Desert Dawg

I just bought a set of Sun Ray Gold Headphones. Should be here monday. Used to use black widows on my gpx4500, kind loud had to be careful with volume on those.

I will admit I couldn't resist the GB2 special with two coils. I found more small gold with a GB2 in the past 12 yrs than all other machines combined. It did better than my latest gold monster too.

Any notable depth of any of the nugget digs?

Yes! Spiral flatwire wound, should get your best depth with that coil.

I have only used the 12x7 exceed Nugget Finder coil on my gpx6000, it seems to run smooth and quiet for me. Yet very sensitive.

I was so hopeful of that CZX nugget vlf detector Dave J was working on, perhaps Carl can bring it to market one day. a multi freq vlf nugget detector is long overdue to the market.

I do believe Fisher was coming out with a well-advanced vlf nugget machine and failed to produce it, the CZX. It was multi freq, and the failed part was some new form of ground balance allowing much deeper detection, they had based an entire lineup around this new form of ground balance and were not able to deliver it. Too bad. Like Steve says, Minelab would be one to watch for a advanced multi freq nugget vlf machine. Its bound to happen sooner or later.

I sure miss Whites as a Detector company. Simple to operate powerful machines, my only vlf is still a MXT Pro with several coils. I hope Garrett can continue the tradition with the Whites/Garrett name in the near future.  

I have bought several  Detech coils for my mxt pro and really like them 4.5"dd, 6"dd and 8x6 sef-dd. I also bought a detech coil for my gpx4000 a long time back, it was ok but not as good as NF evolution coils for the pi.

I would want a machine as good or better than the gpx6000, including ai if possible,  and auto features of  which I am a huge fan of, multi channels 5+ so no holes in detection of nuggets, don't bother if its a single channel or even a 2 channel machine. Its been done already yrs ago, it won't be a contender. Some manual controls are ok like the 6000 has. Auto GB, auto sensitivity, auto scanning of multiple channels, all is a must.  You must rival Minelab if its to be a success. I would buy one as a backup detector to my Minelabs if the price is right and its a quality machine.

I bought one of those RB7's when they first came out, wow, was a fantastic coin machine "for its time", fluid swing action for the coil with that new "motion detection", and I was getting  handfuls of silver coins at my local park with it, way more so than the latest Whites coin machines of the same "vintage", and I had em all. But the RB7 was shortlived since it had limited depth, of 5-6" depth on most coins and it took faster swings to get more depth, that was annoying as well. I did have a lot of fun with that machine. Soon Whites blew them all away with slow motion as well as 9-10"+ depth on coins and deeper. As well as superb ID which to this day no one has been able to copy.

Due to the repairs on my gpx6000, I am considering a second backup pi machine now. I have pretty much given up on vlf nugget machines as backups since the latest pi machines are so sensitive and 3x the depth on tiny gold. Perhaps soon I may get a Axiom as a backup pi. Back in June we had along a couple vlf detectors but they were pretty worthless at rye patch due to all the rainfall and saturated ground at the time. My gpx6000 performed great in all that wet ground.

I wonder if anyone is building flatwire coils for the axiom detector? I had great success running flatwire coils on my gpx4500. Also how about concentric flatwire coils?

I remember way back having a 7 HP Ted Williams air cooled outboard engine, used the heck out of that thing and it was reliable, great for duck hunting, fishing, etc.

We were camped out on the South end Jim Williams memorial site same time as you were there, mon-thur, I was giving a couple greenhorns lessons on vlfs but they were falsing in the saturated ground excessively, was a bad time for that with the saturated ground, my gpx6000 ran quiet in same soils, with the exceed 12x7. My internal speaker went south out there just after the minelab fix, it still works with the bluetooth headphones or earbuds. Annoying for sure. That storm tue afternoon was a humdinger, it had the ravines around us roaring for a few hrs. No gold for us. But a great time out camping and cooking.

I am pushing 70 this month, uh. and feeling it dealing with PV. Trying to get ready to take a week long trip to Nevada detecting in June.

I had a Los Banos mfg Gold Bug 2 I wish I never let go of. Found a lot of  nuggets with that old machine. Using the 3x6 coil.

Here are some of my haunts.

It took me about a yr and a change of machines to get my first gold, I was using a mxt pro, and missing a lot of gold since it was very small where I was hunting, was shown a GB2 in action by George D.  and over same ground it was getting small grain size nuggets right and left, then I bought my GB2 and first trip out to Yuba River, I got two little pickers (left side of pic), been finding gold ever since. First trip back to Rye Patch and I found 7 nuggets shown over the dime.

I use MineCache combined with google earth to keep track of the claims out there.

Personally I think the only chance we have of better depth and sensitivity is the Half Sine Hybrid technology that Whites developed but never went to market with. I suppose that patent now belongs to Garrett? Perhaps Garrett is hard at it developing a half sine hybrid machine as we speak?

Such great news the aftermarket coils for Axiom, I would like to see a flatwire spiral wound 14x9 and a 14" flatwire spiral mono, and a 14" round flatwire spiral wound CC. This would make the Axiom highly desirable to my use.

Trojan lead/acid deep cycle batteries are the best of the best. Plus they are built better than most batts and last way longer, thicker plates. Yrs. longer. I learned this while RV camping with a 17 ft Casita travel trailer, I went thru several "deep cycle" dept store batts in a few yrs before finding out a true deep cycle batt is much better and last way longer. I think I paid 235.00 for my last Trojan Deep Cycle batt. I could go for days on a single charge while camping with it. Remarkably better than dept store deep cycle batts.

I am  hoping its the Whites patented half sine wave hybrid detector. Its been a long time coming, but perhaps Garrett will pull it off.

I find that meeting in person at your home, and expecting payment in cash money works most every time. Other than doing that I would refrain from even postal money orders which can and are faked, as well as bogus checks, etc. Cashiers checks area also faked all the time.  If someone doesn't have access to cash I wouldn't mess with it.