Question for 6000 owners.

[wiley coyote]

A while back I found a run of small specimens. Over 200 pieces. I found about 150 first with the 7000, then 50 with the 2300, and last, 10 with the 10" X coil. Do you think it would be worth buying a 6000, to regrid the patch? Or, couldn't the 6000 do any better against those units?

 

[mbasko]

A while back I found a run of small specimens. Over 200 pieces. I found about 150 first with the 7000, then 50 with the 2300, and last, 10 with the 10" X coil. Do you think it would be worth buying a 6000, to regrid the patch? Or, couldn't the 6000 do any better against those units?

You may possibly get a few more bits, but after having the 7000, then with the 10" xcoil + 2300 over it I wouldn't be confident of a great deal more.
The advantage of the GPX6000 may have been getting some of the smaller missed speccis at better depth than both the GPZ14 & 2300 but having run a 10" xcoil on the GPZ you've likely removed most of that advantage IMO.
Of course there is always the chance a different detector or detectors (GPX4500/5000 for example) might excite bits missed by the others too - personally I wouldn't buy one to test the theory but would try to borrow or hire.

 

[wiley coyote]

You may possibly get a few more bits, but after having the 7000, then with the 10" xcoil + 2300 over it I wouldn't be confident of a great deal more.
The advantage of the GPX6000 may have been getting some of the smaller missed speccis at better depth than both the GPZ14 & 2300 but having run a 10" xcoil on the GPZ you've likely removed most of that advantage IMO.
Of course there is always the chance a different detector or detectors (GPX4500/5000 for example) might excite bits missed by the others too - personally I wouldn't buy one to test the theory but would try to borrow or hire.

Thanks for that mbasko. I've already had my 4500, (modified) over the spot, with a big coil on it for deeper bits. Didn't find much with it. Nearly all the other bits were shallow. wiley