Weekend Trip with the GPZ 7000 on old Patches


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Hello All,

It's getting late and I have a bunch to do before hitting the sack tonight, but spend this weekend pounding away at some old patches with the GPZ 7000's. A good friend and customer came down from Tucson and we roamed around 3-4 patches over the weekend and scored 27 nuggets, 23 of them are mine and 4 when I left were a friends. I'm hoping my friend scored some more from the patch later in the evening when I left. The GPZ 7000 is an amazing detector, learned more about it this weekend and what settings I really like! :o

My total for the 23 nuggets on the left side of the GPZ coil is 5.2 Dwts (a bit over 1/4 ounce). Biggest nugget was a bit over 1/2 Dwt. I was hoping for a bigger one, but it just wasn't there this time.

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You can add another small one to the right side :)

The depth I've been getting out of my GPZ is excellent.

I just started barely using it but after the second day I feel very comfortable with it. I've been using an SDC for the last few months and the holes I've been digging for small targets with the GPZ are A LOT deeper. I'm talking a speck of rusted iron at a foot and a half. I'm still learning it tho. I have to keep reminding myself that real targets like nuggets will SCREAM on that machine, even tiny ones, and that little moans and groans the machine makes as I'm swinging along are just ground noise.

Huge difference from the SDC. I got really in-tune with the threshold on that machine and to my ears it would basically run silent until it hit a metal target.

The GPZ is a lot more sensitive and powerful so it's picking up mineralization, hot rocks etc. deep in the ground and you've got to use it for a little while to get an understanding of all those noises.

I have to say one of my favorite features is the wireless unit for it. It's great not being attached to your detector. You can set it down anywhere you like on the ground and start digging without having to worry about the cord.

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It's interesting too as I'm looking over some of the nuggets I've found with the GPZ and SDC. Overall it'd appear the GPZ found slightly larger nuggets for me this weekend, while the SDC has found some very small specks in the last few months.

I think a lot of that has to do with pinpointing. The small 8" coil on the SDC is a heck of a lot easier to pinpoint with than the large 14" coil on the Z. There were a few targets I dug over the weekend with the Z that after pushing them around in the dirt for 10 minutes I wasn't able to pinpoint. These might have been tiny SDC sized nuggets that I just gave up on and moved on.

So in my case, at the moment, I can say the SDC has found smaller gold than my GPZ.

Probably the best prospecting combo for the most gold might be to swing a GPZ and have an SDC strapped to your back for pinpointing :)

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