argyle Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 100 hours may be bs for you Argyle but I feel differently. I have had poor impressions of several machines initially that eventually turned out to be the reverse of what I thought given more time. I was not impressed at all with the GPZ on the first go but am becoming more so each time I use it. It certainly is not a machine for everyone though. We all need to use what works best for us individually. What is your favored machine these days? Yeah that's true I guess Steve. Especially when taken to different locations and ground types. Some give a poor 20 minutes first up, then you start rocking with it and then it turns to a 2 to 3 hour run that should lead down the path of full setting understanding and ground behavior, then on to a full day and signal response at depth becomes a flash of clarity. But geez mate, by the end of that second full day (even the hours in Leiu) you gotta be gelling with it. Apart from my major PI units, Funny enough my fav little unit at the moment is a VLF, the Fisher F19 (SDC being my fav specialist) The F19's aren't overly dosed with gain like a lot of the Euro units. But they'll hit through medium hot to dead quiet ground further with such a hit on small and vein gold specimems that I'm amazed at them. Once you're in sync with the how the gain and threshold correlate with each other (a first for me with this type of non-true threshold that acts as it's own boost on top of the gain) you can quickly manipulate these units for quick gold work. Ground Grab on them is so fast and superb, so quick that there was no need for engineers to place ground tracking on them. No good running them in positive balance though, they have to be run within that short range of the GGrab's setting. Then they glide. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argyle Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Plus they're camouflaged... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanursepaul Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Back to the movie........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 argyle, Is true that the GPZ 7000 will be followed by models with refinements that further enhance ZVT technology, we experienced that from the SD 2000 to the GPX 5000, also true that a lot of gold was found by the SD 2000. I suspect a Gold Hound video that hasn`t been made yet will show a lot of GPZ 7000 gold, although they may be doing that now, their young and weatherproof. Problem is it takes years of R & D to get there, meanwhile we keep aging and our feet can no longer do the yards so easily. Embrace the GPZ, learn how to use it, I reckon the Gold Hounds will, and I will if the feet let me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 Hello argyle, Interesting, your observation of the gain issues with the Euro detectors mirror mine. Not the camo though, I am waiting for black and gold F19 due out soon! Finally watched the video, good job overall, so added to my new GPZ 7000 Video Gallery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Every time I Google something about a metal detector it takes me right back to this site! strick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argyle Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 argyle,Is true that the GPZ 7000 will be followed by models with refinements that further enhance ZVT technology, we experienced that from the SD 2000 to the GPX 5000, also true that a lot of gold was found by the SD 2000. I suspect a Gold Hound video that hasn`t been made yet will show a lot of GPZ 7000 gold, although they may be doing that now, their young and weatherproof.Problem is it takes years of R & D to get there, meanwhile we keep aging and our feet can no longer do the yards so easily. Embrace the GPZ, learn how to use it, I reckon the Gold Hounds will, and I will if the feet let me. Yeah I reckon a lot of gold, and I mean a LOT of gold will be hit by the Zed's before Christmas Vic.... For sure. I think I've got around 15 years full on detecting fitness left in me Vic, save for injury. How long you got do you think? You know what I enjoyed best out that Video, apart from reinforcement of not running a 5000 too hot.... Two gold mates detecting out in the bush and loving every minute of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argyle Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Hello argyle, Interesting, your observation of the gain issues with the Euro detectors mirror mine. Not the camo though, I am waiting for black and gold F19 due out soon! Finally watched the video, good job overall, so added to my new GPZ 7000 Video Gallery You know Steve, if the silly buggers would just wake up and run a nice high controlled gain through a lower kHz and separate the Threshold off into it's own independent processing, and if they used the same ground balance (auto/track or manual that could be changed on the fly) that top units have hsd on them for 20 years, ...then the Euro maker's, two in particular ...Detech and Nokta, they would dominate sales across the world in both the gold and coin departments. But they seem hell bent on producing air testing wonders with only iron reject specialties for the Relic market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Argyle, I`ve got 13 years plus on you so hopefully I`ll invest in a GPZ 7100, but if you believe the GPZ 7000 has the go, which I have no doubt it has, why not go for it. I knocked them running the GPZ too "hot", but I would not do so with their use of the 5000, they have the runs on the board. I just know from my preliminary use of the GPZ, there is no need to "pump it up", well not for me anyway. But then I`m not young and impatient, I know I`ve had a magic run and are privileged, no need to rush into a gold rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Great honest video,I sure enjoy those guys and their vids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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