Steve Herschbach

The bumping is not an issue for me. It occurred rarely and only if I banged the coil hard. I might have to do the modification anyway though by placing a poly-carb piece on the bottom of the Nugget Finder skid plate. It seems very thin for the weight of the coil it is carrying and I do not expect it to be a long life item.

Big coils area tough call. I like them mainly for ground coverage but in this case the extra weight added to what is already a heavy detector makes it harder to get excited about putting the GPZ19 on the detector. People get all tied up in knots over the advertising and percentages which all strikes me as beside the point. I know the GPZ19 goes deeper than the GPZ14. Maybe it's only an inch, maybe more, maybe less, but I have no doubt when I put the GPZ19 on that I am getting that little extra I might need to make a find. It certainly is a nice feeling when you find a little patch like I did to be able to break out the big coil and give it another go. I always hate leaving a good spot thinking there might be something else lurking there just out of reach and the GPZ19 helps put that concern to rest.

It has certainly been a busy year for me so far, with not as much detecting time as I would like. Still, I have been getting out a little and thought it was time to share a few photos. My first couple bits were found with the Minelab Gold Monster 1000 on some scouting runs. I am liking this detector as a grab and go unit for checking areas out quickly. I am not trying to hunt for max performance but instead looking to cover a lot of ground quickly to check things out. I have learned the GM1000 auto sensitivity actually suits me well for this. I just fire up the detector in all metal mode, full volume, and start with auto sensitivity set at Auto+1. Then I just start swinging. If noise intrudes (usually in salt areas) I will back down to Auto+0 (there are just two Auto settings available Auto and Auto+1). Once the GM1000 gets out and about people will no doubt note the Auto settings are not the hottest. Which is why I like them. The GM1000 is a super hot machine already, so I am looking more for stability than anything else, and know it will pop hard on any small nuggets I get over. If I were pounding a patch hard I would use manual sensitivity and push it high, but that would introduce noise and require very careful hunting. For me however the GM1000 serves best as a light weight quick and dirty way to check new areas - just grab and go. I posted previously about finding a nugget using Auto sensitivity which is where I learned how useful the setting is. Here are two more small nuggets located using Auto+1. Both nuggets banged hard, one at maybe an inch and the other at about three inches. I am not trying to promote or to push the use of this setting, I am simply reporting what I am doing and you can decide for yourself if it is useful for you. 0.1 gram and 0.4 gram nuggets found with Minelab Gold Monster 1000 running in Auto+1 sensitivity I did finally get a GPZ 19 coil for my GPZ 7000 and it was time to give it a go. I tried one area I had hunted before in case a larger deeper nugget was lurking. My first lesson with the GPZ 19 was not how large and deep a nugget it can find but how small and shallow! The only thing I had missed and left to find was this less than 0.1 gram nugget. It was practically on the surface and so gave a small warble when it got close to the coil winding. I was surprised and impressed the coil can find gold this small. The next location is one I scouted with the GM1000 and found the 0.4 gram nugget. The spot got my interest so I went back with the GPZ 7000 and 14" coil to hunt it. Turns out it was a nice little patch with some chunky gold! The ground was deep so I mounted up the GPZ19 and hunted it again. I did come up with one nugget I missed before, whether from sloppy detecting or just a little too deep I do not know. It was a little 1.2 grammer at around a foot down. I continued hunting outside my area and came up with another at 1.3 grams. GPZ19 Nuggets I had removed the Minelab skid plate that came with the coil and replaced it with the closed Nugget Finder cover. I like this cover for uneven ground as it does not get hung up of rocks and sticks as much, but it does rapidly collect a pile of debris! The coil did false if banged on a rock and would require care in rocky ground, though I was running it as hot as ever so that contributes to it. I usually hunt grassy and sagebrush country and it does well here just gliding on the grass, though if the grass is deep it will ride up on it above the ground. Still, the larger size gave me this feeling that I had a little extra insurance in that regard and so I used it to hunt over low brush where it might reveal nuggets hidden when others went around the brush. False signals from banging a rock aside I do think the coil actually runs a bit smoother with my Insanely Hot settings. The GPZ19 is slightly too heavy for me for general use in hilly terrain and too large for a lot of the sagebrush areas. It is just the ticket however for covering large open terrain and that is where it will see the most use with me in the future, or for pounding old deep patches. The extra pound was not quite as bad as I was expecting and in flatter ground just my regular bungee setup sufficed. I did try out the Hipstick though and think it a better option for long hours with this coil. Well, lots of info there I hope people can get some use out of. It's always nice to be out prospecting whether or not I find any gold - but gold does help! 24 grams or about 3/4 ounce with largest nugget 4.5 grams or just shy of three pennyweight. This post has been promoted to an article

