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The 22" CC with some of its deep prey (8 ozs) 😉 Best deep gold setting used (found by testing on undisturbed gold in situ) Xtra Deep/normal/full gain/very low threshold/smoothing off. This setting eliminates all targets under a gram or so, so useless for chasing flyshite but perfect for eliminating surface shot. However it can clearly hear very deep .22 calibre bullets (and gold of that size) better than most other settings. It is also an EMI stable setting even under power lines:

Spent three hours at an 1875 property in eastern Mass. Apparently virgin ground. I, (well, "we", as the home owner was with me every step of the way 🙂) found eight silvers, two buffalo nickels, 19 wheats '36 – '57, and assorted odds and ends. I'll be heading back there soon.

Hey Steve, Hope all is well for starters. I'm commenting on this statement - I have to agree, even though each year my sales continue to increase, I could say I'm blessed. However, it's a continual hussle each year, more advertising, more training, more shows and more bundling. I think at some point when you start giving too much away (products, time, energy and such), it's time to throw in the towel. It's not like the old days, where most of the manufacture truly appreciated your hard work and sales for them. I get more and more calls each year of customer that purchase from Amazon, as they can get the detector in some cases the same day and use incentives from Amazon. If I had to start over today, I would just say NO. The little guy can't compete again the big box retailers anymore, the profit margins are slim (worse than ever seen). Anymore selling online or owns a physical storefront know where I'm coming from. Wishing any of you a ton of success during these tough economic and troubling times. Rob

This is not jewelry but they were all found in the sand while hunting for jewelry. In the past 3 months or so I have been digging Kennedy halves on the beach. I found 3 one time, 2 one time and singles 8 times. The dates are from 1971-2000. Anyone else find this odd???

Prince Charles calls his Ross Royce dealer about an unusual problem he is having with his car. Dealer: Hello, thank you for calling Rolls Royce Westminster, How may I be of service Charles hmmmmm I'm not very happy with my Roll Royce Dealer: You must always be happy with your Rolls Royce, they're the best cars on the planet Charles: yes very good cars, very good, but my car has a problem Dealer: Rolls Royce don't have problems, you must be doing something wrong. Charles: Well if I turn on my stereo to listen to some music while going to visit the Queen my car becomes very erratic Dealer: yes Charles: This is my problem I can't use my stereo system Dealer: yes Charles: Can you fix this Dealer: No, this is not a problem Charles: Well, I want to listen to my entertainment system while being driven around, I have good songs to listen to like Crazy Frog Axel F Dealer: You can listen to your music Charles: yes but the driver tells me if I do the car becomes erratic and he gets very annoyed Dealer: yes, well you could always use headphones Charles: I don't like headphones and the photographers taking photos of my every move would wonder why I am wearing headphones in the Rolls and put photos in the magazines Dealer: Well, Rolls Royce are the best cars so if you want to continue to drive our cars and listen to your music you must wear headphones Charles: I was talking to the young boy that comes to cleans up the deification from my mother the Queens Corgis and his Rover from 1982 has speakers that work well, he can listen to whatever he wants to and his vehicle operation remains unchanged while doing so Dealer: yes, so is there anything we can help you with, Rolls Royce are the best cars on the planet fit for a Royal such as yourself. Charles: Why did you install speakers if I should not use them? Dealer: Customers like speakers, anyway Rolls Royce do not have problems, so how can I help you today? Charles: No there is nothing you can help me with, thank you, everything is great with my car and it's fit for a King. I will be King one day Dealer: yes, yes you will, good bye now and please tell everybody how great your Rolls Royce is. Charles: Thank you, bye for now.

