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I returned to a site that had yielded an 1886 US V nickel and an 1876 US Seated silver dime about a month ago when I was using the Equinox 900 with 6" coil. I had Deus 2 with version 1.0 software and 9" coil along with the Nokta Legend with 6" coil. The area I was hunting is full of magnetite, square nails, tin of all sizes, all sorts of other iron and sheet lead trash and some other junk within a clearly marked roughly 20'X20' hand stacked stone foundation that is level with the surrounding ground. I was using Deus 2 version 1.0 with a modified Sensitive #2 program set on Pitch tones/Hi Square audio with sensitivity 90, disc at 6.8, silencer 1, no notch, reactivity 2.5, iron volume 7, audio filter 0, bottle cap 0, audio response 3, threshold 4. I wanted to see if I had missed a lot of non-ferrous targets using the Equinox 900 due to having only one hour to hunt this site with it at the time. This time I had 4 hours to hunt. Let me put it this way. That was an extremely unpleasant 2 hours using Deus 2 version 1.0. I struggled to find any non-ferrous targets. I did manage an 1888 S Seated Liberty dime but that was basically by accident. There were so many nails in the area where the Seated dime was recovered that were fooling me, I would have probably missed it. The nails in the photo represent the ones that were in good shape. These were falsing with good non ferrous tones and IDs from the low 70s to high 80s. I left around 40 other nails/tin shards sitting behind a boulder at the site. I had some lunch and then gave the Nokta Legend a try. This was the first time I had used the Legend in this area. I hunted the exact same area. The 6" coil let me get into spots that Deus 2 with 9" coil could not reach so I was able to hunt more thoroughly. This site has boulders, sage and aspen saplings all over it. This difference in coil size did not result in any major finds but it could have. XP....please give us a land based small elliptical coil!!!!! I was using the Field program M2, Pitch tones, disc on G which rejects most ground noise, ferrous/non ferrous tone break 10, sensitivity 23, recovery speed 5, iron filter 1, iron stability 4, bottle cap 0, ground stability 0 using the 6" coil. To my surprise, falsing was minimal, and distinguishing iron targets versus non ferrous targets was not a problem. So when I found the 1891 Seated dime about 5" away from where I recovered the other Seated dime earlier, I knew exactly what I was about to dig since it had great non-ferrous audio and great ID even though it had plenty of man-made and natural iron surrounding it and it was 4" deep in a clay ball. The other non-ferrous targets on the plate were also no problem to distinguish from all of the iron and tin trash. I did not get fooled by any smaller iron targets using the Legend. Ferro-Check was spot on and so were the target IDs. I got home from the hunt and noticed XP had put out update 1.1 to help with the Silencer. Thank God!!!!

It was so odd this morning, as I was getting ready to duck out for a few hours to get some more trigger time on the D2 with V1.0 before the afternoon storm came in to see if I could tame this beast, when @abenson posted that XP had released V1.1. What?! I read my emails this morning and didn't see anything about an update from XP. So I logged on and sure enough, there it was. I updated my gear and reloaded a couple of my slightly modded programs and hit a nearby park as there was only an hour or two before a rainstorm was coming in. The two programs I loaded up are based on Fast with the following settings: (Note that these are based on settings that have worked well in my particular mineralized soil conditions) Both programs had Max Freq at 40 kHz, Disc= 6.8, Notch= 7-30, Sensitivity= 95, Reactivity= 1.5-2, Audio Response =4, Iron Vol= 7, FE TID= On, High Sqr Audio, but one program in Full Tones with Offset FT= 5, and the other in Pitch. I set Silencer and B.Caps at 0 because I wanted to see if I could. My part of the country (US Rocky Mountains) has a lot of iron and coal in the soil plus it been raining every day for over two weeks so the ground is saturated with water, and in V1.0, the machine ran too hot with Sensitivity in the 90s so I had to use some Silencer and B.Caps just to calm down all the iron noise, and of course there was a lot of falsing. One of the things that I was going to try was running the Audio Response lower than my usual 5 as suggested by Paystreak in a video. I had no idea that Audio Response was one of the things that was beefed up in V1.0 and it turned out that was one of the major contributors to my falsing problems. Instead I was bumping up the Silencer and B.Caps to quiet the machine down and it was just making things worse in my scenarios. When I hit the park today with V1.1, I was amazed how quiet the machine ran with no Silencer and no B.Caps with Audio Response only lowered to the stock 4 setting. Also, with AR at 4, target size and depth was much easier to gauge. Running in Full Tones was glorious again. I really liked Full Tones in V0.71, but it wasn't working well in V1.0 for me (probably because I was running too hot for my conditions), but in V1.1 it's even better! I was able to hear eveything well defined and was able to call almost all of the targets before I dug them. A couple of canslaw pieces fooled me and, to my surprise, a nickel fooled me. I thought it was going to be a pull tab. Speaking of pull tabs, I was able to call almost all of them by lifting the coil and hearing the squeaks in High Sqr Full Tones. Also, checking suspect targets in Deus Mono in 17 kHz with the XY screen correctly exposed all the tabs and iron I encountered today. The two rusty nails I dug were obvious to me so I used them to test out the Silencer and B.Caps functions while still in the ground. Silencer started to break them up at 2 and almost eliminated the falsing entirely at 4-5. B.Cap handled them well at 3, after testing I set them both back to 0 to continue hunting. I didn't find anything earth-shattering today, that wasn't the mission, but I did find a silver bracelet and my first gold coin! Well gold-colored coin anyway... I almost dropped a duece when I saw that in the hole! 🤣 But I will say I'm impressed that XP managed to get these fixes out in just 10 days after releasing V1.0 and I'm sure there's more to come, but now I feel like my D2 is even a better than before, so thank you, XP!

