⭐ 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

 

[Hawkear]

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

Just trying to get the 6000 to run as quietly as possible so that I can concentrate better on a lesser number of sounds. Running in difficult would defeat that purpose.
Maybe with that approach I was able to pick up signals that others may have overlooked had they been overwhelmed with too much noise to analyse. The relative paucity of shot I picked up seemed to indicate the area had been well detected before.
I think that gold detecting is very much a human listening game as a technology game. Minelab seem to have given us a very good bit of technology and its up to us to use our listening and analysing skills to take advantage of that.
Rather than take away space from the purpose of this post, which is to display finds, delving into an individual's ideas about what constitutes good listening and analysing skills or techniques to determine whether to dig or not to dig may be a subject worthy of another topic. I am sure there would be as many different ideas as there are detectors and detectorists.

 

[Ausgold]

Nice gold Hawkear, interesting comments you made.

 

[Moneybox]

Just trying to get the 6000 to run as quietly as possible so that I can concentrate better on a lesser number of sounds. Running in difficult would defeat that purpose.
Maybe with that approach I was able to pick up signals that others may have overlooked had they been overwhelmed with too much noise to analyse. The relative paucity of shot I picked up seemed to indicate the area had been well detected before.
I think that gold detecting is very much a human listening game as a technology game. Minelab seem to have given us a very good bit of technology and its up to us to use our listening and analysing skills to take advantage of that.
Rather than take away space from the purpose of this post, which is to display finds, delving into an individual's ideas about what constitutes good listening and analysing skills or techniques to determine whether to dig or not to dig may be a subject worthy of another topic. I am sure there would be as many different ideas as there are detectors and detectorists.

I took a bit of time away from treasure hunting to find a few nuggets and while at it I was trying the same. Unfortunately there were not enough targets to give me an end result. I have a friend who regularly detects with his wife and friend. His wife works without threshold and consistently out performs both guys. It may come back to my theory why I'm never totally satisfied with my results from the GPX6000. It finds so many targets that I don't move on to find the few bigger pieces. Running without threshold would remove a lot of the weak signals so perhaps she avoids a lot of tiny time consuming small targets and brings home more big gold simply because she covers more ground in the same time.



At my current rate of less than a nugget an hour that $4000 ounce seems a long way off

 

[Mackka]

I don’t know mate at a gram an hour that would make a nice little paycheck for 40 hours playing in the dirt outside.

 

[OzzieAu]

Just back home from a trip to Avoca and scored a few tiddlers with the AlgoForce and 12x8 Evo. Also picked up a nice little speccie. I was happy with the way the 12x8 performed as I've heard that some are problematic on the Algo