kingswood

took me 6 months of detecting once a weekend before I finally scored a small 0.2g! My problem for the first 6 months was that I was using a PI mine detector with silent threshold....literally only dug loud signals. Finally scored a bit the first time out with the 2300....sucked and licked that bit about 40 times while staring at it to make sure it was actually gold 🙂 Looking back, I think I walked over gold with the mine detector......I just didnt know at the time that I should have investigated the small squeaks and farts....

0.343g. Happy New Year 🙂

Not to mention telescopic rods and sliding arm rests 🙂

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Much appreciated. Very useful chart!

I'd call that a windcheater 🙂

Yep my biggest fear and the reason I dont ever use headphones. Was detecting in a quite remote area on my own one day and heard a bark...then another bark, then a growl....Needless to say I hurried back to the car. The 7000 would have turned into an expensive club that day if it was needed. If i am going to be attacked by dogs, I would rather stand a chance of hearing them first. I even start heading back to the car if I see a reasonable fresh dog poo!! I am not really a fan of killing animals, however with the sheep and cattle losses here to wild dog packs, I understand it.

Even big finds in well worked areas. Amazes me that you can still find the odd sunbaker in areas that have been "well" detected. Just goes to show you that no one gets its all. Should have zigged, but you zagged and missed a sunbaker by that much....

Even more so in areas you already have gotten gold out of 🙂 This is where I think the 6000 shines....So I pinged a small small bit....it makes you slow down. Slowed down, dug each signal, ended up with a few more...slowed down again, found 3g sunbaker :).... Then back to chain area....28 bits and counting, still havent finished chaining with the 6000....every time I move further up, I get more bits....And then i have to put the 19" GPZ coil over the ground that looks deeper!! I always like to break the monotony of chaining by just having a wander around before I go home....bam!...large speccie 230 metres away.... If I had not found the first tiny bit, I would not have gone back to the area again and again 🙂

Great finds NorthEast! Well done! Got to love bonus hot rock gold 🙂 have you noticed any particular warbles?? Every target has sounded the same to me, except thin wire... With the 7, there was a kinda "gold warble"...the 6000 so far (to me) sounds pretty much the same on everything, just volume is different. dig everything I guess, like i generally do anyway. The specimen is a case in point...loud initial signal, 2 boot scrapes and it was overloading....almost was thinking big steel bolt.

well. its dried 🙂 I am over the moon. Love the 6000. 49.63g of the good stuff! 230 metres or so from a small patch i have been working. This machine is amazing. I am in love 🙂

crushed and panned 🙂 Currently sitting outside drying in the sun before weigh in. I reckon about 25g. Now...Just on the 6000, I cant say i am noticing any double blips on gold...or hi/low...so far literally everything has just sounded loud!...Even those small lead shot...The only thing that has sounded a bit different is very small squiggly bits of wire...They sound hollow'ish like gold on the 7000... maybe I need hearing aides...

Well the 6000 in auto bangs hard on ironstone speccies 🙂 This one today about 300-350mm down. Loud!! I tried Sg test which I suck at so I discovered 😉 Will dolly and pan tomorrow....gold on all sides so may be decent...I hope!

Yeah I agree....I dont think i would get as low as 1 either.... Its been my experience so far, even with pretty bad EMI, that just dropping it a bit has helped with the mono. That been said, the auto settings are great! Sometimes a tad noisy, but regular noise cancels do work.

I think thats what the manual implies. They say "Generally, a Double‐D coil should only be used if noise cannot be managed by using a Mono coil with the Noise Cancel Procedure" and it (DD) should be used in areas of known high EMI or conductive ground" They way I read it, is that the mono should always be the first choice. Try auto, if quiet, try auto+, which they add has extra depth in low noise conditions. The manual goes on to say that manual sensitivity can be reduced either to control EMI or ground noise. So yes, I would drop sensitivity in mono first before putting on the DD if I can 🙂