June 12 2002 The night had remained quiet and we got to work shoveling gravel into the tom. When we broke for lunch Jacob had the concentrates all cleaned up and there were 6 ounces of gold in the pan. He grinned and told us to shovel like hell because we were in a sweet spot. If only we had our trommel we could make a real killing I figured. But we went back to work and did the best we could. The heat was relentless. By the end of the day we had processed 35 yards. I figured that to be a very good days work in the heat. We were all worn out. Jacob took a few scoops of the concentrates and told us they were loaded with gold. He said maybe we didn’t need any trommel and had himself a good laugh. The rest of us looked at him and I thought he had gone mad the way he was laughing so hard. Jacob stopped and told us we didn’t seem to understand and that we had hit a jackpot. An area of concentrated gold deposit. Sizeable tonnage. Whatever you want to call it he said. Then he began to laugh some more. He said he’d seen this kind of thing several times on these claims. We might just have ourselves a gold strike. TO BE CONTINUED ...................

That need not be the case at all. The machine is very simple to operate (basic start guide below). The issue at hand is nugget detecting. VLF discrimination in mineralized ground is unreliable at best. You should not use discrimination, but should be using all metal, digging all targets, and leaning hard on a magnet on a stick to separate ferrous from non-ferrous. It is absolutely impossible to reliably separate gold nuggets from lead, aluminum, or any other non-ferrous items from other non-ferrous items, and at a minimum you must dig all non-ferrous items. Brass, copper, and silver do tend to deliver higher probability numbers, but so will large nuggets. If you wish, I recommend using all metal, in conjunction with the meter reading, to make a dig or no-dig decision regarding ferrous. A ferrous object should bang repeatedly to far left, never bouncing above 40. You do ten sweeps, you get ten far left readings. If, on the other hand, you get one or more hits that bounce higher, especially if the bounce over 40, dig it. I've seen nuggets in bad ground read ferrous over and over, with only rare spikes to non-ferrous. But be aware that some ferrous also spiked high, and you will dig those. As you should, unless you like leaving nuggets in the ground. Look for reasons to dig, as opposed to reasons not to dig. You must dig targets, and lots of them, if you want gold. By using all metal, and using the probability meter constantly, you will learn the odds via meter readings and repetition, and can shift the odds as you please by modifying the resulting dig/no-dig decisions. How that meter responds is key, and that varies with how fast you swing, and how the coil approaches the target. Bouncy numbers are common, and the weaker the target, the less you can believe what you are being told. In truly trashy areas I get more picky, in less trashy areas I get more aggressive. The last method is go to the discriminate "beep mode" and use the actual tones and rejection settings, just like coin hunting. This makes dealing with the worst trash easier, but it also tends to miss more gold, so for me it is a last ditch approach for the trashiest locations. See my detailed review of the 24K for more on that. Goldmaster 24K Quick Start FACTORY RESET - Hold the Down button when turning on the detector. Press the Pinpoint button when “Fd” is on screen, to reset the machine to factory defaults. Just in case. VOLUME - Set the volume to your preference (tap Speaker button, use Up and Down buttons). THRESHOLD - Set the threshold to a faint hum (hold Speaker button, use Up and Down buttons). For silent search, turn the threshold down until it can’t be heard, but no farther. SENSITIVITY - Set the sensitivity to a level that ensures smooth operation (Up and Down buttons). The 24K will generate a harsh overload sound if the coil is placed on ground too mineralized for the setting. If this occurs, reduce sensitivity until the overload tone does not occur. GROUND