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continued on with the patch in the first post first picture, it has given up a total of 105 bits of gold now for 14.4 grams. Four part days detecting it, today was 5 and 1/2 hours for 43 bits of gold which weighed in at 5.4 grams, and it was a much more pleasant day as the very strong winds from the last few days have gone. A few pictures from today you can see the settings I am running on this type of ground and the detector is running nicely and todays result, 43 bits of gold for 5.4 grams, the gold is small but it is gold cheers dave

Day 2 was kinda short so I'm adding it here, it's my 14th anniversary so I didn't stay out too long, mainly hunted newer areas of the campground, and some parts I've already hit hard. I was also interrupted for about an hour by this turtle laying eggs, she's over a foot long. She was getting attacked by crows while laying in the open, so I metal detected around her for a while, and covered her eggs better when she left. Sadly I came back later and the eggs were all dug up by some animal. 😵 I went over the farmhouse site, I'd defy anyone to find anything here, it's machine gun everything. Aluminum, steel, copper tubing, all the junk you can think of and more. 😀 Over the past couple years I've got some coins out of here, mostly wheats and some Indian heads. Here are the finds today, just some modern clad and a fancy washer. All from the 70s to today. Trash wasn't bad. No detecting tomorrow probably, going shopping further south. My wife is looking forward to it!

For the first 10 days of using the 6000 on like for like ground with the 7000 using the 8" x-coil there was very little difference in the amount of gold found between the two machines, the 6000 found 30.7 grams for that time and the 7000 found 29 grams for the same time, that was in WA out from Kalgoorlie. this is the type of ground there, this ground has been gone over on previous years with the 7000 and various x-coils and the 6000 still got 30.7 grams for 10 days and this is the first time I have used it, brand new straight out of the box some bits were quite deep but still gave a signal ever so slight, and what I was doing some of the time here was using normal (straight lines) and if I got a signal then switch back to difficult (wriggly lines) and if an even slightest of alight signal I would dig and it would be gold, if no signal at all in difficult it would turn out to be a hot rock in normal Veronica holding a bag of species from this area and our camp site cheers dave

Found a pay-streak in a patch of hard pan. It had about 1" of mud covering it, and it didn't look very enticing. It was a challenge getting my shovel into it, but what a surprise! I used my bigger GEO drop riffle highbanker.....faster shoveling = more gold, right? Here's what yesterday's adventure looked like. And..........and also dug up a nice coral fossil out of the North Saskatchewan River. Here's what 4 hours of digging got me...........

Give it time, be positive you`ll come back, had bowel & appendix tumors removed, prostrate rebore, chemo etc back in 20. Was a hard year but magic professional health care, good luck, fit out of new Troopy and gentle 6K detecting brought me back.

Yep same, lots of people bypass the 9" round in favour of an elliptical coil , which I think is a big mistake. I know I'm missing the crumbs that the smaller ellipticals can get but the way I look at it is you gotta leave a few crumbs for the mice otherwise they go looking for the cake.🤣

The WS6 doesn't have backlight like the full remote does so that can't be changed, but you can change the contrast level in the settings menu and that may help. Also you can set the screen to Large Numbers display in the settings menu or by pushing the + and menu butttons (the 2 buttons on the right side) and hold them for 2 seconds as a shortcut to activate and deactivate Large Number display. Here's a link to the WS6 Master manual in case you need it: https://www.xpmetaldetectors.com/uploads/files/document/gb-ws6-deusii.pdf

I think the only X-coils competitive with the 6000 on small gold sensitivity (how small they can detect) are the 8" and 15" Concentric, the 10" isn't too far off but I'd give it to the 6000 and the 12" spiral is possibly better especially when it comes to depth on the little bits. Each detector has it's strong points and the 6000 will do better on some gold and one of the listed X-coils would do better on other gold. The 6000's really set the bar for small gold performance with a non-VLF detector. I personally think the 11" is the best small gold coil for the 6000 out of the coils I've tried so far having a slight edge on tiny gold over the Coiltek 10x5" with the 11" giving more depth. The 10x5" has the size benefit when required though. My picks for the 7000 would be the 8", 12" Spiral and 15" CC when it comes to small gold at depth and if I'm after depth in my soil at least I believe I'd likely do better with the 7000 but I'm lucky and can run it in normal. In difficult who knows, maybe the 6000 wins. Dave might be able to shed some insight seeing he's an 8" coil owner and in these difficult red WA soils.

