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My good friend Larry S was proud to share some recent success using his Equinox 800 and the new 10" Ellip NOX coil. Notice how small the one just in front of the CoilTek, pretty amazing. Nice to see some of what other people find as some folks think me being a dealer, it's setup. Those who know me, realize it's real and I would never take credit from a customers success anyway. If you want to learn more about the benefits of the new NOX 10" Ellip 10x5" coil, watch this video: Time to get out there and get you some. Thanks again Larry for sharing your Success.

Ghost Nuggets vs. Pulse Induction (PI) Detectors vs. Very Low Frequency (VLF) Detectors: Disclaimer; some liberties have been taken in this write up to simplify a very technical subject into a simpler understanding of what is going on. Pulse Induction (PI) detectors transmit very sharp powerful pulses. At the end of each pulse the receiver is quickly turned on to receive a very weak signal from electrical currents that are still circulating but quickly dying out in the gold nugget. The length of time that electrical currents continue to circulate is dependent on the conductivity and amount of conductive material and the shape of the object. The overall design and timings of the transmitter and receiver and effective coil size determine whether the smallest nuggets or only the larger solid nuggets at depth will be detected. Ghost nuggets contain small gold wires and/or small flakes of gold scattered in a quartz specimen which have very short periods of electrical current flow. In Green’s charts and wire table this short period of weak current flow is referred to as a Short Time Constant. Solid nuggets have long periods of electrical current flow (Long Time Constants) along with much greater signal strength which can be detected easier for a much longer period of time after the transmitter has turned off. In Very Low Frequency (VLF) induction balanced detectors the transmitter and receiver are always on. When the null balance of the VLF coil is disturbed by a nugget the signal is processed to determine how much delay or phase shift in the signal has occurred. The results of the phase shift evaluation is displayed as a ferrous or non-ferrous value. If the nugget is tiny the phase shift will be too small to give a reliable ferrous/non-ferrous display value. A dig anyway flag! In the case of a Ghost Nugget the accumulated sum of all of the small wires/small flakes will give a good unbalance of the nulled VLF coil. And usually sufficient phase shift to indicate non-ferrous/gold. So what Gerry and some of us are hoping is that the GPX 6000 improved design and processing will allow it to detect the very Short Time Constants of some of the Ghost Nuggets. Have a good day, Chet

Second trip out with the 6000 for about 2 hours playing near home. Far South Coast NSW AU. A bit further along the slope from my original post. The area is ancient river wash where soil depth is @ 4 - 6 inches. This is about the size of most targets at this location with some deeper pieces up to a gram and a half, just not on this outing. Loving the weight of the machine, ease of operation although cant decide between running in manual 12 - 2 o'clock mark in difficult, with threshold and auto+ with no threshold at times. I have been playing with running audio through my favourite headphones (GOG's) and SPO1 booster and this works for me as I can fine tune my audio and dont mind being connected by wire to the machine. I cant comment on the speaker emi as I dont use it so not an issue for me atm. I do have to do a noise cancel more often to run the machine quite but as this is so fast not an issue and I usually run in fix tracking with my other machines anyway. So far only small pieces but an ounce of gold is an ounce of gold. Will be going to a deeper area with a history of bigger gold on the weekend. What does surprise me is just how hard the 6000 hits, had me thinking (hoping) they were bigger pieces. Cheers Jack

I have been wanting a Walco pick for the last 12 years now and have had a hell of a time getting my hands on one. Last month I contacted Lucky Strike Gold Prospecting in Geelong Australia 🦘 and to my surprise, Justin said yes we will ship to the United States. He had the Solid Swinger handle and he had the Walco heavy duty pick with a 29" handle. It has taken a month for them to get here. This pick has a very well balanced pick head with plenty of length on the hoe blade to sink deep along the edges of a hole to widen it as you have to go deeper. I my opinion, and this is just my opinion but Apex picks just don't have the details figured out. They told me they refuse to lengthen the hoe blade. I told them then I won't buy an Apex pick. This Waco pick is light weight but still feels like it has enough weight to sink the pick deeply into the ground. Pick end and the hoe end. I'm impressed with this pick for sure. The Solid Swinger handle is awesome as well. Now I don't have to worry about breaking a handle when I am swinging that big 25" NF DDX coil. Hahaha 😁. Justin with Lucky Strike provided great customer service. I would highly recommend them. Can't say I am too impressed with both the USPS and Australia Post on the shipping end of a month long.