BALANCE - The default mode is automatic XGB ground tracking. Simply raise and lower the coil over the ground a few inches, two or three times, and start detecting. Alternately, lock the ground tracking by tapping the Lock button (a Lock symbol appears on screen). While the tracking is locked, you can press the Cross Hair button to perform a Ground Grab. This updates the ground setting to what is currently under the coil. With a combination of Locked tracking and Ground Grab you can easily update the ground balance point as you swing. DIG ALL TARGETS - With an emphasis on the faintest targets. A magnet on a pick or a wand can make quick work of excavated ferrous items, while recovering all non-ferrous targets. If an operator wishes to avoid digging ferrous items, employ the meter to ignore items that repeatedly, and reliably, produce far left meter indications. However, always remember that discrimination is unreliable on weak signals, and strive whenever possible to dig all targets while nugget detecting. RETAINED SETTINGS - The Goldmaster 24K will retain your settings when powered off. Once you get the machine set for a particular area, it will be ready to go next time you power it up. When in doubt, repeat the steps above, starting fresh with a factory reset.

What do you think? Art, artifact or randomly created in the environment. I eyeballed this canoe made of what appears to be ironstone last weekend while highbanking beside a river. I am really fascinated with this find. Native peoples have been in this area for over 10,000 years.

I bought my White's 24K from Jim McCulloch and even though ti have owned a several White's and Fishers over the years one of the best thing I did was get Jim's book : Advanced Nugget Shooting with the Goldmaster 24K "

Do a noise cancel scan then choose m1 freq, park and pick out what tones you want to use and go to town swinging it. You will forget about that fisher in no time.

I simply do not understand why the company refuses to engage potential customers on any level. They create web sites that die with no activity and zero updates. They sparodically allow a couple of select users to post results of their hunting but do not follow up in any way. They create small groups of inmpressive videos on a new product and then nothing. Not that they need someone as proactive as Dilek, who is an amazing force, but there are other ways to go to engage your consumer base. Look what Garrett has done with Steve Moore. He is good on camera, ACTUALLY hunts, and posts videos from timt to time. Garrett also engaged Steve on the Axiom. Meanwhile, back at the First Texas ranch, they do...nothing...

I've been busy with some other detecting lately out in the deserts. I like those nuggets and meteorites. You can kind of target those and know what you'll get. When you go to the beach (just like a park) you can get coins, relics and jewelry. Today's best finds were a couple of rings. The first was a stainless steel ring found after a couple of hours of mostly nothing except those tent stakes. My beaches have been very stingy the last few weeks so I was glad to get it. I slowed down with the 11/800 and began to find 'patch' stuff. I like patches. I grid them and just enjoy having a few targets together rather than long walks always. My clues were that I was out on a pretty low tide and things were seemingly deep for the 11. I'm normally a 15 user but the 11 was on and I didn't expect much and was back to where I started when I got the stainless steel ring. It says 316L and weighs 6.7g. I continued on just above the black sand line and found other coins and stakes and then I heard a faint 'penny' or it could have been. I made it down a full scoop (6") and it was still in the bottom of the hole. A couple of more scoops, around 10" I got it out. It was a nice shine for the early morning. This is a 10K with lots of little diamonds. It weighs 7.8 grams. My first gold ring in quite a while and first one with the 11" in even longer. I'm ready to take the 3030 out this week with the 17" and see if I can renew a liking for it and look at some of my old find points.

