XLT for nuggets?

[AceHand]

Hi, yeah, I'm new at this. Decided to take up prospecting. Wanted a detector for nuggets. Gonna try panning and sluicing too. The MXT was looking good. A relative gave me an XLT to use for this comming summer. Here in Wyoming, there's gold, but I believe it's quite small flakes and such. Am I spittin in the wind using the xlt for nuggets? I'm sure a real gold detector would be much better, from what I've read. Could someone recommend some settings, or at least some tips on setting it up? From what I have read, I'll need to tweak the factory prospecting mode for better results. Really don't want to tell him to take it back, as I know it's an expensive, good detector.

Thanks, Tom

 

[Pirate John]

The good news is the XLT will find gold nuggets, the bad news is they have to be larger nuggets. The XLT is not designed to find small gold like a GMT. A few years ago I went prospecting with some friends here in Northern California, I was using an MXT and the others were using a GMT, Minelab Eureka, SD2200 and one was using a GP3000. No one found any gold except for the one person using the XLT. She just had her coil in the right spot and found a nice 1/4 oz nugget. In order to find the very small stuff I would go with a GMT if you are just going to prospect or an MXT for a multi purpose detector. The MXT will not find the flakes the GMT will but for me I don't care to find specks I can hardly see, besides I have found gold with my MXT as small as a match head. Good luck