Re: I would maybe believe 12 inches, BUT 20.... Sounds like a whopper to me!
May 28, 1998 at 23:03:00
In Reply to: Re: I would maybe believe 12 inches, BUT 20....
posted by ROB(AZ) on May 28, 1998 at 21:58:25
Robert,
I too, have used the SD2100 with some success, and I have a pretty good idea what its strengths and weaknesses are, just as you do. Unfortunately, people buy them based on false information, and are unhappy with the unit when it doesn't live up to the fairy tales, even though it's working properly. The SD2100 has 100 milli watts, like every other VLF on the market.
If the Goldbug was in good operating order, turned on (was it?) and operated by a competent prospector, you and I both know, that with the 8" coil, the 2100 has a slight edge in the 4"-8" range on 10 grain nuggets, under 4" a Goldbug will have the SD2100 for lunch. Both machines will hit 3/4 oz nuggets at 10". Been there, done that, wore out the T-shirt and a coil cover in the Nevada desert!
A friend did find a 22 oz at 26" +/- in Australia, but it was a very faint signal, that fact can be confirmed by Minelab in Tempe, they took several photos of it.
I think the whole story is a fiction of his imagination. Like I said, why tell a whopper when a fib will do. I would hate to think a wild tale like that might encourage someone to buy a machine they cannot afford, and never be happy with it. There is no "magic wand", only tales of them. The SD2100 is a good machine, in the right hands. But it will not find a 3/4 oz nugget at 20 inches, I doubt it cout do it in an air test with an 8" coil. "Wake up America," as Earl Pitts says. Here on Earth, where I nugget shoot, it ain't gonna' happen.
Viper
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