The river I prospect was high today, and my usual spots were under water. So, my buddy and I shifted gears to another place, which is not as ripe as my usual spot, but, gold is gold. He used his La'Trap mini and I used my favorite river sluice, the "Itty-Bitty" sluice. Click on the photos to see today's hunt.

I've had a known gold-bearing patch stare me in the face for over 35 years, denying me any semblance of gold under my coil. I've tried my luck there dozens of times, with almost every new detector or coil combo, all to no avail. The place just thumbed its nose at me..... until Monday. I used my 6000 with the 10x5 Goldhawk mono, wound up to Auto 1 in difficult (my 'go-to' setting if soil conditions allow) and I found 2 small bits weighing just .3gm. Then yesterday I went back....just to prove it wasn't a 'fluke'. The result was the nugget in the attached pic.... 3.1gm. Another 2 small bits followed. My Nemesis is now conquered! Anyone else have a 'Nemesis' patch that defies all efforts to pluck gold from? Of all the places here in Victoria that I've tried, this one was the only patch that defied me....but no longer! Sorry but I had to tell someone....just to celebrate

Not the kind you want to find. Nowadays you can find anything and everything at the beach. I’m glad I wear gloves during my hunts. Stay safe and protected out there. HH

With all of the new updates that keep coming and wiping out my previous settings for custom programs, I have generated a form to put all of the settings for each program. It's a Google document and hope it will help you because I think it's helping me! When you click on the link, it will automatically force a copy, so that you can edit it. Hope you're able to access it. Let me know what you think. Custom Program Deus II

They sneeze or blow real hard without a tissue.

@Diggin' It @Chase Goldman's post earlier in the thread is quite literally gold, and effectively summarizes the best options on the market. I can speak from the perspective of having the Equinox 800 and the Legend and, while they have some slight differences in areas of strengths/weaknesses, I consider them almost interchangeable in terms of outcomes. They are noticeably different swings, however, and I mean that in a good way. If I had to do it all over again and go with a single detector, I'd go the Legend route if price was an issue. If price wasn't a consideration, however, I'd pony up for the Equinox 900 for all the improvements over the prior 600/800 models. And I do like the 800/900 options vs. the 600/700 ones for the higher frequency options. Even if you aren't gold prospecting, the 20 and 40 kHz settings available onthe 800 and 900 can be useful for hunting small gold jewelry. That said, the Legend has those same higher frequency options (as well as multi frequency) at a much lower price point.

Good advice VL, but the 600 is just as waterproof as the 800 🙂 I've dunked mine a lot and had no problems.

I have a question about the spoon and it is this, does it have a groove from the bowl to the end of the handle. If it does it would be 1/2 of a lead ball mold. They would be stood up and then filled from the handle end and after the would cool they would be separated. Don't really know for sure, and it could also be a simple baby spoon from a poor person.

The 11" coils have had their fair share of issues, it's not abnormal to need them replaced more than once, they have improved the plastic as people were getting cracking on the ears and the coil itself. The coils themselves have had faults causing coil errors/shutdown and general instability, I've only had mine replaced once but I've basically stopped using it and went with aftermarket coils instead, both Coiltek and Nugget Finder are making coils for it, and I trust them both to be more reliable than the standard coils. I just leave my Coiltek 10x5" on mine full time now, I have the Coiltek 14x9" but I find it not sensitive enough and worse than the 11" for sensitivity so I don't really use it. It's pretty crappy you have to buy an aftermarket coil to trust your coil though as the 11" is a really sensitive coil when it works well.

Well ... each country has its own laws and by way of the courts when a meteor hits the ground here and becomes a meteorite then it becomes a mineral according to BLM. If you find it on 'open' land then you can keep it but you would be taking the claim holder's minerals if the land was claimed. This is a cause of not exactly locating a meteorite and saying it came from a nearby location. Many fresh falls are very valuable until the quantity found reduces the price.

I think with VLF's they've accepted defeat, maybe they don't have the engineering talent to be competitive, maybe they don't have the money to invest in the R&D required or just simply don't want to do so. They seem to have taken a step back from making detectors and are perhaps focusing on their other part of the business. They can just ride out their old models until people stop buying them and any sale is a bonus now as they've long recovered R&D money. They have a good base product with the Impulse if they can get it to market in a new form but we have to be realistic, it's not their product, it's someone else's that they were and are possibly going to produce and with that comes complications.

