Is my Whites GMT working properly?

[bward916]

Is my White's GMT working properly?

Can anyone help me figure out if this detector is working properly. I feel that it should give a better signal when gold is right in front of it.

 

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[woof!]

You've got a good machine that's working properly, but you're demoing it wrong and also your expectations are not informed by knowledge and experience. I recommend contacting someone in your local GPAA affiliated club who knows how to use a metal detector and have them give you a bit of instruction on it. The other thing I recommend is my book "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector", available as a free download on both the Fisher Research Lab and Teknetics websites but some dealers also carry paper copies for something like $6 or so.

Wishing you the best,

--Dave J.

 

[jmoller99]

The GMTs auto ground balance will balance out a non moving target (It, and most other VLF gold detectors, are motion detectors). I use one for gold hunting in Colorado - The GMT works quite welll, but you have to learn how to use it. I agree with Dave J (woof) - find someone who hunts for gold with a VLF detector (Gold Bug II, GMT, Tesoro Lobo ST, MXT, Gold Bug Pro, etc) and go out detecting with them. Gold hunting is the most difficult metal detecting that I have ever done (I started detecting in 1989). The GMT has done me well, but it took a long time to learn what it was trying to tell me.