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The man to talk to is Gerry. He is a Idaho dealer and teaches as well. Good guy to boot.

Way to guinea pig for us Steve?

Very good post. It answered some of my questions. Thx

Thanks Steve. I should use that when clean out my garage this summer.

Good thread. I also had a nug not register for me. Phase helped me do a dime check against his.

Not detour the main topic. I think a good question might also come from this thread. What would be a fair, and good deal price for a used gpz 7000 in us money lol?

Thanks guys

Can the old gpz 7000 be update to have these new settings?

Yes there is. It will be in September this year. It is my gold club that puts it on each year. It is totally free to attended. We also have a guy that goes out there and cook tri tp sandwiches. You have to buy those unless your his detecting partner like me. ? got to love those perks.

Must have looked at the year stamp wrong. Still stands that you have all the toys. I like the look of that coil just seems to big. I guess it is because I like dry stream hunting.

Good thread, I got the answers I have been looking for in a monster vs 800 show down. I myself am not sold on the monster. I guess I got spoiled with my gold racer. However I could see losing the racer 2 for a 800 and having my cake and eatting it too.

Steve is there a toy you don't have lol. That thing just got released.

Hard and fast gets you to the next spot lol lol

What is the weight of the smallest one in grains? Just trying to get a gauge.

So I plan to go out with the GP 3500 this weekend, wondering if anyone had some good settings for small shallow gold in the northern nv type soil? Perhaps Steve lol

Take what I provide for what it is worth. I have two buddies that I detect with, one runs a SDC2300 the other has the gold bug2. I have the gold racer and now a monster. We have been hunting two washes with little over burden, but lots of cracks. The gold bug has picked up flakes yes. The SDC2300 also picks up near flake gold in some cases. My racer has picked up near the same stuff. Now in all the time we have been working these washes, not once have they found something I missed on the same trip ( ground changes each trip, so more is found). This being said I bought a monster last month and found a .05 grain speck of gold I a shallow crack. The Sdc2300 hit on it but passed it by not knowing if it was gold or ground. That is one small piece of gold people. My last outing to the same area was right after it rained, there was still pools of water in the wash. Steve can a test that water and our desert don't mix for metal detecting. It makes a clay that sounds like gold and makes the vlf hate life. But the monster found a 1.1 grain piece in a crack with water and mixed up in clay. So I guess what I am saying is any one of these three units will suit your needs just fine.

I will give this a look over. Thank you for the advise.

I think the 14 x 9 and the Sadie are going to be my coils that I use the most. Thanks for the info gents.

I rock Rays like Steve.

I am the proud owner of a GPX 3500. Unit is used but like newish. 1 Minelab GP3500 Metal Detector 1 Coiltek 16in round mono coil 1 Nugget finder 14x9 mono coil 1 8in round commander mono coil 1 Minelab 11in GP series coil 1 Nugget finder 8x6 mono coil 1 10x5 commander DD coil 1 Garrett propointer AT 1 Minelab battery car charger 1 Minelab battery home charger 2 Minelab dome top batteries 1 Super sound signal amp by Detacc 1 External speaker (for the amp) 1 Pick with magnet 1 Green scoop 1 control box cover (for detector) 1 Minelab soft sided travel bag 1 extra lower shaft for coil

I like the sounds of that. One of my bigger hesitations is the small size gold. Granted I have a monster and a gold razor. but I don't want to have to tote more than one at one time.

I have not had the luck to run my coil over a large one yet. But I know that if I do I will dig it up. This comes from finding lots of grain size bits. Thanks for joining this thread.

As the title says. I would like to discuss the current status 3500 brings compared to its digital Brothers 4000,4500, 4800, 5000. I am sure that we all enjoy and appreciate the older Tech, but does it have an equal footing against the new generation. Simply put can it hold its own against a 4500 or 5000. I don't except it to equal to say the 5000, does it give said units a run for there money, as the saying goes. I think we all pretty much know that the newest Gadget or Gizmo doesn't always equate to True massive Performance differences in the field. Example being the 4500 against the 5000. The differences are so minimal in true real world Performance that one could easily justify not going to a 5000. This is the type meaning I am asking. Such as fine gold, how low can it go lol. Deep gold, how deep and how big does it need to pick it up at that depth. We have a lot of great swingers on this forum, always willing to discuss these conversations. Perhaps this might help others in the long run. Things to consider 3500 has been discontinued. But so was the 4500 to a certain extent at a certain point in time, no longer the case of course. Did the 3500 excel at a certain thing? Kind of like the gold bug analog unit that finds specks of gold. There by still relevant in today's Tech.

I woke up to 8inches, my mining partner my not go this weekend grrrrr. Steve do you detect most every day?