Yep! That was the mantra when I started in the late 80's Yes. Beloved (but exhausted) patches are near impossible to ignore. Jim Stewart once described them as "gazing upon the familiar face of a dear old friend" Yes Indeed. Looks like my 7000 with X Coil CC's will be my companion for a while yet-

Gerry could sell steak to a vegan. 🙂

Conventional PIs receive in off time, the GPZ does'nt. Conventional PIs transmit with voltage, the GPZ does'nt. To me this is a very different duck. 😁 But hey, it really does'nt matter how you call it and we are probably all right, nobody is wrong. Let's just call it an awesome machine, and with a modern design and some tweaks this should be the next king (in it's own kingdom). 👍 GC

Phrunt - You said "The GPZ is like fine wine, it's only improved with age. 🙂 ". I used to say the same thing with an SD 2100, then GP-Extreme and after that the GPX-4000. Each series has gotten better at depth on smaller and course gold. Each series also added more Timings and Fine Tuning. Many owners were afraid of the GPX series and left themselves short. For those of us who took the time to learn it, were rewarded with more Au. I also agree about the ZVT having more upside than the old PI. I'd love to see another manufacture prove us wrong. Norvic - You said "So just maybe we are better off where we are. Yes/No". I'm not much of one to settle. I'm always wanting more options and something better. I've yet to find the 1 best for all situations. And I agree with the rest of your above comments but hope some other manufacture will step up their game. Steve H - You said "The real problem is the gold patches basically playing out, and “going deeper” is not going to make the majority of them come back to life. We have lots of relatively shallow placer here, and with the last small bits getting hoovered up, there simply is not that much left in most of the places that most of us have ready access to. It’s a good thing you are getting near to retiring Gerry, because I don’t think gold prospecting detectors are a growth market anymore in the U.S." I have thought that out the last few years with the GPZ-7000 and then we were given another option of the GPX-6000. Where can it go from here is very interesting and has me scratching my head. I think Minelab is also aware, so their next new KING will have to be something quite amazing. Yes, my retirement is now being thought of a little more, but I still really enjoy the training of customers and helping with them as they find their 1st gold nugget, 1st Indian Head Cent, 1st gold ring etc. I'm not pulling the plug anytime soon, but I do see the writing on the wall. JP - Yes the truth hurts and a good amount of us long time DP members on here are in fact getting to the age that our body is not keeping up with the desires of our mind. Gone are the days of a 3 week Prospecting Hunt as my body is giving out before my mind and or the detector. Heck, I'm pretty dragging ass after a week of the hunt. But boy does the desire of thinking a new patch or a nice 1+ oz'er keep me going. Few a select few of us, it's almost unbearable just thinking about putting on a GPZ-7000 and having to swing it a day, but for those certain occasions, I know I still will try. Rob Allison - You bring up some great points. But I'm going to point the finger back at Minelab and their greed. You/Chris/Doc/I and a select few others remember what our margins were back in the day. We also remember the promises made and not selling in retail stores. Now Minelab USA cuts the margins even more on their higher priced detectors. Minelab almost forces the smaller dealers to not want to sell them and only promote and sell the smaller detectors. Which the dealers do, because the margins are greater. What's going to be funny down the road is when guys like JP, you, I and the handful (small amount) of dealers decide enough is enough. Who is going to promote their top end products then? I can't wait soon enough for the day another manufacture (anyone) can make a decent high end gold detector and that manufacture offers decent margins to award those who sell it. Why our margins in the US is so much less than Australia is silly. Heck, ask for a free hat on a $50K order and see what happens. Minelab has totally changed from when we 1st signed up. Oh well, theres only so many more waves I can ride and then I'll put the board away. mn90403 - I know your question was pointed at JP, but if you were to ask me the same. I would not recommend getting into detector sales as a fulltime job if you want to make decent money. One of my main reasons for being a dealer today, is I still enjoy the tax write off benefits. I'm much more different than many dealers as I do so many styles of detecting and some of you know I even organized many group adventures to different states and countries. Most are tax write offs for me as I also test and promote new products. Thats part of why I still enjoy traveling as it's part of my job. If I just sold a few units here and there, it's hard to justify to the tax man, a write off of trips to Bahamas, Cancun, HI, AK, England etc. Just to make a living selling detectors with no write offs. Stay away folks, as you'll be living a lean life. phrunt - You said. "Gerry could sell steak to a vegan. 🙂" Probably if I tried. But I do know, I'll sell about 7 GPX-6000 for every 1 GPZ-7000.

