Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 Forum

I'm new to the forum so please bare with me until I get my feet wet as they say. I just purchased a Gold Bug Pro and have read several post but they seem to leave out how gold responds. Can anyone tell me what 2-digit value will appear in the center of the display if I am lucky enough to cross over a gold nugget? I'm going to use my detector mostly for nugget hunting and would appreciate any pointers in this area.

I recommend reading the user's manual, and also the book "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector" (available as a .pdf file on the Fisher and Teknetics websites).

Searching for gold nuggets you'll normally be in "autotune" all metals mode and will hear and dig all metal targets. In all metals mode the big number in the middle of the screen represents the type of ground minerals present, not target ID.

In discrimination mode the number represents target ID. Gold nuggets in or on the ground may show up anywhere on the target ID numerical scale but will tend to fall mostly in the 30 to 60 range.

--Dave J.

The only gold I have found so far with the GB Pro was a 18K pendant that rang up a solid 70.
Others have posted some numbers for their finds, but I have not seen any postings for nuggets yet.

Good LUck and HH

Tony

Thanks Dave that helps a lot....

Yea Dsea52 if your after nuggets hunt in all metal mode. You can switch to dis and see what number it is. But i stay in am mode and dig everything.

all depends on the size of the nugget...

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I recommend reading the user's manual, and also the book "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector" (available as a .pdf file on the Fisher and Teknetics websites).

--Dave J.

Great read there!

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For anyone seriously involved in nugget shooting the booklet Dave mentioned "Gold Prospecting with a VLF
Metal Detector" is very worthwhile to to get a .pdf copy. While it was written with the original Gold Bug in
mind it is full of information that is still as prevalent today--- even more so... as it was back then.... JS

Gold can ID from under 40 ( the iron range on a GB P) to 90, depending on the size, shape and what its alloy percentage is, beleive it or not, electrum will ID lower than pure gold.

The book written by myself and Peter Hydelaar with the original Fisher 1980's-90's Gold Bug in mind was Advanced Nugget Hunting. It's on the Fisher website in .pdf format, maybe the Tek website too, I didn't check. Most of the information in that book is not specific to Fisher products and is just as valid today as when it was originally written. Particularly good chapter on hot rocks and dirt, nothing else in print to equal it even today.

The more recent book on the Fisher and Tek websites, not written with any specific machine in mind, is Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector. Much broader in scope than the book I co-authored 'way back when, and of course more up-to-date.

Nearly every day I see questions asked on this and other forums relating to beeping for gold, which are answered in Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector. Although available in paper print either free or for a price depending on the circumstances, it's a downloadable .pdf for anyone with Internet access. There are lots of good books out there on gold prospecting, and even good ones on beeping for gold, but this particular book is the best one for the newbie because that's the audience for whom it was written. It's all the stuff you wish was in a user's manual, but isn't. Some of that stuff even an experienced gold beeperist can learn from.

Anyone posting here with questions should first read this book. I don't earn $.05 every time someone clicks on the link, I don't even get a commission on book sales or metal detector sales, I work in the engineering dept. I'm hyping the book because I want our customers to be successful, which in the long run grows our business and helps provide me with job security. ......Okay, I admit to a smidgin of altruism, too.

I invite the moderator to make this post a sticky.

--Dave Johnson
Chief Designer, FTP-Fisher

Howdy everyone... Mr. Dave speaks truly.... The book is absolutely awesome. Over the years while it was still
in print I bought a few copies for my detecting buddies... I still have a "like new" copy... It is not for sale.

Hey... more to say... I'm struggling with getting a new hip and knee so I can get out and detect for placer again.
I now got the hip replacement on May 23 and hoping for the knee in a few months...Now I will add more,

Western & Eastern Treasures will have a short article in the August issue... It is about finding a 75 pound
chunk of float which led to the Epithermal precious metal camp of Ellendale... The photos are of poor quality
but it the article is a pretty good read...Next I will try to write another article regarding 5 of us finding 3.5 pounds
of epithermal placer within the Great Basin Provence. The deposit was associated with volcanics, shallow and
very high grade... the vein mass 60% gold in a ferruginous mass... Jim Straight

Jim --

Hope both your surgeries get you fixed up and back out gold findin' again!

Can you tell me what you mean by "chunk of float," and "Epithermal" placer? Never heard those terms/phrases as it relates to placer gold hunting/recovery...

Thanks!

Steve

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Minelab Explorer SE Pro, Fisher Gold Bug Pro (DP)
Garrett ProPointer
Lesche 38D "King of Spades"

Norman, OK

Glad to see you are writing again, Jim!

Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector is a very good read. Dave did good!

HH
Mike

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Fisher F5 - Whites DFX / Bigfoot combo - Minelab Explorer SE Pro - ETPro - Tesoro Compadre

Just got back from a few days in the creek and I followed your instructions as best as I could without drowning. I'm now thinking they should change the name of the Gold Bug Pro to Nail Bug Pro. I found so many nails I could build a house. I can say that it did not lie. If it said there was a nail there, there was a nail there. I did have a blast tho and am already looking forward to my next outing. Thanks for the comments (and tips) and keep them coming.

David

Thank you Mike. I fully agree about Dave... Best Jim Straight