anybody got one in NZ or is it overkill? maybe a smaller coil?
I’ve had a go swinging one all day… bloody heavy beast. I much prefer the GPX 6000 as much lighter to use so easier to swing all day.
I have no doubt that the opportunity is there for the GPZ 7000 to find nuggets deeper down. The further you get away from civilisation the more fun it’ll probably be as you won’t need to dig as much trash.
@kiwijw has one so can give you better advice as he uses one in anger pretty regularly.
Why in anger Gav? The GPZ 7000 has certainly found me gold at depth & some decent size bits. The 6000 has found me a lot of gold too but much smaller & not so deep. Well some bits I would call deepish for the small sizes of them. But only one piece just over 1 gram. That tells me the zed & the older model GPX’s did a good job on the bigger bits, whether shallow or deep. Coil selection helps there as well. The trouble these days is finding somewhere to go that hasn’t been thrashed. That is the hard part. Yes the Zed is heavy but with the harness & swing arm it takes the weight off your arm, elbow & shoulder. A lot of the problem is people swing it too fast from one side to the other. It is the transition more on your elbow as you change the swing direction. The swing arm helps with this, taking the direction change load off your elbow. Shouldn’t be swinging fast anyway. Low & slow is the secret sauce.
As to smaller coils. X coils have the smallest & most coils you can get for the Zed, but of course that caused a shit fight with Minelab. For those that aren’t aware of the X coils drama I direct you to google it to find out. I don’t want to go through all that yet again.
In the mean time while it snowed back home, I am sunning it in 28 degrees, sunny Rarotonga.
Beach detecting hasn’t been so flash. few coins & a couple of pretty munted sliver earrings. Nothing gold 
yet.
JW 
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haha…ok cheers for that
I had had one overseas metal detecting for for gold every night for 8months at a time and is a great machine, took a wee bit to get use to the weight (think it’s around 3.5kg) and the coils love to break, but great machines for NZ ground.
Maybe it’s an English thing 
“Anger” meaning “for real” in this case, rather than just playing 
Gosh. I have never broken a coil on my zed ever. Be it the Minelab coil or an X coil & my coils have done a lot of miles/K’s. Been through two skid plates on the ML coil. Maybe it is a sun thing in Aussie that degrades the plastic. Was it the lugs that broke or did the coil just crack in the body somewhere? My setup was 2nd hand when I got it & the original ML coil had already done a lot of miles in Aussie before I got it.
JW
Cheers Gav. Can’t say I have ever heard that interpretation of anger before. Anger to me is 
JW