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Well, that rig should make you some serious money - good investment, and an incredibly nice setup. We just finished using and identical setup for war zone images during a USO tour, and the results were fantastic. Best of luck/fun.

Good luck down under!

Tasman - I did the same type thing (sold 3 detectors) to get my ZED, and although I've yet to get the larger pieces you have.... I've never regretted doing such. I did deeper holes now, but produce more collectively than the three ever managed. Unfair comparison, due to location variables, and certainly miss the discrimination abilities. Great haul three - and agree, leave it as is. The CLR for two days, should have taken off the easy stuff, muriatic acid will make it appear unreal / unnatural. Congrats!

Well done, sorry San Diego is so darn far away.?

LipCa, thanks! I certainly hope you do try one. I can almost promise that you can revisit your old favorite hunting grounds, and you most likely will find what you and others had missed. This is an incredible unit, expensive, but more impressive than all else I've swung. IMHO, the best so far for what I'm after. You can run it right out of the box (in mineralized soil), and produce results. You'll find small to large nuggets, shallow and incredibly deep, but after you also pull up a few pounds of tiny metal screening segments, and other trash equally small - you'll pray for discrimination.... Or well hunted grounds. Oh - I'll be happy to share my settings also. Good hunting my friend, with whatever you are swinging.

Steve, Fred, and Wes - Thanks, I really do get it, but much as Fred pointed out without saying it exactly. ALASKA is not ARIZONA, nor Nevada, nor CA... It is more like going from the US to the land of OZ, much as Steve and Chris did - they got a "quick start" from Jonathan.. I have incredible respect for the knowledge they have shared and know they could figure it out, yet they still "asked" about this new-land where they are headed to save valuable time. Finding out a bit more about the lay-of-the-land from someone who has been there before me, can save gobs of time. That is exactly what I'm doing here - research. And, LipCa, I know how to find AU - with my ZED, but the last time I was in Alaska there was no such tool as the GPZ 7000 in existence.... So I'm asking, because this is new turf from where and what I do know about. Wes cut to the quick, and that certainly will be tried, as will other advise given. Fred also hit on it again, as did Steve - we all build upon the all the experience of others when we can. When I elevated my attack in my hunt for gold - with each new evelution of gear, I found that each detector had it's own complexities, abilities and responded differently from one local to another. You build as you progress along. So I ask, I read, I test, and I've learned from some of the best detectorists around; Gerry (ND), Jonathan (OZ), Lunk (Keith) Steve (H), Reno Chris, Chris G., and many many more.... So, thanks to all for the help, the settings, the suggestions and evaluations. That's a major way I and others speed up our learning, our skills, our hardware. So to LipCa, perhaps you understand a bit more now, perhaps you don't... Good hunting always up there in N. CA.⛏.

Thanks to all! I suspected such.... Steve, by "hot as you want", are you suggesting settings such as Lunk has in his recommended settings for the GPZ? Lunk leans heavily towards hot settings, and has the nuggets to prove it works, but that is in heavily mineralized ground. I'm just trying to clarify the term used for "hot". Still wondering when ML will release some version of the GPZ that has discrimination ?. Thanks again!

I've searched the DP archives, been reading DP forever (it seems), certainly on the GPZ discussions, and have yet to see or hear about this unit's operation/performance/settings in Alaska. I'm headed to areas North of Nome, AK next year - and just dotting my "eye's" and crossing my "tee's" long before the trip. Steve has covered Gane's Creek incredibly well, as usually does with a bunch of MD's, but unless I was asleep, he has yet to discuss having taken his ZED up there. I'm looking for advise (beyond carrying a .44MAG), settings primarily since Alaska is not AZ, nor NV, nor CA.

Condor - Nice swinging! ? Particularly in that heat. Lucky Lundy, Lunk (Keith), Steve & Chris, Gerry McMullen - a few more, are the reining masters of RP these days. Just saying that you learned about RP from one of the masters for sure.

