Ok, here is the small found with the Infinium 8 inch mono coil. I know this is not all that impressive but it was my goal to find the small.
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I found this little flake on exposed bedrock while hunting along my secret brook. These little crumbs are just a whisper in a smooth running threshold. Ground balance is important here and must be conducted in this manner - when I get to the secret brook I look for a nicely deposited gravel bar with the material looking a uniform size. I then ground balance in the slow track setting. I set the coil on the bar and switch on the machine - I let it boot up and usually it is quiet within the first two or three up and down pumps of the coil and then silence. Now switch to lock. This is the best approach for hunting on exposed bedrock or bedrock with shallow overburden as the ground does not change much. If your machine is purring smoothly you will have to listen for the little whispers from crumbs in the cracks. There will be no dual tone or no single tone but rather a slight hint of change in the hum. This three grain crumb was about 1 inch down and under black sand. It will pay for you to have a good pinpointer to locate these little bits as pinpointing with the 8 on this small target is difficult if not impossible. Now, when I move into the stream bed where there are a variety of different sized rocks I stop and ground balance again. This time you will have to GB in fast track. I usually try to GB over an area with a variety of stone sizes. When done the GB process I leave the setting in fast track not lock. This is where you find quickly changing mineralization. There will be larger "hot rocks" and "cold rocks" with patches of mineralized ground in between equaling rapidly changing ground. This is where fast track will get the job done. Altho it is nearly impossible to get the Infinum to run perfectly quiet in this hunting mode and in these conditions it will be possible to learn the tones of the "hot" and "cold" rocks. A cold rock is a rock with absolutely nothing to interest the Finny but will give a single tone signal because of the abrupt change in the auto track feature. Listen and learn. I know most people hunt for the trophy nuggets in the deep but sometimes finding the small can lead to the big or many more small crumbs. Good luck hunting and I hope this gets someone some mellow yellow!
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I found this little flake on exposed bedrock while hunting along my secret brook. These little crumbs are just a whisper in a smooth running threshold. Ground balance is important here and must be conducted in this manner - when I get to the secret brook I look for a nicely deposited gravel bar with the material looking a uniform size. I then ground balance in the slow track setting. I set the coil on the bar and switch on the machine - I let it boot up and usually it is quiet within the first two or three up and down pumps of the coil and then silence. Now switch to lock. This is the best approach for hunting on exposed bedrock or bedrock with shallow overburden as the ground does not change much. If your machine is purring smoothly you will have to listen for the little whispers from crumbs in the cracks. There will be no dual tone or no single tone but rather a slight hint of change in the hum. This three grain crumb was about 1 inch down and under black sand. It will pay for you to have a good pinpointer to locate these little bits as pinpointing with the 8 on this small target is difficult if not impossible. Now, when I move into the stream bed where there are a variety of different sized rocks I stop and ground balance again. This time you will have to GB in fast track. I usually try to GB over an area with a variety of stone sizes. When done the GB process I leave the setting in fast track not lock. This is where you find quickly changing mineralization. There will be larger "hot rocks" and "cold rocks" with patches of mineralized ground in between equaling rapidly changing ground. This is where fast track will get the job done. Altho it is nearly impossible to get the Infinum to run perfectly quiet in this hunting mode and in these conditions it will be possible to learn the tones of the "hot" and "cold" rocks. A cold rock is a rock with absolutely nothing to interest the Finny but will give a single tone signal because of the abrupt change in the auto track feature. Listen and learn. I know most people hunt for the trophy nuggets in the deep but sometimes finding the small can lead to the big or many more small crumbs. Good luck hunting and I hope this gets someone some mellow yellow!
listen for the ripples in the threshold for the small ones the same goes for larger ones at the fringe of detection.
on coil movement in one direction.
what'cha say ~ more venturin' ? K~D