Great specimens! WTG.I've heard that the GMT is the better unit when compared to the Lobo or Gold Bug.The Gold Bug you have to keep adjusting.However,the Lobo is a mighty fine unit.
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Great specimens! WTG.I've heard that the GMT is the better unit when compared to the Lobo or Gold Bug.The Gold Bug you have to keep adjusting.However,the Lobo is a mighty fine unit.
Hey! The Gold Bug is a MIGHTY fine foil detector! rofl You do have a point....you have to adjust it a lot and figuring out HOW to adjust it was quite a challenge for us when we first got it as we had never had a detector before. No doubt it picks up the tiniest pieces of metal though....now to find a place where there is more gold than foil!
Digging trash is part of the game. The trick is to locate,dig and recover the target as quickly as possible. I use the Goldstalker Pick made by a local guy in Mariposa. You can get one from Doc's Detecting Supply or from Rob Allison(nuggethunting forum). I also use a plastic garden trowel, the fater one from Orchard Supply. Use the trowel to sweep the dirt over the coil to find your target. The GMT is my tool of choice but I also have a Minelab 2200 that I bought used. For all you people having trouble finding gold or just learning Larry Sallee has a book called Zip Zip and is like my Bible on gold hunting with a VLF and a really good read. I read it twice before I even set out and found gold my second time out on the third sweep of the coil. The book answers alot of what people ask here! I have hunted with several people using Gold Bugs they now all own GMT's. I love this hobby and I wish more people would post pictures of their finds so we all can enjoy. Hows that Chuck??
Cooter
Chris , You hit the nail on the head. As for the original Gold Bug it's a good machine for the kind of gold we have been finding ,can't tell you anything about the Gold Bug 2 haven't used one. After hunting with Chris I noticed he was digging gold while half the time I was digging trash,no iron I D on my Bug that's why I went to the GMT.
Also I think the GMT has a little more depth. The targets we get are surface to ten inches.Signal strength is light to screaming depending on gold content of the rock. Manny hot rocks in the area too but with auto track there no problem. Now go find some gold and post a few picks. Chuck
Big coil-no. I use the standard and the small nugget shooter. I think most of the time large iron gives overload, some small square nails sound like gold. Larger pieces do register correctly most of the time. The gold I find is always 25-75% if its lower its usually brass or copper(bullet casings, blasting caps, etc) pull tabs also come up below 25% Some deeper gold will cause the iron id to jump around but usually with a low starting point.
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