Geeeeez, it just occurred to me, that titanium partial-knee replacement I'm now walking/kneeling on would become a definite no-no for considering this coil. AND you'd probably have to take to dragging your pick on a long rope behind you too, no more hiding it behind your body. (Actually, that might be a cool practice for finding those stray meteorites in some areas.) I'll sit this one out till you all test it out. Besides, if I wait a year+, they'll lower the ?? price 30%, much like they did with my 'mother-ship' ZED. ?☹️

Terrific! At 19", you'll need wheels on the coil, or more beefing up at the gym. How about a small backhoe for the newer, greater depths? Perhaps more scrap metal dealer resources to recycle the increase in non-AU, iron finds/targets, more nails - yes? (Sorry for all the negativity, I was hoping for a SMALLER coil, one that could give better focus on "where" my targets are. My holes are getting bigger/wider/deeper) ? Happy I am - that ML is still servicing us with newer gear for ZED ?

For a moment there I thought it sounded like a modern-day politician out sun bathing in California.

Kudos! For braving the heat alone. That's a great piece that'll clean up real nice - keep it in the matrix! D

When can we expect one of these for the ZED?

Steve has indicated there's an issue with the GARRETT "carrot" pinpointed and the 7000, even when the unit is off. Has anyone tried dropping the carrot into an RFI bag (this is a radio frequency shielded bag)? Having a good pinpointer to utilize with the GPX 7000 seems like a must since this detector is a bit tough to pinpoint a target with. Sure wish the new coil was a 5" sized one (for better pinpointing of your targets), and probably make the whole rig much lighter too. ?

Fred, THAT didn't work for me.....(I know, I'm not you), but I was swinging the SDC2300, gridding this "pushed" strip at RP, and finding "zip". Lunk followed shortly thereafter, and totally cleaned my clock with a half-dozen finds (albeit) deeper than was the 2300's turf, but he forced me to hang that fine detector up and make the jump to the ZED. Actually - thanks! Fred, you can walk next to Lunk, follow him, be ahead of him.... But I bet Lunk would clean your clock also. You're "that good" Lunk!!!!!???

Happy Birthday! Another year older, another day richer, and another day wiser. Soooooo, how many years wiser are you, I know that's one area you won't be catching me. You gotta be at least half my age, but I forget what that is?. D

Condor, Great haul for your pokes! Kudos! Q - I love Baja, but have run into Federalies and other not so cool dudes down there. Just wondering if you had any such encounters. If you were on the East side (Sea of Cotez), you may not have had problems, but the West side of Baja is getting much worse IMHO. 400 miles South puts you in Bajia de Los Angeles area... Huge area, great canyons, great Big Horn Sheep hunting area (with Lic.).

OMG Lunk! - You keep vacuuming Quartzite clean of nuggies and I'm going to have to change my relatively local MD plans. You scored some very nice finds, particularly for such a supposedly "cleaned-out", "beat to death", over-pounded stretch of AZ desert as Quartzite reportedly is - ER.... WAS! Congrats on all the effort, you definitely paid off the ZED, and then some, but most importantly - you proved that these newer detectors can re-open old grounds, that the favored yellow stuff is still out there to find. Impressive also is the size of some of those finds. Hopefully by re-swinging over old stomping grounds - your trash targets were fewer. Kudos, hopefully see you the end-of-the-month, assuming you leave anything for the rest of us. Dave

Steve, all looks great. When and where available in the US? Are they available @ the LV show?

OK, I bit too, but after all that - Did you refill the hole?

Condor - FYI, these images are safe at this stage of display. I checked them for you and there's no Longitude or Latitude data in these files. Hawkeye's security warning is a good warning in generally, for any images uploaded to the web or shared. Great way to end/start the day, particularly when it was based on your research! Kudos Edit by Steve H - see http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/1515-security-issue-posting-photos-from-gps-enabled-devices/ for details on photo security.

Merry Christmas to one and all......

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays Steve, and to your family. Your knowledge and analysis of issues, detectors, and approaches to the "art" of detecting has been invaluable to us all. You are fair, thorough, and seemingly as honest about the hardware you review as anyone I've known, and your partnering up with the other treasure chest of knowledge - Chris Ralph has benefited us all. Thank you doesn't seem enough for all the energy you have put into this forum, and the serious advocation we enjoy, but thanks anyway. Best for the new year.

OMG - further proof that the Q has still got it. If anyone could find what we've been leaving behind, it would be you! Nice Find's for the poke. Good luck for the rest of this good weather. Careful of this early El Niño affects starting in So. Cal. Best of luck Lunk.