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Odd question and situation 
Despite owning a 6000 and a 7000, I have been playing around with the old 3000....Looking for something not quite as sensitive to small small small bits of loader bucket shard. Love those detectors but when scraping and detecting, I am forever stopping to pick up the most minute bits of shard
Went out today with an old NF 17x11 mono on the GP3000. Picked up a few hot rocks and some small metal bits.
However, when testing with a few nuggets, only got 3" or so on a round 3 grammer, about the same on a long 1 grammer and could only detect the 0.5g by rubbing the thing with the coil tip!
Having never used the coil, is that pretty standard sensitivity for this older coil or is the coil faulty?
Now, given that the 3000 will only get a run when we are scraping and detecting our leases, would the 3000 pair up well with a new Evo mono such as the 17x13?? or would I be better off with a large 22" DD or a larger round mono?? The plan is to use something that misses the tiny stuff but will detect the nuggets 1g and above at reasonable depths....
I'd use a 5000, but dont own one....yet
Despite owning a 6000 and a 7000, I have been playing around with the old 3000....Looking for something not quite as sensitive to small small small bits of loader bucket shard. Love those detectors but when scraping and detecting, I am forever stopping to pick up the most minute bits of shard
Went out today with an old NF 17x11 mono on the GP3000. Picked up a few hot rocks and some small metal bits.
However, when testing with a few nuggets, only got 3" or so on a round 3 grammer, about the same on a long 1 grammer and could only detect the 0.5g by rubbing the thing with the coil tip!
Having never used the coil, is that pretty standard sensitivity for this older coil or is the coil faulty?
Now, given that the 3000 will only get a run when we are scraping and detecting our leases, would the 3000 pair up well with a new Evo mono such as the 17x13?? or would I be better off with a large 22" DD or a larger round mono?? The plan is to use something that misses the tiny stuff but will detect the nuggets 1g and above at reasonable depths....
I'd use a 5000, but dont own one....yet
