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What a shame. It was FAR nicer in its natural form for sure. I would have been gutted. It would have been nicer wrapped in 22 carat gold wire. The silver tarnishing doesn't look right to me. G4G

Good for you Jason. Wish you all the best in your new endeavors. Thank you too for your insight on X coils. Very interesting. G4G

Wicked set up Vic.👍 G4G

Hi Gerry, Is that a 25" nugget finder coil on that set up? G4G

Yes I have all those & yes they were helpful. I also have Chris Gholson's Nugget Hunting Essentials series of DVD's. Worth there weight in gold. The pair of them helped each other out in starting these. G4G

What you say stands to reason. The mind is a powerful thing, even more so the subconscious. Do you think the same way for dowsing for water? I would think the ground would be harder to read than ground where gold is more likely to be. G4G

Mitchel is trying to get rid of the skin, not glue it back on. 😆 G4G

The moral of the story for you younger folk is to look after your feet, keep them covered when out detecting. Prevention is better than cure. Nothing quite like dry desert dust to suck moisture from your feet. I am in my 60's & have always kept my feet covered when out detecting & have no signs of cracking. A way would pick with uncovered feet has its own risks too, not to mention dislodged rolling rocks. G4G

So....... Who on here are definitely going to be getting a 6000 regardless? Who are undecided & will wait & see? Who most definitely wont be? G4G

unplug it.😂

Hello Jonathan, This is very interesting as I got the impression that you were dead set against the X coils. What misinformation, discussions & discord are you speaking of. Can you elaborate on the misinformation please & who & where did it come from? I guess there is always going to be a risk factor involved if one attempts to do the adapter themselves if doing that kind of work isn't their forte. I am picking there are quite a few very fine wires to deal with & not much room to play with in the soldering process. What generally happens to the detector if things go wrong & what would the cost of repair be to an already expensive detector. I recall a comment that I thought was from you, or maybe it was from somebody else, that said your adapters were made for you by Minelab. Guess you cant get a safer adapter made than from them. Nice gold finds too by the way. G4G

So the future of gold detecting technology is coming down to digging deeper for smaller gold at depth. G4G

Gosh.....I hadn't noticed. 😆 G4G

The Nox 800 always was/is very good bang for the $$. G4G

But you said you prepaid....🙄

You tried the nox 800? Would have to be better. Just ask Gerry. G4G

Oh???? What was the price?

And if they make a 10" &/or an 8" for the GPZ you would be in boots & all too. Right, who wouldn't be? I guess this is all getting off topic & time will tell when the 6000 has been waved about for a bit. But knowing Minelab it will be a winner & have an edge in certain situations. All their detectors do. G4G

I think what Gold Catcher was meaning was if in the scenario of what I spoke of above using the 14" ML coil on the GPZ, would a smaller coil of what you on the use GPZ still have got that piece of tiny gold that I used the GM to find in the end. Of courser we will never know that without a side by side on site at the time comparison. G4G

That was a real slap in the face & I wonder how many people actually forked out the big money & bought a GPZ on that statement from Minelab. G4G

And their track record speaks for itself. No doubt about it. If only they could make the gold grow bigger & not smaller. 😊 G4G

I have on many occasions got a very faint signal with my GPZ, I too am a dig it all guy, & when I have disturbed the ground matrix & the target it has disappeared. I knew what I heard but it was gone. No amount of fluffing about with the GPZ brought it back. Break out the Gold Monster & I have found it. Tiny bit of gold. My GPZ & GM go hand in hand. G4G

One thing I do know for sure is that there is no one detector that does it all nor one coil that does it all & having a bit of an arsenal is paramount. G4G

Minelab will be sticking with all things Minelab...including coils. No after market stuff.

I did read somewhere that Minelab stated that the GPZ was still their flagship detector. To me that meant that the GPX 6000 wasn't going to be as good as the GPZ 7000. The 'small' coil for the GPZ is 14" the small coil for the GPX 6000 is 11". Have I missed something here? G4G