it's magic.

 

[wiley coyote]

Good finds Hawkear. What depth were they?

 

[Hawkear]

Good finds Hawkear. What depth were they?

The large bit a faint but clear down signal a good 12" under tree roots in a partially dug hole in white pipe clay. The two other gram sized bits also down signals around 6' to 8"in yellow clay. The rest at varying shallower depths. All were found in ground worked by old timers.
Whilst not keeping an accurate account of depths, I got the feeling that they were just a little deeper than my normal finds possibly due to the yellow/white clay in which they were found.

 

[Northeast]

I got the feeling that they were just a little deeper than my normal finds possibly due to the yellow/white clay

Are you able to run in Normal at all or does it make things too noisy. I tried Normal many times because people kept saying that it makes such a difference but there were very few places (actually none that I can think of) where Normal could be used comfortably.

Jonathan Porter had said there was very little difference between Normal and Difficult when it came to small gold sensitivity, which I am guessing means that Normal may give more advantage on the larger targets, if the ground allows for that mode to be used.

(Found Jonathan's comment - explains it better than me ) "Small target sensitivity comes from the Difficult mode, so in Normal the timing is a blend of Normal and Difficult. If the gold is primarily tiny then there will be little difference between Normal and Difficult so do-not unnecessarily put up with ground noise using Normal in the hopes of achieving more sensitivity on tiny gold." From here detectorprospector.com/topic/16163-reg-wilson-jp-gpx-6000-commentary-tips/#comment-166827

Great work the past few days