Gravelwasher

 Love the 6k but if I was not an experienced detectorist already I would hate it.

 I get phantom target sounds, bad emi, cant tilt the coil to detect slopes, and had a bad aftermarket coil.

On the plus side if I take it out at night the EMI is greatly reduced and I don't need sunscreen..lol

So I am hopeful some of these issues will get resolved.......eventually...lol

Left my boots by the door, wore my crocs with socks on, was planning to change into the boots with socks.

Socks and open toes with stickers is a no go, must remove socks.

Remembered my snake chaps but looked really odd with no socks crocs and snake gaurdz on...haha

It happens, better than forgetting the battery🙃

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No clumps today but I did get a lump of gold to show up in my nugget scoop.

1.3 gram nugget and super excited as today is one of the hottest days of the year here in the CA foothills.

I got up early and headed strait out to detect a dry creek bed 7:30 was on scene and out by 10:30

Olight Baton 3 flashlight, one of my favorite lil lights and my Kershaw Leek pocket knife in the pics.

  Hope you are all out digging on this holiday weekend!!

  Often times when detecting for gold nuggets in dry placer conditions I get clumps of clay or dirt containing gold.

  What sort of clumps or lumps does your pay layer produce?

  This lump came from a layer of decomposing bedrock hard pack layer above a stream bed high on a flat no longer part of the current creeks flow.

Love to see a depth comparison on a point 3 gram nugget;))

 I wanted to do some testing and have a few options for connecting and using the 20$ speaker.

The speaker can be plugged in directly with headphone jack to a Tron APTX 2 in 1 Tx Rx device and paired that way.

The 2 in 1 wireless device can be plugged into my non bluetooth detector and then pair the 6000's wireless headphones.

If I like the tron wireless device I may get a 2nd one so I can pair an external speaker to my GpZ, with one on the Z and one wireless on me plugged into a speaker.

So many options with these lil bluetooth 2 in 1 devices.

Hopefully Blutooth 5.0 is much faster than 4.2 and should have a latency very similar to APTX LL if not the same. I have read that APTX LL is around 35 and Bluetooth 5.0 latency around 20-40 milliseconds.

Fingers crossed, should get out to test this evening.

 I was looking for an external speaker to put closer to my ears.

I see the 6k uses bluetooth and picked up a LEZII BT525 wireless waterproof speaker with volume control.

The speaker works and pairs up with the GPX6000.

Anybody else doing this, and what speakers are known to work?

https://www.amazon.com/Shower-Speaker-Bluetooth-Waterproof-Portable/dp/B07JVHGN54/ref=asc_df_B07JVHGN54/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312099670269&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8403305686597357607&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9051682&hvtargid=pla-588401982372&psc=1

Thanks Strick, I may have to try a more accurate scale. Mine has been playing tricks on me, the other night my poke was 9.4 gram and had a 2 gram day added to it and only had 10.9 grams..lol  That don't add up right, so I changed the batteries

 Yes I unscrewed the pressure valve and it's not air its the shape of the bottom of the coil, got a bump in the middle higher than the rest of the coil bottom.

The coil is in new condition along with the rest of the detector.

The coil and machine do function.

This coil is just quite a bit deformed and all of my other coils Minelab or aftermarket have nice strait flat bottoms.

Thanks for the suggestions....debating whether to send in for warranty on the coil.

About to head out will see what happens.

Have to roll heavy as I am just testing the Z, if it has issues I will stop right away and send it back.

Yep new carpet or new detector..lol you see the choice I had to make..lol

More horse shoes than soda cans to you all!!

This is with no skid plate on.

Just the raw coil in the pics.

Thanks , I thought same too.

Hello everyone, I need a lil help on a recently aquired GPZ 7k stock coil.

This coil I received has a pregnant bottom, hi in the center with the rest of the coil lower.

Going to test it out but figured I would ask you all if you ever experienced seen this or is this shape coil bottom ok?

Thanks and hope you find lots of nuggets under your coils!!

Nice haul of nuggets!!  Looks like good times for sure))

 Thats the problem no competition, they locked it all up with Patents

 Love the pics!! 

 Opals and gold look great together too.

  I generally run a minelab GPZ and love it. Lately I have started using a VLF and I have to say I really like the XP Deus with a HF elliptical coil. The weight and the ability to unmask and sift through trash at high speed is awesome!! Cant hurt that it pulled a 7 gram nugget out of a trash zone it's 1st trip out.?

 They like selling us 2-3" at a time..lol

 I think the key to success with a GPX series is hitting ground the GPZ has not seen.

The Gpz is a great detector to bring out once you have found gold. It is not my preferred detector for hunting unproven ground. Even a 22cal on a Gpz is almost an overload signal, plus the weight of the Z is tuff to handle for hunting multiple days in a row.

Happy new year to all fellow detectorist .

A great place here to learn, share, and grow as a detectorist, very happy to be apart of this great community.

 Great character to those nuggets, very nice looking.

 Way to call those deep ones out and dig those whispers.

Fantastic way to end the year!!  Big nuggets to you all in the new year!!

 We all invested in a minelab machine, its all I can afford..lol

 But on the upside we find our physical gold instead of purchasing.

 Just joking, kinda,  I am sure plenty on here invest.