Darrell, since you currently hunt for coins & jewelry as well as relics, what detector(s) do you currently own and use? Other than being a lighter-weight detector are there any other reasons you're interested in the Tek. G2? For most of the time during the 48 years I have enjoyed this great sport, I have owned more than one detector at a time. Often it is more like 3 or 4 detectors. Different features, different performance, different abilities to fit different applications.
When the G2 was about to be released I was provided a prototype to evaluate. I did so, and posted my review on October 30th of 2010 and it has had over 4600 views. Since that time and even to this spresent day, my G2 rides along with me wherever I go. It isn't always the first detector I grab, depending upon the site I am going to hunt, but sometimes it is. I usually have 4 detectors with me, sometimes more if I am going to check out a trade-in I've picked up, and there are times, such as this weekend, when the G2 w/5" DD coil is my 'go-to' model.
I have used it, a little, with the stock 11" DD coil but where I often hunt there are just too many short, stiff grasses and bushes that snag the open coil. Also, I usually look for more out-of-the-norm sites to hunt, like an old house renovation site. Matter of fact, just such a site two towns over (maybe 15 minutes away) was one where I especially enjoyed working the G2 for my evaluation. An 1800's house on the corner of a double lot that was being dug up (the lot) in order to relocate the house to the west-side lot.
Well, they did just that and I knew just how littered with trash that place was. To work it well, you needed/need a smaller-size search coil coupled with very quick-response and fast-recovery to up your success chances. This weekend, since they have now tilled and groomed all of the existing yard to prep it for seeding, I got the okay to work some of it. I used my Omega w/5