Odd, yeah! Maybe some kind of seeded hunt was conducted in that beach area? Fun finds, whatever the reason. HH jim tn

Steve I agree with the Ford versus Holden debate (Ford V Chevy in the US), but dang you don’t have to be so brutal about your opinion on the gold being played out!! 😞 I’ve spent my whole career being told ‘the golds all gone’ that I’m ‘too late’ and ‘there’s none left’. When I went pro we hardly saw anyone out in the goldfields because VLFs were a dying art and the gold was all played out. Yes I understand I live in a country with a large land mass and small population, whereas you guys have a huge population and shrinking detecting areas etc. The truth hurts to read I suppose especially when I’ve shaped one of my mental success tools around optimism based on telling myself a place is never cleaned out till I’ve had a crack at it. I am however finding as I get older my body is starting to restrict my capacity to invest in the positivity of enthusiasm, basically I find myself doing less hours, covering less country and not working in extreme heat as much as I once did, as a consequence my gold tally has lowered as a result. I also find that I’ve gathered a vast knowledge base of past success locations that gets dimmed when I revisit those old productive areas and find nothing, that fact is hard to take. But the passion is still there along with the desire to continue looking and trying, it is this part of my psych that is struggling with your brutal honesty. Truth hurts I suppose, but I am still happy to be content in the hopes that I can find some gold somewhere, if that means it gets smaller and smaller so be it. As I get older my ability to roam further and further is going to shrink so hopefully future tech will keep up. 😂 The 6000 has come about 10 years too early for me, I’m still hell bent on finishing areas with the GPZ7000, but I will be honest I do from time to time grab my 6000 and go have a dabble in the lighter easier carefree world the GPX6000 has opened up. JP

Sorry to see more issues, but the good is.. that 5 year warranty of the D2. And I do hope Deus is learning from all of the post. Sad is, Minelab's has Not, I'm still seeing Excalibur cables rotting after a few years, and several of the other issues that plague them, than the Noxs..broken ears of the coils and IP rating of the control head of the Nox..

I lost my dad a couple of years ago and this is my second Father's day without having the chance to say I love him so I've been in a funk as today approached. The other part of my funk is my own kids are 1200 and 3000 miles away and I get to see them next to never due to one's career in the Air Force and the other who flies for Delta. So with that in mind I got a chance today to get up off my pity party butt and get out there and do something nice for someone. I got a text late last night (Saturday) from a young lady who had lost her diamond engagement ring somewhere on the beach at Rincon Beach Park. She told me that she has only had it for 3 weeks and after waiting 9 years for her boyfriend to finally ask her she goes and loses it. We needed to hit low tide so I agreed to meet her at 7am. Rincon beach is popular for surfers due to it's sweet break around the point where if you catch it right you can get an awesome ride. The tide pools though are just below the surface so it requires skill to just get out to the break! Ashley and her friends were just in front of the houses when a sneaker wave came in and as fate would have it she had just taken her ring off to put sunscreen on and so she gathered up her towel and pulled everything up and away. Logic would lead you, me and her to think the ring fell out right there and I could swoop in and save the day in less than a minute. If there is one thing I have learned in finding folks rings is that the logical place is usually not where the ring is at and today that was the case. I gridded a basketball size court area and came up empty. There was a secondary location 100 yards away that she and her friends retreated to with all their belongings and so I began to search a path from point A to point B. Ashley was beginning to have doubts and I reassured her the ring wasn't lost, it was here on the beach and that we just had to find it. I began to envision the scenario in which it was dropped. She had gathered up her towel and the ring in it, dragging an ice chest to the new location in the dry sand around the corner. I finally got the sweet pitch tone on my D2 and a 42 and I figured this had to be it and then bingo, this beauty was in my scoop. Needless to say I quit feeling the funk and realized that Father's Day was/is the perfect day to do something nice for someone else which is what a Dad does. It was a great reminder that we are to be selfless and put others first. Ashley was crying and man oh man, what a great moment it was. I tried to film it with my new camera but having my hat on made the sky look great but nothing else LOL. I retired last week so I have plenty of time to figure that camera out. Happy Father's Day to everyone and do what you do best! Just being a dad who is there! Dave

Were they near Marilyn Monroe's house. Nice hunting and good luck on your next hunt.

Good on you, GC; just a simple matter of having the right tool for the job. That General/Difficult combo even works great against magnetite hot rocks too.

