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Gold Stinger

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FirstCav1

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Had a guy offered my hunting buddy and I a gold machine. A Scorpion Gold Stinger.

Would this machine be good for general hunting? We do salt water beaches, tot lots, parks(all neutral ground) and are 2000KM from anything resembling gold except for jewelry. The price is right, I think. Thanks, FirstCav


Current machines we have
CZ-5
Ace250
Tejon
X-Terra-50
Compadre
F-5
Sov. GT
 
John-Edmonton on this forum has used the Scorpion (Garrett ) a lot this summer in general area detecting and made extremely well with it..
 
Garrett Gold Stinger Month Is Is Over.....Here's My Results After One Months Usage




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I have had the Scorpion for about a month and have used it to find flour gold in out North Saskatchewan River, and also at some of my favorite coin producing areas, both new and currently dropped coins. It also was used at a beach in the dry sand. I used it for 16 different hunts. I logged about 28 1/2 hours on it. The coil I used was the 5" x 10" stock coil. I went through one set of carbon batteries and had to recharge my rechargeable 9 volt batteries x 2 times.

Now it was designed to find tiny nuggets in mineralized soils, and I just don't have those nuggets in my location. However, I did want to see how it would work as a backup detector to find coins and jewellery. I was quite surprised. I opted to uses my GTI 2500 on some of my hunts, as I know that there are coins in some locations at 6-7 inches, and it gets better depth in motion discriminate for these coins. However, for the more shallower finds, the Scorpion passed with honors. :)

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The North Saskatchewan River has only flour gold (no nuggets) and no metal detector will pick up flour gold. So, I used the Scorpion to find the areas containing the black sand (iron oxides) as those usually carry the most % of flour gold. Here are my results "PROSPECTING."

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Here's my total the coins for the hunts. It is no slouch on the coin department either. The Scorpion is especially hot on nickels, the same conductivity as a lot of gold. If you hunt Canadian Coins, the added feature of this attraction to nickels, is that our Canadian Coinage (nickels dimes quarters) are now made of nickel plate over steel. The Scorpion reads the nickel plating.

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The Scorpion has no problems finding lots of older silver/copper coins either. You just have to hunt in true all metal mode and listen for those deeper whispers.

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Here are the 6 rings I found searching school yards and sports fields. If the rings are out there, the Scorpion will find them!


If you got a good deal..."GRAB IT!" It's one of the few metal detectors designed to find gold, yet has a discriminate mode to search for coins and jewelry. I bought 9 volt rechargeables for it and got about 12 hours per charge.
 
I love mine and it's a favorite for a lot of my hunts. It's kinda chattery, but you get used to it pretty fast. As John Edmonton stated, they love nickles and gold as well. I've only used the Disc mode, cuz it goes plenty deep enough for the spots I huntin that mode. The only minor drawback is if you set it down, it's kinda top-heavy and falls over a lot. If you can pick a used one up in the below $300 range, go for it. Nice beep-dig machine!!
 
Thanks for the comments. My hunting buddy is getting it tomorrow to complement his Tejon. We need another weapon in our arsenal.

First Cav
 
Not just a gold machine. The Scorpion is the most versatile machine that Garrett has. You can hunt for anything with it including gold. It's great on rings, especially gold ones. Grab it.

Bill
 
My hunting buddy prefers the higher frequency machines, while I like multi-frequency machines. Usually he walks behind me and gets all of the goodies I miss. The Scorpion should complement his Tejon or at least that's the plan. It Garrett would put a ground balance, true all metal mode, and two frequency's on the 250 we'd both be using the same machine. Now if only I could get him to pay for breakfast.....

FirstCav
 
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