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And I often seem overly critical or argumentative and for that I apologize! No apologies needed jasong, your posts and contributions are greatly appreciated. I just thought it interesting our two different perceptions and as my wife is fond of saying - perception is reality.

 

You are spot on actually as if you look at the GPX 5000 you will see that people tended to settle into some mode somebody recommended and that was that. Fine Gold was a big offender in that regard. It is easy enough to do when you find something that seems to work. And if all a person does is hunt one particular area it can be the correct thing to do.

 

However, if a person moves around a lot it is imperative to learn what the settings do and adjust for different conditions. If one setting worked everywhere we would not need the controls, just a power switch. The settings on the detector are just like a manual shift car with a gas pedal. You need to learn when to be in second at half throttle, third at one third throttle, and in overdrive at full throttle. My GPZ settings are meaningless unless you know the exact context in which they are being used.

 

Yesterday I was in a fairly low mineral situation running in High Yield/Normal, Smoothing Off, and Gain 12. Unit was generally stable with a little ground feedback and as hot as a pistol on small stuff. I like the GPZ more and more the more I use it. My SDC is in danger of becoming an orphan.

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ah well.

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I'm becoming a bigger fan every day I use it, I had an awesome short day today, half ounce in 4 nuggets out of a very flogged patch including one where it looks like an 18 or 20" coil did a boot scrape and passed it by but it was a great crisp and fairly loud target to the Z and it ended up being a 3.3 grammer at about 14 or 15 inches.

 

I did some video testing on an undug target using different ground modes (and gold modes too) which some may find interesting to watch I'm hoping the wind doesn't drown out the sound though its crazy windy today, it turned out to be a 10 gram big slug of gold anyways. I'll post the video once I get it sewn together, I had to do it in 3 takes because I was just using my cell phone with no tripod so couldn't dig and film at the same time.

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