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Not as over the top as I thought it would be, beeflute might get a good run at it.

The crap these guys are dealing with is a typical American business model, an old friend had a Harley Davidson dealership in Sydney, he looked depressed one day & said HD America had told him he would have to spend 2 hundred grand on merchandise, moving the store to bigger premises & submit a...

3 months stuff about sounds about right, was there any third degree about 'why' you wanted to go there?

That's it!

Metal Detecting For Arizona Gold on utube has a good coil depth comparison AND an interesting way to do it.

If it is on Aboriginal land that opens another can of worms in itself, permissions, why you want to be there and, do the owners of the land 'get a cut' lots of things to consider, no doubt a representative of theirs would want to be with you and greed figures high, lots to consider, I wish you...

Good advice from Grubstake & Hawkear, hearing the different tones targets put out is the voodoo to practice with a target garden using any metal you have, the headphones help on this, on youtube Keep Hammering Prospecting has a lot of great stuff on the GM 1000. Shotgun pellets & hot rocks are...

Exactly, I chased a target down 6" to find a .22 casing on the edge of the hole, the pin pointer was angled toward that side as I put it down the hole---pinpointers fault? Nope, operator error, like most detector problems.

Have to disagree with your assumption pinpointers are a gimmick & useless, they are very useful when coin & relic hunting, which is what they were designed for, not for picking up gold, all about coil size & frequency for small gold.

If your getting it for a good price it'll do the trick, I still have the ex-terra 70 & won't part with it they were pretty good in their day, as long as you understand what frequencies of the coils to use for what goodies your searching for you'll be good, if it hasn't got the manual I think...

You can pop the cover off & wash any sand out, the idea of taping was to stop mineralized dirt from getting in & giving false targets, not sure sand will do that.

I'll throw in my 2cents worth, I got my GM to specifically nose around creek beds with the small coil, I suggest you use the bigger coil as you cover more ground, you won't lose that much small gold, it will get a bit ho-hum using the small coil when after 1hr detecting & you have only gone 5...

No matter if you have a tent or swag, on the ground or on a cot, wack one of those silver sunscreens you put on the dashboard that's for a truck under your mattress & it reflects all the lost body heat back at ya, you can put it under your sleeping bag but sometimes they work too good depending...

Good points grubstake!

Just thought there would be more owners reporting on the good, the bad & the ugly of it seeing it's been out for a while now.

Any thoughts on the manticore are VERY noticeable by their absence, 1 post then nothing, would have thought there would be a bit more airplay with a new unit out & about or is it a dud for Australian conditions?

Just a play on words.

This might sound weird, but if you have a pin pointer you could hide it in a pocket & bring it out to check the boots on the shelf.

Ended up finding them at Bunnings in the webbing/rope section, 50mm, fits good, the original have a bigger clip system, this one fits & is cheap. Thanks for the ideas!

Good tip, I do all my coils with tape for exactly that