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Ha, well done Phrunt - I never even bothered to search already existing stuff ?‍♂️ If anybody has anything to add - go for it ?

This question has been posted over on Prospecting Australia website. Wondering if the brains trust here might be able to help - OP over there is not getting much response. I've never used a GPX so I'm not much help. If some knowledge can be shared here I'll post the link over on PA and the knowledge will stay here for perpetuity ? Thanks. " Does anyone regularly use Specific Ground Balance? How do you find it? Page 60 of the User Instructions says - When moving to a new area the first Specific Ground Balance must be done with the Ground Balance Switch, not the Quick Track Button. Does this mean you can use the Quick Track Button after you've done the first one? I've never used Specific and wondering whether I should have been. Thanks for your help. Cheers "

Almost a month since we heard a report from you Paul?? They didn't get you in 'culling season' did they? ?

Sounds like fun Steve. Have a great time.

That. Is. A. Cracker!!!!! Congrats ?

I asked Outback yesterday - he hasn't swung the 19" yet but will be in a few weeks.

Here is one of them. http://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/4739-metal-detecting-with-a-knee-replacement/

I'll find the thread and post it up. A mate has had the titanium knee put in last year and is successfully detecting with his 7000 with the 14" coil I don't think he has tried the 19" yet but he reckons it might not work. I'll send him a text and ask

The gun would be for the big grezzly baars. I'll stick to my brown snakes and drop bears ? And yeah, any yella? Camping for a few days?

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=23832&p=1 There's a whole thread on it here Phrunt. There is a bit of bulldust amongst it but Moneybox's post # 41 is certainly worth a look.

Wanderer, I'm not a techy sort of person but my understanding is that the different 'timings' on PI detectors is exactly what you describe - different rates of firing off those impulses. Fine gold, normal, enhanced and whatever the rest are just variations of each other. Steve or JP could definitely give you a better explanation but I think the different timings with different coils is the reason there is such a variation in what gold can be seen/unseen and what mineralization the detector can/cannot cope with. Hopefully that is somewhere near correct

Are you documenting any of these stories somewhere Reg? Apart from on here of course. Anecdotes of old and your personal stories of gold in the electronic prospecting era would be a pretty interesting read. Probably won't make you as much money as prospecting will though

Thanks Phrunt. I had no idea that little feature existed either

First name Jim. Last name MacGyver!! ? ?

Has that always been there?

Nice Mitchel. You might have a bit more in there than you think. Hope so

More ferrite related comments here.

JP's post in the bottom of the first page in this thread is helpful.

Hi Dave. Obviously JP is the best bloke to tell you in his own words but what I have gleaned off him over the past 18 months is... The GPZ in AUTO should be ground balanced to the local ground and also to the supplied ferrite ring. In AUTO , as you use the GPZ, it will slowly become set to the local ferrite and will need to be re-ferrite balanced often during a detecting session. The GPZ works best when ferrite balanced to the ferrite ring rather than the ground ferrite. Now that SEMI AUTO is available JP has suggested that SEMI AUTO is the better option as it locks the ferrite and it will take much longer for the detector to slowly work its way from an optimum ferrite ring balance whilst continuing to automatically ground balance to the local ground conditions. Please correct things if I'm wrong JP. Dave, it's worth going back through all of JPs posts about the Z and cutting/pasting them into your own little extra special manual. It doesn't take too long and you can shift things into sections like noise cancel, ground balance, gold modes, etc, etc.. This is what I've done and it gets referred to every few months just as a reminder. There's a lot in my manual that isn't in the Minelab manual Cheers.

There's a lot of fancy words in there Dave, makes my head hurt ? How technology works is amazing. The people who think this stuff up are even more amazinger!! Bruce must be a fair dinkum, you beaut, ridgy didge genious. 2 thumbs up for you Bruce ??

I wondered if you had arrived in Oz - something seemed a little different ? 40 shirts and 4 pairs of boots ? They been teaching you some strange ways in North Queensland!! Seriously though, welcome to Oz, enjoy your stay, hope it's fruitful and great to see that all of your gear is here ?

Enjoy reading your thoughts Reg. It makes my brain whirr a little faster ? Jin - am I right in thinking your tally was up around the 27 gms for the 2 days detecting? Nice work if I'm adding correctly. Good to hear you are 'back' into the detecting ?

Nice write up Lanny. Nice spot by the sounds. And a very nice gesture to get the newbie on the right track. Although you may have done a terrible thing - I'd say the poor bloke is addicted now Does the write up belong to the pics on the previous page?

Welcome to the forum Which country are you in Donnie? Probably makes a bit of difference to what to get. And I think your tests were air tests? Put your 0.05 piece of lead 50mm under mineralized ground, hey presto, it may disappear The SDCs are great. The Gold Monster is also great for even smaller gold. But the SDC wins for dealing with mineralized ground. And Reg's comment is probably not too far off the mark either

Clay and ironstone sounds ok. Granite not so much but maybe. Any quartz? Although if there are mullock heaps there must have been gold so forget the particulars of what rocks are there and just go beep on them . You'll never never know if you never never go. Welcome to the forum and we'd love to see pictures if you find some yellow stuff!!