Now I hadn’t been having much luck with my GPX4500 and the 14” Elite, matter of fact no luck at all since I’ve owned it which is only about 6 months. This morning I had found a small patch of four little nuggets with my SDC and I thought after lunch Bruce and I will come back and I’ll give the GPX and the Elite one more crack and if no luck machine and coil will never see the light of day again.
Growing up just out of Ararat I am lucky enough to know a few farmers and prospectors around the area and always wanted to get into prospecting, so a few years ago I brought a GPX4000 and a Coiltek Terra-cotta 14” Mono.
Hi my name is Peter and I am 67 years old. I live in Melbourne and have been detecting for a few years now, as a hobby. I don’t get out as much as I would like to, but now being semi-retired and working less I hope to visit the gold fields a little more regularly with my wife. I like being out in the bush. The freedom and nature is at its finest and most importantly camping with my family and watching my grandsons grow up with this wonderful hobby around them. They love gold detecting.
Detecting within the West Australian Goldfields, the first morning started at 7:00 am, -4°C. My 14 year old daughter Shianah was super keen to get going. Shianah is using the GPX 5000 with the 14×9 Elite Mono with an external speaker so I can keep an eye and ear out for her. 7:10 am I hear the GPX 5000 blank out. Shianah yells out, “I have a signal but it’s too loud its trash.” I walk over to her, Shianah is looking down disappointed “its trash it sounds like metal” she said. “Oh well let’s just dig it out it could be good looking trash” I replied. Shianah smiles.
It was Christmas 2017. Full of food & feeling like I could pop at any time. I was so pleased to be invited to Staffordshire – Coiltek CTX 3030
My name is Neil Martens, I’m a Metal Detecting enthusiast. I live in the UK, North Wales. I’ve been detecting since 2013. I use the Minelab CTX 3030 and I think this is the best treasure detector out there today.
If your hobby is your job you never work a day in your life. Earlier this year I was faced with having to close my business down. I was reluctantly looking for a labouring job of some sort. I’ve been detecting on and off over the past fifteen years as a hobby with some success at times. I was talking with a gold mining friend one day about his new mining claim and he said “If your hobby is your job you never work a day in your life”. Which got me thinking maybe I could try gold detecting full time.
After suffering a lull in finding gold around virgin bushland in the Central Victorian Goldfields, I decided to head back to my car. I had wondered quite a distance away, so was following a bush track. Not being one to turn my detector off until I’m close to my vehicle, I decided to do the road verge, following the prospector’s ode of going low and slow. I was amazed at how many targets my 14” Elite Mono coil was picking up.
Hello, my name is Bruce and I am addicted to metal detecting. I dug my first find in June of 2013 and have not put the detector down since then.
