Jonathan Porter Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 G'day all, went out with the family yesterday to the same location I scored the 50 grams recently. This was Frieda's first chance of using the 4500 plus I was pretty keen to revisit the area as I have only given it a light going over.In the GPX Factor DVD there is a scene (spread over the two discs) where I dug a 3 OZ nugget at good depth using Smooth mode, I am no re-doing this area with the 4500 using the new Enhance timings and a number of other tweaks that were not available to me with the 4000 (Stabilizer, Inbuilt booster, Target volume etc). This machine is so smooth and I know that the 4500 is punching in heaps deeper in Enhance than the 4000 was in Smooth mode (did a scene to camera last week demonstrating the differences on a 5 1/2 ounce nugget in a noisy test bed).Yesterdays tally came in at 45 grams with the biggest bit being 38 grams, to say I'm impressed is an understatement. So far for 8 odd hours detecting time I've scored close on 100 grams of the good stuff. BTW Frieda scored the first piece with her new Gold Stalker 14", but I hogged the limelight. JP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin nuggethunting Posted April 27, 2008 Admin Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 Hello JP, You're a freakin gold animal! Congrats on the new finds with the GPX-4500. I spent this weekend working some old spots with the GPX-4500 & 18.5-inch Elliptical, but only ended up with one nugget. I guess it could have been worse, I could have gotten skunked. I ended up hitting a nice 3.5 (5 Grammer) in an old patch that I missed prior. The area has been worked very hard and the max depth in the area might only be two foot. I think the bigger nuggets (ounce plus) have been picked clean many years ago. Thanks for sharing your finds.Rob Allison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticEngineer Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 Hello JP, You're a freakin gold animal! Congrats on the new finds with the GPX-4500. I spent this weekend working some old spots with the GPX-4500 & 18.5-inch Elliptical, but only ended up with one nugget. I guess it could have been worse, I could have gotten skunked. I ended up hitting a nice 3.5 (5 Grammer) in an old patch that I missed prior. The area has been worked very hard and the max depth in the area might only be two foot. I think the bigger nuggets (ounce plus) have been picked clean many years ago. Thanks for sharing your finds.Rob AllisonGlad to hear you did not get skunked like I did. (lol...i'm still learning ) Thank you very much for take me out to Rich Hill Rob. I had a blast figuring this thing out. I now know what to expect as far as what shoes to wear and how to attack Rich Hill. I was so worn out by the time I left that I am not sure that I would have noticed if I WAS over a piece of gold. lol. Takes determination, thats for sure. My Chevro-legs just flat ran out of gas. (Probably from parking in the lowest parking lot and walking to the top where you and Travis were )Thanks again, I will purchase a membership to the 24k claims as soon as I have my truck back on the road, it is just a bit rough getting my Neon back there.Nathan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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