I have never worried about a #9 lead shot on a PI, as I feel that small of a piece of gold is not exactly what I am chasing with a PI. Now if I remember and can find a tiny dove shot #9 with my VLF (it most certainly does when set up properly), I'll see what happens on the GPZ and hopefully on the GPX-6000. As for really small tiny gold pickers, my 25 yrs in the field with just about every gold detector I can get my hands on, the old reliable Fisher Gold Bug-2 is still King. It's certainly not the deepest VLF, but when on bedrock or decomposed granite, it shines the yellow stuff. Funny, how we are all wanting to see how the 6000 does, but I really do think it will be a few months down the road before there is enough people who know what they are doing, getting it in all the different soils, sites, and varying areas we enjoy chasing the gold and seeing the results on the varying gold types. I do want to make a very strong point though that has been mentioned before, many times and especially by those who have used the GPZ-7000 much. The better ergonomics and 2+ pounds lighter is enough for me to go GPX-6000, as I'll be able to hunt longer and keep the coil to the soil = more gold. If in fact it does to better on smaller gold or better at seeing the invisible gold, that is just a bonus.

Don't stop at old patches! Another quick 3hr session today on ground we haven't managed anything off before with SDC & GPX4500. The main idea was to help a mate of mine with his first use of the GPX6000 today & this spot is close to town + quiet (private property). After a brief rundown on the machine we got into it. Neither of us were expecting to find any gold here after past attempts but it always looked good ground. I got 4 little bits & my newly inducted mate found a conglomerate specimen down deep. I think the GPX6000's might have found us a new patch - more time out there required now.

G'day from lovely downunder. I thought I'd introduced myself but evidently not, apologies. I had a GP3000 and 3500 many years ago. Had to sell up due to divorce but kept my Sovereign GT for the beach and parks. Back on the hunt now so will be picking up a GM soon when they come back up on special, and something a bit better down the road when I'm a better off financially. Just thought I'd say hi,,,and yes I have an old banjo LOL.

Sorry I was late to my own party again but trying to keep customers happy and offer training is #1 and then comes this fine forum as a slight #2. Heck, I did not even realize your post GB and really do appreciate it. Sometimes newer folks need a simpler explanation of what to expect with different size/shapes of coils and I hope the impromptu off the cuff video and comments will help others. Dances with Doves- There are a few Hall of Famers in this bunch, I just happen to be one that also enjoys selling them. Thanks for the kinds words.

Chet, Part of the training sessions my staff and I do with customers (you a few times in years past on a variety of detectors) is interact, teach, learn, give/get advise and overall camaraderie within that group for the 3 days. I realized way back when on your 1st time with us, you had a gift as well and to this day you still display it. Your knowledge of electronics in detectors is above me, as I just know how to operate them well, but not really knowing the finer points as of what is going on in in a detector. Sure I know PI and VLF and patters, but your words of wisdom shines more light on it for us all. Even with all that power, you still enjoy comparing detectors, coils, settings, targets, just like my Staff and I...as the ultimate goal is for us to all get better. I look forward to getting the GPX-6000 in your hands, meeting again some time in NV or maybe CA this go round (if I get an invite) and comparing all over again to get the best results we can. This fine forum has some very knowledgeable followers and sharing bits of MD'ing experiences, knowledge and tips is what helps strengthen the hobby and hopefully putting a little more gold in the newer prospectors hands. New customers holding their 1st nugget and a golden smile is what my staff and I enjoy and I also feel you to are about sharing the knowledge we've earned and learned from yrs past. You said it very well again Chet and thanks for the time/effort to add to the post. Again, just like when my staff/I can snap a pic of a golden smile for a 1st nugget, you my friend shined on us again some of your knowledge in simple terms. See you in the field this Summer/Fall, teaching-learning-smiling.

LOL...I'd as soon not give out the name, thank you. Jim

Often high end jewelry is insured if that makes you sleep better at night. If it has initials or a name on it I'll try to find the owner.

