I can’t recall seeing anything on here about the GM 2k. I know some of you out there must have one by now. Interested to hear your thoughts on it over the 1k. I know of three friends that have one. One doesn’t like it & going to stick to the 1k, another just said it was ok but didn’t rave about it & the third hasn’t got out to the goldfields with it yet.
I see on you tube & forums people raving about it. Admittedly a lot of those also sell them. So no surprises they would pump it up. My thoughts are is it worth twice the price of the 1k?
I know the 1k’s bread & butter is tiny fly shit gold vacuuming it up by bedrock scrubbing, literally. So yesterday I took my 1k for a walk. First time in a couple of years. I know it is lethal for that kind of detecting. So I scraped the moss & surface dirt off the schist bedrock with my pick & then scrubbed the cracks & crevices with a dish washing brush. Occasionally ripping up the cracks & crevices with my little scraper to get deeper down material out.
The first and most important thing you will notice is Gold Monster 2000 is much Quieter and stable than the 1000 not sure if the depth is much different as have not had both detectors side by side to compare on a target, looking forward to the bigger coil when it’s released as this will make a difference in target depth
Thank you. It has a threshold sound too doesn’t it? Where as the 1000 runs dead quiet until it gets a target & signals with a real bang. Even on tiny gold. So when you say the 2k runs much quieter are you meaning the threshold runs quiet & stable. Or the signal it gives on a target is quieter? Considering that the 1000 runs silent with no threshold at all until it bangs on a target. Or are you meaning the 1000 falses quite a lot making it appear chattery & noisy? Thanks.
I will be seeing two of my friends tomorrow who have a 2k each. One likes it, the other not so much. Prefers his 1000. I may end up having a play with them. Cheers
Borrow one and take it for a run over the same patch you worked with the 1000. If it picks up more in the already worked bit then it is better. Then run itover some uncleaned ground. See ifyou get any targets. Mark them and go back with the 1000 and see if it picks them up as well.
Well I caught up with two of my mates that both have a 2k. One that likes it & the other who doesn’t & is sticking with his 1k. I had a play with one of them but not in the creek on gold. The friend that likes it says it picks up tiny gold at more depth than his 1k. He showed me some tiny bits he found & he said one of them was down about 4”. Even if it wasn’t 4”, I know people stretch depths a bit, but at any depth other than scrubbing the coil on the gold on bedrock I was impressed.
The day I left he found a .7 of a gram bit & that was his biggest of a few days. I doubt his total would have been 1 gram. He said he was finding gold over ground he had thrashed with his 1k. That’s what it is all about when a new detector comes out & what I am proving with my 6000.
I just stuck with my GPX 6000 & the little 10x5 Coiltek GoldHawk coil. I managed 14 bits for 2.4 grams & three of those were pretty small. Knowing how hammered the areas have been I was pretty happy with that.
Three little bits ended up being in one crevice. Got a signal & ended up scraping & smashing the crevice open more & used my crevice sucker pump to flush out & suck up the contents.
Then went for a cruise on the quad bike. Big country up there. You might like to click on this pic again to go full screen. The country just appears to go for ever & the track disappears over the horizon. You wouldn’t want to get caught out up here in shit weather. Labour weekend it was buried in snow.
& was a bit of fun.
