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  1. Nice work Gerry!! Now where exactly where were you?? 😂 I would like to see that machine try out the hot rocks here sometime 😉
  2. You cant have your cake and eat it too, if you dont like the delay, then plug in. I detect plugged in all the time with my GPX6000 unless I'm in real rough terrain. I'm more curious about how the Axiom's multi ground balancing works. We've got some areas with hot rocks up the wazoo and I would like to see it run on that ground. I havent even made it there with my 6 yet though so maybe that machine will handle them fine, I just know my GB2 didnt stand a chance on that ground. Also my friend's sdc had many issues on the ground too.
  3. So you can detect for 16 hours instead of 12 now? The thing is already super light! 😄 I wouldn't mind getting one myself but I got a house to build first so no toys for me. 😐 Glad to see you finding some gold Gerry!
  4. A lot of good points in this thread Gerry! (and everyone else of course!) Funny story on this. After I got my 10" coil from you for my GB2, I went up to a new location to try it out. I also took my GPX-6000 with me. Ground was frozen and I did not want to dig a bunch of iron so I started off with the GB2. First target was a .25g piece maybe an inch down. I detected another hour and only a few pieces of trash. I switched to the GPX and went back over the same areas and pulled out 3 more pieces(0.23, 0.06, and 0.04g). I flagged each spot and went back over them with the GB2 to see if it was me or the machine. The smallest two I could hear with both as they were practically on the surface but the GPX was a more reliable signal. The larger one was out of the reach of the GB2 at roughly 4". I know I'm no expert on the GB2 but I had the settings "maxed out" and not even a whisper. Im certain with the 6" on the GB2 it would have been a different story, but this does show to me at least the insanity of the GPX-6000.
  5. Thats how mine is too. Just figured it would be worth looking in to so i dont have to do that every time i switch my coil around. I guess I Brake For Bedrock comment got deleted from above. He was giving me a bad time, telling me to worry about gold and not worry about shortening the cable.
  6. Been doing that! But ground still froze and snow storm moving in. Two weeks ago take
  7. My thought was to take it out and shoot from a ways away while standing behind my old pickup. Dont want anyone to know where my nuggets are at! Lol. I think there are more as i had other loud targets near this one
  8. Found this little fella my last trip out. Just glad it didnt go BOOM! on me while I was digging it up! How unsafe is it to keep it around?? lol Also would anyone have an idea as to the time frame?
  9. Is it me or does it seem like the cable for the GB2 is about twice as long as it needs to be? I guess I understand that you are supposed to be able to mount the control box to yourself. Has anyone shortened theirs? Would this cause any issues with the detector?
  10. I mean I always figured some if not most of the finds were staged just because you cant have the camera rolling 24/7 but its still something to watch. Ill have to check out some of the other shows suggested on here 🙂
  11. Feeling bored in the cold. Anyone know when Aussie Gold Hunters season 7 starts??
  12. Oh ya Gerry, I know my goose egg days are coming (There's been a couple, I may have exaggerated slightly ðŸĪŦ). 17" coil would be cool but I gotta get that house built first! I do need to get that 10" for my GB2 for some dredge tailings and some coil covers from you sometime here when you're back from vacation.
  13. I have come to the conclusion that Minelab has discovered alchemy with the GPX6000. It is the only logical conclusion as to why I find gold everytime I go out with it. It must have something to do with all the calculations of the onboard computers and the frequencies of the the pulses into the soil. Maybe a modified flux capacitor is hiding in there. 😆 Maybe Steve Herschbach has some info on this?? ðŸĪ”
  14. I got to run the DD for one day about a month ago on my 6. I will say, I was very impressed with its response to EMI. The weekend before that I was in a small gulch that has powerlines running over over the top end of the gulch. I had to stay at the bottom end, about 2-300' away from the power lines with the mono. The DD coil allowed me to detect right underneath the power lines. No noise. Worked beautifully. Didnt get any gold that day but did pick up small lead shot (along with a billion other pieces of trash). AFreakofNature was with me that day with his equinox and we were able to be within 5' of each other! But thats the only time I've used the DD so far. I will most likely need it again in the near future as some of my next locations to check next year are near powerlines as well.
