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It sounds like you are doing everything right with what you have been finding and the 7000 would probably give you the best chance, but seeing you haven`t been able to find any gold detecting, I suspect you would not do a hell of a lot better if you laid out the $$$ for a 7000 Dave

Hey IronDigger. My bad, I didn`t multiply the dry weight by 1.9. The correct answer with my formula is minus 239.7 grams Dave

Hey IronDigger I`ve always used the formula 3.1 x the weight in water, minus 1.9 x the weight in air. With that formula you speci has minus 21.9 grams. Dave

Congratulations billdean, that`s a very impressive collection ☺️

Peter that`s a terrific piece of gold mate, what`s it weigh?

Well done Chris, that`s terrific gold to finish up the year ☺️

In my mind there is no doubt the 7000 is the best detector for depth I have used but the last couple of years of working low and slow, my results have been anything but stellar. The depth of some of the gold I have found amazes me, but the 7000 just wont find gold that`s not there. This year I am going to concentrate more on ground coverage than depth. I used to find reasonable gold with my 4000, but when I bought the 5000 the amount of gold I found went up and the weight of the pieces went down. I no longer own the 5000 but I still have the 4000 and I think the 4000 is a very capable detector on gold a gram and up. So the new plan is more ground coverage away from the recognized gold areas and I`m thinking my 3 main coils will be the 24x12 UFO, the 18x12 Goldstalker and the 14x9 Blitz. I remember years ago, before the 5000, I was hooking in with the 4000 and UFO in open ground, I got this terrific 7 grammer at about 8 or 9 inches. If I want to do deep work, I`ll go to the 7. All the best for 2019 everyone, may we all get more gold in `19 than we got in `18.

Good stuff Gerry ? I love the look of the country where you were detecting. Who won the day out of the high end detector and the 2300? I would think it would be the 2300, but then again, Lunk is no slouch with a detector ?

Because of my almost complete lack of success lately I`ve only been getting out for a couple of hours a day. The one on the dime is a 2 grammer and I think just about any detector would have got it. It was a big broad signal and I just happened to be the one that waived over it. The other one, I got out at Waanyarra the other day and thanks to the wonders of usb microscopes, it`s a hell of a lot smaller than it probably looks. ? Dave

Now I`m really confused. You`ve gone from not being able to find a piece of gold to saying the 2300 is a good detector for finding half ouncers at depth.

Hey nighthunter. Very rarely do I use my 2300, I just don`t want to chase point oners anymore, so a lot of days I come home empty handed with the 7000, but if I absolutely need a gold fix today, I go to the 2300 every time. Yesterday I went to a spot with 2 mates that has produced a lot of gold for detector operators and me and the guy with the 5000 got one small piece each and the guy with the 2300 got five. Dave

Gerry that is a terrific find. What a great piece of gold ? Well done mate

Here you go Simon. The big centre copper wire is the transmit winding and the 2 smaller outer coils are the recieve windings. Dave Minelab GPZ14 "Super D" coil for GPZ 7000 internal configuration

I haven`t been posting any finds recently because, well, I haven`t been finding much. I`ve been spending a fair bit of time in a area where years ago multi ounce nuggets were common, but most days I come home empty handed. Today I got one of those "is that a signal or isn`t it?" targets. I run very conservative settings now and because the detector runs so quiet I dig a lot more ground noise than I used too, I thought this was another one. It was just the tiniest change in the threshold. When I was down about 4" it was giving off that lovely electronic warbly signal I like and somewhere down about the 8 or nine inch mark this little speci popped out.

Good on you Peg. That`s nice looking gold and you covered the cost of the lease doing something you enjoy doing. How good is that.☺️

Lunk what a terrific collection of finds. Well done mate ?

Terrific photos and nice gold ?

That`s a nice 5 ouncer ?

If talking about gold prospecting only, I think the 7000 comes pretty close, but it doesn`t do it all, no discrimination and it wont get the small stuff like a 2300 can, but the 7000 gets good depth, amazing small stuff, and gold a GPX just cannot hear. A while ago, i got this speci at 6 or 7 inches and a 5000 can hear it at 2" max.

Yeh JW I think it`s ironstone staining. If I drop them in acid the`ll look clean but I`m not in any rush to do that. It`s funny you should mention that bit of trivia about the Endeavour. Only in the last week or so they have announced they think they have found the Endeavour on the bottom of Newport Harbour, Rhode Island https://www.sbs.com.au/news/captain-cook-s-hms-endeavour-may-have-been-found-in-us

Congratulations goldseeker getting your first gold with the 5000. You`re right, the 5000 is way hotter in fine gold than the 4000 was. The 4000 is a terrific detector on bigger gold but not in the hunt when it comes to the small stuff. Dave

A mate of mine gave me a New Zealand 50 because I`ve been posting with American coins. I`ve not been out much in the last couple of weeks because of vehicle trouble but I got out a few times. These were all found on new ground away from diggings and I dug some sweet sounding targets but still nothing big. There is always tomorrow. This lot goes 1.58 grams ?

That`s nice gold Chris, well done ?

Peg that is terrific gold. I especially like that 3.9 grammer. It looks like it hasn`t traveled far. You could be near the mother lode with that one ?

I found it one day when I was sailing on the good ship SS Ebay ☺️