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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.

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 .....

A big problem I see is that Minelab has done a great job effectively pricing a lot of younger people out of the gold machines. I started as the youngest person on the US forums in my early 20's and now in my early 40's I feel like I'm still one of the youngest people posting on the US sites, which is ridiculous to say as a middle aged man with graying hair and wrinkles. There seem to be more younger people doing it in Australia where you can reasonably expect to pay your expensive detector off still. But I would think there might be a cold winter coming in a decade for US gold specific detector dealers because most the people I've met in the field are 65+ years old, many are getting past 75 or 80. Combine that with nugget depletion and the future doesn't look too incredibly profitable to me. Also clearly the dealer margins have shrunk significantly on the 6000 because trying to get a good deal on one was harder than any detector prior, and they'll probably shrink even more with the next release because just like Ford now getting rid of dealers for EV's - the next step to saving money is slowly eliminating middle men in most other industries too. Minelab continues to basically entirely ignore the very people who made coin/relics so popular and kept Garrett in the game too, which is a huge mistake on their part. Those people being content creators, primarily Youtube, who can give them millions of views which equates to more advertising value than they could ever pay for on their own. Putting detectors in the hands of people that essentially promote them endlessly for free is also more effective than ads because it reaches a demographic that doesn't consume normal ads, and in a way they trust rather than view with suspicion since it's not actually ads but just people showing them doing things they like doing with products they choose to use on their own. I've told them this multiple times, they don't care and seem to think they can do it better themselves. If they want to have any hope of keeping a good market in the US then they need their good prospecting machines at $2500 or under and they need to start putting them in the hands of younger people that will go out and use them daily and post about it. Otherwise I think the US gold-specific detector market is probably on a long, slow road to eventual death by attrition even if there were more nuggets here to find.

I sure was not looking to bum anyone out! For me it's just a simple recognition of reality here in the U.S., and there was no intent on my part to imply the same of Australia, or anywhere else for that matter. For me, everything has a season, and I am not one to grasp after things when it is their time has passed. I've many interests beyond metal detecting or gold prospecting, and if I quit both tomorrow it would not trouble me unduly. But that's just me. There will always be gold for those with the intelligence and willpower needed to seek out the overlooked areas that still exist. And they do still exist - the dream is alive for those who want to pursue it. It's just harder now than it used to be, and I very much admit I'm spoiled by better days gone by. I was commenting to Condor recently how people would pay happily pay big bucks, and spend entire vacations, to find the amount of gold we find in a single day... but we whine that it's not enough, not like the good old days. Waa, waa, waa - old cry babies!

Even thirty years ago, I couldn't find that much silver in one hunt!!!!! GaryC/Oregon Coast

For me it depends on not only the site conditions but what detector I am using. AT Max is almost always Custom w/ disc set @31 to break on a regular nail, no notches. The iron tone is too harsh on this machine to run Zero no disc on my relic sites. On all my other detectors I run zero disc & iron volume at a noticeable, but pleasant level. I like to hear it all. I will change up the number of tones depending on what I need it to do.

I can't say for sure this was due to the SuperSix coil, but... this past weekend I returned to a large house demolition site that I've hit repeatedly with both the 8" and 5.75" coils. This included half-baked gridding from multiple directions. The SuperSix netted me another 4 coins and a button. Might just have been luck, I suppose, but I was impressed nonetheless. -Ken

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.

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.

I’m sorry to hear all your troubles and hope they get ironed out quickly. I saw the back phones as a joke when I first opened the box and have never used them. I have a set of phones from doodads that the WS6 module fit on that have never failed me yet. I am on a list for the WSAll XL phones but the doodads work fine in my salt water environment. I wonder if it’s the phones or the WS6 that failed? Although I have a third party CF shaft, I have had no issues with the stock shaft as many have. I guess I have been lucky. I also have never had the RC come off either shaft but I do have vet wrap on the handle built up quite a bit, below the RC that prevents me from sliding my hand up into the bottom of the box. I suspect that is the cause of so many knocking the RC off it’s mount. I have a friend that uses a bungee and it also knocks the box off. I have coiled my antenna wire and installed inside the shaft and also wired a set of MSA muffs with piezo’s I installed for water detecting when over knee deep. All and all I love my Deus which in my book is leaps and bounds over my Equinox 800 in every aspect. Guess I was just lucky. Hope all things work out for you. Good luck everybody.

Haha! I always picture in my mind what it would be like to come across something as nice as this ring was while out hunting for fun. Ironically my wife does too . On to the next!

