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I really like my CTX, it really suits my milder soils loaded with older silver coins, but I think a bit of a giveaway its days are numbered is Coiltek discontinuing their CTX aftermarket coils for it, I'm a bit sad about this, I never got to try one as I was a very late adopter of the CTX getting it not too long before I got my Manticore. Coiltek CTX coils discontinued. To me at least this is a pretty obvious sign the CTX is done for. It's not selling anymore and obviously the aftermarket coils were not viable with the Equinox and Manticore taking over, even though it's still their flagship it's clearly done for by the powers that be. I don't think we'll see a new CTX, they've moved on, the technology was obviously not capable for higher mineralised soils and they were unable to improve that. My hopes of a CTX 4040 are at an all-time low. I should try track down a CTX coil from @Coiltek before it's too late, perhaps they have one floating around on a shelf somewhere they'd sell. The real "Legend" is dead. As a big fan of Coiltek coils and the CTX, this is bad news for me.

Will I be able to wait for a 10x5"?...It should have been a better shot if not having the M8 yet... We'll see🤔

So, to add to the confusion they called the 14" DD Pro Elite an Elite coil when its bundle wound? I guess most of these are all old discontinued coils, few appear on their website.

The Coiltek 14" DD went through a few different versions. Terracotta 14" DD Terracotta 14" DD Pro Tan coloured 14" DD Pro Elite Tan coloured 14" DD Pro Elite with revised wings Then to avoid confusion with the Elite series mono coils, it was renamed the 14" DD Goldstalker So these days with the current line-up, Elite coils are all flat wound monos in Camo, and the Goldstalkers (14" and 22") are tan coloured and bundle wound. The 14" is DD only, but the 22" comes in Mono or DD version.

Tonight I was at our club meeting (PCSC) and I told a couple of guys I had new detectors. I said one of them I bought on sale, the Manticore. Two of them responded to me and said they had just been to Bass Pro Shops and seen the sale! One said he wished he would have bought. I don't know where these guys are coming from but all the real prospectors I know buy out of state and don't pay the sales tax. This is a big reason to not have a California dealer if you want something. We're supposed to report the purchase at the end of the year so the state can get their 10-11%! Amazon dealers and eBay sellers collect the tax but not our good dealers. Some goods get through other countries without a tax and some good from abroad make it to us without tax. This is an incentive to buy from a dealer. You save $100 on a $1000 detector.

My rock is almost identical I had cleaned off some black that's how it look when I found it

Had one of my own question marks a couple years back. Here's my guess as to what your is as well.

Thanks for the info. Been prospecting with the Legend LG24, been holding off on the LG15. Just placed an email order for the NEL Snake.

NE nah still have the old one as is when bought, when they first hit the shelves. PiOz Sold the Axiom found the E1500 with its available spiral mono coil selection filled its shoes. Enjoy the 6K they are a magic detector.

Mountain Lions can sound like a woman screaming for her life. Did it sound like that?

If having physical product to look at is important, you can see why Minelab would lose interest in independent dealers. They put far more detectors at far more locations going the big box route, even if the people at the store are not as knowledgeable. Most of us simply have no independent dealer in our area but we probably have one of the listed big box stores nearby. Cabelas probably buys more Minelabs than all the independent dealers put together.

Glad you got your coil. It should do very well. I’m still waiting on mine, so you give me hope that it will show up in time.

I am seeing very similar performance as Jeff. I think Nokta improved & refined V1.14 some, both Dt & be. The difference between Dt 0 & Dt 1 is very obvious, especially in mineralized soil. In milder soil it takes a higher setting to see the same jump in target acquisition. For me this is a pretty significant improvement. Nokta has really turned a trick with the Dt feature.

Ahh, I see. Totally makes sense now. Don't know why I didn't think of that. Yeah, same price as dealers, so what would compel me to buy from Minelab directly? I would much rather buy from a dealer than to give ML double the profit. But that's just me.

Hi Norvic, not on topic, but what ever did happen to the Axiom? Just received a new 6000 as well got a very good deal. Can't wait to get out next month.

