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Metal Detecting for Gold
A day at Mt Crawford - is my detector functioning correctly?
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 90592" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>the 8" mono on a 5000 or 4500 will get as much small wheat sized gold as any other detector especially on highly mineralised ground and mullock heaps. the 5000 will probably win with the fine gold timing but running tests against the 4500/5000 both with 8" monos was a draw. there can be issues with small lead shot but thats the same with any detector- nice sweet sound. they are also very good on species, in my experience not as accurate as a VLF though running flat out on clear mullock or reef dumps. The major issue with the 8" round I have found is that the detector is way out of balance - not ground balance - just becomes very top heavy due to the small coil.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 90592, member: 981"] the 8" mono on a 5000 or 4500 will get as much small wheat sized gold as any other detector especially on highly mineralised ground and mullock heaps. the 5000 will probably win with the fine gold timing but running tests against the 4500/5000 both with 8" monos was a draw. there can be issues with small lead shot but thats the same with any detector- nice sweet sound. they are also very good on species, in my experience not as accurate as a VLF though running flat out on clear mullock or reef dumps. The major issue with the 8" round I have found is that the detector is way out of balance - not ground balance - just becomes very top heavy due to the small coil. [/QUOTE]
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A day at Mt Crawford - is my detector functioning correctly?
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