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Interesting break down Deep Beeps, more found sniping than detecting, I'm in Tasmania, a great place to snipe a lousy place to detect. As successful as sniping has been for me, I do miss detecting on the mainland, the desert, the big skies, endless sunshine, the heat, the flies, the..............

Well I'm 68 years old, I've been around, I'm Australian, like it or not we do talk like that, at times. Such a time was the circumstances in that video. The excitement was infectious and real so I personally didn't mind it. For those that didn't I understand, they did get a bit carried away, but that's what people do when there's a camera involved. It's a nice find and I'm trying to relate it to my finds, not as good as that one but a 23 grammer found with my dad, not one woop or holler. Sniping with two young guys who had never found gold, a 30 gram day for basically their first trip, some quiet high fives at weigh in. But sniping is different the excitement is spread out over the entire day. A bit carried away yes, but it was a nice nugget so let them have their moment.

You raise a very good point despite the advances in technology, the fact that locations just keep throwing up gold, must mean that gold is 'missed' on a regular basis.

Sorry old and frail and failing eye sight, the end of my first post should be 12oz. in two weeks, not !2 oz. in two weeks, pedantic as well I guess.

Hey Smigo, just off topic for a minute, yes you are right Tasmania is a poor place to detect, see my post on Tasmania's Largest Nuggets, topic by geof_junk, thanks for that g_j. it's a great place to snipe, but it's true that as much fun as sniping is I do miss detecting. But as Steven Wright once quipped 'you can't have everything, where would you put it' ? Back on topic, sorry phrunt, what if the new lures caught more fish ?

Yes Dick Stouts cartoon is incisive, but part of the problem as I see it it that the manufactures are coming up with better metal detectors, this is forcing people into the left hand side line. My budget is limited so therefore are my options, after many years using a Garrett Groundhog [yes you read it right ] I decided to lash out and buy a X-terra 705, say no more. After moving to Tasmania from Western Australia my nugget hunting with a detector has been limited, Tasmania is not detector friendly. Last summer I stared sniping so was looking for a water proof detector so I bought an Equinox 800, I liked the X-terra but the nox blows it out of the water. To further illustrate my point, sorry I'll try not to labor it, I heard from my cousin in Western Australia recently, he had a dry blowing operation at Reedy and worked his lease professionally for many years, his wife myself and others hammered the area with detectors for 30 years. He has detected the lease using a new generation Minelab P.I. machine each time they came out, He has since retired but recently with his wife went back to his old lease armed with GPX 6000's, !2 oz. in two weeks !

It's true Tasmania is not very detector friendly, rainforest does make things difficult, but we have some pristine rainforest rivers that are ideal for sniping. My first season sniping last summer 72 gram between three of us in 3 weekends, not too shabby.

Thanks for that V.L. it does seem the sensitive nose on the Coiltek is an advantage, that design criteria now makes sense to me, useful information, your advice is appreciated.

Thanks phrunt, greetings to you from across the ditch, I think you articulated your point very well. From what you have said there is definitely a niche for the 10x5. I'm planning a trip to Tibooburra N.S.W. to escape the Tasmanian winter, next July. There's no shortage of rocky ground there and it's also known for its plentiful but small gold. Whilst Tibooburra has medium mineralization Tasmania has some heavily mineralized ground, can you comment on how the Coiltek handles mineralization?

I would like to hear peoples opinions of the Coiltek 10"x 5" for the nox 800, for gold nugget hunting. I have the Minelab 6" and the stock 11", does it as I suspect sit between the two or is it just as sensitive on small gold as the 6" but gives the advantage of more coverage ? If so then does anyone think it may make the 6" and 11" redundant, or is the 11" better for depth. I apologize in advance for asking ' how long is a piece of string ' but I'm curious to hear from users how they rate it for small [less than 0.1 gram ] gold. Thanks.