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4 hours ago, Norvic said:

 Same downunder here. I am happy as with the Goldhawk I have, consider it has more depth and sensitivity whilst being quieter than the OEM.

Which one?

I used to use something like these but now i don't where any.  I just set my knee in soft dirt instead.  2 ACL tears myself

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Marshalltown-Professional-Knee-Pads/5001377531

The special “portable” one you made for me has been going strong and still works great!

Or the RZR

SteveG makes the best!

With the release of the Xterra pro showing that all these coils are only limited to a chip and not the coil itself, it should be possible to hack the chip or override the chip with another.

When I was younger this was easily done in gaming systems to make copied DVDs work to play copied games.

Anyone know if this might be getting “worked” on for the coils?  Small market though, maybe not worth the time of an ambitious electrical engineer unless they were an avid detectorist.

@phrunt I’m winking at you 😉😁

You seem to have the “know how” or the “contacts”, plus all the coils😂

If you had to choose one, Xceed or Coiltek?  Or do you drop the same money for 2 on a Manticore 🤣

Boy at that pace we are never gonna see a smaller DD coil.  Probably have an Z8000 at that point.

Nice reports guys!  Throw the 11” in there too next time for QA/QC 😊

14 hours ago, jasong said:

Yes, we all know the the GPZ is deeper, but that isn't the point I was trying to make, I'm trying to communicate something new which is that the 6000 isn't as deep as a lot of people think it should be in many cases, and it's leaving an appreciable amount of gold behind that I think many people are assuming it is hearing, or assuming the gold just isn't there. IE - missing targets within expected range of the 6000. Ignoring other machines entirely and just looking at the 6000 like a modern PI, standing by itself, this is my observation, irrespective of the GPZ or any other machine. 

What I'm saying is that right now what's happening in the US with the 6000 is very much like what was happening with Fine Gold on the 5000 insomuch as a some people are missing a lot more gold than they might be assuming.  Not just relative to the GPZ, but it's been silent on stuff my 4500 w/11" saw fine too. And I mean like 1 grammers at 6", 1/4 oz'ers at 11", this type of stuff that many (myself included) just automatically assume is sounding off, or that it simply isn't there. Not with everything, but its happened enough to me that I've personally found it concerning in terms of what I've missed in places I just ran the 6000 and called it good.

Again though, it's stuff that I'd expect any PI to hit, and it's enough abundance that it's no longer just oddities to me, but concerning. But it does slam on some bigger ones deeper too, but it's the ones it missed that I never really realized until I went back with other machines and compared signals that got me concerned, because of how common it was.

I was going to type up a page of anecdotal field experience and numbers that led me to draw this conclusion, but there is no point really since people aren't wanting to hear it, and I was just trying to share and hopefully help others out, clearly I've done the opposite though so I should have just stayed silent - a lesson I'm learning often lately. 

I like to read everything you post Jason and learn from it.  Although I don’t write like you, I did post two videos that I knew people would complain about lol because that’s what this forum always does about comparison stuff.  🤣🤣. In the end we all should be learning.

I gave up the Z, 6 months after the 6k came out.  I’m not going back.  I am doing what Jason says, using it as a prospecting machine.  Then in a few years (or less), will buy the 8k and go back to get all the deep nugs I left behind prospecting withe the 6k.  Wash rinse repeat 🤣

Looking forward to the 3 coil comparison!  I am curious about the thickness of the different coils too.

I did the same thing that you did scanned through the video to see if I saw any nuggets in his hand and then got to the end and listened to the last minute 🤣🤣🤣🤣

You do watch Youtube! 😉😂😂😂😂

No issues here

It doesn’t need to be in my opinion.  I mean you are basically snorkeling with this.  So probably not going to be using digging tools.  So for fanning or hand grabbing sand you want targets to be rings or big bracelets etc.  Now sucks it might miss thin necklaces but even full size machines have had similar problems and unless the earing is a diamond stud, who cares 😂

The Nokta Pulse Dive is awesome.  I used the 8” coil snorkeling in DR.  Found a nice ring quite deep.  Had to fan and dig deep by hand 🤣

10 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

We have them here. I think they are rhyolite, fine grained, usually some tiny bubbles (hollow spots) and some white bits enclosed in the gray or pinkish mass. Sound exactly like a gold nugget, and no 6000 setting or coil will knock them out. 7000 does not like them either. Luckily, the places I have run into them they are not quite so plentiful as to be more than annoying. If an area was thick with them it would shut you down or force a change in equipment. Rhyolite is high in silica and total alkali metal oxides, and alkali metal oxides can have high conductivity. I'm just winging it on the identification but I think I'm close.

Rhyolite varies in appearance depending on the exact composition and how quickly it cooled. Some pictures:

Yes you are correct these are examples of Rhyolite.  The ones with the large phenocrysts are called Porphyritic Rhyolite or Rhyolite porphyry. 

I want to see the Manticore on gold, then I’ll decide.

11 hours ago, Matt4gold said:

Whether Nokta infringed or not the attorneys always win.  Get you wallet out and pay up.   

My guess is ML is gonna drain Nokta’s smaller cash reserve vs their much larger bankroll, not so much win the case.  If they do its win win for Minelab and possibly good bye to Nokta 😕

Um the date in the vid said 01/12/2022, that was 11 months ago, unless they mean Dec 01.  🤣🤣

being that, I did not get this email with a video I’m assuming it is for our overseas friends

Nuclear ☢️ fall out saftey spot.