Re (Forget looking for gold with the 800 it's rubbish, been there tried that, you'll walk over more than you'll find.)
Agree,
But I would not find any Gold with my 7000, because I would walk away after digging up my 20 th piece of rubbish in a Trashie area in the goldfields, like a lot of others, leaving gold behind. Have used the 800 in said areas but unless your partner/detecting friends have similar, they just sit in their vehicle/s ( with their 4500's/2300) and watch you, so you cut short your outing with the 800..
Note: about 10 years ago, I came across friends that I had not seen for sometime, way out North East of Leonora in rough country/rough track in, stopped to ask them about detecting in this trashie area ( that I had stopped at years prior) they informed me that had found 32 ozs in the area.
From memory I think the struck gold early on, ( B4 their 20th piece of rubbish?) so they preserved with the rubbish using their gold detectors.