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Don't do it Gerry ... take it back ... it will come back to haunt you. Now no one is going to believe you, especially Paul. If you could get Paul a trip to Oz he would sing your praises forever.

I tried hard to make it 'over the top' as far as minutiae and nonsense ... I'm glad you saw the joke! The point is as long as you are swinging on a beach you have a chance. It might not be the best chance but 1000% better than not detecting at all. I have ways to increase my chances over just following a bicycle tire up and over a ridge.

I tried 'around' Atlantic City for about half a day the year of the eclipse. We tried some 'low spots' that were supposed to be open but we didn't get a sniff among the trash. It is an interesting area to say the least and there is a great little historical park there. I've got lots of pictures of it somewhere.

I do very little towel line detecting ... especially after the beach rakes have been over it. I wasn't that early.

It ain't gold! It is 5.8 g which is more than I thought it would weigh.

I went out today and followed footsteps and got two rings! One is a silver .925.

Go make your own!

'Theory?' haha It is just a bit of BS to lighten things up!

You can buy it this month at auction. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27190/lot/11/

Exactly. When I got mine back from a no threshold problem after 3 months it only said 'Replaced PCB Board.' I sold it before I used it. There was no attempt to make me a satisfied user. Those of us who are dissatisfied have remained so and are growing in number. When do they get around to Customer Service?

I got a chance to go out this morning and hit one of my favorite beaches. It was not long before I got a large 13.2 g tungsten carbide ring. That was a good sign. As it turned out it was a lot of walking before I got another ring. It was about an hour later. By this time I had tried my normal beach patterns of zigzag and gridding. Targets were few but I could see in the distance a bit of a slope to the beach. I was hopeful of some sloping targets. They were also out of pattern. It was then that I tried a new, more scientific pattern. It is one that you haven't heard described here very often or at all and just as soon as I tried it I found my second ring of the day. It is the heart ring that looks gold (#2 on the 800) but it is both too light and not marked. Anyway I continued the new pattern and approach to the beach. I got some quarters and then another ring (the little silver) and then the deep heart with .925 silver chain that says Italy. I went back down the pattern and it kept producing the fishing lure and a couple of other things. This is just the greatest way to detect a beach. Let me share with you what I did. While I was detecting someone came by on an electric bike. They left tire tracks. I used these tracks to tell me where the break in the sand was and that kept me on pattern. I first went in one direction along the bike tire tracks and then came back in the other direction. I was careful not to step on the tracks so that my markers would not be erased. At first the tracks were pretty good at the same distance from the water but the rider decided to go up over the slopes. That made me question this method but I kept going. I diligently swung on one side of the tire tracks and then the other. If I didn't get anything I would go back a full swing away from the other. When you get a chance to follow some tracks make sure you save one 'pass' for going directly over the tire tracks with your swing. That is where the good stuff is. What can be a better pattern on a beach than this? It is very scientific! Never trust your detecting to random, unscientific patterns again. Follow the bikes ... or tire tracks in the dry sand. That works too. 😇 Anyway ... here was the good stuff.

Could you point it downwards if you put it on the brim of a hat or on your head?

My 3+ year old son will talk to Google speakers and control his nursery rhyme songs on the Spotify account we have. When he gets board with that he goes to my Chromebook and switches albums. It is quite a tool.

Better than a weekend of doing your taxes! haha

Were these noises heard after auto tuning both of the machines? Could you pick out a manual channel where it was silent on the Nox or GPZ? I have a friend who insists the Nox will make any non-Minelab detector noisy. He won't detect with me on the beach or in the desert if I am using a Nox. He likes to use his GB Pro.

I guess there is some life in the old horse!

I think the dead horse is still going to be beat more! Hasn't it all been said? As JP said ... different detectors ... same words.

I was there once when it was like that and another time when it hit the ground and it was snow. You are in Ray Mills land now!

Cars in a city like Santa Monica get street crud and the blooming trees this time of year will match just about anything a desert has. This old 4Runner has been over the dirt roads of California, Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming but these trees and birds here give it a patina unlike those roads. The Jacaranda is a dirty tree.

Much of Minelab's production has been switched to Malaysia over the years. I went there in 1999. It is a country of two cultures really. It is a mostly Muslim country but it also has a large Chinese population. I don't know what areas the assembly of the detectors would be but Ramadan just ended. I don't know what the lack of chips and Covid have done to their supply chain but we can all assume it is not good. That explains some of the delay for those of you selling or buying the 6000 right now. I suspect there are thousands of the units in the distribution channel as we speak and no one has a way to get the shipping information from Malaysia. Air cargo has to be the way to go with this stuff. They will be here when they are here and not a moment before!

So, enough said already ... the 6000 is the latest and greatest. Get one if you can.

There was much 'speculation' that Minelab was not going to cannibalize its customers. It was stated that the new model was going to fit into a marketing niche that would preserve their 'line.' This type of thinking has been totally abandoned now. Sell your 7000. Sell your 2300. Why do you need a Gold Monster? (Have I missed any gold detectors?) haha (I did miss all of the GPXs that came before ... 5000 down the line. Sell them too!) You only need a 6000 and an 800. The 800 is the king of VLFs and it is not the most expensive either.

The X-coil issue has really become getting more out of what you've got. I don't have an X-coil for my 5000 but I'm told by users it makes their detector better. They get a boost in performance just as other aftermarket coils do for the 5000 and any detector that allows for aftermarket coils. Some of those coils are better than others. X-coils for a 7000 make it perform better. Some of that is just because of smaller, lighter coils which make the 7000 more ergonomic itself. This is a performance enhancement and when you add greater sensitivity it makes it worth the 'risk' to make an adapter. If you own a 7000 it will perform better with an X-coil without comparing it to any other detector. The 6000 is new technology. I would consider it just like a new computer or phone. New technology handles More information and handles it faster. New phones are 5k. New computers have to handle large amounts of HD video. Old computers and phones are sometimes unable to display or play. They don't have the new chips. Some people still have 'dumb' flip phones and they are just fine with them. They don't need a smart phone. Some people have smart phones and use them only for text and voice. Each of us uses our technology differently. Some people still have old PIs and they still find gold. They can't find some of the gold the newer technology finds but there are many reasons to keep what you have. Some are early adopters and others just find more places to use what they have. Don't try to fix something that is not broke is their philosophy. Long live innovation and get out there and find that gold and those meteorites before your prospecting lands are hit with mineral withdrawal!

Do you think there is a built up demand? Can't be more than a few dozen go out the door in the first week, right? 😁

Who thinks this is the 'last' gold detector that Minelab will ever make? haha Of course Norvic is right and you can't swing more than one detector at a time. Gerry ... Norvic FOUND enough to own all of his detectors. If this was a business then these would be his deductions because he would be in that group that makes more money from gold than it costs him. It is more than a 'hobby' for him. Look at his Troopy!