My Go-Find 60 came in yesterday and I was able to get it out to a local park for about an hour. I like it. It folds up really small which serves the purpose for which I ordered it. I'm 6 foot and it extends long enough that it was comfortable in my arm. It has a back light that you can turn on and off. It has 4 discrimination levels that you can turn on or off (iron, nickel, zinc, dime/quarter, but I think they named them differently). It has volume control and sensitivity control.
So, I get to the park without messing with the controls. I quickly figure out how to turn off iron. I walk just a few feet from the parking lot towards a tot lot, get a hit, drop to my knees to dig it when I here 2 boys 6-8 years old. They come running over and one of them steps right on the shaft of my brand new detector. I'm upset, but keep it together and explain to him that he has to be careful. I leave the hit and head in another direction trying to lose the boys. I pick up a couple of quarters and pop tops with the boys right on top of me and the one that stepped on my detector keeping his head in the hole to the point I can't see. I get another quarter hit, start to dig, he gets over the hole again and I ask him to give me a little room. He backs up and steps on the coil of my brand new detector! I get up and walk all the way across the parking lot to the other side of the park where there is little to no grass just to get away from this young wrecking crew.
Once I get away from the boys and can clear my head, I notice that I never increased the sensitivity. So, I do that. Then I start getting targets that my pinpointer cannot pickup from the surface, I have to dig some before the pinpointer sees them. A couple of my targets ended up being 5". My final take was only 3 quarters and 3 pennies, but I was just there to test the detector and was happy with the results. It got dark on me and the backlight was fantastic.
Now a couple of things I didn't like. The rectangle coil makes it hard to pinpoint with the detector. You have to do a circle around the object if it's not an inch or 2 from the surface to pinppoint it. The earbuds were kind of annoying as the wire either would get caught on my leche or my pinpointer or on the detector itself.
Overall, it fits the purpose that I bought it for: small enough to fit in the trunk of my 2 seat convertible. It appears to hit targets at least 6" deep. The discrimination was good. It's long enough and light weight. I will never take it on a planned hunt, other than tonight when I give it one more test run, but will be happy to have it when I get the opportunity to swing without being able to run home and get one of my other detectors! Thanks for reading. I will update this post when/if the GF60 comes in handy!
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