Mach1Pilot
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Its been a rough couple of weeks. Cold, nasty weather combined with frozen or snow covered ground has been around for way too long. Waaaayyyy too long when I’ve been looking at a shiny new Minelab GPZ 7000 setting there, ready to find some relics. Just when you think the weather would break we would get another round of nasty cold that would keep the PA tundra, er.. I mean ground.. frozen solid to nearly a foot deep. Even my winter spots in Virginia were effected… snow depths not normally seen in Virginia kept me out of the camps for way too long.
Until yesterday! The cold started to break a bit last week, and a warm weekend started to thaw the ground and melt the snow down south. So off I went to the nasty red sticky muddy fields of Culpeper Virginia in search of Civil War relics.
Well folks, I can definitely say that the GPZ 7000 is significantly deeper on bullets than the GPX series detectors. In yesterday's less than full day of testing in the Culpeper, VA area we hit a few well pounded spots and scared out a few relics. My friend Jason was along with his GPX 5000 so we could compare signals, and the result was surprising. The whisper soft bullet tones on the GPX (with 15x12 DD coil) were strong signals on the GPZ. In comparison testing think we could easily say there is a 4-5" gain on bullets with the GPZ - maybe more! Unfortunately neither of us found any brass to speak of to see its response on buttons, but the lack of them under the coil isn't surprising considering the history of our finds at those spots in the past. Of course, the tough part is dealing with no discrimination and determining which signals are desirable and which ones should be ignored. That will definitely take some time but should be doable, especially by someone with extensive GPX experience.
At the end of the day, I didn't have a huge collection of relics, but for the few hours I was able to hunt the GPZ 7000 and GPX 5000 were running stride for stride on finds. That I think is success considering the need to learn to identify the signals without discrimination built into the detector.
The true test will be in less that two weeks at Diggin' In Virginia.... lets find us some huts and trash pits! Then after that... I just might have to find a gold field.
Until yesterday! The cold started to break a bit last week, and a warm weekend started to thaw the ground and melt the snow down south. So off I went to the nasty red sticky muddy fields of Culpeper Virginia in search of Civil War relics.
Well folks, I can definitely say that the GPZ 7000 is significantly deeper on bullets than the GPX series detectors. In yesterday's less than full day of testing in the Culpeper, VA area we hit a few well pounded spots and scared out a few relics. My friend Jason was along with his GPX 5000 so we could compare signals, and the result was surprising. The whisper soft bullet tones on the GPX (with 15x12 DD coil) were strong signals on the GPZ. In comparison testing think we could easily say there is a 4-5" gain on bullets with the GPZ - maybe more! Unfortunately neither of us found any brass to speak of to see its response on buttons, but the lack of them under the coil isn't surprising considering the history of our finds at those spots in the past. Of course, the tough part is dealing with no discrimination and determining which signals are desirable and which ones should be ignored. That will definitely take some time but should be doable, especially by someone with extensive GPX experience.
At the end of the day, I didn't have a huge collection of relics, but for the few hours I was able to hunt the GPZ 7000 and GPX 5000 were running stride for stride on finds. That I think is success considering the need to learn to identify the signals without discrimination built into the detector.
The true test will be in less that two weeks at Diggin' In Virginia.... lets find us some huts and trash pits! Then after that... I just might have to find a gold field.
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