Yes let’s 😊, the less 7000’s that are out there the better then there’s less competition for me. 😝 But seriously the 6000 is a no-brainer, the weight factor alone justifies itself then the ease of use on all sorts of ground types combined with extremely good performance make for a pretty unbeatable combination in the majority of people’s hands. Probabaly the only negative is the detector expresses itself very freely and can be a little unforgiving in a new chums hands, poor coil control in harsher ground types will punish the operator who is unskilled in the types of actions that can exacerbate a highly sensitive detector. The 7000 thanks to its Super D coil whispers over the same ground types, whereas the Mono on the 6000 requires a bit more control. So even though the controls are simple training should still be offered, and taken up, on how to swing the detector and understand what its behaviours are. JP

Nothing wrong with the Ace, just a little long in the tooth. Since this is the Garrett forum, suggesting other brands is generally frowned upon. You may have bought a counterfeit detector. Hopefully a machine from a legit source. You may be in an area with high electrical intervene. Reduce sensitivity. If the area is bad enough, move to a new location. You may have the sensitivity too high for the ground. Reduce sensitivity. Your coil cable may be flopping around near the coil, causing false signals. Secure it properly. So there’s a few to check.

Got out this morning for a 3+ hour all water hunt. Targets were few and far between but the 14K, 9.4 gram gold ring couldn't hide from the AQ. All settings were at preset except the delay which I ran around 10. I hunt in all metal and some of the iron was questionable with double blips but I dig it all anyway. The ring was down a couple of deep scoops but was very loud and repeatable. The open .925 silver earring gave a broken signal. Thanks for looking. Bob K

Get a GPX 6000 to use on your old patches before someone else does! You will be glad you did.

The machine is built as solid as they come. Headphones.... i use Tony Eisenhowers which have piezos for water hunting because of the modulation. But if i was dirt hunting id use a good pair of dirt phones with speakers. Adjustments you may have to play with.... will be Black sand, Salt balance, and Threshold. Everything else is pretty straight forward. There are 4 tones.... pings and pongs... again something you may have to get used to... i did. The screens a bit more jumpy.... but it really hits solid on a target. Im an AM hunter so the screen nor the tones affect me.... im just after depth as a beach guy. There is only 1 notch so disc isnt as good as say the Nox with a digit by digit disc. I run my machine with -30 disc like Keith.... i hear everything in AM but it makes a lot of tiny iron and minerals more of a pop than a false tone and keeps the iron from wrapping around better. Over a target i dont do a lot of fast swings.... this machine you put it on the target and barely move it.... that wiggle. Id loved to have had this machine when i was doing old homes and field hunting.... i still remember the hot rock and null from an Explorer. I dont comment much on dirt hunting simply because i dont do much of it now days. However, i traveled full time for several years hunting... and used to do a lot of old parks in Indy as well as field hunting and old home sites. Ive got a little over 2 years on the machine as a beach hunter.

Gerry also mentions that this is one of the best forums out there in the interviews.Gerry and Steve are one of the good guys of the metal detecting community and if there was a metal detecting Hall of fame they would both be in it for there contributions to the hobby and the tons of great treasure they have found.I would put Charles Garrett as the first person in the Hall of fame.In the detecting hall of fame you don't have to be retired from the hobby.

A "new", easier to operate, gold probability scale 61 kHz nugget prospecting detector using the Anfibio platform from Nokta Makro. I did not see this coming...... https://www.noktadetectors.com/metal-detector/gold-finder-2000/

Apparently these kinds of interviews have been occurring for a couple months with various detector experts (and dealers) around the world. Except for a post buried in a thread (credit to Dances with Doves for calling my attention to these), which I didn't figure would reach the full audience, I think this is the first post of these four episodes with Gerry which were uploaded to YouTube on the 18th & 19th of April. Basically each of the first three episodes covers the one of the new coils separately and sequentially: 5"x10" (~19 minutes), 9"x14" (~22 minutes), 15" round (~44 minutes) and a wrapup segment (~11 minutes). I'm posting just the first one as each successive one is linked by Trevor at the end of the previous. E.g. to see part 2 (9"x14" discussion) just move the video's scroll cursor to the end of part 1. I watched episodes 1,2, and 4 in their entirety and the first 15 minutes of episode 3. A lot of the general info is second nature to seasoned detectorists. But there were a couple tidbits and I like being reminded now and then of the basic principles.

going over the same ground the Deus hit hard, and the Tarsacci is finding alot of things i missed today found a nice thimble

