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Thanks Condor, the three of you gave a well-rounded picture - i'm appreciative

of the time taken to share with us.

10 hours ago, Norvic said:

or maybe a software upgrade for our existing Zs.

Now that would be a spectacular move by MineLab.

Gerry, that's a great observation and I am sure there are many people who recognize what you are trying to get across to help all of us. 

Also happy that despite nay-sayers, you have continued to talk about these critical detecting details.

Thanks...

I guess it's not surprising that many are suspicious or disappointed in this article, a sign of the times. Instead why not view it - celebrate it - as a necessary step that is being attempted? Something that up to now, no-one has been willing or able to do. 
Should setting out the successful points they have accomplished be characterized as "teasing" dredgers? Or, are these necessary steps that have to be taken on behalf of all of us in order to overturn the ridiculous restrictions that have been placed on recreational dredgers? 
I guess time will tell. 

https://www.icmj.com/magazine/article/plp-update-4454/?fbclid=IwAR3-OTlUQ3SqYmxYpp-BeaVHxKIee0IEIzY5ZlJc2kCiMhmNLq-HFTvSYq4

This effort deserves a vote of thanks from all of us.

"Bacon and Beans From a Gold Pan", one of the best books ever. I have had a copy since the late 70's and it's dog-eared from rereading.

Nice nuggets Lucky!

On 4/10/2021 at 5:36 AM, Goldseeker5000 said:

Oneguy doesn't have any problems finding the big ones! He has proved that. He knows what he is doing.

(I know)

Nice work! If you're finding pieces like that, you won't miss the big one.

Great job, a sense of humor is real gold these days.

Thanks...

If this is Minelab attempt at making evocative and involving videos, they missed the boat.
Salting the supposed finds is a monstrous no-no. The videos are static and completely non-involving.
They could have done so much better with almost the same amount of production time.

Too bad they didn't learn anything from the way you produced your DVS's JP.

10 hours ago, Jonathan Porter said:

TBH I’m over the whole process.

Check...

Condor your posts always make sense and show that you think out of the box.
Congratulations to both of you and continued good hunting.

Unfailingly, this is Lunks default post; finding gold where others have looked. No matter how flogged the area, it seems to make no difference.

You are always an inspiration, continued good hunting.

wow Scott,what an article…dense reading but very interesting.

good work!

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...

On 3/6/2021 at 2:16 PM, oneguy said:

In my limited experience and areas, I find hydraulic areas have less trash than the river bottoms where the dredges operated....

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.

4 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

The Minelab cap I got on now my wife says I look like a cone head.

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) 

6 hours ago, Gold Hound said:

I just melt them all now, I just couln't be bothered trying to sell as is.

(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.

44 minutes ago, jasong said:

Only question I have left is are we going to have to just talk about the weather once the 6000 makes settings discussions redundant? 

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.

2 hours ago, Gold Hound said:

Perfecting your swing and undersanding its effect on targets and ground noise really is probably the most importaint part of becoming one with your detector.

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