Heh guys, Well after one year with with the G2, I feel like I know this detector like the back of my hand. It amazes me how well kept of a secret this bugger is. As I have stated in several posts, this is hands down the BEST detector I have ever used for relic hunting. This is compared to the following machines I have used:
Tek Omega
Tek Gamma
Tek T2 SE
Fisher CZ-5 (extensive use)
Tesoro's...Sidewinder, and Vaquero
White's Spectrum
Fisher 1266
Minelab Sovereign
Minelab Explorer (limited use)
The biggest knock I hear about the G2 is that it does not get good depth. Well here are 2 examples from this past week:
My hunting partner and I were hunting a CW site in Tenn that we have pounded over the past 2 years. The ground, although mild in mineralization (GB at 55) was bone dry and rock hard. I got a very soft faint signal that 3/4's of the sweeps would give the high tone with numbers bouncing from 60's into 80's and 1/4 of the sweep's would register in ferrous range (below 40). BTW I always run my disc at 40 so I can hear EVERYTHING...why, in just a minute. I have found that when about 3/4 of sweeps are low tone and 1/4 are high tone it is almost always iron. But when it goes the other way percentage wise...it's a good deep target.....the key is the tones are faint. Anyways, I called my buddy over who was hunting with his Tesoro Vaquero supertuned and let him listen to my G2 on the target...I told him "this is a good relic". He swung his Tesoro across it and was getting only an intermittant crackling signal. He told me "I would never dig a signal like this" It was an eagle cuff button back at 5". Remember ground was super dry and hard.
Two days later after a heavy rain, I was hunting a woods CW site where the ground is kinda bad (GB at 73). I was going really slow and received the faintest signal you could ever get and still be an audible signal. but here is the kicker...it was repeatable back and forth but reading as iron. Now it has been my experience that iron signals, even deep, are fairly loud due to halo. This signal was super faint and only giving low ferrous tones and TID's. I decided to investigate it, as last year I dug 2 69 cal round bals not more than 2 feet away. I cleared about 2" of earth off and re-swept....now it came in with soft faint high tone. It was an Enfield bullet at 8" standing straight up and down in heavy minerialized ground. Hope this helps everybody. Bill
Tek Omega
Tek Gamma
Tek T2 SE
Fisher CZ-5 (extensive use)
Tesoro's...Sidewinder, and Vaquero
White's Spectrum
Fisher 1266
Minelab Sovereign
Minelab Explorer (limited use)
The biggest knock I hear about the G2 is that it does not get good depth. Well here are 2 examples from this past week:
My hunting partner and I were hunting a CW site in Tenn that we have pounded over the past 2 years. The ground, although mild in mineralization (GB at 55) was bone dry and rock hard. I got a very soft faint signal that 3/4's of the sweeps would give the high tone with numbers bouncing from 60's into 80's and 1/4 of the sweep's would register in ferrous range (below 40). BTW I always run my disc at 40 so I can hear EVERYTHING...why, in just a minute. I have found that when about 3/4 of sweeps are low tone and 1/4 are high tone it is almost always iron. But when it goes the other way percentage wise...it's a good deep target.....the key is the tones are faint. Anyways, I called my buddy over who was hunting with his Tesoro Vaquero supertuned and let him listen to my G2 on the target...I told him "this is a good relic". He swung his Tesoro across it and was getting only an intermittant crackling signal. He told me "I would never dig a signal like this" It was an eagle cuff button back at 5". Remember ground was super dry and hard.
Two days later after a heavy rain, I was hunting a woods CW site where the ground is kinda bad (GB at 73). I was going really slow and received the faintest signal you could ever get and still be an audible signal. but here is the kicker...it was repeatable back and forth but reading as iron. Now it has been my experience that iron signals, even deep, are fairly loud due to halo. This signal was super faint and only giving low ferrous tones and TID's. I decided to investigate it, as last year I dug 2 69 cal round bals not more than 2 feet away. I cleared about 2" of earth off and re-swept....now it came in with soft faint high tone. It was an Enfield bullet at 8" standing straight up and down in heavy minerialized ground. Hope this helps everybody. Bill
