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Metal Detecting for Gold
Reasons You May Not Be Finding Anything?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nightjar" data-source="post: 520756" data-attributes="member: 1414"><p>VicGold, We owned and swung the 4500 for 10 years before upgrading to a SDC & GPZ. Those two detectors paid for themselves over and over, nothing big, on average I would say many 1 - 2 grammers. </p><p>Probably 90% of the time we used the Minelab Commander 11" Mono. </p><p>My suggestion VGH is to follow MT's advice, read the manual over and over, (download one for free from Minelab if you don't have the full manual) use a shotgun pellet buried an inch or so and try different settings and most importantly play with the tone that suits you. I used a lower "hum" frequency and my partner up near the "mosquito" level. </p><p>Set a tone and swing over the target, alter tone and swing again, you will find a tone that particularly suits your hearing and the target signal will jump out of the ground.</p><p>Lastly I see you are swinging a 15" and are probably trying to cover too much ground too quickly, down size and the old adage, "low & slow.</p><p>You're seem to be searching known gold bearing ground, no one gets it all so your luck will change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nightjar, post: 520756, member: 1414"] VicGold, We owned and swung the 4500 for 10 years before upgrading to a SDC & GPZ. Those two detectors paid for themselves over and over, nothing big, on average I would say many 1 - 2 grammers. Probably 90% of the time we used the Minelab Commander 11" Mono. My suggestion VGH is to follow MT's advice, read the manual over and over, (download one for free from Minelab if you don't have the full manual) use a shotgun pellet buried an inch or so and try different settings and most importantly play with the tone that suits you. I used a lower "hum" frequency and my partner up near the "mosquito" level. Set a tone and swing over the target, alter tone and swing again, you will find a tone that particularly suits your hearing and the target signal will jump out of the ground. Lastly I see you are swinging a 15" and are probably trying to cover too much ground too quickly, down size and the old adage, "low & slow. You're seem to be searching known gold bearing ground, no one gets it all so your luck will change. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detecting for Gold
Reasons You May Not Be Finding Anything?
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