Today was my first go at detecting after left inguinal hernia surgery last Friday (5 days). I had to get my fix and see my favorite beach. The first challenge was to put on my rubber boots. I could get my right boot on normally but when it came to the left sock it was not possible or wise to bend my leg and twist it at the angle I normally would. Once the sock was on I could jam my foot in pretty much ok. My idea was to 'cherry pick' but conditions really weren't good enough to have many choices of what to dig. I walked and walked (with no pain) but there just weren't many targets on the way out. Conditions weren't very good at the bottom of the slope. On the way back there were more targets and the uneven slope made me start feeling some tingles from the incision and the repair site. Digging was comfortable with the left hand only with my arm scoop. Bending and pulling at the sand was restricted so that I didn't over-do-it. I don't use a foot/shovel scoop. Using two hands caused pain that I wanted to avoid. In the end I had 1 quarter, 1 dime about 5 pennies, 5 pieced of trash and a really deep (18") aluminum can bottom in my collection. That was good enough. So, my questions are: "What did you do for your rehab to get back to your digging?" "Do you have any cautions or horror stories to share?" I'm not ready for a nugget trip based upon what I learned today. That could be too challenging until I have more healing time.

Hello everyone, I am a 56-year-old disabled veteran from Central Illinois. I have been detecting off and on for approximately the past eight years. I currently swing a Garrett AT-Pro with a couple of different NEL coils and also a White's Spectra V3i detector with several different NEL coils as well. The rechargeable battery for my Spectra V3i is currently burned out, so I am swinging the AT-Pro for now. Only because I really do not want to use the Spectra V3i with the double-D battery pack. I would much rather run the rechargeable battery pack. More to come later. Rodney

June 15 2002 Part Three When I got back to camp Vern was pretty upset that we didn’t find Jim. I told him it was dark, we had tried the radio as well as calling out, but there was just no way to know where he had gone. I figured it was probably the same goons that seemed to be against our mining activities. Vern wanted to go charging out into the woods and find Jim. I asked him just where he would start and he replied somewhere up in the area Jim had last been. I said we didn’t know which direction he had gone. He may have taken off trying to pursue the thugs or he could now be lost. He also may have been taken captive. Jacob was up there in case he returned. We couldn’t leave camp unguarded and I was unwilling to risk Vern’s life. I thought about letting the law know about this but decided to wait until morning. Besides, I figured they wouldn’t want to risk deputies' lives on a wild goose chase into the mountains at night. So Vern and I sat at camp and kept in contact with Jacob via the radios. All I could think of was how Jim had wanted to leave the mine and go home because of the danger out here but I had talked him out of it. I felt responsible for the crew. I knew they were out here on their own choice but still felt horrible. I was beginning to think about what had happened to the crews in 1936 & 1937. It gave me the creeps. TO BE CONTINUED ............

Caution - I would stop doing any more detecting for at least 3 weeks. The last thing you want with a hernia is to re-open it. Often after that type of surgery they might suggest something like not lifting anything more than 1 kilogram for 4 weeks, 3 kilogram for another 4 weeks, 5 kilogram for another 4 weeks, etc. Walking is great but the twisting, lifting, squatting of detecting and retrieving targets is something I’d avoid for awhile. That’s just what I would do. No point overdoing things and having to go back to the OR for the sake of a few weeks 😉 Keep on top of the pain and don’t get constipated 😀

Hi Trev , is there any chance of a 14" round mono being made for the 6000? I've always used a 14" round on previous detectors probably 90% of the time. The 14" round elite was a game changer on my gpx 5000. 😉

Looks like Quest is sold in Mexico. I could be tempted to bring one back! 😎

Thanks. I was pretty impressed to have the D2 pull some coins out of all that junk, one spot was a bed of iron but I heard a high tone in there, zeroed in on it, and it was an old memorial. This is with the 13" mind you, just bumped reactivity to 3. This is my second marriage, so it hasn't been all that long 😎 but it's been great.

