I had other devices with different brands but I was not successful in finding gold. When I saw a 5000 picking up nuggets of 22 grams where I had already passed I thought "I need this device!", I sold my old detector, with sacrifice I got to buy my GPX 5000 and then it was just to have a lot of patience, determination and luck that I started to make good finds in these first and happy six months of detection with my super GPX 5000 !!! Very happy! The photos are the result of two days of work in an area of gold that I discovered. The largest nugget of the first day weighed 17.2 grams and the second day weighed 38.4 grams.
Thank you Minelab for giving me the tool to fulfil a prospector's dream of success!
Itamar - Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil