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THAT is just amazing. My name for it would be "surprise." Nice going.

This whole problem with difficulty in working out ways to provide additional coils for the 7000 can be laid directly at MineLabs feet. As has been said (many times), before, there was absolutely an implication if not an outright statement that there would be other coil(s) for the GPZ and it took years for the 19" and then nothing. In exchange for asking us to pay ten thousand (or whatever) dollars for their top-of-the-line detector, that is ML simply not being honest with their customers.

(smiling)

I forgot this method. It's the best. Once again Dale and the Gold Hounds show why they are so good at what they do. Happy New Year you guys...

If you try covering the bottom with epoxy - which is what some people have used effectively, including me - make sure it's the non-metallic type (I forget the designation, sorry). As you can imagine it adds some weight. From what I have read, with no direct experience, the truck bedding stuff doesn't last long. I think it was NuggetFinder that recently released a harder plastic coil cover for the 7000 which works just great, maybe they have one for yours.

Yup, if I had to guess who would tease the first nugget of '21 it would be you Lunk. Happy New Year.

Happy for you. I am sure you will have plenty of help and suggestions.

Steve does beautiful work. I had earrings - smaller than those - made for my wife and daughter about 9 years ago and they were a definite hit. I hope he's doing well.

Use both…they compliment each other.

That's going to be fun to see what's under there. Hard work with hopefully great reward. Keep digging! Happy New Year too...

Merry Christmas JP, fun to read of your adventures.

Your usual thorough and methodical test. It's always informative and fun to read them. Good work.

It's true, a 12 inch coil sounds very close the stock coil, but I have found that size coil is just about the optimum size for the way I hunt and where I go. I can't wait to get one. It's a shame the first 200 coils only went to Australia but it's completely understandable - that's NF's main customer base and it's where they are located. But Rohan, can we have a few in the next batch?

What information do you have that helped you form that opinion? Interested...

Have you read JP's impressions?

I carry my phone with me always when I'm detecting - in the pocket furthest away from the coil - anyone who wants to go to the trouble of tracking my whereabouts is welcome to it because I can almost guarantee hardly anyone would want to spend the time and energy detecting the specks I have been going after . Seriously, well realistically anyway, I'm getting older and I usually detect alone in semi-remote places. If anything happened I'd want to dial for a cab.

Thank you for taking the time to post this. It is a fascinating exposition and more complex than I can comprehend but I am reminded of a treasure hunter I know - Carl Fismer - who said to one of the inventors of a new kind of submersible magnetometer "I don't have to know how it works, just show me how to run it and I'll be fine." I hope you will post more, this will be fun to learn about.

impressive as usual… (I couldn't see which coil you were using )

just thinking if ML somehow being able to know where you are detecting from your gps usage - they'd have to open a new division of the company just to store, coordinate and figure out what to do with the mountains of data that would come in…crazy town stuff.

haha, see? Gerry wants to know what settings you're using. No matter how experienced we are, we are always curious to know if certain settings we don't normally use, are working for others.

Now we're going to be asking you what your methods are nice finds!

A true Thanksgiving reminiscence Jim. Hope all is well with you.

Bingo.

Thanksgiving best wishes to everyone. Enjoy the day.

GPZ 7000 … no surprise there. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. This site is a haven of (relative) calm in these weird times, stay safe and healthy.