Way to sniff out those coins from unforgiving ground! Too bad about the turtle eggs, probably a dog or racoon got them. BTW, Happy Anniversary you crazy kids!

The 9" round coiltek goldhawk coil is my favourite for the 6000, super quiet, excellent depth and sensitivity. I find I can run it with a lot more sensitivity than the 11" coil. I always run in difficult , after much testing there's not much difference between it and normal, running way quieter and immune to most hot rocks. If I find I'm in an area with bad hot rocks I use the quick track button to ground balance on the hot rock, and that usually helps get rid of them .Next choice is the 12"x7"exceed for a bit more ground coverage. Can't wait to try the 16"x10" exceed.

Got a great run happening this week with a ring every day so far.. The first one was a call-out from a footy player who lost his ring on the oval.. Got a $50 reward for finding it, took about an hour.. Ever try gridding a football oval? It takes a long time to cover.. The other two rings were at a spot where a huge load of sand had been washed away during a very high tide.. They must have been too deep to pick up before but here they were in the top layer of the washout.. I'm getting better at spotting likely locations, it's no longer the hit and miss affair it was years ago.. I'm slowly developing a 'Geosense' as to where rings are likely to be deposited along different parts of a beach.. It's no longer all about luck, experience is starting to play a bigger role..

Hi,I recently got gifted a minelab GP Extreme detector with all accessories.I was wondering if they are still relevant today, and if so are there any tips or tricks to using them. We live in outback Australia and have use for it as a gold detector,on the occasions that we get to prospect.It came with the 10 or 11" double d and mono.I have the instruction manual , and it all seems to be working correctly.Hopefully I could swing it while the wife uses the nox800 or ctx . thanks Jay.

On a camping trip to a campground that used to be an old hunting lodge, it's changed hands twice and is owned by a large company now. It's near the Outer Banks in North Carolina, this is my third year coming here. Beautiful weather this week, it should be a lot of fun. The campground isn't full at all, and the General Manager has graciously allowed me to hunt pretty much anywhere I want. There are 148 acres here, and a long stretch of waterfront but no beach. There are piers and the water isn't all that deep so I may go in the water at some point. 😬 Maybe. There has to be some jewelry out there. I didn't have a lot of time today because I got the green light at about 1pm, so I went to the volleyball court and the recreation area that has a few amenities. Dug a bunch of coins and this nice looking kid's ring. It's a little crab with some sort of stone, sizable and not precious metal. Next I went out to the tent camping area. I've found a lot of live ammo here from the old hunt club but not today. Got another bunch of coins and got my favorite find today, this really old signet ring. It's kinda beat up but it has a "V" on it, it appears to be brass but it's very thin and strong. I'll have to clean and test it when I get home. No hallmarks. Here's the total take for today, lots of old clad, a couple of nickels and copper memorials. I did get 8 Zincolns but left 3 in the trash: And here's the trash. Very little iron, but can slaw is still a problem.

I didn't get a chance to post this earlier, but a few weeks ago I got to go back to the site of my first ghost town hunt. It's one of my detecting club's permissions that has been hunted for probably 30 years of the club's 50 year history. My first hunt there 2 years ago was a daunting experience to say the least. If you've never done relic hunting, specially on a site that once had almost 2000 people living and workng there, then you cannot even imagine what that's like. The tons of iron and coal throughout the area makes every detector go nuts and a few detectorists too. 😉 There are other inhabitants on this site as well. A couple of local boys wanted to crash the hunt, but they didn't have their club cards on them so they were politely asked to leave. 😏 I was very excited to get back to this site hoping for some really old coins and artifacts now that I have had a few years of training and felt I was ready for the big game. Well let me tell you, it only takes hunting a few hours of hunting with 30 pro detectorists to to put you in your place and one of the big lessons I learned was that detecting is 50% physical and 50% mental. I started the first day rushing around to get out the door on time for the long drive to get to the site on time and discovering a few block from my house that my rear tire was flat. That set the tone for the day. I got that fixed and flew like the wind and just barely made it to the meetup on time. When we get to the site, I rush around getting my wife's detector set up and ready to go, grab my detector and climb through the barbed wire fence and discover I forgot my shovel, so I climbed back through the barbed wire, grab my shovel and slither back through the fence only to find I forgot my gloves... Auuuughhh! I run the gauntlet again with gloves in hand and finally get ready to hunt and my remote control lock mount decides to break off. Fortunately I have a couple of backups in my pack.... but I forgot to pack my little screwdrivers.... just shoot me! I manage to flag down one of my detecting buddies and he graceously stops his hunt to rescue me. When he returned to hunting, he was promptly rewarded with a beautiful 1876 Seated Liberty Dime with CC mint mark! By the time I get out on the field my brain is fried and I spend the next several hours finding junk while everyone around me was finding ancient coins and wonderful artifacts. That's when I just took a time out to get my head together. After I settled down and ate a sandwich I went back to the field and my training kicked in. I discovered everything I was doing wrong and adjusted accordingly and then the finds started popping out of the iron. There were some amazing finds made over the 2 days at this site by some great detectorists, not by me of course, but I did find a few interesting things and learned an invaluable lesson. Keep a cool head, remember your training, and most of all respect the skills of your mentors! They all did well and deservedly so. I look forward to day that I reach that level of Zen. Well done my teachers! One of my cooler finds was this tiny heart pendant or rosery piece: Here's a dime for size comparison: Unkown disc, possibly a coin or token piece but no discernible markings. Oil lamp wick mount with 1872 & 1873 patent dates: Mostly iron and lead trash:

