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    Memorial Weekend Contest, Win A Minelab GPX 6000 Dream

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    Memorial Day!  Coming from a long history of Family Military Service, I learned early that it’s for the Veterans that never returned Home.  My Grandpa, corrected me at a young age...”It’s not Happy Memorial Day, but it’s a Good Day”.  His words rang true, as I visited many American War Fallen Cemeteries in European Countries during my tours of duty.  Now that I’m a US Air Force Retiree, the old Military saying of “We All Gave, But Some Gave More”, rings loud and clear on this Good Memorial Day.  

    Now, I live in the “Battle Born State” unofficially the “Silver State” or “Sage Brush State”. Well living in the 7th largest land mass State, you have to have a modern Mule to battle the Sage Brush to find the hidden treasures of the Silver State.  My Kolpin ATV Gun Racks carry my Detectors and yes, the clean ones next to the roof are brand new.

     My Buggy is Ruff & Ready!  If you see it in your Prospecting adventures, swing by.  I may need some company on a hot patch and always have a pointy finger to other nearby locations!

    Good Memorial Day,

    LuckyLundy

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    Memorial Weekend Contest, Win A Minelab GPX 6000 Dream

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    Solitude, has led me on countless pokes of nuggets!  The soothing silence of the open spaces help me put a Career in the Military to ease.  I become one with my Metal Detector and never second guess my intuition when I’m in the zone.  They say, Gold is where you find it and Metal Detecting the High Desert plains of Northern Nevada is a prime example.  As many of you know,  there’s a layer of soil covering the indicator rocks I look for in many different locations.  It makes Patch Hunting a challenge as you may wonder out of your prime dirt area, if there is no bare spots showing rocks to keep you on track.  So, Patch Hunting is time consuming and can be worth the time and effort.  One Patch will lead to the next if you pay attention to the indicators, Mother Nature hides her treasures well.   So, keep swinging that coil you never know where that next Patch will be at!

    LuckyLundy

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    Minelab GPX 6000 Misadventures At Sawtooth Nv

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    Condor,

    You tried your hardest to convince me for a turn around trip!  Weather Radar kept me from joining you and a couple nice Jackpots at the casino kept the Crown Royal coming 😂.  You’ll recoup just like that big Puppy and your truck will...plenty of spots out there!  I’ll show you a couple more next time out...but, I’m thinking that new 6000 will be the ticket to clean them patches up?  Glad to hear the 6000 performed under them wet conditions and I know exactly what No Yellow Under a Coil, sounds like and always looks like a Skunk...hate them days!  Keep them Ivan Coils working until the 6000 arrives!

    Rick

    Raining Hard At Sawtooth & Rye Patch

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    3 minutes ago, Condor said:

    The sun is out, need a stiff breeze to dry things out.  The ground around Sawtooth soaked down 2 to 3 inches.  The back roads are pretty slimey.

    Yep, you thought I left early!  My phone is loaded with weather/radar apps and most times I’m more correct than those so called Weather Readers on TV.  Best part of that rain is it settled down the dusty trails for the Side X Side.  My eyes 👀 where tearing mud.  Give a report, on the 6000 handling the fresh wet ground there.

    Rick

    Making The Move From GPZ 7000 To GPX 6000

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    Jason,

    Your more than right!  Kind of like my 2010 Dodge Ram, I love it.  Still gets me to where I want to go and back home, very reliable.  I look at the new Trucks with tons of new Technology, bright and shiny.  All I see is Desert Pin Stripes in the new paint and dusty interior...but, the new bells and whistles.  I’ll hold off for now on a new truck 😂

    Making The Move From GPZ 7000 To GPX 6000

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    10 hours ago, mn90403 said:

    You only need a 6000 and an 800.  The 800 is the king of VLFs and it is not the most expensive either. 

    Mitch, you’d/you’ll enjoy the 6000.  We where taking turns using Steve’s 6000.  Condor, would hand it off to me.  I’d set my 7000 down and grab the 6000, it had a sensation that it wanted to float it’s so light weight 😂.  One of the tester had the 800 Nox with the new after market coil (forgot name of coil). I can see you with both with a smile on your face well into the future.

    Rick

    My Abbreviated Session With The 6000

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    On 5/11/2021 at 11:26 PM, jasong said:

    I'm going to go back there sometime with it in the worst salty part just to see how it does.

    Jason, I just got home from running Steve’s 6000.  End of that hill with my stock 7000 coil and my Favorite settings had me running to find milder ground.  The 6000 ran very nice in that Toxic ground.  Thanks Steve H.  Fell in love with with your 6000 and your generosity to give it a go!  It didn’t fail, everyone had a rattle in the poke bottle.  It’s everything you wrote about!  Oh we paired your Avantree shoulder speaker nice, sounded great!  Just wondering if their water resistant and what they’d feel on your neck on a hot day...couldn’t be worse than a hot headphones 😂.  11” coil seems to be the ticket.  We tested the DD Coil on undisturbed targets, deadly smooth.  Seemed we had to swing the coil slower than the 11” Mono to sound on the target as all but one was very small bits of wire and one flat dink nugget.  I was very satisfied with the DD Coil and I know there will be some great find with it as I tend to avoid Salty Noisy areas unless I know there’s good gold in it and will adjust my 7000 to try to deal with it.  I’m going to have to order another one, I’ll never get it out of Robin’s hands!

    Rick

    Can We Stir The Pot? Minelab GPZ 7000 Still King Of Detectors In The U.S.

    in Detector Prospector Forum

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    Steve,

    Your words are solid gold, your GPX 6000 Poke is poof in the Pudding!  I know the same ground your Detecting, it’s been pounded by every detector ever made.  There’s still Virgin Patches of Gold out in the Millions of Acres of the High Deserts of Northern Nevada.  All I’m looking for in Patch Hunting is “One Duck” and my current 7 pound Shotgun has me feeling my age after a day of Sage Brush Dancing.  There’s to many videos out to say the 6000 doesn’t find missed gold in old haunts.  That old saying that only 1% find gold consistently with the same detector as others continue to get skunked with is true.  I’ve helped out hundreds with detector settings and pointy fingers only to see them wonder far out of the Patch boundary and when they return to find out they switched their setting I gave them for the soil of the patch.  Being retired Military with the “Old Sarge” mentality I know I can’t help everyone.  Some will fall to the side and some will match or exceed you.  I Tend to these people.  Your Forum is the best and one I “Tend”...some will fall to the side and move on in their own way.  You keep showing your Proof in the Pudding and Tend to the one(s) Forum Member that will exceed/excel in your reviews.

     

    Rick

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