I finally got a few hours free this morning to take the GPZ 7000 out for a swing. All I wanted to do was turn it on over ground and play with the controls. I got to do that and I am very satisfied with the way it handled. It is a bit on the heavy side, but I am also. Anyway, the unit is very easy to operate but I will have to play with it more before I really start hitting the patches. I only had an hour or so to play and it did not take too long to get familiar with the settings, so when I finished checking it out I detected for a few minutes.
I was at an area that has been gone over pretty hard by several good hunters and different detector's. I thought I would try the 7000 in the high yield/smaller gold since that seemed like it should accommodate the area I was at. I went over a spot slowly that I have been over many times and I got what I thought was a very loud and clear target response. I was wondering to myself how did this get missed in the past? Well, I got down on my knees and started to clear the vegetation away from the target site. As loud as the signal was I put the coil over the spot and it still screamed. The target was on a small side slope of fractured bedrock or it sounded like it was. I went down about six inches and the target was still there. I assumed that whatever it was had been caught up in the fracture and was maybe sideways. I had to knock down the wall a bit but the signal stayed the same. Almost ten inches down and the water was starting to fill up in the hole. After getting down another four or so inches and sucking the water out with my sponge cloth I finally spied what looked to be a sliver of gold on edge about a quarter of an inch long wedged between a bedrock fracture. The gold quickly disappeared as the water was again filling the hole faster. I scooped the water out and sponged the hole somewhat dry once more and was able to break the rock to get my little screamer out of its hiding place.
A target in wet ground like this is probably one of the harder scenarios you will have to deal with as far as detecting for gold, wet and mucky, but still satisfying. All told this little 4.2 grain piece of gold was very close to fourteen inches down in that hole. As I noted it was wedged in the bedrock on the bottom very tightly so it did not keep falling from above as is normally the case.
I am very satisfied with the response the unit gave for a target this size and down that deep. I have to play with the unit some more and hopefully the bigger nuggets will start to come out of their hiding places.
I was at an area that has been gone over pretty hard by several good hunters and different detector's. I thought I would try the 7000 in the high yield/smaller gold since that seemed like it should accommodate the area I was at. I went over a spot slowly that I have been over many times and I got what I thought was a very loud and clear target response. I was wondering to myself how did this get missed in the past? Well, I got down on my knees and started to clear the vegetation away from the target site. As loud as the signal was I put the coil over the spot and it still screamed. The target was on a small side slope of fractured bedrock or it sounded like it was. I went down about six inches and the target was still there. I assumed that whatever it was had been caught up in the fracture and was maybe sideways. I had to knock down the wall a bit but the signal stayed the same. Almost ten inches down and the water was starting to fill up in the hole. After getting down another four or so inches and sucking the water out with my sponge cloth I finally spied what looked to be a sliver of gold on edge about a quarter of an inch long wedged between a bedrock fracture. The gold quickly disappeared as the water was again filling the hole faster. I scooped the water out and sponged the hole somewhat dry once more and was able to break the rock to get my little screamer out of its hiding place.
A target in wet ground like this is probably one of the harder scenarios you will have to deal with as far as detecting for gold, wet and mucky, but still satisfying. All told this little 4.2 grain piece of gold was very close to fourteen inches down in that hole. As I noted it was wedged in the bedrock on the bottom very tightly so it did not keep falling from above as is normally the case.
I am very satisfied with the response the unit gave for a target this size and down that deep. I have to play with the unit some more and hopefully the bigger nuggets will start to come out of their hiding places.