  15. That is a nice looking nugget you got there Rob! That nugget must have been close to the range that the 6 can reach because I had a solid 4.25g nugget at 14" and while it wasn't loud it was definitely noticeable. Or the range of the 6 drops off dramatically somewhere between. But totally agree based off what little I know of the 7 it should outperform the 6 on larger at depth. (otherwise ML would be screwed on their 7000 production lol) Also since there has been some talks of different types of coils. Is there a good thread or book or anything of the sorts that would dive into how coil designs affects depth and sensitivity? Or is that all the secret sauce that every company hold onto.
  16. Nice Finds! One mans trash (or burn barrel) is another mans nugget patch! lol
  17. Thats funny. I think the same thing about mowing the lawn when im detecting. 😆 I used to mow the parks and cemetery at my home town working for the city when I was in high school and by mid summer when the grass stops growing you had to kinda keep a mental map in your head of where you mowed. (I definitely missed areas still) This is one reason why its always good to go over the area different directions too
  18. I dont mind the shaft twisting. It usually takes a pretty good force to make it twist and its easy enough to twist back. Pushing down on the ground and then twist it back. Also can be really handy to be able to twist it when you are on the edge of old workings or on a hillside. I also tend to find myself liking the controls turned in towards me. Just more comfortable. The only time I really had any issue is when the shaft was wet from a misty day. I could see a nice fix to be is to have longer locks. The added surface area would allow for more friction between the collar and the shaft which would in turn make it harder to twist.
  19. Meant to reply much sooner than this but I found myself caught up with work and sick kiddos. But I wanted to say there has been some great points made. I would have to agree that a patch will most likely never actually run out of gold. Just keep digging deeper! lol Steve makes a good point that if you are still finding garbage, then there's a good chance there is still a piece or three left. Gerry, I guess I will have to buy the new GPZ from you when it comes out and go back to the old patches. 😁 The idea of frost pushing nuggets up is interesting. In the same way it can heave post or foundations.
  20. IdahoPeg, Mine did the same about half a dozen times the first time I went out but it has not done it since. Im thinking there was something, maybe an oil, on the contacts between the battery and the unit. Im just guessing though because its odd to me that it hasnt done it since my first day out. But my headphones will not charge so ill be sending those back this winter when I wont be needing them.
  21. The face that big chunker was a high low and not a low high? Great find Gerry! Love the video!
  22. As I stating in Gerry's Topic "Does Size and or Success Matter?" I have a follow up question for folks. Again there is no right or wrong answer, more just an open discussion on what you do. When do you consider a patch played out? Do you keep expanding the area even though you've been skunked several times? If so how far do you keep going? How often do you go back to "played out" patches in hopes for finding the ones left behind? Will you scrape a whole are searching for deeper bits? I could keep going on with more questions but I think you are getting my point. When do YOU finally say "I'm done here". I am slightly expecting different answers between those who are hobbyist and those who do this for a living. I would expect those who do this for a living to move on once it does not make financial sense to stay there, but it also might not be as much fun to pick up your scraps when there could be more virgin patches near by. I think this is an interesting topic to discuss and I am curious to see what the more experienced members here have to say!
  23. Where was he washing his carpets out exactly?? 😁 Steve, I agree, I tend to find myself jumping back and forth between auto+ and sens10 and always with the threshold on. ( I love waking up in the middle of the night and still hearing the threshold in my head.😝 ) I really wish the engineers at ML would show where in the sensitivity the 6000 is auto balancing too if its less than the 10 sensitivity. This would give me better confidence in what the computers are doing. As too the question at hand though. I am always relieved to find at least one small tidily winker when I get out but it definitely is way more enjoyable to get bigger bits (0.5g or better). So I would have to say that size does matter to me. I can always get grain size flakes sluicing if I really wanted to be going after gold that small. But, this also brings up a question I've had and I'll just make a new post so wait to answer on there. But that's when do you give up on a patch/how many times getting skunked until you move on or find it not worth your time going back even if your not getting skunked.
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