Good Morning, I had a customer yesterday that is deaf, although i was able to supply them a detector of their choice that vibrates. I'm looking for some help so that i can help them understand things better or attachments that might help them. I was able to take them out and hands on walk them through the detector, setting, vibration, etc... Is there any other way to help someone with handicaps like this?

Gary at the Czech version of Detectival...

Mitchel, Glad to hear you are up and running (walking). I think Norvic is spot on, take it easy for a bit, rest as necessary and in a short bit you will be back in the desert slaying it. Jeff

Thanks for weighing in all! I will see him again soon and test some items to see how or if they might work. I am also working to learn some basic sign language to at least help me communicate back. I enjoy the challenges, i am patient, because i want them to be able to enjoy the experience. Thanks again for the help and the feedback.

Hello RMiller98. Welcome aboard. Nothing wrong swinging a AT Pro. BUT... if you're interested to get the POWER for the V3I you may read this thread: --> 3d Printed Battery Pack For Whites Machines

I'm predominantly a beach hunter and hunt some beaches with a ton of iron, which i believe is from the old 1800s piers. Version 0.71 had iron falsing on this large iron all over the place but the falsing came in around 78-86 on the TID. Sometimes rotating around it would give me iron but sometimes not. Because of the volume of iron, luterally thousands of pieces, i used to have a custom program to notch out that 78-86 TID range. Notching this out, i was able to pull 40 or so silvercoins from the iron by looking for TIDs 88 and up. With 1.0 and 1.1 the iron falsing at two of my beaches now comes in from 90-99, effectively making it impossible to notch out. The updates also make it dang near impossible to detect these areas with any reasonable speed because youre constantly stopping on every piece of iron because it reads in the range that coins read. In the past when not notching out iron falsing i could discriminate in my brain based on the TID and kerp moving when anything in the 80s popped up. This effectively killed two beaches for me with 1.0 and 1.1. Ive left it installed so i can give it a fair shot for a few weeks. Just got my ws6 puck back from getting repairs so i can get pmw audio now instead of the boners limiting me to square audio, which i despise. Before the ws6s broke, i was really unhappy with the audio changes but also had a major head cold so it could have been that. Im giving it this last weekend before reverting back to 0.71. I had zero complaints about 0.71 and really found it to be perfect for all my needs. No use suffering through some of the new issues when im mainly a beach hunter. I wish i could load 1.1 on the ws6 and switch over to it here and there when away from the beach in order to give it a fair shot. Or if we could select which version to run at startup 😍

Having grown up with a sister that is totally deaf I can say that if you do not know sign language then just be patient and friendly and that is help enough. Learning how to at least spell in sign language is not a hard task but if you don't use it often they you may loose it. Hearing aids and bone phones are great for hearing impaired folks but for someone with nerve damage that processes the signal from the cochlea to the brain (totally deaf) they wont work. I was very happy when I learned that the metal detector companies were adding things to help out with handicapped folks. strick