The V1.15 update was seamless for me today. I setup my normal park hunting program and added a setting of 1 for Deep Target. I did not notice a change in the overall audio on that setting of 1. I do start to hear a bit of wavering if I set DT to 2. Any higher setting causes distorted audio for sure where I detect. I did detect some targets as non-ferrous at a park today that the Legend detected as ferrous during an earlier hunt. They are some brass fittings on a now defunct sprinkler system line that is buried at 12" deep. I dug down to one of the fittings during an earlier hunt to see what the target was. I repeated that today on an adjacent fitting. I got a very clear high tone with target IDs between 50 and 54 on both of the deep brass targets which I left in place. So for me anyway, Deep Target even set on 1 can help the Legend with deep target ferrous/non ferrous target identification. It's almost like an iron filter setting of -1 or something similar. That will definitely be good for me if it helps the Legend to delay the inevitable trend of tending towards iron responses on deeper non ferrous targets especially those deeper than 8". I will gladly accept another inch or so of non-ferrous target identification using a 1 or maybe 2 setting of Deep Target.

You have to go to the USA Minelab site, not the worldwide one, I guess soon they'll redirect USA customers to the US site. Here's a link. Minelab GPX 6000 All Gold Detector with 11” Monoloop & 14” Double-D Waterproof Coils This is quite funny, you click on their find a store thing, and it's absolutely swamped by big box and chain stores. Alaska Mining and Diving was extremely lucky, I guess the name put it first before it got swallowed up.

Not sure if this is the right section to put this in. But, I am wondering if there are any metal detectorists in the Inland Empire that would be willing to link up and do some Coin and Jewelry detecting here locally (parks, beaches, old homesteads, etc) and also do some gold detecting out near the high desert areas of Barstow and Randsburg? I'm open to other areas, too. Also looking for a meteorite hunting partner as well. Truth be told, I currently drive a 2018 Toyota Camry. So, the local hunting I can get to with no problem. I can even get out to the desert areas. HOWEVER, once I get to the desert, I can't venture too far off-road. So, hoping to find someone with better off-road capabilities that I can meet in the area out there and possibly ride with them out to the detecting sites. Compensation will be provided. If this is the wrong section for this, I apologize in advance.

It would be interesting to test some of these that I have on some sites like you are describing Jeff, I honestly feel three of the ones I have would probably surprise you, just how good they are, and as I said it would be interesting for sure to do side by side comparisons with you and get your thoughts on them, if I were detecting salt water beaches i would probably have a different take on things but I do not, I do have areas with heavy magnetite and heavy salt content and I can only base what I see on the ground I detect, i do have a few hot rocks I deal with but very few where I use the beep and digs, the beep and digs I am only using to detect coins and jewelry and a few relics.

So, is this something that they are already doing here in the United States? I was just on the Minelab website earlier today reading about the GPX 6000 and did not see any options to buy from the website. It still had the button showing where to buy from local dealers. Just wondering if I'm missing something.

Sorry I'm in Austin Texas

I found this little guy in a parking lot.. its completely clear besides has inclusions in it, and at a certain angle you can see rainbow colors. Also looking at it from the top down it has 4 corners..when you put a light under it

Honestly, I hunt like the video demonstrated for days on end whether it is at a "ghost town" site like the one in the video or even just hunting on some of the park sites in my area. Granted, I did have the recovery speed a little higher at that site than I normally use on less nail polluted sites which does shorten the length of the audio response. So for me, it's not just about the digital versus hybrid versus analog audio. It's more about can these Tesoro like detectors actually hunt some of the sites I go to? At sites like that where there are thousands of nails, unknown hundreds of thousands of hot rocks which VLFs will give a response on and ground mineralization from magnetite that is off the scale, if I choose to use a VLF, it has to have really good simultaneous multi frequency operation in order to have half of chance at determining that there is actually a non ferrous target under the coil, way before any audio response. Otherwise, a single frequency detector no matter how good it is will just call that zinc sitting on or near the surface as mostly or totally an iron target. That was the issue that I had using the Lobo Super Traq and Vaquero at that site along with many other single frequency detectors. The Tesoro's discrimination circuitry simply could not function at that site due to being next to impossible to ground balance on the magnetite mineralization and the amounts of iron trash. Many other single frequency multi tone capable detectors would call coin sized and smaller surface non-ferrous targets iron due to similar poor ground handling or just give an overload response even with their coils lifted off the ground. This is why I would be very interested in an SMF Deep Tech.

I thought you already had one @Norvic? Or has it been replaced under warranty?