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Yes. Probably about taking legal action against their Ex employee engineer for some breach of breaking their gag order rules weather still employed or not. D4G

Awesome. Wish you luck. D4G

More finds in pellets. You seem to totally focus on small targets & not larger deeper gold. You reap what you seek. If you are going over old thrashed ground & not only by you but others before you then the bigger deeper gold is most likely not there any more. To have a show of finding deeper bigger gold you need to use bigger coils & gear suited to that. You need to seek fresher less flogged ground as well. Be a lot more adventurous. I note that you seem to keep going back to & over the same old areas. I am not picking on you & I appreciate all you do & show. It is just that I am in NZ as well & our conditions will be very similar so it is interesting following you. Good luck when you get out there. D4G

We know how good he has been at finding lots of shotgun pellets. So if going over the same old grounds I am interested to see how many more he missed & if he actually improves his gold count/pellet ratio. Nothing quite like going back over thrashed grounds to test a new toy. One thing I am pretty sure of is that there wont be any bigger gold coming out. Its gone. D4G

How hot is hot? I think our brothers across the ditch will laugh at you. D4G

Bottom line will be to see how you do & how it goes out in the field on actual gold finds when you go out tomorrow. I can't wait to hear. D4G

Not all gold tells the truth. Ain't that the truth. D4G

Geoff Junk was serious.... 😉 D4G

Could always make up & fit a skid plate. Personally I have never had or noticed any issues with using the 6" or coiltek 10x5 open web design. The 11" a little bit but it never did my head in.

There can also be very small gold on/near the surface as well. Many a piece I have found literally in the grass & caught up in the roots as I am sure you have as well. If you plan on going over old "proven" ground the slightly bigger deeper bits just may not be there any more. I wait with baited breath on your results. D4G

I have not seen so many excited kids in a candy shop since the announcement of the Equinox. The difference here though is that this detector was available straight off the bat before we knew anything about it. Unlike all the pre market build up of the nox hitting fever point. I can't wait for Phrunt to get his hands on his & give us his reviews. I am counting the shoot gun pellets already. 😂 D4G

MMMmmm.... maybe the "thugs" will return now. 😐 D4G

Yes, if all else fails, read the instructions. 😉 D4G

I too went through a few ML 11" commander coils. I really liked the mono but they did get noisy & very touch/bump sensitive. Was frustrating. I wondered if it was a combo of their shielding &/or the foam breaking down allowing the wires to loosen up. I often thought of injecting resin around the perimeter. Never did though but could be a fix. Add a bit of weight though. D4G

To me that is the bonus of headphones. It locks you in to what your detector is telling you with little to no outside noise influence. Like detecting in a strong wind or close to a busy road, or beside a running creek. Just focusing on the feedback from the detector & those extremely faint on the edge of detection hic-cups in the threshold. In NZ you don't have to worry about a bear or a bigfoot or anything else making a charge at you. What is it you would need to be hearing going on around you? A wild pig maybe but then you wouldn't really be detecting in that type of terrain & vegetation. D4G

Never say never..... D4G

Well said Gold Catcher. I too am a dig it all person with my gold detecting, & for the very reason Steve stated. While this can be very time consuming, & many times just for junk, I know all too well from experience what Steve said. I have dug many an ugly signal that had wire or trash written all over it only to my surprise it being gold. That is why I dig it all & just have to know what the signal was & the only way to be 100% sure is to dig the sod & have it in your hand. I don't even trust my ear. I have adopted the boot scrape or couple of light scrapes with the pick & if the signal has moved I put it down to a shallow or surface dwelling pellet & move on, but that is a judgment call on each occasion depending on a few factors . As has been said the mono coil will give that double blip too. My other form of reliable discrimination is the magnet on my pick. D4G

Yes agree. Unless cherry picking in a heavy iron infested location old habits die hard & digging all signals does/can pay off. The added bonus of removing iron junk is that next time you come by that location with a new tech detector/coil that junk isn't there any more. It is going to be very interesting watching how this detector plays out. It will also be very interesting to how much more it increases Phrunts shotgun pellet count. D4G

Bugger. 🙄 I was hoping it might be a magic wand. So still be digging all those bullets & other non ferrous items that litter the gold fields, as per normal. D4G

How beneficial is that going to be in determining gold from any other non ferrous target? D4G

What machines/coils are they using. D4G

🤣 😂 D4G

Minelab should have done the right thing in the first place instead of being totally money hungry & greedily mining the miners & crippling detectors & customers for want of a few more coil options. Thank god for X coils. Hopefully Minelab have finally shoot themselves in the foot with their chip BS, over priced products & total lack of customer communications involvement. I wish this new kid on the block all the success they deserve. They are real people who have listened to the customers wants & needs & are delivering. Customer communication isn't rocket science. Give them what they want & in a friendly manner & not over priced can only be a winner. The bottom line though is going to be how the detector really performs. Small gold won't tick the box for every one & hopefully the GPX 6000 has left some behind. The 6000 is a vacuum cleaner on small gold. D4G

The GP 3000 replaced the GP Extreme. D4G

The modded 5000 is a no brainer, I reckon, if you want to specialise in big deep gold. The proof is right there. Hands down the best hit rate. Many would have that 18" NF too. So put it to use. No real surprise that the 6000 struggled. Yes, X coil CC's on the 7000 would have to be his next demo. That would be very interesting. D4G