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Well George with your background of what you said you tested in the past I’m surprised Nokta didn’t contact you again. The Best To You! Chuck

Nice score !

It would be great to test the new Relic PI in Culpeper Virginia. I was involved in the testing and developement of The Whites TDI. I also Tested for Nokta's Gold Kruzer which I still have. Culpeper has some of the worst minerals on planet earth. I dont make videos anymore so It won't be me.

Looks way better than a skunk. I'd go back again..🥸

Or perhaps a phony YouTube channel? Better yet, one of these fake gold shows on TV.

Hey Brad thanks! It's a mystery to me how those glasses came out so good. Must have been lost not too long ago. I found them in the water. Hardly anyone getting in the water, so not too many fresh drops out there. The gold coin is a replica. I was tempted to throw it back in but I might be the one struggling to dig it up again some day. lol

The test patch is in an old surfaced area where the ground is quiet. We did some testing in normal but the area we will be in tomorrow won’t allow this to happen. Too many hot rocks and heavily mineralised ground will probably kill my patience. I will be able to keep sensitivity quite high in difficult.

Come on now. You don't think we will believe that do you? 😂 D4G

No, no more detectors for me, I'm kicking the addiction, still happy Garrett is doing a lite package though, hopefully this becomes the new norm with lite and full offerings. I'd rather Garrett dropped a few more bucks off it and ditched that carry case though.

Nice hunting. I don't see any scratches on those Ray Bans....how did that happen??? What is the gold coin in the 2nd pic? Replica?

Got yours coming Phrunt? D4G

That's cool you've got an 8", were you able to run in normal? probably not being in Australia, my go to is Hy/Normal/19 sensitivity with the 8". I can go 20 of course but I just like 19 for the extra threshold stability 🙂 My two favourite X-coils on the GPZ are the 15" CC and the 8".

Gezz Reg. That was a bit heavy handed. You get out of bed on the wrong side, or had a bit much home brew top shelf? You obviously really miss Finders. D4G

Just put the 8” X coil on the zed for the first time yesterday. Joe and I took it and the 6 with the 10x5 attached out to our test patch a few hours ago. As Phrunt said earlier, the Zed runs quite well on max sensitivity with this coil (as does the Nuggetfinder 12”) The 6 also ran well with little emi experienced. Buried a few pieces of gold just to get some idea as to what to expect from the X coil. The six came out on top with a micro piece of gold (.045g) and picked it up a bit deeper and with a better signal than the zed. A .3 gram and a .5 gram nugget were also tested. We used the 6000 to test each piece as we continued to bury them deeper until any sign of a signal disappeared. The X coil was then run over the test bed and clearly gave “dig me” signals on both of the nuggets. We don’t take too much notice of this type of test but what we saw was encouraging. If the weather holds up we may do some detecting tomorrow and if we are lucky, a couple of live targets will be compared.

Looks great. One day Nokta is going to be the undisputed market leader for sales of VLF metal detectors, I have no doubts in my mind.

It might have been good to meet you. I didn't want a picture of the gold I saw because some things need to be shared by the owner only. I took a picture of some of Justin's finds as it was part of his shop.

Just found this YouTube video on the Nokta FindX Pro. It looks pretty decent and comes with an excellent selection of accessories. I think its most definitely exceptional value for money!

Ah geezze Reg , I was going to post up some truly tiny Manticore gold on this forum . You have made me all shy now 😁 Ghostminer , starting a new forum would be a lot of work , and catering to an ever smaller audience as most people seem to be gravitating towards FB etc .

This is a good move by Garrett, plenty of detectors I've bought come with stuff I don't want or never will use like an awkwardly large DD coil, or some wireless headphones. I have a pile of headphones I'll never use that I paid for as part of packages. Cutting back to the bare essentials and lowering the price is great for people like me that don't want the extras. Good on Garrett for offering a great detector at an unbeatable price/performance ratio on the Axiom.

After losing my gold bottle with something like 10 grams in it I quickly learnt not to use a brown pill bottle. JW helped me find it in the dark late that night with torches I then wrapped red electrical tape around that bottle to make it stand out more but you guys have far better options than I currently have. I have one of Docs little gold storage yellow rubber like folding containers which I haven't given a go yet, I should give it a try. I like the idea of bright yellow or orange, something not a natural colour in the gold fields to make it easier to find should I lose it. That wasn't the only time I'd lost my gold bottle, I also lost another clear one another time with a few little nuggets in it, had I resolved it that time I likely would have found my 10 grams far easier. Slow learner.

Great advice. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your knowledge. I will be passing this on.

I still believe we have a tester of the new Nokta gold PI detector are among us here on this forum. The PI relic detector tester he’s someone on the East Coast. Where is the best place in the USA to nugget hunt and that’s in the western states of the USA. Where will you find the largest number of nugget hunters and that’s on this forum. Time will let this cat out in the open maybe soon. Chuck

According to what Nokta said their naming contest for their new two PI detectors will end the last day of April and it’s here. Being the naming contest time was short just maybe it will be equally short time the two PI detectors will hit the market. What we’ve seen before Nokta will under sell as they have in the past and I believe it will be the same with their gold and relic PI detectors. I’m expecting a call from Nokta tomorrow letting me know on the naming contest that Chuck you didn’t win .haha It would be great that someone on the forum here would win . Chuck

Thanks for the link 👍

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