phrunt Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 I don't often bother to enter competitions, and I recently entered a Coiltek one not because I was hoping or expecting to win, more so as I wanted to express my view on the Coiltek 10x5" GPX 6000 coil, I really like that coil and felt it deserved some praise and what better way to do it than by putting my view in their competition where many will read it. It's my first ever Coiltek competition entry, they hold regular competitions, I'm constantly seeing happy winners of their competitions. Either way, to my surprise I won and they sent me a nice Christmas gift package. This was from their newsletter. Detectorist Simon Muilwijk won a Coiltek merch pack for sharing this with us: “I've been very happy with the Coiltek 10x5" GPX 6000 coil, certainly the most sensitive coil available for the detector, runs nice and stable too,.” So, if anyone's thinking of entering one of their competitions, go for it, you may just win it. I didn't even hunt around for a gloat photo with a bigger bit of gold or anything to try and impress, I just put up my first gold find with it on the first day using it. And my gift package. Thanks @Coiltek, and most importantly, thanks for making the coils I want to use and having them available in a timely manner, keep it up! An even smaller coil for the 6000 in elliptical shape would be appreciated seeing the other one talked about may never exist, and replicating the Nox coils for the Manticore would be great, an even smaller elliptical for that would be perfect too, say a 6.5 x 3.5" solid coil for small gold sniping in creeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Rigged rigged😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 11 minutes ago, Norvic said: Rigged rigged😉 Truth teller! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phrunt Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 Certainly not rigged Norvic 🙂 Just good old-fashioned fluke! I think you should know by now if I'm not impressed with something I will say it loud and clear. I really like the 10x5" coil, they've done a good job on it and credit where credit is due. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Congrats on the win, and may the good luck help you to find more gold for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 1 hour ago, phrunt said: Certainly not rigged Norvic 🙂 Just good old-fashioned fluke! You are a good writer. You could win lots of those contests. They need to send you some coils to test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 Many years ago when Nugget finder first looked for a name for the Sadie they ran a completion for it's name. I won a Sadie for my entry but did not used the Sadie name, and lost the coil to Carol as she would not let me take it of her detector. 😒 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phrunt Posted December 20, 2023 Author Share Posted December 20, 2023 18 minutes ago, geof_junk said: Many years ago when Nugget finder first looked for a name for the Sadie they ran a completion for it's name. I won a Sadie for my entry but did not used the Sadie name, and lost the coil to Carol as she would not let me take it of her detector. 😒 Was that about the time John Farnham was singing Sadie the Cleaning lady? Pretty good fit for a clean-up coil 😉 23 minutes ago, mn90403 said: You are a good writer. You could win lots of those contests. They need to send you some coils to test. Thanks, I'm not all that interested in competitions, rarely ever enter any, in fact I've entered two in the past five or so years that I can remember and won both which is a bit odd. One was the Minelab find of the Month, then there was this Coiltek one, maybe I should enter more 😛 When I think of competitions I think of @davsgold, his wife is a machine, she wins everything she enters! She's got something going on. I'm not qualified to be a tester, I'd rather testers have extreme experience and be very good at what they do to provide a better product which is why I think some testers are a bit questionable, I don't find enough gold to be a gold product tester, although perhaps thats to my advantage, the harder it is to find in your area the better you can get at finding it as long as you keep trying. I'm probably pretty useless at finding silver coins, but I've found more in a couple of years than most people have probably found in decades. Luck of location more than skill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davsgold Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 2 hours ago, phrunt said: When I think of competitions I think of @davsgold, his wife is a machine, she wins everything she enters! She's got something going on. Haha, yes she has been lucky entering competitions and still wins stuff, but my answer is, well someone has to win it may as well be her 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLundy Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 WTG! Loaded up on the loot. Your right that 10x5 is a fantastic gold getter, it’s stuck on my 6000. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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