Erik, I have studied this topic in-depth. It's an intriguing dilemma for an md'r who wants to "obey all laws". Basically it boils down to this : All 50 states have lost & found laws. They were born out of wandering cattle laws of the 1800s. The wording varies from state to state, but there is always a dollar valuation cutoff . So in CA, for instance, if you find something worth $100 or more, you are required to turn it into the police station. If no one claims it within 30 days, then you can come claim it. And if the police will run a "found" ad in a local newspaper. If you intend to claim the item, then you must pay the cost of publication for that classified ad. Other states might charge you a 'storage & handling' fee if you intend to come back for it in 30 days. The law makes no provision for how long YOU think an object was lost for. Ie.: even if you strongly suspect the ring has been lost for 100 yrs, makes no difference to the law. Because, otherwise .... gee .... everyone would twist it and say "Shucks, looks like this has been here a long time". And would simply flaunt the law. Also the law makes no provision for YOU to try your own repatriation attempt @ looking for the owner. Eg.: Pinning a note to a telephone poll, or using the CL lost & found section. It simply says to turn it in to the police. The law also doesn't say how the $100 valuation is arrived at. Ie.: Is this the intrinsic melt value ? If so, do you go by pawn shop offers ? Or a refiner who's paying 95% of spot ? Or do you go by the value when new in the jewelry store case ? For example: Is an I-phone worth $500, since that's what someone pays to get one ? Or is only worth .30c of intrinsic melt value (a bit of silicone, copper, plastic, etc...) ? So I asked a lawyer this question, of how to value an item, to see if it triggers the state's L&F laws. He thought for a moment and said: "Turn it in to the police, and let THEM decide how they want to value it". Doh ! Needless to say, no md'rs are keeping this law. A quick look at any md'ing forum's show & tell section, shows no shortage of md'rs posting their bragging rights beach rings, eh ? Ok, how many of them do you think "ran to the police station to turn them in " ? And it must not be a big deal to law enforcement either. Because otherwise they could simply monitor our forums, and go around busting people, eh ? But obviously, they're not. Thus basically : Do you want the technical legal answer ? Or do you want the realistic answer ? Do you want to be fully law-abiding ? Or are you going to "wink wink no-one-cares" on this particular one ? 🤪

The best improvements they could make would be: 1. Wireless audio. I was not given a necessary budget to include a Qualcomm aptX LL chip, though we did have a prototype built with it included! 2. Improve coil manufacturing. White's process involved a lot of 1970's technology, with no automation - all hand-made and tuned. Watching the production workers hand tune the coils with ferrite, wire, and foil made me wince every time. Did you know that the dielectric constant of epoxy changes over temperature? 3. Improve the battery system and housing. A rechargeable LiPO will be cheaper to manufacture, and the plastic housing is finicky in the current version. The 24k was the only real "new" detector I got to head up development for at White's (I don't count the MX7 and TDI BH since they were not new). I really hope Garrett can continue some of the other projects we had going when I left. They need to focus more performance than marketing to keep up with Minelab.

LOL...the results are going to be "I didn't find anything" no matter what happens. Jim

Both the Gold Kruzer and Gold Racer have ferrous/non ferrous break at 40 I think. That sounds about right for the GF 2000. I won't say which detector this reminds me off because of forum rules but it is obvious even in the name. At first I kind of thought it was a prank or late April Fools joke........... My biggest beef with the Gold Racer and Gold Kruzer was a lack of easy to perform single target ID digit discrimination/notching in any mode and that they were running too hot for many of the places I gold prospect so I had to set the gain on extremely low settings to prevent overloading the coil. The advertisement lingo says this will find very deep gold nuggets other detectors will miss and it works in the toughest soils............ I wonder if that is remotely true. Not bashing here just my experience. I guess I am really spoiled and lucky to be using a different detector with those features. I am a huge fan of Nokta Makro and still look forward to their SMF detector. I can definitely see this detector being used for gold prospecting. Any other usage...............I wouldn't want to do it.

12" coil, and i have been doing some testing as well . I have a dime buried at 7" and the ground is contaminated and i have overhead power lines20ft away. so i tried my DEUS and it would not hit the dime . but has the 9" coil but the emi is efecting the Deus so i have to turn down the gain, so then its not hitting the dime . the Tarsacci with the 12" coil on 5 and 6 gain hits it hard. but you would think the bigger coils would be more EMI prone. but one thing that helps is the BLACK SAND MODE it really clears up the signal

That is a nice simple little unit. Wonder where the iron break is set in relation to the Gold Racer/Gold Kruzer. Wonder why I would want to pick it over the Gold Kruzer?

Let's revisit that in a year.

