Gpx 6000 factory 11 inch vs Coilteck10x5 on Tibooburra gold

To say Smokey was surprised was an understatement. The only time you can get such a change of thought is through a larger sample size of digs. Tibooburra is such a good place to run tests as it provides a chance to get into normal ground type along with plenty of gold targets.
In this video you will see the moment that Smokey goes full circle from the aftermarket coils back to the factory 11 inch provided in the GPX package. From this day forward and a year later the 11 Inch coil has not come off his GPX6000. He'd seen and heard enough that while the after market coils are more responsive on shallower gold, they are missing the deeper ones in his experience.

[@pixmoproductions9207]

Nice to see you guys are still plugging away finding gold, met you both about 3 years ago when we went down to Karara and stayed there a couple of nights. I was sat with my mate and I heard your unmistakable voice across the site lol It was like meeting a movie star lol I spent a a few months looking for gold but never found any, I then gave up but still kept detecting. But recently I decided to try again but not go all in and get a GPX5000 again. Decided on the new Algoforce E1500 with a Coiltek 9" mono to get me started without breaking the bank lol Keep the videos coming as your efforts are not at all in vain, you have taught so many so much of the years and had fun at the same time. If you take gold hunting too seriously it will the better of you. Keep having fun and making more views for us all to watch we do appreciate you both and your efforts :)

[@SmokeyProspecting]

Thanks heaps for them super kind words. It’s good to hear people like yourself get positive things out of our clips. Would love to catch up if you are ever back out Warwick with the Algo, would love to see how it goes. 👍👍

[@adammurdock4026]

Was on the fence about getting a 6000, think your vid just confirmed it for me. Thanks!

[@darrel731]

Finally your back!! Thanks

[@evannicholson2823]

Nice work Smokey, love your vids, keep them coming,stay safe,cheers 👍👍👍

[@ohthatsgold]

That’s right that’s gold love your videos mate always have 👍💪👍

[@Rage_80]

Wow. I was just out at Tibooburra a couple weeks ago from Brisbane.

[@Trinette75]

always fun to watch 😊

[@jasonshaw3955]

Nice work

[@graememorton2358]

nice well done i am looking at going up there very soon and can i ask if you are camping out there where can you camp. cheers

[@SmokeyProspecting]

The caravan park in town is a good spot.

[@chrisc8856]

Fantastic hunt and comparison! Were you able to run with a stable threshold sound and what sensitivity? Watching Digger Dan, he is running all the way down on 1 sensitivity and I am starting to experiment with one or two sensitivity since the machine is so hot and they are saying it is back feeding or interfearing with itself on higher settings. Also have the 14x9 coiltec and use it in lieu of the 11. Only put the 10x5 on to do clean up. I run in normal ground even in hot soil. Always lots to learn! Thanks for taking us along.

[@SmokeyProspecting]

Interesting you run in normal in hot ground, we have never been able to get away with it in Queensland even on sens 1. Sens is a touchy subject and there are many ways to skin a cat but we like it high. Tibooburra we were able to run in normal and max in 9 sens and it was super quiet and stable. Thats the reason our average nugget for the trip was .03. Can’t even find one that small up in QLD due to needing to run difficult so it was a dream to detect in TiB.

[@chrisc8856]

@@SmokeyProspecting Interesting. Our conditions are likely much less hotness of soil but much greater EMI due to eysight to houses and town. When I went to the Nevada desert it is not hot but heavy ancient lake bed alkali. When afternoon thunder storms hit of course the lightening snaps in the head phones and when the alkali gets wet the 6000 became completely unstable and unusable. Had to get out the 7000 and it could handle. Hi speed dry winds whip up static electricity also so 6000 is pretty unstable in the desert in afternoon. I normally run max manual sensitivity in normal but it is quite noisy. The 10x5 is the least noisy likely due to high EMI. After seeing Digger Dan using sensitivity 1 and trying it was much less taxing on the brain :) Looking forward to experimenting some more.

[@kenmorrill3774]

I was hoping your were going to check each target found with the 11" coil, with the 10X5, to see if the smaller coil also picked up the target. I'm mainly using the smaller coil over shallow ground but would hate to miss something the 11" might pickup at depth!

[@SmokeyProspecting]

Hi Ken, yeah my take away from picking up over 400 nuggets that trip that it was always the 11 that was searching g out the deeper ones and didn’t miss out on much of the smaller shallower ones as well. The smaller ones didn’t blast you but was still obvious in the normal ground type. Still a matter of what each person feels comfortable with using in each situation but for me I trust the 11 now more that both coiltek 10x5 and NF 12x7. Not to say that my mind can’t be changed again in another situation but for now I’m confident in the factory 11 in most situations. 👍👍

[@kenmorrill3774]

@@SmokeyProspecting Thank you for the detailed reply. I like the 10x5 for working tight and shallow areas but in areas where the 11" is easy to use I should change over. I can rarely use normal ground setting so I may have to do some experimenting. Most of the gold I find is over .1g so I may not miss too much with the 11.

[@paulford4831]

G'day mate in Tibooburra at the moment ,any chance you could suggest a place to detect on the common ?i have never been on their ,been out on Gumvail and struggling this trip . Cheers paul

[@SmokeyProspecting]

Yeah we found it quiet this year too. There was. Spot I found a few in and never went back. The first right after you leave town from the family hotel side. This takes you down a track with the town on the right. There is a gully along that with heaps of mullock heaps. We found a few up out of the gully below the rocks.

[@ArjayMartin]

Do you ever make money with it, after the expenses?

[@SmokeyProspecting]

Hi mate, for us it’s a hobby only not a money making excercise. While we would love to make a career out of it, we just don’t have access to land that would allow us to consider doing it full time. Maybe one day it may happen but until then we will continue to work hard at our day jobs. 👍

[@ArjayMartin]

@@SmokeyProspecting Thanks.