Deleting my post instead of answering it definitely left a bad taste in my mouth. Here is what I posted that was deemed so bad it had to go: "The latest rumor now for availability of the elliptical coil is mid-July. Would it kill XP to post a clear and definitive explanation of the when the coil will be available?" For an outfit that designed a coil and update aimed specifically at prospectors XP is sure doing a lousy job of outreach to the prospecting community.

I made the mistake of asking on a thread on Findmall if it would kill XP to offer up any news about the delay on this coil (again) and when it might be released. Apparently I was not respectful enough or simply asking is wrong - either way the post was deleted. Pathetic.

It was my understanding your 6x10 coil is out of specification. If that is the case I would not be counting its performance as indicative of what a properly tuned coil might achieve.

The White's MX Sport is now one of the only "all terrain" metal detectors that comes standard with waterproof headphones. Most waterproof to 10 feet detectors do not come with the waterproof headphones required to make them truly submersible. The MX Sport is now ready for mask and snorkel work right out of the box.

Rob just posted at this here: "Just a FYI, the Minelab Gold Monster 1000's have finally shipped. They should arrive here at our location early to mid next week. All orders paid in full will ship first, then all pre-orders. There are rumors that dealers didn't get all the unit they ordered on this first go around. "

I would rather have it in the Eureka Gold box for hip or chest mount.

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All metal can be had in both motion and non-motion modes. Non-motion is pure and unfiltered and therefore is subject to drift. Very few detectors offer this mode. Motion all metal modes add a filter, commonly referred to as SAT (Self Adjusting Threshold) or Autotune. This attempts to keep the threshold steady and if the coil is held motionless over the target the threshold fades away. Motion is required to keep the target beeping so we have "motion all metal". The higher the SAT setting, the more aggressive the filtering, the less depth. Nearly all VLF type nugget detectors employ this mode. We can now add a discrimination filter. Items pass through the filter and are accepted or rejected. This filter requires more signal strength to deliver a result which is seen as lost depth. Many low cost detectors only operate in discriminate mode. They can achieve a fake "all metal" mode by simply accepting all targets. However, the filter is still being applied and depth still lost. VCO is not discrimination per se. A normal detector simply increases the volume with target strength. VCO increases volume and pitch. A loud squeal simply means a strong target. Notes on filtering Picture: Garrett Ace 250 features an "All Metal" mode that is a discriminate mode set to accept all targets.

Oops, I did not zero in on the "non-motion" part and so deleted my other post. Fisher F75, Nokta Impact, White's V3i, XP Deus The T2 and F75 are similar but are different detectors.

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Good app, thanks for posting.

Me too!

If we are going to discuss reviews please link to them. I assume this is about argyle's post here. There will always be those who want a detector to be something it is not. Maybe if the words "entry level" are just repeated over and over.... Here are some better reviews http://golddetecting.4umer.net/t25227-gold-monster-1000

Lots of gold has been found with the 14 kHz White's MXT and 19 kHz Fisher Gold Bug Pro so the Impact frequencies are fine, just not in the same league as the over 30 kHz dedicated nugget detectors. My big picture view is that the First Texas 19 kHz models like the Fisher Gold Bug set the benchmark in the mid-frequency class. The 18 kHz Garrett AT Gold, 18.75 kHz Minelab X-Terra 705 Gold, 19 kHz Nokta FORS Gold+, 17.8 kHz Tesoro Lobo ST, and now Nokta Impact all have performance close enough to the First Texas 19 kHz models that I am not going to debate over it. The XP Deus even at 18 kHz is in the running. The new high frequency coil may put it a notch above the others. All these detectors offer similar all metal mode (nugget detecting) performance. I personally feel I can find gold as well with any of these as the others so when choosing one it is more about the other things they do than how they do on nuggets. If you want a really good all around detector you will get just that but then have to live with the fact that people with specialty dedicated over 30 kHz nugget detectors will have an edge over you. Anything running that high however will not play well around salt water and are generally too hot on tiny trash for park detecting. To sum up the Impact at 20 kHz certainly is in the running with the others. To flip it around it also has nothing in particular that sets it above the others as a nugget detector. Details on mentioned models here

That makes more sense than 498. New coil at 532 grams is a bit lighter as would be expected.