I am not to fond of my WS6 phones either, found that I have to pull my ears through the gap between the ear pad and stem to make it even bearable. I have trouble charging my WS6 with the supplied 3 way cable, the part that plugs in the module is much shorter and just falls out while attempting to charge them. Going by the book I have to use the single cable to charge the WS6 module, but the annoyance with that is I now have to use 2 chargers if I want to charge them all together unless I wait for the coil and RC to finish first then swap out the cable. Just these little things that they pay no attention to detail with is really annoying, especially considering the premium price tag. Getting a little off topic but I have also noticed the coil cover is paper thin and very flimsy its nothing like the older Deus skid plate.

I agree totally with you WesD, Strick and SS the 6Ks a magic machine but sounds like yours is a wee crook. Bit of a lottery with the 6K purchase it appears, mines, touch wood, AOK and into its 2nd year.

Detectors are just tools, and which as best depends on the job. Which is king, pliers or a 12mm socket wrench? Just depends on the job at hand. There is no doubt the GPZ 7000 is the more powerful detector, and what we are really taking about is which is the better value for most people. All I know is the desire to prove any one detector as best has been a rather decisive thing in the detecting community as of late. It’s just human nature in all things it seems, not just detecting. People in general just seem to love taking sides on just about anything, and then arguing about it. 🤔 There is no doubt some performance to be eked, but it appears to me the technological gains have been getting increasingly small, at increasing price. If they came out with a GPZ 8000 that was basically the same design as the 6000, with a rod that does not twist, and a battery door that works, no weird EMI instability issues oddly related to the speaker, and better reliability, plus a good coil selection at reasonable prices, then I might be tempted to bite. Lots of big ifs there however, so I’ll not be holding my breath. The real problem is the gold patches basically playing out, and “going deeper” is not going to make the majority of them come back to life. We have lots of relatively shallow placer here, and with the last small bits getting hoovered up, there simply is not that much left in most of the places that most of us have ready access to. It’s a good thing you are getting near to retiring Gerry, because I don’t think gold prospecting detectors are a growth market anymore in the U.S.

No gold, however this site has A LOT of potential, lots of coins! Thanks for watching…..Aaron

April 18 1937 Part One We are continuing to get wild hooligans from town who want to come out here to the mine and either meet us or work with us. Last night I heard Ben and Sarge holler out at someone who was trudging up the side of the creek toward our camp. The crew came over and had a look at what the hollering was about. I nearly laughed but held it back. Sarge was not so kind and began to laugh and hoot. There in front of us stood an old guy dressed like a cowboy from back in the 1800’s. He wore a large cowboy hat that nearly covered his face and also some old jeans and fur leggings. He had on boots with spurs as well as two six shooters in a holster. He was smoking a home rolled cigarette and gave us all an evil stare. I walked over to him and asked what he was up to. He said his name was Slim Saunders and he was from a ranch just outside of town. I reckoned him to be about 60 in years or maybe a bit more. He told us he had done everything from ranching to mining to logging and even bounty hunting in his day. I started to like him. John asked him what we could do for him. He said he had heard quite a bit about us in town. Some of the groups that hung around in the tavern said we were the mining crew from hell and we took names and kicked ass. He said he was looking for work and wanted to join up with us. I asked him what kind of job he was looking for. He said he was a scratch shot with his 45’s and could work as security. He said he could also handle a rifle with the best of them. Before I could say anything he pointed to a limb on a pine tree about 100 feet away. He said to look toward the end of the limb and there was a small branch starting off to the right with a pine cone hanging on. I said that I saw it. He slapped leather with both hands and quick drawing his Colts and fired off a round from each gun. The pine cone flew off the limb. Then he twirled the pistols and put them back in their holsters as slick as grease. Then he told Will to set out two empty tin cans about 100 feet away. Will set them up on a rock and came back over. Slim said to watch and he pulled his right hand quickly and shot as the gun cleared leather. One of the cans flew off the rock. Before the sound of the shot died he pulled his left hand with the Colt and did the same thing. The can flew off the rock just like the first one. He twirled them back into the holster as slick as could be. I asked him what kind of pay he wanted. He said just his grub and whiskey, a dollar, and a little taste of gold from time to time. I told him to hold on while I talked with my crew. Everyone liked Slim. We decided to give him a go. I went over and asked him when he wanted to start. He just looked at me and said “Well, I’m here aint I ?” and that was that. Then he asked if we had any whiskey. I handed him a new bottle and we all sat around the fire as darkness fell. Slim took a couple of pulls from the bottle and began to tell us his story. TO BE CONTINUED ...............

