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Metal Detectors
General Metal Detector Discussion
X-terra 705, Goldmonster 1000 or Gold bug Analog
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<blockquote data-quote="Goldpick" data-source="post: 351799" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>Having no discrimination at all on the original Goldbug and manual ground balancing is going to make life pretty hard for you, better off looking for a second hand goldbug pro, teknetics G2, or stick to the Minelab 705. For a couple of hundred more, you get much more user friendly detectors with either ground grab or auto ground balancing (and option to manual GB), discrimination, beach ability, and ability to ID targets. All the mentioned detectors have the same or similar frequency to the older goldbug at around 19kHz.</p><p></p><p>I guess you could class the original gold bug as a pure nugget machine, one big negative is that it misses out on the iron discrimination that the later 71kHz Goldbug 2 offers. Having no discrimiantion at all mean you will be digging every little piece of iron or aluminium at the beach, and I doubt whether it would have the ground balance range to cope with wet sand, unlike the 3 above mentioned detectors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldpick, post: 351799, member: 1695"] Having no discrimination at all on the original Goldbug and manual ground balancing is going to make life pretty hard for you, better off looking for a second hand goldbug pro, teknetics G2, or stick to the Minelab 705. For a couple of hundred more, you get much more user friendly detectors with either ground grab or auto ground balancing (and option to manual GB), discrimination, beach ability, and ability to ID targets. All the mentioned detectors have the same or similar frequency to the older goldbug at around 19kHz. I guess you could class the original gold bug as a pure nugget machine, one big negative is that it misses out on the iron discrimination that the later 71kHz Goldbug 2 offers. Having no discrimiantion at all mean you will be digging every little piece of iron or aluminium at the beach, and I doubt whether it would have the ground balance range to cope with wet sand, unlike the 3 above mentioned detectors. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detectors
General Metal Detector Discussion
X-terra 705, Goldmonster 1000 or Gold bug Analog
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