I loaded up V1.1 this morning, and took it outside to check it out. Loaded up Relic Reaper, threw a board on the ground and did all sorts of air tests with nails, coins, and other junk I've found including the trusty beer can bottom. The D2 has the 13" elliptical on it. First thing I noticed with the update is that I didn't have to update the WSA II headphones. 🥳 Updating to V1 was all they needed. Observations: I did not have to back off to 24 kHz to mitigate iron falsing. 🥳 Iron is iron is iron now, almost scary for me. Used all sorts of forged, hammered, square, bent nails from the 1600s to the 1800s. I'm using square high tones now for that PWM brassy tone on aluminum. They cleaned full tones up too much. 😭 Some aluminum did an up/down tone passing left to right then right to left in V.71, that's gone. Oh well. Put a silver dime down, got its VDI, and then put a hammered nail on top of it. I'll be darned if it didn't hit cleanly on the coin sweeping over the width of the nail, and even along the length it blipped 91. Disc and notch independently to 10 had no effect other than to quiet the nail. I'll have to try both. I run Relic Reaper at 0 disc and no notch. Want to hear it all. Put a pull tab down, and got a handful of nickels, the pull tab was 62 and the nickels 60. Slightly different less brassy sound with the nickels, lifting didn't have much effect unfortunately. I was glad to see nickels ID'ing differently. Beer can bottom was way brassier sounding, and lifting helped. It also drew a square on the XY screen. Tried a nickel next to the pull tab and was shocked to see both VDI's even with Reactivity at 0. 👍 Wow. I didn't find a huge amount of difference adjusting audio response, but the tones were more defined the higher it went. For some reason Silencer does nothing for me. 🤔 Didn't help with iron at all. Iron was iron. I run bottle caps at 3. Conclusion: Definite improvement over V1, I'm happy to have my Relic program back, real ground experience will sharpen me up. The deer flies got bad so I quit.

My nemesis is the Sonoran desert, but I'm winning a few battle's

That's my guess too. A half inch can make a big signal response difference on tiny targets. If the flake is floating anywhere up in your scoop and not the absolute bottom, that could be what you are noticing?

I think this is the most likely what's happening, in dry soil at least, the gold moves to the bottom of the scoop easily. In wet soil the first paragraph is most likely what's happening.

That is very intriguing. I have a mate on the west coast, New Zealand, who went in to an area via helicopter that had no gold history at all. South of Hokitika but north of Haast. He was sworn to secrecy & so couldn't tell me the location. He had got talking to a guy who said his father was in there years ago deer shooting & found a large gold nugget just sitting in a creek he crossed. He had no interest in gold but picked it up as a keep sake. This guys father had a couple of huts in the bush he stayed in on longer hunting forays. This guy was keen to try & find his fathers huts. I think his father had passed away & it was out of interest to him to find his fathers huts. He had a vague idea of the catchments they were in. This guy had no interest in gold either. My mate found the story of the gold nugget hard to believe as the area of its finding wasn't a known gold area. This guy then produced the nugget to my mate. So he was then quite curious on seeing it. The two decided to helicopter in for a week. My mate to go gold detecting & this guy to find his fathers huts, or remains of. Long story short. They took a few days to find the right catchment as they had got dropped off in the wrong one. This guy found one of the huts & my mate then wandered on down the creek & found a bit of gold that he described as a LARGE flake of over one ounce. He was using a Gold Bug Pro. He found other large bits of gold & despite doing heaps of panning & sampling he could find no small flood type gold. I found that very strange, as did he. Your yarn reminded me of that. D4G

Mine are in two well known gold district here in Southern California. So I recently lent my detector to a buddy and he comes back from one of the places with color. I guess he must’ve fixed my detector because it wasn’t me, right?🤔

Gerry, the 3 larger pieces of gold are, 1.9 and 1.3 grams, another 1.2, all others made up the balance.

