DrewM

Thanks for the great information folks, Glad I’ve finally found somewhere where there is a decent discussion about the 6000. I’m as green as they come to gold detecting. The 6k is my first detector so I don’t know any better or worse. I received mine in the second release end of May. My occupation involves near surface geophysics so I have a reasonable understanding of antennas/frequency and ground conditions. I have been really lucky with the 6k running the 11” mono, I’ve pulled out around 13 grams in the past couple of months, 8 grams of that on a patch I came across about 40m by 40m. You would suggest I run both the 14” and the 17” over this ground also? On sensitivity, I run in normal as high as I can without the audio wobbling too much (always with headphones), however I do swap over to difficult and auto modes to check if a target is noise or not. This seems to work for me and I have dug many duffers ie nothing there that ping in normal but not in difficult. Would you say this is good practice? What is the reality on auto and auto plus? I guess I need to hot swap between settings when I’m on a target and do a lot more testing. I feel sceptical about running in auto in fear of missing targets. Minelab do say the manual settings are more sensitive? Thanks again Drew