Awesome fathers day hunt. Dug some ox shoes, horse shoes, then switched to my small coil and started fishing through the iron... Nice old thimble, sadly broken. Small musket ball. And the top find, a bizzare Haitian military button. I think this is incredibly rare for my area. The button dates to around 1800 to 1820 I think. Exact same button here with the history. Crazy. https://www.icollector.com/FRENCH-PHOENIX-INDIAN-TRADE-BUTTON_i20183505

Right, but they can't get the customer service that you and Gerry offer...

Many thanks, JR. Yes these settings are probably ideal when using a big CC coil. I don't have access to these coils, so I will try this with the regular DOD including the smaller NF-Zsearch. Far away from ideal (due to much smaller size and DOD configuration), but I am curious to see what difference it might make, regardless. Thanks again! GC

JR, I missed this posting and I like that they have a new location. I thought I had missed out on an opportunity to get a concentric coil from them but now I'll have to look into it further. My trip times and numbers are very limited now but given the production you and Simon have shown with those coils I could certainly justify a purchase to compliment my 15x10 Spiral Xcoil. You found some nice gold there. Mitchel

WTG ! What a chunk of ice !😳

Last thing I'll say is that the range of frequencies Tx'd from the GPZ is in the hundreds of Hz (800-900) which is perfectly within the typical PI range as well. The only CW portion of the equation is that the wave is indeed 'constant', without any pauses. Its still a PI at heart. A very clever, hybrid, practical PI. If it sounds like a duck, looks like a duck and feels like a duck....its probably a duck. Thanks to Steve for dissecting this discussion from another thread and keeping it separate. Again, no critique of the GPZ or ZVT tech whatsoever, its brilliant! Smart, clever and exactly what we need to further the technology spectrum for finding gold. It now needs to be expanded upon and adapted into a lighter-weight form with better coils and (probably) adapted to use the Brilliant Geosense tech as well.

I think Jim is onto something there. 👍 Cool finds, should have made a lot of noise!

Hey Lunk, finally tried the 6k/14DD in hot rock infested grounds (volcanic tuff). It is indeed an improvement over the 11 inch coil, however, not as much as I thought (perhaps 10% better overall). However, after some experimentation I found that the 7000 in general/ difficult gives a vast improvement, 80% or better. Neither HY/ normal (worse than the 6k), HY/difficult nor general/normal worked. Only general/ difficult. I can highly recommend these settings for everyone struggeling with hot rocks and it allowed smooth detecting in the worst hot rock conditions that I have ever encountered. Despite the tamed down machine I managed to recover a few small pickers in the 0.1 g range (not worthwile showing). This is a good example of how the 7000 with its settings can save the day. Here my exact settings: NF-Zsearch, general/difficult, sens 11, smoothing off, gb semi auto, other settings are default. GC

Something sounds wrong there if its bump falsing. Should be no more bump sensitive than any other minelab. Maybe check if your coil plug is fully seated, as they are a bit hard to tighten. Otherwise send it back. Scott, the 6000 is a pretty sweet machine when running right. Dumped my 7k and no regrets.

Strick, when I used your machine awhile back, I had the same issues. It was running erratic. The coil falsed on the slightest bump. I was thinking that this is how the 6000 runs. I was not impressed at all. But my experience in the 4 hours I ran it might be clouded because it might be faulty. I would like to run another machine so I can make a better opinion for myself.

I was recently invited to detect at a 1903 house in eastern Massachusetts. The detectable area of the yard was the size of a dish towel and yielded only one find. Thankfully, it was a good one! The coin is an 1806/07 George III half penny.

Hey Guys, Swegin - You are right, but those customers are becoming less and less. The support and training is valuable to a point, but the flip side is - customers feel they don't need the support, training and such anymore and just purchase where they can get the absolute best deals. That being said, Gerry and I appreciate everyone's continued business with us. Gerry - I have to agree, I remember the days of getting 20+ hats, gloves, bags and such per order. I don't even dare to ask about a freebie, heck they now charge us for shipping .....

