Norvic

Photo of mine purchased many years back for about $600AU, it is a MF3000 240volt made in China. Goes very well although would like if it could get a wee hotter.

Actually it is Phoenixs solution, follow his instructions and you have what I believe is the toughest coil cover plus an added benefit of it, it helps stop the very slight distortion in the 19" coils shape that cause a false "bump" signal when you hit the edge on rocks, trees, Missus.......... whoops I never said that.

Have had a Armstrong 777 for a few years, way to go, but ensure you don`t put in a rich specimen with solid lumps in it, I had about a 6 gram jam mine up. Not difficult to remove but if your not in attendance when such happens probably would burn out electric motor. Happy with mine.

Save you the trouble old fella...... just send detecting coords to me, stranger with the hipstick on each hip and I`ll check them out for you.

Crikey, KL my mind boggles...........I can nearly picture a excavator rigged for fly fishing....the comfort of a heated cabin...way to go

Get into pick swinging mood Paul, have a thingo added to my bucket list, to get you onto some OZ weight this OZ winter,

Even more chasing for me, simply because there would not be the numbers out there, thus not getting the attention gold detecting has had. This I feel would have given us more country open to prospect. Greed has driven some pretty bad huuuuman behaviour this has led to areas we once were welcome to being closed.

With the Deus I have the RC wrist mounted on left wrist I find having it there I use the screen display on most signals. Recently purchased a CTX and its target trace screen gives more useful information, just a shame it cannot be placed on a wrist band as the Deus RC can. Hopefully ver4 has this feature, tis a powerful tool.

The zoom function on the XY screen is perhaps a powerful function added to the "hidden" XY screen plus if it also gives residual trace will enhance the capability to separate signals. Could be a top tool.

Many thanks JP, your post has answered the questions I was seeking to find answers to.

Crikey, gotta give it to Minelab, they have the media term "feeding the chooks" down to a fine art. Get us "cackling" amongst each other, "chaffing at the bit" in anticipation of release day. Have they cracked the mineralisation barriers holding VLF back? Just gotta find out...........back to the future maybe?

For me and this is my take for where I prospect, this is the detector I want currently. A Z with the weight of a Deus,(asking a lot I know) with a full function GPS that allows me to upload and download tracks and waypoints so as I can use the mapping software of my choice, and of course a smaller coil for such. In regards to VLF hunting gold in my country, they will get gold no doubt in fact I`ve got gold recently with the Deus. But that was for good fun not for production, production for me is defined simply by consistency ie. the best chance to get gold on each trip that at the very least averages out to pay trip expenses. To express this similarly to KL screwdriver-wrench....Horses for Courses.

Pubic Serpents that wont let me get the gold on pubic land................

Don`t think so, the GPS just gets info from the sats, doesn`t send info back. Tis a receiver only. No for me the block idea has a lot of merits it would have to be that every owner has to go along with it, password or whatever or it`d be useless and I guess that would be its biggest limiting factor, as I`m guilty as hell of leaving passwords at default.

No I think it is a bloody good idea, perhaps if JP reads this thread he might consider passing this by ML. If they cannot be unlocked except by the owner they have nix value to thieves.

That would be a good way forward, if I understand you right Nvhris, that would require a user password input each time machine is started,?????????????bit of a nuisance but a good option, would take them off the thieves market pronto you`d reckon.

Controversial subject, my vote is PIs kill VLFs gold hunting overall. VLFs may have a use gold hunting but is very limited, unless there is a major tech advance in VLFs ability to handle mineralisation. I used VLFs successfully before PIs, but now PIs have met their match with ZVT tech which is in its infancy. This is my take, the country I detect is only lightly mineralised.

Touch wood, my 2year old Z has not shown these symptoms as yet.

Yeah, XPs got us in tongues out.

Being a manual GB, single channel MD I agree Steve, for me I`m pretty excited about the QED but then that is so with all new toys I guess., just getting the Treasurer to see it that way is the catch. However if it is a goer one would wonder why the established brands haven`t done so long before.

Doubt it is a misunderstanding Steve, just seems some baggers are changing the detector Co they bag. But amongst all the "static", things are looking good for the QED, might be the lightweight producing PI we seek.

Dag Nabbit...JW pleeeeeze don`t encourage the lad, KL gets a video what ya call it, I`m trading be bloody Z for them funny sticks they chase white balls with. Even across the pond from us he`d be a menace on lens............... I have a suspicion the 19" is a superior coil to the 14", maybe windings aligned differently or something but we`ll know when ML makes us that smaller coil. Whatever tis a beauty.

Good one, finder certainly knows he`s not kidding himself.

I think KL you summed up my year too, except I don`t leave my Snicker bars laying around. Best for the new year

I made my interest known to Goldsearch within days of it appearing on their website. I have received no notification of one being available as yet, however I did not make payment as I am not one to pay for a unknown detector that is not available as yet, just asked to be notified when one is available. Starting to sound promising but of course no review, video etc is the same as putting a detector onto gold in ones own hands on familiar ground. The fact they are made in OZ, lightweight & relatively cheap and a home soil competitor for MLs products, I suspect they will sell like hot cakes here, a feeding frenzy for a bit.