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got it…they were horrible.

Chuck if you liked the one I showed you the other day, I'll send it to you I'd like it to have a good home… no 18-wheeler though...

If you are talking about recreational dredges, I dredged for many years on most of the mother lode rivers and the trash you talk about, was rarely evident. Honest. And that was for six full summers of dredging. If you meant the huge dredges that tore up miles of river bottom, that's a different story I guess.

I second that, their repairs are really good.

Chuck I could post a shot of me wearing my minelab cap but I don't want to scare you…it's weird enough without me. (can't remember what I did to win this, but thank you Minelab)

(amateur detectorists jaw's dropping all over the world - haha)

This is such a weird product roll-out. Come on MineLab, if you're going to have a contest, at least make it for something worthy, it's not like you can't afford it. Mugs and hats are give-away items. It's been fun and educational though, to read the speculation.

I guess not if you have a 7000. Hope things are going good for you Jason.

I can speak to video production as well. I worked for 35 years on feature films and shot a number of documentaries on my own. That is I shot, edited, did the sound effects, wrote the narration and recorded it, did all the color correction, found and edited the music, and so on. I don't think it will come as a surprise that this is an incredibly time consuming pastime and requires a whole large learning curve of it's own - just ask JP who I am pretty sure had to learn all that to produce the amazingly high level of DVD's that he did. Each of his DVD's got better as his learning curve increased…and he had to compile the information as well. No casual undertaking. Anyone who has seen the DVD's that JP has put out, or the docu-journals that Gold Hound has shot and edited, probably cannot imagine just how much time that took away from detecting, and for them, that means making a living. Both of them made what they did look as though it was easy. It's not. I appreciate what afresakofnature is wanting to do and will only say that, as difficult as learning how to operate the 7000 is, just putting those concepts into a video and doing it clearly with proper examples, good production looks and quality sound and then putting it up for people to learn from, is not only a possibly huge project but it is also a huge responsibility. All this is not to try to diminish in any way what is being discussed above, but rather, I am adding some details that I know about hoping to possibly help define, expand and round out the discussion. A long P.S.: After reading so many discussions on these forums one sees that there is a wide range of approaches that people use when they are running their (in this case) GPZ’s. And while its true some methods may be more efficient and use the machines capabilities closer to its optimum, you really have to try hard to mess the 7000 up enough so it won’t go off on a nugget. My opinion only here, but personal preferences have to be learned by using the detector both in the the area where you are working and in the conditions that are present at the time.

A+ tip. One of the most overlooked but ultra-important aspects of detecting especially with the GPZ

(ears perking up…)

unfortunately, I have never had that problem… (good posts) I just went and checked where I had my Sensitivity. It was 18.

That IS really unique. So glad you didn't yank it out. If you can maybe leave it as it is. You rarely see finds like that. As far as I know a sunbaked is a nugget lying on the surface. I have found two like that but I have seen guys in Australia find some incredible ones. Nice going!

OMG your guys really DO cook shrimps on the barbe…I'll be right down.

I don't like the wind but it's rarely enough to make me stop detecting. There was once in the Dale where I honest-to-god got knocked flat by the wind as I topped a ridge. That is my one exception.

You're right. I'm writing a book right now and a pdf is difficult to protect.

Good going - both of you. And I love that you have a partner who really is one. Those finds are exciting to see and inspirational for all of us I'm sure. Nice work.

Perhaps wait a bit for a really good deal on a GPZ soon... Sorry for the problems.

The questions may seem minor in the face of the giant steps in detecting that the company has taken, true. Does that not mean those details have no relevance or meaning? If so, then I defer to you and your opinion.

Hi Jin, guessing that's probably impossible to know til it happens right? Each time one is dropped, it is under different circumstances with different potential results. Hope all is well

I agree with what you are saying RedDirtDigger - I will only say that if you have some sort of protective cover (I happen to have one made by Doc, but this isn't an ad for it because like Minelab, there is no real cushioning on the bottom of that cover either), an easy solution is to put your own padding in the bottom of the cover. As I said above, I cut a section of pool noodle in half and stuffed it into the bottom of the cover and it has worked perfectly for years as very effective cushioning. But, the fact that MineLab either can't or won't figure out that a small detail like cushioning their multi-thousand dollar detectors, is not something they need to concern themselves with, is another in a long-standing history of not attending to small details that are inexpensive but vital to keeping their products in good working condition. After all this time of supposedly saying they are "listening to customers," it seems to be a statement that is not accurate or factual and that is too bad (for us, the customers).

Very interesting, thanks for posting. Nice gold.

Steve isn't that Wilma Beaumont on the far R. of your rain picture? A legend in her own right…both as a detector operator and as a person.

I put my watch on my belt loop. It doesn't interfere with the 7000, and I never use the gps, it's just too weird. Hope you get it solved...

I put a cut-in-half section of pool noodle inside Doc's protective cover under the detector for extra cushioning. Also, I never treat that machine like anything other than the 7 to 10 thousand dollar item that it is. It's worth that extra few seconds to treat it well. Picks on the other hand? I don't worry so much about.