Switched gears again! Found a barely used 5x10 coiltek online and bought it. Wont see it for a few days.

I did notice the patina difference, but some were in the surf, some in the high wet and some in the dry sand. Some were half a mile apart and a couple were two feet apart. They were also found over a two-to-three-month period. Salt water and father time will take its toll on clad and in a hurry sometimes. I do wish some of my other beaches would spit out halves instead of Zincolns. LOL Knowing this beach as well as I do I would say that the likelihood of a seeded hunt while surely possible, is highly unlikely. It is just too busy from before sunup until late at night. And I think I would have heard about a local beach seeded hunt just from me being local. But as they say, "given time and money, anything is possible"!!! Just thinking back on some of the really weird stuff that I have dug on the beaches, 13 Kennedys hardly seems out of the ordinary. LOL Thanks for all the responses. It is a very interesting hobby (addiction) that we share.

That's a good outing! I can only imagine the fun you had as he watched. I've had kids at the beach right on top of my every swing, it was fun for a few minutes.. After about 15 minutes it gets a little annoying.

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As a dealer, I remember being told the GPZ-7000 is not a PI. Now it was not Mr Candy who said it, but the way I was explained, it's different that a PI. I agree with some of what you say Aureous but at the same time, I don't feel comfortable telling customers it is a PI. Interesting read and I am all ears and willing to learn.

Hi Tom, Thanks for the information on the Phoenix buttons. Think I have about four of them. They were found on a private ranch by the San Miguel Mission in central Cal. Have to locate them and check out which ones I have. Still have stuff in boxes I have not yet unpacked after moving out of California.

There is definitely a pulse with a Zed, albeit a very fast one- you can hear it when it’s transmitting next to a radio antenna, especially AM radios.

Some of the guy who fought in the 1860s in the CW, had previously gone to the CA gold rush. And then returned back home to their eastern states. And could conceivably have brought buttons back eastward. And while these pre-date the G.R. (1850s), yet : In CA, when the Gold Rush hit, a lot of coastal folk here in CA (where the missions were, and thus the PB's were), left the coast and went inland to the Sierras. This is one possible explanation as to why a few PB's have been found in the GR country. Since it's conceivable that some were still circulating along the coast in the late '40s/early '50s. And might thus explain why some THEN made their way back east. But others disagree and think they started from the east coast, and came overland westward. I don't buy that. There's just too many of them on the west coast , compared to only scattered presence on the east coast. So I say they arrived here on the west coast by ship, to the CA ports, and the Columbia River area. I know of hundreds and hundreds found in CA (heck, 100 from a single field alone !). Compared to the east coast where they are flukes. While it's true that the vast majority of the migration was east to west , yet some guys did indeed return back home to the east, when the GR fever petered out. This explains, for example, why 1850's S mint coins show up in CW sites, for example (albeit rare). The circulation time for PBs was the 1810s/20s. But I've found them in sites that were not habitated (by Europeans anyhow) till the 1840s. Meaning that some were still in use, even to the 1840s. Considering that there was a shortage of manufactured good on the west coast during Spanish & Mexican times, it makes sense that buttons would have been used and re-used, over and over. Thus some all the way to GR times, and thus perhaps making their way east. Interesting !

That's what mine did.. first it refused to power up with the detector and I'd have to start it manually.. Now it won't start manually anymore.. I'm using the bone-phones on the beach for now but does anyone other than XP make wireless headphones for the Deus II? Or even wired head phones that'll plug into the control box?..

Technologically yes. Quality and pricing no.