Sort of a relief because of my detector OCD curiosity was willing me to get it just to try out some of its unique features and the higher frequencies than any other of its SMF peer>despite not wanting or needing anything more out of my detectors than what I have right now. Will help in my “quest” to start downsizing as I am convinced Deus 2 and Axiom pretty much cover all the detecting bases for me and Legend makes a great value-based backup. This is also somewhat of a self inflicted wound on these companies’ part - unlike XP - Nokta and Quest did not give themselves many degrees of freedom separation from Minelab’s SMF designs (at one point Quest even called their SMF multifrequency implementation “Simulti-Q” - practically begging ML to engage). That is not to say that ML’s suit against Nokta or a possible suit against Quest has merit, but it does present a plausible case. XP apparently has already been through the litigation mill with ML. They seem undeterred, perhaps that settlement opened up the playing field for XP as ML spent their silver suit bullet on one of the flimsiest technology patent claims I have ever seen. Anyway, we’ll see how this all turns out. The fact is, if someone doesn’t have a case against you and you have a good product that should sell well, you should not let the potential to be sued deter your market ambitions. That just emboldens the bully.

Welcome to the group Rodney ! Always room for one more. Questions or answers or a pic of your finds , don't be shy !

This is very disappointing news....

Well just got a third confirmation the V60 and V80 will not be coming to the U.S Spoke to Andy Sabisch and he confirmed the news also, he did not sound to happy about it at all he just wasted a whole lot of time testing the V80 for Quest and then gets this news, not good, Andy also confirmed it is all due to Mine Labs sue happy nature and U.S laws where anyone can sue anyone for anything they want, its ridiculous in my opinion

In theory it sounds interesting,but in reality would not be the best way forward as single freq machines are not the best option for wet beach sand,so in my mind it would be a total waste of time....the best way forward if you want to do your own coils would surely do a PI kit which can be purchased pretty cheap infact very cheap and then make the coil which is pretty easy and alot easier than VLF coil designs. All ready that has been suggested is the Geotech1 forum,some serious electronic boffins on that forum,regarding the Gold Bug2 i personally think it would be a total waste of time going down that route.

You should register with the Geotech1 Forum, where you will find an abundance of info about coil building: Geotech1 forums Unfortunately, the GB2 is one of those "difficult" coils. The combination of high operating frequency, and internal components ( tuning capacitor etc ) , and the fact no-one seems to have reverse-engineered one, means your chance of success are low. I think the GB2 is not the best choice for beach detecting, due to its high operating frequency, and inability to handle the electrically-conductive salt-water sand. It would be better to buy a new machine dedicated to beach hunting, preferably with some degree of water-resistance as a feature.

Welcome to the forum and I am sure that we will enjoy some of your stories about your hunts. I am also in central Illinois near Litchfield, what part are you close to. Good luck and good hunting.

Welcome from East Texas.

Thanks Cap'n, I decided to do the same thing today, start with vanilla General and slap some stuff on it. Did about the same as my newer version of Relic Reaper I'm working on. Still not digging much iron tho, so I'm digging that 😀

Back in the early 70’s I hunted with a guy that couldn’t talk are hear and I must say that was interesting to go all day without saying a word. He didn’t want you to write anything down but we done it with hand signs . We both had a Whites 66 TR and would watch the big meter it had . I found him this thing that strapped to your wrist and plugged into a speaker Jack and when you detected something it would vibrate. I got it for him but he didn’t like it. I’d put a speaker Jack on my detector and I used a ear bud in one ear with a long cord . I’d looked at other things but he didn’t want any. The thing that has been done for a lot of us is with a vibrating handle. It’s kinda like the old lady that said where’s the beef . She couldn’t hear good so when it was her time to say where’s the beef someone would pull on the bottom of her long dress Chuck

Geophysical terrain mapping is no easy task, and certainly not with devices designed to fool the gullible. Unfortunately, most people who do not know these machines, seeing images on the tablet with negative and positive values formed by the malfunction of the machine, think that they are looking at the ground, and this is the biggest trap for the one who does not know how to analyze a file measurement. Proper geophysical surveying requires professional equipment, knowledge and experience and, above all, favorable ground conditions for each class of machinery. personally I use a range of machines to be able to cope as best as possible with different research conditions. My advice is don't throw away your money on geophysical devices aimed at treasure hunters.