For the most part, you can only discriminate ferrous from non-ferrous. You'll have to dig all the shell casings, and birdshot, and pulltabs if you want to find the nuggets. I usually dig everything when nugget hunting, as using discrimination will cost you some sensitivity. Each person has their own view on discrimination, however. Sometimes the site your detecting has so much iron junk, you simply have to use it. Jim

Hello everyone from Boise, Idaho. I was a member of this forum 9 or 10 years ago, hanging around in the dredging forum; but of course lost THAT username and password (maybe even the email too). About a year ago, I bought a GPX 6000 from Gerry. What a great guy! Met him at his house for the purchase, couldn’t have had a better experience and can’t say enough great things about the guy. I’ve “mostly” always been a dredger since my grandfather introduced me to mining forty five years ago – geez, longer now that I think about it lol. I did have a gold bug back in the 80’s and poked around a bit then got discouraged. All because I didn’t take the time to learn the machine properly: I want to emphasize, that was 100% on ME. I got a Whites GMT ten or fifteen years ago, love that machine, but failed to find any gold with it. Again, the reason for that is time behind the coil. I just couldn’t dedicate enough to get after it. Well, now I’m finding more time for detecting and oh my how I love the 6000. Haven’t found any gold yet with it, but that will change any day. I have a new puppy on the way, so it will be a few weeks before I can get back out there. I haven’t been able to get out at all this year yet, (I know, I know) I’ve been busy. Last year about this time I got up to the mountains for five days, then in august another 9 days straight. I tell you what, with the 6000 in hand over that 9 days I dug 204 targets: boot tack’s, buckles, fragments of wire I can barely see, a chisel, square nails, and then... “Story Time”. I heard the perfect “Zip Zip” way down inside a bedrock crevice. I’ve always found it a bit comical how the fever takes hold on a target like that! The new pick wasn’t going to cut it, I had my own heavy tools back at the truck, an 8 pound sledge and 3 foot pry bar. I had that bedrock so clean the crevice was screaming “HEY, I’M GOLD! CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!” “Oh, I’m coming little fella!” I kept zipping the coil over the target, “zip zip zip”! And the more bedrock I broke off THE LOUDER IT GOT! “This can only be one thing!” I became frantic, “Finally, after a lifetime of looking for gold, could this be my first nugget with a metal detector? It’s got to be a TOAD!” I broke away more bedrock, only to get louder and louder, “zip zip”. “This has to be it! Ahhhhh!” I’m shaking as I wave the coil over it one last time, “ZIP ZIP!” “Oh this is going to be ENORMOUS!” I finally popped it out of its hiding place, the end of an old timers pick stuck way down there in the bedrock. Hahaha! The hunt was just as fun. The enjoyment of the hunt will never end. Thanks for having me.

I just print a copy for each custom program and fill it in with pencil so I can change when I need to.

If it's weight you're concerned with, the Deus 2 is the lightest detector out there. With the 13" coil on a carbon fiber shaft (SteveG) the Deus only weighs 2.7 pounds. That is lighter than the Equinox on a carbon fiber shaft with a 10x5 coil. The 11" is a tad front heavy but you will get used to even the 13" in no time. Look at the long haul for what you want rather than short term gratification. Additionally the WS6 Master you can put together by getting an extra shaft and using the 9" is so light it's barely noticeable. Don't forget you can also put the remotes on a wrist or arm band and only swing the coil. No other system is this variable. I have all 3 coils and prefer the 9" and the 13" elliptical. I do most of my hunting with the 13". The 11" goes along in the 280 backpack if something goes wrong.

I still appreciate the Dealers I buy from and look down at direct-from-the -manufacturer purchase. Dealers are people we can meet or call and talk to, willing to help with problems, offer training, offer many other detecting products that you would have a hard time finding on your own or even knowing they exist. No, often manufacturers seem to be non-caring about individuals but look at us as numbers, it will be a shame if we loose our dealers and a big mistake for the manufacturers to ruin a good working relationship as it is now.

Thanks to you... I know what to look for now... o7

I feel like an idiot...! But a happy one... Young man at Bass Pro Shop opened the box and immediately removed the film over the screen and gone are the bubbles..!! I owe MineLab an apology..!

