AU_Solitude

When it comes to large scale manufacturing you are simply going to have some units that outperform others...its a simple numbers game. It isn't that the other units are necessarily performing poorly, rather, it is that there seem to be some rarely exceptional units in the mix.

I had one of the original F75's without the DST or updates and it was a performer, even in hot ground it was a little noisy but not intolerable, I kept it around though because of the depth and sensitivity to small gold. I have a friend that had an F-75 LTD DST that he hated and wasn't anywhere near as sensitive.

In all metal my old F75 would hit on a .3 Gram nugget at about four inches with the stock coil which is ridiculous - with the similar sized coil on my Teknetics G2 I literally had to be brushing this odd little nug against the coils surface to even obtain a response. I was a dummy and sold it for a good offer and now at times when using the G2 I find myself missing the old F75. 

It's not just one manufacturer either; you can single out any machine from any number of manufacturers and find the same thing. A similar example is the Garrett Infinium. One of the biggest problems for Garrett I believe is that they had some very poor units off the line mixed in with some other units that perform exceptionally. Obviously, these machines led to a barrage of negativity that still seem to be present in it's mention. Some people that think that the Infinium is a piece of Chinese garbage while others believe it is the greatest thing since sliced bread simply because they are obtaining different results, and granted sometimes, but not always is it the skill of the operator but the quality of the manufacturing or components themselves that lead to different results.

Wonderful! I would be happy with any of those.

Woody , a group of us went down a few years back, and my buddy Paul got a pretty one, couple pennyweights. He was using gpx,but it was on top. Was on the cover of mining journal (one of Dons trips). Im usually detecting for other stuff, but ground is very hot in those serpentine areas, and tons of tradh targets.

Thanks! I am sure I have the mining journal around here somewhere. The GB isn't fond of serpentine so I'll stick to panning down there.

Deathray, is it worth running a VLF down in Green Valley? I usually just pan and sluice and haven't really found anything remarkable in the way of size down there but was wondering if it was worth dragging my gold bug with next time. 

I love that area, I am up there about 2-3 times a month on the weekends. I was probably up there doing some self appointed trail maintenance off of iron point when you took on your rafting trip. 

It's sad to see how low and clogged with algae the river has become this year...Iv'e only been going up there religiously for the last five years or so but I haven't seen it half as bad as this before.