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Vance If you are on the fence and want to invest in a detector that would have a wider range of benefits for you both in Arizona and Alaska I would suggest adding an Equinox 800 or preferably the 900 to your arsenal. This will allow you to hunt the trash-rich areas with a bit of discrimination and will still work very well on tiny gold. It is impressive to see how deep these detectors find targets and how small of bedrock gold they will find.

I better open and test mine and stop playing with my other new toys!

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If you have one too sell can you let me know

With all the fantastic stuff I’ve seen you post, that is some compliment!

Ouch, that's happened to me before! As usual you did your best, but that is the fate of many old coppers. 😢 Here's hoping you find another with more detail. 🍀 You're really finding some awesome stuff!

It was a little surreal. After all these years I couldn’t really believe there were this many. I had to go back to the car and empty my pouch because the pocket with the bullet pouch was pulling my vest down.

Well, it is only 62 grains. So about 4.02 g - way too light to be a large cent or just about any other US coin. So it might be a very worn token.

Weighs 25 ounces makes bubbles in peroxide found in an ancient riverbed that runs along a major fault line not attracted to magnets no reaction to acids

I have tried cleaning parts of both sides with my Andres crayon set. I have gotten it down to the green patina but I still don’t see any detail.

Ahh you're all the ball, it's probably adjusting to NZD but just doesn't say so.

New coil arrived today, works great, problem solved. Thanks Nolan @ Minelab! Time elapsed April 25 - May 14 = 19 days

I saw a similar thing happen in the flyfishing industry over 20 years ago. I owned a fly shop in the 1990's which IMO was the peak of the fly shop era. There were probably 10 or more fly shops in 30 mile area all doing a pretty good business. We had a 1400 sq/ft shop, did guided trips and had access to a private ranch where people could pay to stay multiple days and flyfish private river access and small lakes. It was a pretty good business that made me and my partner a decent part time income and employed a few local people as well. Then in the early 2000's, premium fly rod brands started selling to big box retailers. As others have said about metal detectors, people would buy from the big box retailer and then come to our shop expecting us to show them how to use a flyrod and tell them the best places to fish. As more and more of this kind of thing happened, it was apparent what direction things were going. You can't make money selling a few odds and ends and fly tying material. The big money was in selling the rods, not the flies and other small stuff. So when Cabela's announced they were building a store about 7 miles from us, we decided to shut sown the shop. Since that time all the shops in the area have closed there doors and more big box stores have picked up premium flyrod brands. There are still a few hold outs in the industry that will only sell to small authorized dealers, but for the most part even the premium fly rod brands will sell a flyrod to anyone direct. It's the wave of the future, so I wouldn't expect the metal detecting industry to be any different. I for one do try and support local dealers as much as possible.

Been there for a long time myself. Best part about prospecting is being in the middle of nowhere with only a dog or a burro for company. Me in a past life....

I`m in a fairly remote area, get near everything by post/courier, Coles (OZ Supermarket chain) bulk deliver groceries free every few months but I still like to have my detector, coils etc. posted from my dealer as he`s 500ks away one way. I guess to me it will make little difference once Minelab has gone direct, the way it`s going the day is coming when all our local country pubs/hotels close. We`ll end up a bunch of impersonal antisocialists and have to hang tassels on our curtain holders.

When I click the Detectorist link above it says $2,275. Had to check back and VicR had a post in January advising that same price. It’s not showing up as NZ $$ when you click the link is it Phrunt?

May 4 2003 We continue to make progress on our trail. We have not heard or seen anyone in the entire area including camp at last year's dig site. It’s completely quiet. I can’t explain it but I have a sort of ominous feeling about the trail and Dreamwind Canyon. It’s as if I can feel bad energy as we are working. We are all just going about our business without any distractions so everything is off to a good start. Paul is a real work horse and is doing more than his share of labor. We are making great progress and I am hopeful that we will have the new camp set up within a few days or maybe a week. TO BE CONTINUED ................

Ease of use is relative, the GPX series has much more settings and timings that covers a variety of soil conditions. GPX has much improved performance over older minelab PI. Read Detector Data Base and most of your questions will be answered.

Doc, you don't hope I'm right in the way I'm meaning. That walk in store I am talking about is much more likely to be a Cableas or a Walmart or even a Costco. Independent small scale shops are pretty much limited to only those that have been in business for years and are still hanging in there. Guys like you Doc, and Ron, Gerry, Rob, etc. When you all close the doors, and that will not be too far down the line, nobody is going to replace you. We've all had a good go, myself included, but we are the past, not the future. I've heard people complain and make noise about how Minelab does things for ages, yet fall all over themselves to be first in line to buy that new model when the time comes. If the GPZ 8000 is Minelab direct only, will people boycott Minelab in support of dealers? Dream on.

Why not prospecting audio theme, as the original Tom's settings? Objects in the detection limits gives you that special barking sound 😉

I don't expect so, but I also don't rely on my local dealer (who is reachable and knowledgeable) for that either unless my detector is just plain dead (and even then, I am going to the manufacturer's warranty support dept anyway). If my phone is actually working in the field, and I have a question about how to do something with the detector that is not in the user guide, I would just post the question on Detector Prospector. Plenty of help here (including all these legendary dealers) and multiple brains are better than one (or none).

Say what you will about the XP wireless coil and peripherals, but see below for one of the actual advantages of the XP wireles architecture. Just scan the recovery area with the coil. Hold the remote or smart puck in your hand for target ID. Use wireless phones or your remote's speaker for audio. Only wish they had a small elliptical that was compatible with the D2. I've used this method often for scanning sidewalls and removed dirt piles for excavated relic pits. I don't actually have this coil handle, I just remove the lower rod from the stem of my XP and have at it using the stem as a handle, but have often thought about fabricating such a thing.

When I’m in the field one day and I need help with a problem that I may be having will they be there? It was a time Minelab was eating humble pie wanting dealers but now you made them big bye offering support after the sale that wasn’t costing Minelab a dime. If Minelab don’t need dealers I’m not so sure I need them due to the fact we see new detectors coming out everyday from other companies that may equal anything Minelab has to offer. Chuck

You’re right, Steve, there are a lot of people that like to buy online but I think the personal touch when you buy online and then get to show up for training later is a competitive advantage for some dealers over the others who market and sell online. I don’t expect (or really want) Minelab to start doing it.

Steve I hope you're right. HOWEVER, there are only so many hours in a day. I feel compelled to help people that purchased a Minelab detector from someone other than myself, even though I don't have the time to take care of my customers and big box store customers too. I have customers that say, I know I bought my detector from XYZ store but no one there can answer my question, and being you are a Minelab dealer I was wondering if you could answer just one question for me. Which invariably turns into 20 questions and a 50 minute conversation. There is no polite way to say, hey so sorry. That's why you should buy from your local dealer who uses the machines they sell. First, that runs contrary to my personality of wanting to help people interested in this hobby, and Second, these could be possible customers for my accessory items down the road. But I can tell you it absolutely kills me when I have a person who I literally spent hours and numerous calls telling them how to set up their GPX5000 purchased from a different company, who years later calls me back and says. "I appreciate it so much that you helped me with my GPX5000 a couple years back so I was wondering if you could help me set up my GPX6000." When I asked where they got their 6000, it was from the same place they purchased the 5000 who gave them zero customer service after the sale. It's frustrating. Seriously, I don't know how detector dealers stay in business. Doc