Spot on - all the testing I’ve done has the 9” Goldhawk as the best performed on both depth and sensitivity.

What about the gold in this range? As a pure beach hunter, myself. If the Deus update would put all iron falsing 90-99 I would consider this the biggest gift EVER! This would mean I could confidently pass iron and retrieve almost all gold targets. Not trying to be critical here but 40 silver coins that come out of the ocean is not worth squat. There is no collector value of silver out of salt water. One gold ring removal would crush what 40 silver coins are worth. I would seriously notch out this "new" iron range and concentrate on lower numbers. Am curious to see what other beach hunters are seeing for iron falsing.

I can't take any of NYC's vid's....creepy uncle fester looking dude 🤪

It is closed now but here is a bit of history. I couldn't find another thread on it but if there is just add this to it.

I’m a relic hunter, don’t use notch and even bottle cap: looking for little targets and I dig everything from early 20s to late 80s TID. Bottle cap only in the beach, shore and first 80cm/1m water wearing waders ...but I live about 70 miles from the sea so I go mostly in the countryside. Last weekend stayed at home because of lot of rain but I have to come back on hematite to set up a custom program which is promising. I’m studying audio filter which I consider a very nice feature and silencer as well. Talking about mild soils I’ll have to study new full tones feature..

Loved the advert jingle ! 😍 Now , how do I get it out of my head ?🤔 I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that but I just HAD to !🙄 Isn't there any peanut butter there anywhere ??🥸

Wow simon that's to serious for me .🙂 After lots of testing I only use the one button on the 6000 now , on and off . Great change from the 5000 . l know I'm still missing gold , but show me a detector that doesn't, stress free detecting 👍

GB_Amateur, Thanks for posting the tables. I may use them in the future if I can get together the components for the measurement. At the moment, I have a local jewelry store that has an XRF scope. I am not sure how much they charge to scan a piece of jewelry, but it will tell me the gold and other metal percentages in just a few seconds. I may drive by the store today and see if they are open on Saturdays. I know during Covid they were only open by appointment, and you needed to be hazmatted up as well. I have a few other trinkets that I would like to know the composition of also. So, this may be a good excuse to get it done. thanks, Joe PS Attached is a better picture of the 4 inside the 0 but you can't see the B in this view.

I don't recall there being a number, either way they've released a Manticore, X-Terra, Equinox 700 and Equinox 900. That seems to be it for now. I think the results above explain the heavy discounting on the GPX 6000 though, perhaps gone are the days of the super high priced detectors.

Glad to see you down there in AZ putting some time on the Axiom and getting results better than many and most had expected. To read that each detector responded on the same exact targets and just as importantly, neither detector found a target the other missed or could not, says volumes of how far Garrett has come along. Now this part is even more exciting for me and should be for others as well. I'll use example of the GPZ-700 and the GPX-6000 as I ran both from day 1. The way I was using those detectors and even to the point of training customers, has evolved. My operation and settings of those machines today is different than at 1st and who knows, maybe down the road, I find other ways to get more out of the detectors. The Axiom is so new, many folks are just now getting them and already making finds. Well 6 months from now, we'll have a better understanding of the detector and even possibly a few tweaks to our Settings. A year from now, we might even get a bonus software upgrade and down the road, the results will be even better than today. In the end, we all learn each time we get out and if we pay attention and always try to make our machine and skill better,, then our results will show. I'm happy to read your knowledge and the time you put it to test both machines at the same day, same site with approx same size coils. Not many folks have the luxury of owning both detectors. Well done again Lunk.

I don't want to hijack this thread, so started a new one on this subject only here: Notes On The Axiom Iron Check Feature And on another thread I went deep on the question of GPX 6000 vs Axiom, so check it out Finally, for what it is worth, with over 2.5 ounces of gold found with the Axiom so far, I'd say that about 0.02 grams or 0.3 grains is the normal lower limit for the Axiom while engaged in normal detecting. Those will be found regularly with no problem by people who know what they are doing. It's possible to hit smaller than that, but if I was chasing gold that small, in all honesty I would probably switch to a VLF with a small coil.