Bearkat

Sounds fair! This is the only forum I have been going to lately - good stuff here and glad it is growing so fast. BK

From my experience the ATX will ignore about 90% of the hot rocks you come across. Those bucket dredge piles are similar to large gravel bars which are always a challenge to detectors...If I got to hit one I'm grabbing a PI of some sort, usually my ATX with the DD does just fine. Iron check feature does work on some hot rocks that contain good quantities of iron. Good luck, BK

I use the SDC 2300 to scan quartz that has been pulled out of mines...as well as the ATX. Hard to beat the gold bug 2 for this doing though, prob the best to use for this...

Yes, I have been to the Gold Hill Pocket! They just stumbled accross it while hunting. It was large slabby pocket gold, inches thick. No placer directly below it though, which is strange. But small multi-pockets in the entire area, as well as placer on the other side of the ridge which feeds the Rogue river. Every peice of quartz that I collected and took home and crushed from that area had gold in it.

I hunt pocket gold in and around the Klamath river and S Oregon area. And I know of some killer pocket gold strikes that were made in Oregon last year that I can't say where, (pounds!) and it was with a metal detector. Go for it with the GPZ 7000. Lots of pockets left in those remote areas...

I have been talking to Garrett about making a mono coil that is the same size and shape of the the stock DD coil. That will get more depth than the stock DD and if you use it in non-motion mode, the depth would be quite and improvement. Most people over look the non-motion mode - but for max depth for the ATX to get closer to the Minelab's highend depth abilities - use that mode. It takes patience and know-how to use that mode. But it will pay off on deep, just out of reach targets. How to get more depth with the ATX? - that is the way. Non-motion mode.

JP, thanks for the expalnation of why you had the 5000 in Fine Gold. Crisp and clear. Happy belated birtyhday by the way... BK

Here is another video of the GPZ 7000 from one of my Youtube detector buds (Nenad) in Adelaide hills area:

GPX in Fine Gold was the problem! Normal with high gain would have hit that sucker. Pretty big piece of gold. Good video none the less showing a real live test with the new GPZ 7000.

Good post Steve. One still has to walk over the gold to get it, even with the mighty GPZ 7000. Regarding the ATX big coil - it will go deeper on items around a silver dollar size and up than the stock coil. Maybe some lunkers down on bedrock that size to get a hold of. BK

Sweet... Now I wonder of you have any "secrets" about your 2014 Alaskan trip? Hmm.

Lets see, if this thing does what it says it does - then the Whites TDI, All GPX series stuff, Garrett ATX, SDC 2300 will all be OBSOLETE very soon. Lol - There will be 5 million dollars worth of old PI tech on eBay and Amazon shortly. There will be a world wide feast for grabbing the "old tech" asap. Should be an interesting party to watch and participate in. Hmm, I have 4 lbs of gold in the WF safety deposit box...should I sell some and get this beast? Decision decisions... Or, I think I would rather put a down payment on a 45 foot long front living 5th wheel I have been eye balling with 5 slides! Oh Yea. Damn you Minelab...

Man that is pretty sweet. I like that new coil technology. 2nd mortgage anyone, Lol

Damn beat me to it with the picture, have it saved on my laptop...looks like Johnathan has been having fun with the GPZ 7000. I'll post my pic anyway. It's only $10,000! Yay! Lol

Yep; the first inch on both sides of the tip is the hot spot...

At Newport Beach California the other day I saw a guy detecting with a Garrett hat and a Tesoro detector. I mentioned this to him and he laughed...

Garrett said this new one will be more sensitive than the previous model. Hopfully that will make it better for small nuggets. The smallest I could pick up with the previous one is .2 gram. So if the new one will get a .1 gram nugget, I'll get it. Other than that a Harbor Freight pinpointer will get .05 gram nugget for $20. But the water proofing is a must and can be great for under water sniping, as long as it will get the small pickers that are usually in bedrock cracks. BK

To make my 2300 quieter while hunting...I set the threshold on its lowest setting or on 1. I still seem to get good signals on everything, but it doesnt drive me crazy like this. Also to help, when I can I, use the external speaker and run the threshold higher. Its the headphones and the noise that gets to you quicker. I can take the noise all day with the external speaker.

Po little Scorpion. I can't believe it had that long of a run...The Infinium did a 12 year run before being updated in the ATX. I hope the ATX does not have that long of a run before they do updates or V 2.

I run mine on 4 sensitivity and it's a bit noisy, but thats the way I like it... the small bits scream a bit harder. KInda like a mildly noisy VLF, but not as bad.

I've tested a few pinponters out for nugget hunting and have come to the conclusion the most sensitive and affordable is the one they sell at Harbor Freight. Only $20! and will get the tiny nuggets that say the Garrett Pro-Pointer misses. So far me, the Garrett for every thing else but nuggets, especially when you are in small nugget territory. Here it is here: http://www.harborfreight.com/metal-detector-97245.html

Great post Steve - heres to another great year of detecting with any machine!

This is cool...