Ded Driver said:
thing is Candigger, these coils are unproven on gold in Australian conditions
I guess that's what could be the deal breaker on this coil, along with its price tag.
As I think I've mentioned before in an earlier post, as an owner of a GPX 5000 I could sell it, take the roughly $4000 I could get for it, add my coils etc and add a few hundred more to the pile, then put all that money together with the $3,900 that this coil costs, and I could go and buy myself a good second hand GPZ 7000.
If you're then saying that this will make a GPX better than a GPZ, well that's where I think someone needs to put their development money towards a big mofo gold nugget and prove it. Whether you beg, buy, borrow, or find one yourself, it's a claim/ inference that needs to be backed up.
I think what the killer is here, as someone else mentioned in an earlier post is Price Point. If you were pitching a $4,000 coil to someone with a $1,000 detector, and it was proven that they could bolt it on and it could equal a 7000 on Australian Goldfields then I'd say you were on a winner. But essentially you are asking owners of machines that along with the price of the coil, are worth a good second hand 7000 still with a warranty. It doesn't make sense.
When you say
"How about a big, I mean really big chunk of Australian gold at that depth?" well, I guess that's what it's going to take if you want people to have confidence in your product nowadays. I own a large Detech SEF coil, that I have seen Stinky Pete test over REAL gold nuggets at depth, as well as find nuggets in the ground with it. I own a 20" NF advantage, and I've seen JP pull large nuggets out of the ground using a large NF advantage coil. I'm looking to buy a 15" NF Evo, and once again i've seen Nenad pinging little nugs in tailings in Avoca on YouTube with a 12" Evo.
But really, with this Nexus 30" coil all I've seen so far is some guy I've never heard of trying to impress me with the depth of a soft drink can. Sorry, but for me it doesn't cut it, as I'm already an expert at finding deep trash with the coils that I already own and I'm sure as hell not interested in paying $4,000 to dig even deeper holes for junk.
I often see posts on foreign websites by well known European detectorists looking for deep gold Roman coins/artifacts etc., on flat green pastures. I'm sure you could swing such a big coil over such clear benign ground with success, but I'd just like to see it used by someone experienced with the many different vagaries of Australia's many different gold bearing areas. And yes, I expect to see them pull some serious gold out of the ground with it from somewhere, or at the very least conduct some meaningful tests.
As for your personal comments on Reg in the now locked thread, he appears to me to be a character who calls a spade a spade, and colorful language is generally not something we condemn someone for here in Oz, and I'm yet to see any "foul-mouthed" comments from him by the way. Personalities aside, the man has found more gold on Australian Goldfields than most of us on here ever will in our lives. You won't win converts by going into the Dojo and denigrating the Sensei.