That knocks out the Gold Racer in my opinion. You already have a great general purpose detector in the X-Terra. I guess if you can't wait another week or two for the GM1000 then there is the GMT or Gold Bug 2. Ironically it is precisely because I have used all the units in question that I refuse to get nailed down into picking a "best" detector for other people in the 40 - 80 kHz range. It is an exercise in hair splitting which is why all the models have solid fan clubs. Right now I have the Gold Racer/AU Gold Finder, GM1000, and Gold Bug 2 and have owned several GMT and Goldmaster models. It's like picking the best car to use to drive to the supermarket - they all get me there. It is the other features that differentiate them, like the Gold Racer having a VDI display, or the GM1000 being almost totally automatic. I figure my job is to point out forks in the road but when it comes to choosing one, it's a personal decision. I need to bench test the GM1000 and Gold Bug 2 with small coils on some specimen gold I have. They are amazingly close in performance given the frequency difference. The Gold Bug 2 has a highly modulated audio and the GM1000 a highly boosted audio, a chief difference between them. The Gold Bug 2 has the edge for those good at hearing very faint signals but the boosted GM1000 at high gain gives the perception of stronger signals. If you have less tuned hearing that perception could be reality in favor of the GM1000.

I can find gold about as well the 45 kHz Minelab Gold Monster, 48 kHz White's GMT, or 56 kHz Major Gold Racer. They all have nuances which might make one a better choice over the others in some situations and yet the reverse be true in some other situation. Not having used each extensively one against the other in a very large range of scenarios I am not prepared to say one is clearly better than the others - they are that close. The Gold Racer however is the harder of the three to master whereas the Gold Monster can't get any easier. If all you care about is finding gold nuggets the Gold Monster does just that. The Gold Racer has a bit more of a multipurpose thing going for it.

It was part of the GPX 5000 "first 100 buyers get special promotional shovel" deal. Given the price of the detector I imagined a gold or chrome plated shovel engraved with Bruce Candy's signature. I admit I was vaguely disappointed when it turned out to be a common garden spade that had a Minelab logo embossed on it. Very rare, probably worth a million dollars on eBay in pristine condition.

I have seen a few coils made like that. More holes usually equals weaker mount however so there is that to consider.

The coil mount holes were in the middle of the coil and still are.

I have added information on the new coil at this new thread.

I just purchased a brand White's V3i from the factory as noted on another thread. The brand new machine much to my surprise comes with new new redesign of the White's D2 10" round DD coil. I say surprise because I ordered a scuff cover for the coil, and although it went on the scuff cover is larger than the new coil, especially along the inner edge of the right side and so there are large gaps between the edges of the coil and the scuff cover. The new coil has been shaved here and there for a thinner more modern appearance versus the older squared off look. I looked and have seen no change in the part number on any sites nor any mention of this new coil anywhere. White's needs to make this known and hopefully a properly fitted scuff cover is available or in the works. It could be it just happened and I am one of the first with this coil and so jumped the gun a bit while dealers clear old stock. The old D2 coil has been quoted at 17.9 oz or 498 grams which I have to question as my new coil weighs 1 lb 2.6 oz (18.6 oz) or 526 grams on my postal scale. Can anyone get get an accurate weight on the old D2 coil? Include the cable as I have done - I hate it when cable weights are excluded, as if we are going to swing the coil without a cable. That may account for the discrepancy as I find it hard to believe the new coil weighs more than the old coil, unless the internal windings are different/heavier. This coil is also compatible with the White's VX3, all versions of the MXT, the MX5, M6, and DFX.