Scorpion Nugget hunting and Auto ground balance setting help please

[Azflyer]

Three questions for the Scorpion pros.

1. In auto mode does the ground balance knob have any effect and if so which direction increases sensitivity?

2. For gold nugget hunting in manual mode does the discrimination knob have an effect or is it just for auto mode?

3. In TR disc mode can one search for placer gold or black sand?

Obvious I need help. Went prospecting using the Scorpion for the first time Saturday and only found a few bullets and the upper receiver and bolt of a rifle but no gold.

Thanks,

Ace

 

[bearkat4160]

The auto mode is for audio only (threshold stability). All metal mode only. Keeps audio closest to your threshold setting.

Manual mode is also for the threshold to set manually..all metal mode also....I wouldnt use this if I were you. Very noisy, and not needed.

TR is for checking hot rocks. Threshold will go negitive when you hit one after getting a target in all metal.

Discrimination knob only works in discrimination mode.

If you have the Instructional video..watch it...it is very helpful. If you dont have it, you can see it one youtube.

Good huntin,
Alan

 

[metalhead]

I'm no pro, but I've had my Scorpion since it came out. Mine is the old 16 turn Ground Balance.
Bearkat answered your questions great I just wanted to add my $.02

You mention not finding any gold on your first time out. It took me over a year before I found my first nugget. On average, while nugget shootin', perhaps one in every one thousand targets is gonna be a nugget. You need to dig, dig, dig and dig some more. Simply dig every target. Wear headphones so you can here the faintest of sounds. A tiny nugget will give you just a faint whisper.
The Scorpion Gold Stinger is, in my opinion, the most highly underrated nugget detector on the market. It's best to have a metal detector with manual ground balance when searching for gold nuggets. Machines with auto ground balance have a tedency to "track out" tiny nuggets that the Scorpion will sound loud and clear on. Yeah, it's true that you need to recheck the ground balance periodically on the Scorpion due to changing ground conditions. The same holds true for machines with auto ground balance. If you don't recheck the ground balance every so often on a machine with auto ground balance, it's gonna miss those tiny nuggets. The Scorpion also has a great "hot rock check" with that TR discriminate mode, which is great for testing ore samples, too.


Here's a link to the field test on the Scorpion Gold Stinger from Lost Treasusre magazine by Andy Sabisch in 1991
http://www.losttreasure.com/node/5382

Here's a link to the instructional video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5315047567957481945#

Best of luck to ya! Keep us posted. Happy Hunting!