I have made up my mind. I will be buying a new GT. Winter is about here so I will wait a little while yet. I will be soon putting my XLT on the forum for sale. I want to thank all the good people here who helped me make up my mind. I have been taking a lot of note's on the different thing's the experienced people have posted and all the question's the newbies have asked also helped me. A lot is basic but being new to the GT it mean's something to me. I will also be buying a couple books on the GT. There has been so much good info here that sometimes I feel I have an inside edge already. A question though.. When I am ready to buy I would like to buy just the machine and a small coil. Possibly a sunray probe or 180 meter. I really don't want all that extra stuff you get from Kellyco. Do any of you have any input on that? I haven't talked to the dealer that I got my XLT from yet, they also sell Minelab's. Thank's again I'll be back. Good hunting.