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Will it also depend on rainfall from now on? I’ve heard that if the snow melts via sunshine then about 75% is lost in evaporation. If the snow melts mainly via large volumes of warm rain then the rivers will see the majority of the snow. What is your spring rainfall outlook forecast?

This is not exactly what you want but I find it perfect. I also want situational awareness and being sports ear buds they provide just that. If you did get an 800 you of course get the WM08 with it. Any sports style ear buds plug straight in. Personally I use the Philips variety.

I wonder what it is like with LIDAR? 🤔 LIDAR is what I would love to get access to here in Victoria (Australia). It just doesn't seem publicly available yet though.

That is a cracking photo ☝️ Well done 👍🏻

Hey GotAU, sorry for the slow response. I do use a Minelab Profind 35 but I'm not sure that I actually used it last year when using the 17" coil. Most of the targets were shallower (6-10" deep), easily pinpointed and then recovered with a scoop. The only target that was deeper than a foot was a 16 gram spiky piece and I was using the 11" coil at the time. The Profind does set the GPX6 off a little at times and then at other times it is fine. I'm guessing dependent on what noise cancel channel the GPX6 is on at the time. I dare say there would not be much difference whether the 11"or 17" coils are attached. Have dug some deep trash targets with it in the Victorian Golden Triangle. The 16 gram piece I mentioned above I didn't actually go over the same ground with the 17" as it was too noisy due to salt and the fact that my brother in law had already been over the area with a GPZ 7000 (14" and 19" coils) so felt that most deeper targets would have been found already. Although, he hadn't found that piece and quite a few smaller ones 🤔 Going back to roughly the same area this year so might try if things are lean 👍

Yep, agree. It certainly covers some area and is easy to swing. It feels much better balanced than the Minelab 14” DD. Used it probably half of the time in Western Australia last year and will likely do so again this year. Being a bigger coil it did pick up salt signal more and a coupe of times it was better noise wise to trade down to the 11”. It doesn’t get much use in my local area due to forested, hilly country but I’m happy with it so far. Best of luck yours GotAU 👍🏻

iPhone SE, in Safari, and did an edit. All good 👍🏻 ✅

The other question I suppose is, just how hot your hot ground is? Hot for your VLF might be nothing to a P.I. Always great to try before you buy so perhaps hiring/loaning a 5000 and a 6000 to spend a day or so with might be a good idea. The 6000 is certainly nice ergonomically. However, the lack of control of settings can mean there will be places that you just can't use it. I would put the Garrett Axiom in the mix also - decent price, good ergonomics, more control. Good luck with your choice 👍

If you are looking for gold nuggets of 5 grams or more in size then I would suggest you already have the very best there is with the GPZ 7000.

Yep, and more controls without having too many controls. If I had neither and I had to make a choice and they were around the same price then I think I'd be choosing the Axiom.

So, even though 1 or 2 were broken, the detector was still working?

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Have never met them but their YouTube channel is a great watch. Humorous and educational 👍 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKt0VhSrciBMeXv-GdZNxhg

Great read Klunker, thank you. You have provided such great entertainment to those on DP forum with most posts both humorous and educational. It must be quite a gift as I saw the heading of the thread and was smiling before I had even clicked on it. Happy birthday to you, with wishes for many more quality years ahead and the drive to bestow further wisdoms upon us 😉

Steve, for someone who was so heavily involved in the Axiom's development I love your honest answers. For me, I think if I had a 5000, a full arsenal of coils, I knew how to use it inside and out, I could still comfortably swing it and it cost me nothing to keep then I'd be keeping it and waiting for more Axiom coil options and more info on well it runs larger coils. Just my non-important opinion from a bloke who owns neither an Axiom or a 5000 😉 Good luck with your decision FB 👍

Hi abenson. Would you be happy to expand on this a bit please? Does it handle wet sand better? Better depth? Better separation? I would never be sure about Minelab actually getting around to, or allowing others to, release more coils for anything. When they do it seems a slow boat. But maybe this is one of those 'Steve's opinions are sometimes more than opinions' 😄

Over the past 6 years that I have had Minelab products and the need to make contact with them I have dealt with Kevin and more recently, Brendon. On every occasion they have been helpful, prompt and friendly. I could ask for more reliable products from Minelab themselves but couldn't ask for more from their service/warranty dept. Great job gents (and ladies if you're there?) 🙏 😉

Hallmark, are you reading this?? Sell quite a few I reckon 😉

Phrunt covers it very well in his post. Yes, you will essentially have to ‘dig everything’ with a P.I. But, it will likely knock out almost all of your hot rocks - not guaranteed but likely. It just depends on how much trash you think there is, how much gold you think there is, what size and depth you think that gold is and if you’re happy to dig some trash to get to the gold. I’d still suggest the SDC 2300 as a good starting point. If it works well and finds you lots of gold you can always upgrade. If the SDC 2300 finds you no further gold then at least you haven’t overspent. 👍

Yes, used Google. But have just searched Google again, came up with the same link to your website and this time it actually went to your website. I have no understanding of how things get hacked or redirected but whatever was happening last night has stopped. Maybe your everyday scan thing fixed it 🤷‍♂️ The important thing is it's working again 👍

And they have uncovered a lot!! I'm not sure where the last hour went but my 19 yr old son just popped his head around the corner and we have spent a good hour looking at all the old, new, weird and wonderful things. He was more amazed than I was. We found out what a caltrop was - yeeeouch! Just an addit. Rather than scroll through the entire screed of them from top to bottom you can click on any individual item and it takes you into a further info page about that item. Then, down in the left bottom corner there is a 'view in display' button. If you click on that link it takes you to a zoomed in view of that item in a huge display. From their you can scroll out and move around and look at all of the items where they have all been grouped together. Then you can zoom in on any part of the display, click on any particular item again and get the further info. You might already find this easy enough yourself but it wasn't apparent at first when we started scrolling through the catalogue. Actually, this might take you straight to the display page https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/rokin/NZD1.00610MIX022 Great link @Zincoln, thanks 👍

Yep, just tried and takes me through some "You've won a prize" rubbish. Hope your IT team can get on top of it Doc 👍 @Doc

OK. So I guess pepita = reasonably small, about the size of a pumpkin seed? And 5g is obviously 5g. The reason I ask is that if you have mostly small gold, mostly shallow gold and very mineralised red ground then the SDC 2300 is maybe going to be your best choice. It is the cheapest of the models you are looking at, it excels on small gold, it excels in mineralised ground and it is really simple to use. However, it is not the deepest of the machines you are looking at and coil selection is very limited compared to something like a GPX 5000. And, like geof_junk said, the 5000 is very versatile and would help in lots of different situations. It is also much more complex to learn than the SDC 2300. There are always trade-offs unfortunately. In the end it is of course your decision and will depend on other factors like how much gold do you think there is to find, how often do you go out looking for gold, is this your hobby or your job, how much effort do you want to put into learning a complex detector versus a very simple detector, etc. Best of luck and please come back and show us your gold when you find it 😊

Is the gold you are chasing mostly small and shallow or larger, deeper pieces?

Again, thank you 🙏 It has been annoying me a bit that when I do send the GPX 6000 11" coil back for a replacement (cracked ears and cracked at the lead insertion point) I have to pay the postage. I'll send the postage costs with it now 👍