Go Minelabbing Day - Brisbane - 18 May 2013

Woolowin

 Kalinga Scott Hall, Bertha Street

 Saturday 18 May 2013 - 9am -1pm

Event highlights

FREE entry

Games & Prizes including:

Opportunities to WIN great Minelab prizes

Free raffle for a Minelab CTX 3030 (A $2500.00 value)

Free raffle for a Minelab X-TERRA 705 (A $850.00 value)

Raffles to be held at 1:00pm. You must be present to win.

Treasure hunts for both adults and kids (Bring your own metal detector or borrow one of our Minelab detectors, available on the day)

30 minor prizes available to win

Minelab metal detector demonstrations by people who have used their gear in Australia for years.

Display of some of the finds members from the Brisbane Metal Detecting Club have recovered over the years.

Free Minelab showbags

Balloons for the kids

Refreshments & Food
  - Free morning tea at 10:00 am
  - BBQ lunch provided by the Brisbane Metal Detecting Club

Bring your own chair as seating will be limited

Proudly Brought to you by:  The Open Range

An RDO for me so I will be there.

Non Related Topic - Codename: Digby

Ok, sorry, just making a plug for my brother's book.

For anyone who lives in Brisbane, especially the bayside suburbs, this may be the book for you. My brother Steve N. Porter (@steve_n_porter) finished his first novel back in December 2012. Codename: Digby is the first book in a trilogy.

Codename: Digby: Pursuit of the Dragon Lady - On his days off, Jason "Megsy" McGraw likes nothing better than a quiet paddle. Harry Carter likes nothing better than to not get killed while he works. When Jason finds Harry hidden away in the mangroves his life becomes one of bad guys, dodgy packages and a mystery from the cold war.

The second book is also close to release. Codename: Greenland is due for release in June 2013.

You can purchase the book through Amazon in either electronic or paperback format.

Electronic: $2.95 US
Paperback: $14.95 US

Back from Kilkivan

Kilkivan

Back from Kilkivan Sunday evening and have finished packing everything away and washed the car.

It was great to get some experience and confidence with the CTX 3030. I ran it most of the time in RELIC mode as I was essentially out in the bush and wanted to find everything that I swung the coil over.

I was hoping there would be other CTX 3030 users there but unfortunately not. The vast majority of users had GPX 5000's or earlier models. There was very little gold found but strangely enough, the person who found the most was using a Whites MXT.

I probably spent about 15 hours in total over 3 days actually metal detecting. The arm did get a little tired and I found myself changing arms for a short while just to give my favoured arm a rest. Maybe if I was digging a bit more I wouldn't have that problem.

Battery life was great. I took up some alkaline batteries just in case but never used them. I like the idea of the WM10 as I just placed it in my left trouser pocket and it did not get in the way of detecting or digging.

Barb wire, nails, bullets, bolts, tin, lead.........all rubbish (sorry about poor quality pic)

I wasn't expecting much from this trip (finds wise). I knew it was a site for gold hunting and not treasure hunting. However, the trip did what I was hoping it would, give me confidence and familiarity with the CTX so that now I can head out to more public places and not look like a total newbie.