I've ran one of these many years ago. I even found a real gold ring with it. Matter of fact the only gold ring ever found by myself in all these years. It is capable of finding the stuff but also has some weaknesses. Depth being one of them. It could reliably detect and ID down to about 4 inches from what I seen. Mine loved the can slaw and iron. Forget using it in heavily mineralized soil, it will randomly beep when nothing is there. It's also possible you may be into some interference like others mentioned. Reducing sensitivity is also another wise thing to try, because when that is too high the machine can even pick up moving of the coil cable. Which leads me to the next thing, check that your coil wire is tightly against the rod. If that is loose and it moves it could set the detector off. Do some air testing with your ACE 250. After reading your original post it sounds like to me something is wrong with either the coil or the control unit itself. That is not normal behavior. I echo what others said and would suspect if it is a "real" Ace 250 or not. Lotta counterfeits out there. On the large cans, the detector will see that as a very conductive target and will respond accordingly. You can always check that by raising your coil off the target. If you are still getting a strong response when you raise it 6 inches off the ground that is a good indicator you have either a flattened can or something large under the coil. I wish you the best with this, however the behavior of that detector does not sound very much how mine acted.

Although I totally get Steve's point, I still will hold on to my 7. It is just such an awesome machine that has found me good gold in the past (albeit probably not by Australian standards..). For some situations it will remain the Undisputed champion of the world, even for non-professional Prospectors.

The machine is easy to set up, GB is super easy on the tarsacci.

I can only speak for the 12 inch coil, and I was pulling colonial flat buttons left and right in the iron, it does a great job in trashy areas and iron patches.

Well , my fix worked and there appears to be no internal damage to the coil. I got to try the 10x5 in a coal mining ghost town that only lasted from 1880 to 1920. The ground in the entire area was saturated with large to microscopic iron and tons of old aluminum as well. I used the 11" coil for a while but the deluge of tones was deafening. So I swapped to the 10x5 and I immediately got a clear and stable 20 on the TID. The tone cut right through the noise floor and it was a 200 year old ladies copper ring. Unfortunately the two stones were gone. The results convinced me that the 10x5 is a keeper. I also tried the 6" coil in the same ground and it also performed well, but with a smaller sweep coverage, so the Coiltek 10x5 defnitely earned it's place with the other coils.

Hehe true, low and slow on the detector,,,totally the opposite on the jo 🙂

Welcome Aboard FastR1Red ! Get out there and look ! Just don't confuse the GT with the banjo , you'll find more and always remember .... We like pictures.....

I bought my Gold Racer not too long ago and ended up using it for coin/relic hunting in the woods. You can play with the ID filter which trims out targets below from sounding off and tone break to control the iron audio so it can essentially be a 1 or 2 tone machine. Running the Tone break at the same as the ID filter makes it a single tone vco machine. I use disc 2 for that and keep disc 1 as stock for referencing back. Can make cherry picking copper and silver from parks fairly easy. Recently snagged the concentric coil which puts bottle caps into the 50's and flat iron in general low on the scale. Handy around places that have a lot of bottle caps but unfortunately being just in the 50's you can risk losing small jewelry. Small thin chains are tough on any machine so skimming the ground is almost a must. You may want to keep tracking off when using disc modes and ground balance manually more often. I noticed that if you keep the machine just at the brink of being noisy you can hear if ground balance starts to go off. If it chatters it's getting hot and if it gets quiet it's running too cold. Just do a ground grab every once in a while and you should be good to go.

Trust me your not the only dealer that has to deal with that.

Ya know, Steve, when I think more on this, I could probably figure out how high to set the sensitivity to preclude seeing most of the iron targets. I'm starting to think the TM808 might be just the ticket for this. Should be able to come up with some sort of cover to keep the water off, too. I appreciate the help. Jim

I have owned my Tarsacci for over a year. I also own an Equinox 600. They are very different machines with their own strengths and weaknesses. The Tarsacci is more solidly built (carbon fiber throughout), but it's over twice the cost of the Nox (a bit less if you're looking at the 800). I use the Tarsacci exclusively on the beach. It's ability to deal with changing soil conditions (or sand in this instance), is unparalleled. The Nox is better in trashy parks because of its ability to notch out some kinds of trash. Tone seperation on both are similar. Since I hunt mainly beaches (when I get the time), the Tarsacci sees the most usage. If you plan on using your MD at old sites hunting relics and items from the CW, the Tarsacci would do very well. There are YouTube videos on that. Whatever you decide, good luck and happy hunting!