I think that the spoon-shaped thingy is probably off a seed drill. examples here: https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/q/seed+drill+spoon and here (second photo) : https://ehive.com/collections/8551/objects/965859/seed-drill-spoon-feed-drill

That's the great thing about the GPZ 19" coil, most hold no value in it and sell them very cheap and you can buy it to make adapters out of 🙂 I have two 19" coils, although both have had the snip. I kept my 14" coil original in case I wanted to get rid of my GPZ someday, in hindsight I should have cut it and not bothered with the 19" coils as I'm never getting rid of my GPZ, it's my favourite detector.

At least Simon the GPZ coils can be sold to make a patch coil, if they don't trust damaging their own coil.😜

What makes me mad with Minelab coils is I have to buy their coils with each detector even when I know it will remain unused, as my choice of detecting does not favour the most general ML size coil. Most of the committed prospectors over the "Minelab era" that I have known had to pay for a ML coil that they did not want and the resale of them is very low as most customers have one also sitting unused.

Sorry to hear that Todd, they really screwed up delivering a quality product with the 6000 but once you get a good working one it is a fantastic detector. The EMI fix is worth it even if you use only headphones, why have a $8000 detector with a fault? Plus some have reported it improves stability even when using headphones. The service agent seems like they're giving you the run around though and it's pretty poor form of them. My turnaround for my EMI repair was the next day. I suspect they found something more wrong with yours and have now sent it to Minelab for repair.

Thanks. I kept looking for v. 1.1 and couldn’t find it. I got it all updated to 1.1 now.

It is. 😈 I'll send ya updated settings when I've got it all together. Took it in a field in front of my house and dug two relics in 15 minutes.

Thanks Jim. It does help but not fully explain what many of us experience. I prefer the big nugget too which is more and more rare but I'm just surprised what a scoop of dirt can do to a target's responses.

F350 I thought your Reaper was improved in V1.0 using negative Disc. It just might be deadly in V1.10 with a few tweaks.

This YouTube shows the work done, the effort put in by the gold diggers and the change to the environment that occurred during the 1850 - 1890 ......LINK.... for video below.

June 11 2002 We all took turns on watch but there wasn’t much left on the mountain to sabotage except more of the layflat hose and the tom. We got up and running before noon and Jacob had weighed up yesterday’s work. We had an ounce. The weather was hot, dry, and dusty. I had to fight the urge to have a cold beer later in the afternoon. We worked the day without incident and the reliable old tom processed 28 yards of pay gravel. Jacob took a look at it and panned a bit of the cons which seemed to be loaded with coarse gold. He said we might have hit a honey hole in the gravels. We sure were hoping so as we all needed to see more gold. After supper we were all sitting around the campfire except for Vern who went up on first night watch. Jacob was in a rare mood and drinking whisky and rolling smokes. He told us he was going to shoot the next hooligan who messed with our equipment. I think he actually meant it but hoped that would not happen. He said he didn’t care as he had led a long life and was ready for his time to come to an end some day. I knew what he was talking about as he had confided in me previously but the crew knew nothing. TO BE CONTINUED ...........................

The only thing more important (than the highlight) is that gold has to be there, and research and experience helps in picking the right location.

the ONLY reason I bought the manti, the ctx was simply too heavy for 4 or 5 hour hunts... I'm sure we'll all learn the manti, but right now, the CTX stomps it (my hands, my dirt, my spots) I'm starting to see glimpses of hope, granted an aluminum nail head...is an aluminum nail head...but when you find it in rust and nails at 7ish 8ish" down .....certainly gotta give cred where cred is due

It’s already being used for that. I use it for emails or answering information requests. Should the AI be credited or me who actually pushed the buttons to make it work? I never credit Google for anything. I look at it in the same concept when it comes to that. AI works for me and therefore in the end, right or wrong, the credit falls to the user. As of now AI needs human user input in order to start its job that I tell it to do. If someone challenges me, I can’t say that it wasn’t my fault, AI did it 🤣

I have repaired and or replaced a half dozen Souriau connectors where people did not know how to properly dismantle the connector. They all did the same thing. Twisted the wire at the pins and broke or shorted out the wire. You must leave the connector connected to the female (AQ). First remove the small end of connector ( counter clockwise ) which seals the connector with a rubber grommet. Slide both up the cable a bit. Then you can safely unscrew the second section safely ( again counter clockwise ) which exposes the wire and pins. Failing to loosen and remove the sealing grommet first will twist the cable at the pins and break or short out the wire. Then you can remove the connector from the machine.