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Heavens to Mergatroid Strick! Just think what a bunch of old grubby prospectors could do with a post like that. It's a good thing we are all gentleman or S.H. might have to monitor this forum on a holiday weekend.

In the news this morning I see that a Crocodile has gobbled up a lady out for a swim and a Kangaroo beat up a bicyclist. Damn- I gotta go see that country!

Thanks Alex. I had the same problem. I'm so inept at computer stuff that I'm afraid I might inadvertently launch a nuclear missile if I start fiddling with my computer.

I have found many pounds of them and a lot of three ring slugs. It's always encouraging because it implies the area hasn't been thoroughly detected. I also like to think that there was a gun fight over the rich deposit that I am about to find.

The 7500 will have this feature included so I'll wait until it is released. Furthermore I don't want the motion picture industry to discover my handsome features, athletic build and sexy smile. I just want to find gold nuggets.

Mr. blkcffee; You may read only this if you solemnly swear to post photos from your hike. The 705 Minelab is an excellent back pack detector. It is fast to assemble, it's versatile and seems to be durable. The only breakage I've ever heard of with one is when Vanursepaul used his for breaking apart a quarts ledge for sampling.

So many of the nuggets that I find with the 7000 are no more that a hunch in the threshold so I have been operating mostly in "Klunkers insanely cold settings". Auto tracking will balance these minute targets out. Instead of trying to remember to switch the tracking to manual, I will move off of the target and make a few swings and the come back to the target. Because of my severe ADDD (attention deficit detecting disorder) it bugs me to have to cover the same ground twice with different settings. I have sent a spy to Australia to engage in a bit of espionage and I will soon command him to appear at my headquarters and divulge all of the top secret information that he acquired while there- if the Australians don't disappear him first.

Don't fall for it. Lower elevations have a year round mining season and had more water available and more miners in the early days thus- more large nuggets. On second thought, your right. There is absolutely no point in anyone coming up here to look for large nuggets.

I wonder if they would let me go in there on week ends and tinker.

I was detecting an old ground sluiced area with the 7000. Lots of exposed bedrock, rock piles and been detected thousands of time with every detector type ever built. The perfect spot for the Z. I had found 3 pretty nice nuggets so I was actually paying attention for a change when I passed my coil over a HUGE rattle snake! It was about 23 feet long, as big around as a utility pole, it's eyes looked like the turn signals on my Jeep, it's fangs looked like two railroad spikes and his rattles sounded like a chin saw. I nearly set a record for the "standing backward broad jump" but lost several points for poor form. I picked up the 7000, my head phones, my pick, my self and my pride and took another look at the rattler. My initial estimate as to it's size was somewhat high but the dang thing was still 4'+. The snakes patron saint (Fredus Masonus) was looking after him and I left him to his claim. That is the first time I have gotten that close to a rattle snake while detecting and, of course, I am blaming the 7000.

Especially when they rumble down the wrong side of the road. Welcome back Paul.

It taint' a gunna' happen. You can kid of coin and relic hunt with a PI and a small DD coil if you pick the right spot and you can of nugget hunt with a VLF If you aren't concerned with depth-again by picking the right situation. I just don't know if a detector that does both well exists. However- I would like to take my Mercedes roadster and combine it with my old Jeep. It will be a CJSL but I would probably ruin the best features of both. Buying one of each type of detector would be your best spent money- even if your budget is tight. 2 cents please.

Mr. Goldbrick; Sir. I have the same solution for your coil collecting habit as I had for another poor lost soul on this forum that can't seem to stop collecting detectors. Send me all of your coils (and not freight collect). I will the take them all apart and make one coil with the best characteristics of each dismantled coil. It will be a combination of DD and mono and will be called a DoDo. Is will also be supplied with 135 cord adapters so it will fit most detectors. But be warned. It may weigh nearly as much as a GPZ coil.

Fool me once- shame on you. Fool me twice- shame on me.

Post script; I am astounded at the internal performance of the 7000. This level of technology in a common sense package is what should have been.

As per Gldbrks' request. A brief list of the $10,000.00 GPX7000 shameful short comings. Nearly all of these could have been corrected for pennies. !. having to print the instruction manual on my time at my expense and not having a durable field copy. 2. soft plastic screen requires protection at user expense. 3.chinsey, short lived coil cover. 4. coil cover is very noisy and distracting when scraping the ground. 5.silly delicate plastic foot. Dumb design. 6. head phone jack location and design. 7. numerous screen failures. 8. very poor cordless audio quality. 9. cordless modual has a nearly useless clip. 10. lower shaft is the most delicate of any detector I have ever used. 11. detector housing is delicate and must be protected- at your expense. 12. arm strap is too short. 13. overall design makes for clumsy portability. 14. Head phones supplied with detector have too short of cord.

Hey Steve- send me all your detectors and I'll try to dismantle them and solder all the right pieces back together into one detector with a 6 position switch and you can just switch one detector that will perform like 6 different detectors. I just know I can do it.

Gldbrk. The simple solution to your problem would be to purchase a 7000. That would make your troubles with the 2300 seem insignificant.

Nvc You have a good point. I honestly don't think I would trade a morning like that for FMs' Mercedes. But I do hope NV1616s' fortune cookie is the real deal.

NV1616. I have never had a fortune cookie fail. They have all had a fortune inside. You might ask if Rolls Royce makes a 4X4.

I have one of these though the operating principle is slightly different. It works by using optics and a logic circuit. I rarely go prospecting without it. It's called "using my head".

A pick, shovel and a steel gold pan tax the limits of my technological ability. The 7000 is an excellent detector for not having to fiddle with it and not having to cover the same ground several times because of dozens of combinations of settings. So while you cumpewtir jeenyusez are programing with gizmoizm and doodadery I'll be out carefully covering ground using what works best for me and we'll see how time was best spent. So- no I wouldn't be shopping for a self programmable detector. I would like to see one that could be switched from PI to VLF.

I always question weather or not to remove an artifact from it's resting place. If I leave it the next guy will take it and if I take it, it has less meaning than if left in it's historical setting but it can be shared with others. I found three axe eye pick heads and an octagon crow bar in a pile one day. I bragged to everyone that I found "three pickers and a solid gold bar" - No one believed me---again.

I have had the same problem even with the headphones plugged directly into the detector. However it seems to have corrected its self lately. If you have a straight headphone plug you will probably have a cord problem in short order because of the 180 degree kink and the cord being to short when you are working near the coil with both hands recovering a nugget. If you have a cord with a right angle plug, when you bump the plug and it turns, the shape of the socket causes the plug to pull out and loose connection. Running the cord through the armrest helps. Just another minor irritation with a detector that has a lot of "miner" irritations.

I've never known a gold miner to lie so I'll take your story as the absolute truth but it does have the slight tint of a "fish story". I just went and bought a carton of night crawlers.