Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 Forum

I wanted to share some of my Gold Bug II hunting techniques while hunting chipped lots. I know the gold is small but that what's lost the most and it adds up quickly. Well as luck would have it Murphy's Law hit me. I hunted 3 parks and at the last park my camera was set to capture photos instead of videos causing me to miss capturing the 10k gold ring and 925 silver earring detection. Oh well I'll try capturing a gold target on video next weekend. I hunted 2 chipped lots and one sand lot, the sand lot was clean as a whistle

The ring is either a toe ring or a baby ring. I'm going fast in the video which is typical of how I hunt chipped lots but I normally grid the areas under the play apparatus more carefully. I'm checking almost every target using the iron ID mode before I dig

Excellent demonstration video. Thanks for sharing. And nice finds!

Wish you had the video hitting the ring. Would have liked to hear what that sounded like. Interesting use of the GBII. You must have a lot of hours on that baby to know what it's telling you with all that small junk in those tot lots !

sensitivity were you using? If I get that close to those metal posts with my G2 it will go crazy unless I cut the sens way down. What coil were you using? Thanks for the video. John

Thanks kai_gold and good luck.

Hi therover. It took me 7 months to learn what the GB II was saying, that was every weekend at least 8 hours a day. High quality headphones will immensely help differentiating tones and sounds.

Hi John(Tx). I'm using the 10 1/2" coil or whatever coil is closest to that size. I always hunt with the sensitivity set at its highest (10) unless the machine won't balance; I hunt with the volume at 10 too, I have the volume on my headphone all the way up, I turn the threshold up until I can just hear it clearly, then I turn the volume down on my headphones to a comfortable level. I can almost sense when the coil will pick up a pole or large metal object, and sometimes a target may be heard over or with a pole or large metal object. I'll capture a gold target on video next weekend, well we'll see...

Tony

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Hey Ant, I hit a tot lot this morning before work with the Gold Bug 2. This particular playground is one that I usually hit every couple of weeks and have hit multiple times with a variety of detectors. It has a larger play structure and a smaller kid structure. I found a broken section of a 14k gold chain that weighs 2 grams. I could not find the other piece. It was two inches under the wood chips directly under the smaller play structure.

About 25% of the trash was dug at the beginning as I was evaluating the sounds then digging to see if my interpretation was correct or not. I then started selectively digging based on your techniques and even got a little aggressive with the wood chips. After finding some recent drops as well as a couple of older drops right next to the poles, I hit gold. It was a semi good sound, a little better sounding than the small foil. Overall, I don't think I dug much trash than I normally do.

Thanks for your tips, video and answering my many questions on the Gold Bug 2. Here is a pic of my finds for about an hour of detecting.

Nice hunt. Gold always pushes the trash to treasure ratio in favor of treasure !

hello all Im new to this site and detecting , been doing it on acasion for the last year or soMy wife baught me the gold bug 2 for our anniversary and once this rainy weather lets up I'm going to go hit up the school next door and hope to find some cool treasures, I havnt used any other detectors but i am pleased with this gb II although I find mostly trash I did find a small toe gold ring that has an opal , and then about .75 thats cents in change thats it ....

Congrats on the gold ring! The GB2 is very sensitive and there is a lot of trash out there, but the effort landed you some gold. That's always exciting. Keep it up and let us know what you find.

WoW congrats kia_gold it looks like you are figerign it out or should I say figered it out. I did not hit the chiups this past weekend because my head phones played out,. I hafe to send them in for repair or do it myself but in the mean time I'm going to purchase anothe pair. I can't seperate the sounds with low end head phones.

Thanks for the report.

Hi jotram, I purchased my Gold Bug 2 as a tool for my dry washing operation. But I soon found out that it involved much labor to dry wash every weekend, especially when it turns out that I was making under minimum wage with the gold I would find.

keep at it and good luck.

Thanks Ant. I am figuring it out thanks to your tips. They are speeding up the learning process.

Is that a whites?

Ant.
thanks for the video as it was very helpful. I bought the Gold bug 2 to work the claims out here in Arizona for Nuggets but i have so many tot lots right here where i live that you just gave me a whole second option for when i can't get out in the desert..... I'm fairly new to the Gold bug 2 but watching your video and listening to the different sounds in the tot lots was a tremendous help.
Thanks a bunch.
Joe

Question: What head cam where you using as i liked the quality of the video?_____

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New River, AZ

Fisher Gold Bug 2