Gold Catcher

Well said, Dave. Bringing a weapon is no solution, and where would you even carry it with all the gear already on your belt for the detector. I often go alone in remote areas and I mostly worry about bears and mountain lions. But I guess I have to add this to my list as well. Recently, here in the Sierras a father has been shot and killed while hiking with his daughter.

So the rumor mill will go on for a while. Last thing I heard was that it is as easy to use as the GM or the SDC but more powerful. Meaning, potentially no complicated menu options ala 5000. I am actually almost as curious to see what will happen to the rest of the fleet and if there are any new updates of existing machines. Perhaps an approved NF coil assortment for the GPZ? Or an updated GM?

Great advice, as always! Thanks JP

Always great to read your reports and see your finds, thanks JP! Quick question: I noticed on one of your pics the cover over the Bose QuietComfort Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones. Are you using those when detecting? I have the same headphones and absolutely love them and their noise cancelling feature is superb. I just don't know if they are suitable for detecting, i.e. plugging into the SP01 with the GPZ. Thanks!

Looks like Volcanic Tuff to me. Take a look at the table below and the YouTube clip. This is the best overview of igneous rocks out there.

Pure rubber boots, like those tactical military ones, never worked for me, they are just not made for the rough. The glue comes off, they crack easily and don't provide good support in rocky terrain when you hike. I use the Salomon Quest 4D 3 GTX. They are not metal free but only have a small amount for support. They work just fine with the GPZ even when you run in HY/Normal >10. Just don't come too close to your boots with the coil. If you keep the coil at about 1 feet distance and greater it works well.

Very nice, Randy! Too bad I could not come. I will be there next time.

Dave, let me know when you found out and I will pay for the trip so we both can get one... But honestly, I think that once officially released, the demand will be so huge that the average people (like me) would likely not get one anytime soon

I still wonder if an 8 inch coil would be a possibility for the current GPZ configuration. In my view, coils below 10 inch start to be really practical in difficult terrain, like small washes or dried out creek beds. I exclusively use the SDC in these grounds, but it would be great to have a ZVT detector at work as well 🙂

Agreed, also because the 12 inch is in reality more a 13 inch. I still think ML has something cooking for more GPZ coil options. Could be released with the next product cycle around the time the 6000 comes out. They must know that the lack of coil options for the GPZ is a big complaint and people just go an look somewhere else for it.

I wonder what else they have in store other than the 12 inch

Or, metal detecting transforms itself more and more into an outdoor adventure, way past the original sole purpose of finding gold. I could imagine that this will be a very good marketing strategy for the future, and it probably already is. After all, the desire for outdoor activities is strongly increasing and could attract large crowds who are just seeking a new high tech thrill, pared with adventure and perhaps with the thought of striking it rich. However, I think that it would not even really matter if gold would indeed be found or not. Super expensive equipment would be de-coupled from the actual gold/treasure value they will bring in return. But hey, isn't the outdoor adventure and the high tech thrill not a worthy return by itself? I think it would be for many more than we think, even without finding any gold...

Agreed. It is what you make of it and what it means to you.

I have to agree with your statement, Jasong. It so much matters where you hunt. I have been to private claims where you could find gold easily, without any advanced techniques and literally with only golf-swing type coil movements using an old GB, without even paying much attention. Hard to believe how things can change when the location changes, i.e. on open, but gold bearing land, where you work super hard with the GPZ to only every now and then find small pieces (if you get lucky) or get skunked. Location is "virtually" all that really matters, and most modern detectors past the 90's will more or less perform similarly when you literally walk over gold nuggets in a wash ready to be picked up. But to me, that is not the important point. It is the adventure, the challenge, the planning, the nature experience, the hard work, the hiking in brutal heat or freezing cold, and ultimately the encounter with yourself in Nowhereland that is the ultimate experience. One I never want to miss and that changed my life profoundly.

Thanks for sharing, Chet. It's terrible to see young kids, including small children, work under these circumstances. I will remember this clip the next time I feel like complaining about digging up a bullet with a 8k detector....

Very nice, Simon. Also, I am amazed how stable your threshold sounds at HY/normal/20. Equals to HY/difficult/10 where I hunt....

Welcome to the forum, Bill. SF East Bay here.

Nice job, Randy! We should ask Bill to have our next outing there 😉 Andreas

Ok, if it does not matter then how about this one then? 1.6M views. I think this one tops all! 🤣

Now I feel bad that I even posted the link so more can view it. In the past 15 hours they got 2k more views.

Aha, I did not see that you posted the link already, Mitchel (thanks Phrunt). I was just browsing yesterday and saw it on YouTube. There is an Amz link at the bottom when you click on it it leads you to the ML go-find. I thought this clip was hilarious. Starting off with the soil that is just not a gold bearing soil, but I gave it the benefit of a doubt at the beginning. Then, there was how she swings the coil and digs (never checked if she already recovered it or not during digging). Then, when you look at her hands in the close up shots, these were not hands that probably ever held a pick before. Then the way the camera shot her body during digging, oh well.... The only thing that was exciting (it always is whether fake or not) are those action shots when the gold starts peeking out from the hole. This is just the greatest when this happens to me (much more rare and on much smaller size however...). Amazing though, how you can get 178k views with a clip like that. At least you have to give ML credit that they didn't post this on their website....😂

Awwwww...now you ruined my dream 🤣

Why buying all this fancy detector equipment if a simple $230 ML Go-Find 66 and an airline ticket to this elusive island can make you rich beyond imagination. Very entertaining. But real?....;)

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Just not dead ones (or "torn appart ones") please. These are beautiful animals that are part of the nature that we should respect. They have done nothing wrong, other than being at the wrong place at the wrong time when we are looking for gold.