I wonder about our commercial world needing competition for tech advances, there has been no competition in detectors for 20 plus years but we have advanced with just ML, coil wise has been the aftermarket fellas but detector wise ML all the way. No doubt we don`t know what competition would achieve and can only speculate, in fact may be adverse to the "consensus" as is often the case with the "consensus", but what I do know with certainty is it pays me to be an early adoptee with ML they make Kings after Kings. So just maybe we are better off where we are. Yes/No

I have had 2 times when the WS6 did not automatically power on when the Deus 2 remote powered on. Very annoying and kind of freaked me out. I turned the WS6 on manually both times and it worked fine. The WS6 works fine for me if there is very light wind and no other loud ambient noise. I put a layer of thin adhesive felt around the area that touches my ears and I put on my sun glasses after putting on the WS6. Works for me with just a little top of the ear pain after 3 hours. Without the felt padding, I can stand them for about 30 minutes. However, at a crowded beach with wind AND wave noise.........not for me. Hopefully XP will replace your WS6 quickly.

Logic would suggest that a lightweight, Geosense powered GPZ that uses flat-wound and/or concentric coils would be the 7000's successor. This alone would provide the extra depth and comfort to sell a high-end detector in the thousands... We all know that the gold is sitting there, out of reach. It just needs the technology to catch up to sense it.

I still love my GPZ 7000 to me it is king but as a dealer guess what I would rather do training on? The areas I do instruction are near town and have been well and truly pounded over the 6 years we’ve been trading as such it is getting very hard to find a piece of gold using the 7000 in the given time frames (it is also a very hard thing to do to walk around with another person and focus on edge of detection signals whilst instructing). In the past few weeks (since I recovered from the dreaded) I’ve done 3 or 4 x GPX 6000 sessions and 2 or 3 x GPZ7000 training sessions, in every case I have found 3 pieces each time in the 6000 sessions and nil with the 7000, because the gold is just not plentiful enough there now without spending considerable time and focusing hard. The GPZ7000 requires about 1 1/2 to 2 hours of assembly/fit out and instruction in the shop then 1 1/2 to 2 hours one on one in the field with another session a few days later to cover off on any questions ect (ongoing phone support or further refresher instruction), this is bare minimum to get someone up to speed and using that machine correctly. This is my commitment to our GPZ customers to make sure they have the best opportunity of finding gold and using the machine at its full potential. The GPX 6000 also gets similar treatment with assembly and instruction in the shop and then field training but it is so much easier to do even with total newbies, the weight is one factor but also the simplicity of the controls. Controlling the coil is paramount to effective detecting, even though we go to great pains to set people up with the 7K it is still a heavy machine and requires time spent learning how to control the coil properly. Going over my well worked training areas with the 6000 makes me look like superman, there is nothing more gratifying than scoring a nugget with a customer listening in, showing something is possible for real is very empowering. The GPX 6000 makes me look very good. 😊 JP Speci piece I found last training session in someone refilled hole. (Approx 2 grams enclosed)

Gold is heavier than most anything else you will find in nature. Shake it around just right, makes perfect sense it will end up in the begins with an R (I can’t spell) bottom thing that is also the name of a man made lake with a damn. Personally, I have become really good just using my hands except when I get into small gold and the weather is warm enough to give salt signals from my hand. I like the concept and will give an honest opinion once it is in hand and I try it out.

April 17 1937 We are getting some unusually warm weather here for this early in the season. The crew is in good spirits even though our gold count is modest. I am set on finishing the kettle before we move the operation. We are pretty much working the leftovers from the old boys from the 1800’s but we are getting some gold. Today we got well into the northern section of the kettle. The gravels are getting sparse and the depths to bedrock is only a few feet. It appears to me that the bedrock has been cleaned fairly well by previous miners. We are just mining sluff and some gravel from what has eroded from the sides over the years. We aren’t able to work anything in the sides as they are solid rock. By the end of the day we had a meager one half ounce and John was grumbling about moving to a new location. I asked him to be patient as we only have a week or so at most until we finish here and as we are all set up we may as well make the most of it. Tonight at camp we had a few beers and started to talk about our next move. It will be way over to the eastern drift area that Jed and Whiskey Jack were keen on. For now we can only dream of another big strike as the gold has become elusive. TO BE CONTINUED .....................

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The sense I get with FerraCheck is that its not meant to stand alone. Combined with using the coil, meter and audio (especially in 6 or 60 tones) its a great tool for shallow targets. It's also a great learning tool for new hunters in that they can take the entire body of target information and then see visually what the machine is telling them. It's like may have gotten the idea that a detector is like a cell phone--and they can just push a few buttons and dial up some gold...😆. cjc