You need a fully charged battery.

I don't know how samll the specimens were. The Gold Bug 2 is a killer on really small gold.

There is a learning curve with the SD2200d. Keeping your coil on the ground. Knowing where to spend your time looking.

Knowing how to quickly ID a hot rock vs a legitimate target.

This comes with time Billy, it doesn't happen over night.

And you are right a bungee is an absolute necessity! I started swinging my coil at 5:30 am this morning using the COILTEK 14 inch mono.

I found a 1.2 gram in about 10 minutes 20 yards from my car. That wasn't very impressive, it was only at about 2 inches. I actually kicked it loose when I was kicking the rocks out of the way.

At 3:00 pm when I was just about ready to call it quits, I got this really loud target. I figured it had to be a lead bullet.

After 6 inches I figured that was probably not the case. At 10 inches I finally had the target out of the hole. It was a small rock!!?? I thought maybe it was a small meteorite. But when I rubbed the durt off the first thing I saw was quartz, the second thing I saw was the gold. It was a 2.5 gram specimen.

I was impressed. If I thought it had been a legitimate target I would have gone back to the car and got the Minelab 11 inch before digging it. But it just sounded too loud for a nugget.

Oh by the way. I have bought bulk bungee cord, like a spool of 500 yards or some ridiculous amount. And the plastic snaps to finish the ends, so now you can make your bungees just the perfect length for what ever coil you are using.

You all be careful out there!

Doc

• Re: Minelab SabraJim 11:19:02 7/03/99 (0)