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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?

So after almost 5-weeks, my Snake arrived today. I got a bit nervous when I was provided a tracking #, but after a week, it was still in Ukraine with no updates. Then of course I felt guilty worrying about such a trivial thing considering what those folks are going through. First impression was the high build quality; it looks very well made. The cable is significantly thicker and feels more like rubber than vinyl. Just a quality look and feel. I'm no detector expert and the Legend is only my second detector (First was a new Compass Judge 1 which I still have), but I wanted to do a quick air test comparison with the stock 6" (LG15) just to satisfy myself that Snake was at least a good as the stock coil. I used V1.11, factory default Gold mode with sensitivity at 25 and 28, and Threshold at 12 and 9, just to see if I could hear the signal better at one vs the other. I used a plastic ruler from the face of the coil and moved the specimen with my hand. The placer gold specimen weighed .15 g, was more round than flake, and was taped to a sticky note. The first thing I noticed was the Snake really popped; the tone was extremely crisp compared to the 6". The tone on the 6" seemed "longer", more muddled and almost a double tone. They both hit hard out to just beyond 2" and both faded fast beyond 2 1/4". The signal on the Snake was still obvious out to 2 1/2" and the 6" a bit less. The higher Sens setting on the Snake got it an extra 1\4" (2 3/4") while the 6" saw little or no improvement. The Threshold setting seemed to have no effect, though the 6" signal at max range and 28 Sens MAY have been just slightly clearer. I'm not sure how much value this simple test has, but it has convinced me that overall, the Snake is better suited to my usage and I'm glad I bought it. What I'm not sure about is whether the Snake is actually hitting a little deeper than the 6", or because the Snake's signal is so sharp and defined, you can just hear it deeper above the noise. Guess it doesn't matter. Can't wait to go hunting!

I have one arriving next week too. - Dave

What you just stated about audio quality is spot on appreciate Jeff doing the Video but honestly would anyone have got down and investigated that target, based on the audio or target IDs, with these analogs when they lock onto a non ferrous target there is no clipping with an occasional good tone the tones from these analogs is a good solid hit with no clipping, it is all in the audio for me, I do not have to try to decipher what they are telling me as Jeff stated I also am not against the fully digital detectors at all, and yes I would also be very interested in a SMF Vista X also I guess it all boils down to which type of detector gives someone the most satisfaction and makes detecting the most fun for someone and for me personally that is the beep and digs right now

Good test, thanks for showing at least one of these newer detectors can kind of pull non ferrous targets through crap like that, I still have my fully digital detectors but with the Analogs I am having fun and as I have said for me personally that is what detecting is supposed to be fun, not frustrating.

This one's dedicated to my good friend Conor.