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I've owned a GP 3500 for a few years, but over the past 12 months, I haven't used it. Mainly because my last outing produced an epic hole digging saga that eventually revealed a large piece of rio bar.
I joined this forum a few days ago, and after reading through quite a few posts, I decided to get back on the horse. I got all my gear together and then set off early this morning to a spot I hadn't been to before. I figured I'd spend an hour or so just to suss it out. In less than 5 mins, the detector had picked something up and after a short scraping and digging with the pick, I unearthed a 'hot rock'. A little further on, and that scream came back again. After a little more digging, I unearthed an old toy car. This had my stumped as the place i was at is in the middle of nowhere. There are no roads for more than 20klm and then, the roads are just dirt tracks, yet here, in about 20cm of soil, was a bloody old toy car.........The stories it could have told me.......
I kept going for about another half hour and found a few more 'hot rocks' then I called it quits as the heat was starting to get the better of me. I am in the NT and the weather during the build-up can be a little uncomfy.
The area seemed to be highly mineralised and it didn't seem to matter if I was using fixed or tracking mode. I also tried playing with the discrimination, but it didn't seem to make much of a difference.
Even though I didn't find any colour, I was glad I went for a walk with the ol' 35 and it was good to be back swinging again. I'm not about to give up and I'll keep searching.
There were some positives to the trip. I enjoyed munching on some bush tucker, had a dip in a clean flowing creek, and I also shot a nice buffalo, which I cut up and took back home for dog food as the poor buggers are starting to get sick of dry food.
Heres a pic of all my findings from this morning. Oh, and that bullet is not mine. I also found that with the detector.
I joined this forum a few days ago, and after reading through quite a few posts, I decided to get back on the horse. I got all my gear together and then set off early this morning to a spot I hadn't been to before. I figured I'd spend an hour or so just to suss it out. In less than 5 mins, the detector had picked something up and after a short scraping and digging with the pick, I unearthed a 'hot rock'. A little further on, and that scream came back again. After a little more digging, I unearthed an old toy car. This had my stumped as the place i was at is in the middle of nowhere. There are no roads for more than 20klm and then, the roads are just dirt tracks, yet here, in about 20cm of soil, was a bloody old toy car.........The stories it could have told me.......
I kept going for about another half hour and found a few more 'hot rocks' then I called it quits as the heat was starting to get the better of me. I am in the NT and the weather during the build-up can be a little uncomfy.
The area seemed to be highly mineralised and it didn't seem to matter if I was using fixed or tracking mode. I also tried playing with the discrimination, but it didn't seem to make much of a difference.
Even though I didn't find any colour, I was glad I went for a walk with the ol' 35 and it was good to be back swinging again. I'm not about to give up and I'll keep searching.
There were some positives to the trip. I enjoyed munching on some bush tucker, had a dip in a clean flowing creek, and I also shot a nice buffalo, which I cut up and took back home for dog food as the poor buggers are starting to get sick of dry food.
Heres a pic of all my findings from this morning. Oh, and that bullet is not mine. I also found that with the detector.