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Paul, You are normally 'under the radar' so I'm sure you feel a bit uncomfortable right now. You deserve the recognition. Don't change now. Congratulations. Lu and Mitchel

WTG Paul.

Gambler, I found a nice nugget in Downieville this year. While we were there we were reading some of the stories. One story said that a woman was sweeping her kitchen floor and saw some gold. She dug it and found over 35 ounces! That was when gold was selling in Downieville for about $12 per ounce. Mitchel

Steve, I think you are right. Anyone with electronic 'scrap' should take it to an authorized recycling center and be paid by the pound for it. They handle all the knocking the fingers off and board scrap. They will even take all the old tubes with lead and other hazards. It doesn't just go to China any more. That is what I did with my computer scrap as a business for 10 years. Mitchel

Steve and Ray, You have gone and done it again. With your writing style and in-depth knowledge of many things electronic you make gold hunting sound easier with this new machine. You make me want one! A new machine is not a fix for me. (You still make me think it would make a difference.) haha I'm one of those people who is walking past gold. I need to take my 7000 (Your 98% of the time detector) to a place where I can find it and stop reading more of your reviews which make me want to get a new 'thing!' Ray is just like you. Buy this and you'll be in tall clover. Thank you both but stop tempting me. We have enough! (7000, 5000, 2300, 3030, SE Pro, E-Trac, GB Pro, White's 6000/DI Coinmaster) Mitchel

Will you always have one with you while out on a trip? Will it be one of your special use detectors to go with the 7000?

Nice Shooting!

Paul, I think a 7000 remote (without headphones of course) could be attached to a GoPro or other camera and look at a coil swinging and give all of us a much better idea of 'noisy' vs 'quiet' and fewer words would have to be stated. If a picture is worth a thousand words then what would the audio be worth? (An audio file would be worth a thousand nuggets!) We could have posts which say: Was or wasn't there a target in this swing? (The answer could be given in another thread of hot rock or nugget.) Mitchel

Can anyone make an audio file of any of this 'noise vs signal/target' info? What is the audio scent you are after?

Norvic, It's only numbers. BIG NUMBERS for you and your friends!!!!!! I go to places now where everyone is fighting the skunk. We can find more meteorites than gold. Mitchel

Paul, Get some sleep there big guy! Lucky had informed me of this 'off the ground' is better than scrubbing before. He was of the mind that you keep it about 1 inch but at least don't bounce it. I know some will say they are 'off the ground' when scrubbing because the coil cover is so high. Let's wait and see what JP says about that. Mitchel

I rejoined GPAA and last weekend Kevin was here in Gold Basin. I had not watched any of the episodes before I talked with him. I've known Kevin for just 3-4 years when he was at Minelab but at Bill Southern's outing Kevin really impressed me with his knowledge and helpfulness. All questions were sensibly answered from novice to expert. I asked him if this was his 'last' job and he said he has many, many Gold Trails to complete. You guys should hit him up for an episode at your location. It was later on Saturday night that I downloaded a player so that I could watch his first season shows on DVD and they are excellent. I learned a lot. He's not George Massie 'The Buzzard' but he is more involved in the industry than George ever was. Kevin is a great miner's asset right now so find a way to watch him. YouTube would be great. I've looked for it on my Time Warner on Demand and have not found it. Maybe it is on your network or on Direct TV? Mitchel

Norm, I want what you got! Mitchel (I want the ability to find gold where you are going ... the perseverance!)

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Our season is just getting started down here. Stay tuned and watch Lunk get the gold! Mitchel

When it says Nigeria I'm 'IN"! Never had an email from a deal that went wrong from that area.

On one of my first trips with the Zed I went out to the desert and got signals in dry ground over cactus roots. I was tempted to take the first one down but then it happened again and again. I left the cactus. Mitchel

Nice gold. Good luck and good hunting with the new one.

Lunk, I can see that you learned a lot from us. WTG. Thanks for the lessons. Mitchel

Peter, I just spent a couple of days with Lunk in Rye Patch. He set up my Zed with his settings and we found gold. Much of the gold left in the pushed and hammered places in Rye Patch are less that one gram and so were these. Lunk takes his time when he is on gold ... much more time than I took. He'll be spending his winter in Quartzsite, Arizona but will be answering questions here on the forums. He is a big help. Mitchel

Keep the new version. Use it. If you find that it is not responsive to your targets then return to old or get a ring.

I have had a coil cover make a difference at the beach. Some of the wet black sand and other salty pieces had to be cleaned out so often that now I hunt without a cover. I knew I was having a problem with trapped particles when the coins started sounding muffled. I don't like to ground it at the beach so I'm ok without a cover.

Steve said: I walked miles on steep hillsides all day before making that post and no support system works as well in steep terrain as in the flats. I say: The bungee that came with the 7000 has an adjustable clip so that when I use it with the hipstick in less than a second I can adjust it for up-slope or down=slope and avoid elbow pains. ​I use this same bungee on the beach where there are sometimes cuts that require me to shorten or lengthen the cord. It's the best I've found. One hand, two fingers and voila! Weightless

Is the ferrite ring going to make me miss meteorites?

I like the gold in their profile pictures.