Gold Catcher

This is an awesome pick and I can highly recommend it to everyone. It also comes with an optional super magnet screwed in. Best pick I have used thus far!

Thanks for the great idea, Gerry! And also for sharing your thoughts about this important day and about the heroes we lost and their families. Jeff, congratulations! I know the Monster is not highly regarded by some, but you will see this is a great detector, in particular when paired with the 5 inch coil. It is very sensitive to small gold and handles mineralized ground surprisingly well. It is my to-go detector in highly trashed river canyons where an iron meter is a must have. It has found me many nice little flakes and nuggets and some bigger ones too. You will love it! GC

There is one in clinical trials https://valneva.com/research-development/lyme-disease/

Is he still making them? Would love to have a Hermit. Haven't seen them anywhere.

Nice!! Did you do the Walter Huston dance? Whenever I find something like that I do it (as long as nobody is around...). See YouTube clip below 🤠

How do you like the NF, Simon? I know you have a preference for the X-coils, just wondering how it measures up in your view ?

Love the coil, Rob. First day got me 4 pickers, one weighs 1.3g. My first impression is that the coil appears to be more sensitive than the stock coil, somewhat less prone to EMI but still salt sensitive however (not unexpectedly). The reduced weight is definitely a plus. More field testing will come next week. But thus far I am super impressed.

Here is my pic, taken today from a little hunting trip at La Porte, CA. Good memorial weekend to all.

Thanks, Gerry, great idea!

Thanks for the update, Rob. Looks like my new NF-ZS will be of good service then. Will arrive tomorrow. Thanks again.

Let's see when coil covers become available. Not sure how long the single supplied one will last. No chip, hence no excuse...

I never intended to use the built-in speaker in the first place. Either BT headphones, or BT receiver and then booster to speaker. JP suggested a good combo for the latter. I think in all the time I own the SCD I never use the built in speaker once. But that's just me, everyone has different preferences.

Then I'll take the delay 😁

I heard the US issue-fix from a pretty reliable source. If that would indeed be true (which we don't know for sure), it would make me wonder whether this would be a consistent problem across continents or just needed for the US batch.

I heard rumors that there were issues with the US models that needed to be fixed. No idea if there is anything to it. Likely a combination of several factors, including Covid and chip shortage.

I am really looking forward to this coil and am very curious how the 7 will perform with it. Thus far, I've only read and seen great things about it. The 7/12 and the 6/11 will be a powerhouse duo to have I have no doubt.

I should receive mine by the end of the week 😁 Finally something that made it to the "forgotten market"

I ordered the same cover from the same company for my 7000. I think they are almost identical. It actually is slightly to big for the 7000 control box so I kept it in reserve for the 6000

That would be another reason to get the 6000.... 😆

Good point. I think there is more going on. It's a painful tease to see all our Au mates having fun while we are still waiting.

Great question. It's a head scratcher. I don't recall how the 7 got distributed across regions when it first got out, but now it surely appears that the US is all the way on the bottom.

Correction: low/hi/low is what I have mostly seen in 6000 videos, not high/low/high

Thanks, Norvic. Here in the US we are confined to enjoying the 6000 via Youtube only, with no imminent change on the horizon that we are told about. So, thanks for your insights! Yes, the channel switching on the Z I have observed often, even within the same gold mode. I do have to admit that I am more excited about the mellow h/l/h signals as long as they are symmetrical and reproducible, but I totally agree that in general discrimination by ear is not something that should be advised. Shallow targets mostly give a l/h/l for me, but also that can vary. Interestingly, the SDC appears go give mostly h/l/h for "deeper" targets, although this also could be caused by mineralization/iron stones.

19x F... word in the first 4 min. That's one F word every 12.6 sec. Oh well. Perhaps a noise cancel would have helped? 😉 Re settings, I noticed the threshold was very unstable. Perhaps a (detector) noise cancel would have made things better? Also, does the 6000 ever give a low/high response? In all videos I have seen thus far it was always low/high/low, if I am not mistaken.

Gerry, I very much agree with you! I admire your energy and passion and your posts are an inspiration for us all!