I am a big believer in research versus reward and I have proven this over and over again. In this modern age time is precious and I see to many people in the field simply picking spots thru no more than a simple drive by. Don't get me wrong I don't mind this as it often leaves lots of areas untouched by the modern detectorist. Myself I spend many hours on the computer trolling the internet for old and modern gold articles helping me pick a likely spot to detect. I love to read 1890+ mining literature and after reading thru some old 1939 mining reports [wow what a wealth of information] I decided to give a new spot a go. I did a recky of the area spending over an hour walking around and the big thing I noticed, lots of old timers workings and no detector holes, this is not a common occurrence this day and age as most areas have seen modern day detectors. This of course meant one of 2 things, either all the gold was gone or no one has been out in recent times to detect the area. Myself personally I get very excited when I come across an area without modern detector holes. So off I set and within 1 minute I struck my first target a nice .5g pieces water worn. I kept working and yet another piece .2g water worn. It only got better the next target was about 18 inches down a 5g piece water worn. At this stage I was like a big kid in a candy store, and the best was yet to come. Under a large dead tree branch a nice low high signal very subtle and easily missed. I cleared the area and 3feet and 1hr later out popped a whopping 20g piece [SG weight]. The best part of the day was I then had to race home and watch my sons Basketball team win 32-25 thumbs up a great day in all. Yet once again the power of the "Z" DVT technology has amazed me, the GPZ14 snagged this 20g piece @ 3feet in [High Yield/Difficult, Sensitivity 11] amazing for the coil size. Don't underestimate the power of this setting as it has proven to me just how good it is time and time again. Settings for the area: High Yield / Difficult Sensitivity: 11 Audio Smoothing: Low Tone: 33 [Great for the deeper targets] Threshold: 26 Ground Tracking: Auto
Tryhard – Victoria, Australia