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I decided to take the mighty Zed into an old patch where I haven't been able to scare up even a crumb for the last few years. Some large deep nuggets were originally found there, so I thought I'd try it in the General gold mode and Normal ground type settings. With the sensitivity at 10 there were a few ground noises, but nothing too bad. The first pass through the patch yielded the same results as before...nothing. So then I went over the same ground again, but this time I shifted the Zed into hyperdrive by switching to the High Yield gold mode, and suddenly that elusive gold that I knew was there lit up like the Fourth of July! It was literally like a new patch with several nuggets within a ten foot stretch in one area, or two nuggets in one hole in another. Nothing real big was found, but everything was at depth. The one that really blew me away was a thin four-tenths of a gram nugget at a measured twelve inches that sounded great on top. Though the sensitivity had to be cut back to 8 because of ground noise, the amount of performance was staggering; a fat half ounce between 13 nuggets in just a couple hours, all on a patch that had no gold left...I'll definitely have to go back and grid the entire patch now!

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<SNIP> So then I went over the same ground again, but this time I shifted the Zed into hyperdrive by switching to the High Yield gold mode, and suddenly that elusive gold that I knew was there lit up like the Fourth of July! <SNIP>

 

Lunk Thanks for this good thread documenting your early results with the Zed.  Informative and inspirational!  The quote above, along with this super informative thread http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/826-minelab-video-gpz-7000-gold-mode/ give more evidence that High Yield is the go to Gold Mode in most instances.    I have found that to be true in my first few weeks experience with the Zed hunting in hard quartz which regionally or occasionally contains various hot rock.    I have yet to find a proven benefit for the general or extra deep gold modes in my application; and to be clear, I am still learning.

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I'd like to be able to hear targets like those.   :wacko:   :angry:

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Link, are you still using the audio settings you describe in the other thread?

Yes, the same audio settings work great with all combinations of gold modes and ground types.

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Another 10 grams of chunky golden Zedness today, again in a spot that was cleaned out by the GPX 5000...I am REALLY liking this ZVT!

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