gold hound
Jr. Member
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2014
- Messages
- 71
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- Location
- Kansas City
- Detector(s) used
- Garrett atx, bgt 24" sniper,jobe45, cascade mini high banker, gold buddy vibra-lite colt drywasher, homemade gold vac, keene 140 drywasher
- Primary Interest:
- Prospecting
I have a Garrett, (I believe scorpion) that looks like a Fischer gold bug but can almost guarantee it doesn't function like 1!!! Not a knock on Garrett! Read a review and they said it looked like a gold bug. Knew gold bug has its followers as a VLF had good reviews for prospecting finding smaller gold, so I bought Garrett unit.
During field tests in hot zones with hot rocks everywhere it was completely useless. Could not get ground balance to work and cancel. Could have just been a bad unit, but probably more suited for finding bullet casings, license plates, and soda cans. So, for $1000 or less which detector would u buy strictly for prospecting? Keeping in mind some of these hills I'll be prospecting might as well be iron dumps. Thanks for any input!!! & again I'm not bad mouthing Garrett or its products! Gold bug may have same issues for the spot I was trying to work... I'll admit I'm a noob detector operator
During field tests in hot zones with hot rocks everywhere it was completely useless. Could not get ground balance to work and cancel. Could have just been a bad unit, but probably more suited for finding bullet casings, license plates, and soda cans. So, for $1000 or less which detector would u buy strictly for prospecting? Keeping in mind some of these hills I'll be prospecting might as well be iron dumps. Thanks for any input!!! & again I'm not bad mouthing Garrett or its products! Gold bug may have same issues for the spot I was trying to work... I'll admit I'm a noob detector operator
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