Thanks Kelly I was really hoping you would chime in. I had the Deus too at one time but never got the hang of it. I’ve used the Xterra 70 and 705 a CTX F75. The Xterra with the 10.5 DD coil has been the deepest machine I have used. Bullets with ID at 14”. I have bugged Aaron most of the day asking questions. What kind of headphones are you using stock, aftermarket with an adapter or a wireless set of some kind. How difficult is setting up the machine?

Oh btw. I have both coils and have yet to use the stock coil. The 12 inch coil is awesome!!

I have been using the tarsacci for about 2 months, I live in Southeast VA, mild soil. I sometimes hunt in the red dirt of northern VA. And thats why I wanted this machine. But was pleasantly surprised with its performance in the soft sandy soil here in my part of VA. I dig colonial and CW, I took the tarsacci to my old spots and was hitting some very deep brass. Small Rev war buttons at over 12 inches down. In the red dirt it was hearing the deep targets as well. I followed a friend that was using the Minelab GPX and the tarsacci was hearing the deep cw bullets as well! I love this machine and have no regrets on buying it. I swing a DEUS as well, but the tarsacci is the one I reach for now. The target separation is awesome!!

Here in the USA, the ACE 250 has been discontinued (I think). I also think it was introduced in early 2005 or 2006. Check Steve’s Detector Database on this site. I don’t know if it was discontinued in Europe and other areas. The ACE series detectors usually hold their value fairly well for the same reason that you were attracted to it due to popularity and advertising. There is nothing wrong with the ACE 250. It is a perfectly good entry level detector for the occassional/casual user. For anyone doing some serious coin/jewelry/relic detecting on a regular basis, there are much better options.

Might consider a Gemini 3 or TM-808 in a raft with no metal for the main hunt. A two box will ignore small targets and only get the biggies, might be just what you need.

Great responses from everyone and I appreciate the love as I really do try and care about my customers Success and them knowing their detectors better than what any other dealer will provide. I love it when I see other dealers offering education, as that is what separates us few from the majority. So when I see them offer some training, I just make sure my staff and I offer more and also the knowledge of seeing different kinds of gold in its natural state the way it was found and how those varying pieces respond to the multiple gold detectors on the market is very informative and unknown to most, including many dealers. As stated by some of my customers that have taken my class before, the density of the gold in a specimen is critical to how it responds to the different detector technologies. Here is something to think about. A Larger or dense nugget on the Minelab PI's/ZED in the preferred timings we use in most places of the US, the gold makes the low-high-low sound and pattern. But smaller nuggets and the few specimens with dense enough gold in it that the PI's/7000 see, they make the traditional high low sound. Now I realize there is always an exception, but 4 of my staff and I have been running Minelab PI's since the SD-2100 days for 20+ yrs. Our ears have learned the pattern of sounds as well as the width of target response vs ground noise and we've all dug 1000's of nuggets to compare to the sounds of the gold we find. Brian mentioned it. How many people have taken a vial of flower gold 1/4 oz, 1/2 oz, 1 oz and listened to their PI detectors? Most will crap their pants with the results. Let's hope the extra sensitivity of the 6000 can help in recover more of those ghost nuggets so I can quite taking 2 detectors on my trips.

Thanks for the rundown Alexandre! I gotta say, you have built one heck of a machine that's for sure!

I'm new here as of today but I came here knowing what to expect. Even though I have only detected for gold once, I really enjoy reading about detectors, gold and prospecting. As for Steve and his forums, I was on his forum when he was up in Alaska. I even responded to one of his posts when he detected on the island of Kauai. This is his forum. He knows what the people who come here want. His posters here know what they want and stay here because Steve delivers. I'm 77 years old and the likelihood of detecting for gold is quickly disappearing for me. I hope to still be able to read the posts on this site and enjoy them for many years to come. PS - I own a GPX4800 which I use in Culpeper Virginia, an Infinium and an f75. Recently sold my CTX3030 and Fisher 1280X. And I live in Canada.

Great finds! well done Thank you for your detailed report. Here are the purchase prices in Europe (net) With the currency conversion this is 1837 USD, it's not bad! In any case it is more than the price of the AQ limited and that just only one month!

At this early stage of the 6000s release I am going to be bold and throw caution to the wind, the 6000 will do what no PI or ZVT will do and maybe replace your VLFs except where discrimination is needed. Time will tell and I look forward to your findings.

I ended up getting out in the lake last weekend & finding another really deep Buffalo with co-located iron. Not too much else, people won’t start swimming till the end of May. I stick to the iron areas that most avoid, going slow. Thanks, Aaron