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've run a Racer, Impact Kruzer and Anfibio and with each of these I was impressed by the in iron processing and overall audio. Now with the Legend you are adding the "lock on" ability that multi frequency gives you. This is a big deal and some of my tests in areas with a lot of iron have been surprising. The machine pulls up good targets while pushing the iron and other low rejects out. Where you have a lot of caps, the ones that have any extension in the tone are those with lot of aluminum--the Heineken Corona etc. This shows how exact the machine is in making the ferrous / non-ferrous determination. It will be interesting to see what an Bias control will do for this accuracy. cjc

Hot and humid day today, we were supposed to move the RV but the reservationist said we could stay where we are. 🥳 My wife said "why not go detecting? 😀 Didn't take me long to grab the Deus 2 and digging gear and go up to this small field in the north side of the campground. The last time I was here they hadn't mowed this, apparently they plan to expand and need more space for vehicles and maybe other activities. This place has been a campground for a long time, but was recently purchased by a big company. Almost all of the original camp has been replaced or renewed. Ran the D2 In a slightly modified General program and decided today that I would test out the XY screen, as I've been digging too much aluminum with this machine. And I am glad I did, going to rename this "coin shooting" or CS. 😀 I was thrilled with the performance. 👍 I only dug stuff that ID'd from 85 up, I was only fooled once by an aluminum bottle cap. 27 coins in about 2 hours: 5 quarters, 9 dimes, 13 pennies, all from the 1970s to the 1990s. No Zincolns! A 1980s Hot Wheels car was a 99. Apparently there was a lot of activity in this spot back then! They're all marsh coins, pretty corroded but negotiable. $2.23 more in the box. The XY oscilloscope screen is really cool, it gives a straight line and the tone is more pure when you are over a coin. Junk has a curve or loop and sounds more scratchy. Trash? Just one aluminum bottle cap 😀 There is a story too, apparently last night someone in the campground was very upset that I was metal detecting here. I had got permission from the General Manager last year, told the front desk I'd be out again this year on the strength of that. They said no problem. I had no idea management had changed. A couple of park staff approached me in this field and said the GM didn't want me detecting on the report from the woman who complained, and told me there was a new GM. I asked for a name, went up to the office and met her outside. I showed her my gear, especially the plug shovel, and said if they could find any of my holes I would be surprised. She said "oh, then I give you permission to dig anywhere here!" I told her about the live ammo I've been clearing out and she was even more impressed. The moral here is always get your permission from the GM at a campground, don't accept substitutes. Check in and check in again, and make sure you thank them. You'll be glad you did. 🙂 It was too hot by noon to do much more so I quit for the day very happy with the Deus 2.

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.

Sorry for the late reply F350Platinum, I was away at sea with my son.. He was transferring a 30 metre yacht from the Gold Coast to Cairns and picked me up from the island for the last leg.. Proud feeling with him as skipper and me as deckhand.. Anyway, in my experience so far the Deus II is a capable scuba detector.. But the Equinox (with large coils) is better on my beaches, both in wet and dry sand and for wading.. That's why I use the Deus II as a scuba detector.. I've got an 11" coil on it.. It's a bit chatty in Dive Mode but its target ID is a ripper (a major advantage over pulse scuba detectors) and the bone phones are loud and clear.. My first pair didn't vibrate and then the left side stopped making any sound.. XP Australia replaced them straight away and the new pair works great.. I've got a few gripes with the Deus II as a scuba/wading detector (too flimsy, wobbly shaft, tangly antenna wire assembly, crappy target display) but it does find what I'm looking for when on a recovery job or when I'm just hunting the back of my local bays to see what's around.. It's never had a leak so far, and I've nearly taken it to it's depth limit.. I usually work at 4 to 6 metres for about an hour at the time.. I've never had any worries about the thing leaking.. Just before I left I found my first gold with the Deus II.. a tiny gold earing.. I was impressed at how clearly it locked onto it above the background chatter, I knew it was a gold something before I dug it out of the sand..

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If the area you are in has even mild to moderate EMI, you will need the 14" DD coil for the GPX 6000. If you have to resort to using the 14" DD you may still need a harness/hipstick especially in rocky, uneven, mountainous terrain. If you don't have EMI issues and can use the 11" mono with no harness, the GPX 6000 is easy to use, easy to swing and super easy to master. I have no experience with the GPZ 7000 other than swinging one for an hour a couple of years ago and deciding to move on/wait for something lighter. I am a longtime GPX 5000/4800 owner. The GPX 6000 with the 11" coil is extremely sensitive compared to the 5000. Currently, I still think the 5000 is deeper on larger gold simply because it can be used with much bigger coils.

Back home. Missed this post- Many thanks Ilya for the proto 22" CC you sent us for testing two years back. It has repaid its value many times over since then- Looking forward to testing the 26" CC proto as soon as you X Coil guys can organise it. For those who may not know, X Coils have now relocated to Kazakhstan. Google for website- Thanks again, and congratulations on your current ancient gold coin find with your trusty GPX 4000! https://www.facebook.com/groups/3553656301344280