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F5 or New Gold Bug???

V

vegas49

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Hi everyone, just joined this great forum and need some help. After watching the Meteorite Men shows I got the urge to start hunting Meteorites.
I dug out my old Fisher 552D ( I bought 30 yrs ago) and threw in 12 batteries and went out to the desert west of my home in Pheonix. Well after
fiddling around with the 6 dials, I found that the Tuning dial doesn't respond (and it weighs a ton ). Since I live in AZ I want a detector I can Nugget
shoot with casually when not Meteorite hunting. I was thinking of getting the new gold bug, but been reading a lot of good things about the F5.
If any of you can assist me in this decision it will be appreciated....PS..I probably won't be doing much coin shooting except when
I go to the coast in summer...Thanks Tim
 
You'll need the larger coil for meteorites to cover more ground, the little coil that comes with the new Gold bug will consume your time.
The F5 can nugget shoot well too. They both should coin shoot, with the edge going to the F5.
Both machines are highly sensitive machines required for gold and meteorites.
The lower frequency machines like iron more than higher frequency machines generally.
Your decision come down to coil choices, availability and cash outlay for the total package.


PennyFinder
 
Thanks PennyFinder, I was planning on getting the 11" DD for Meteorites. One thing I was concerned about was the
excessive overload occurences with the F5. I see that the GB pro has twice as high reactive & resistance overload spec's
that might be helpful in AZ. You mentioned of lower freq. machines better for iron, I wasn't aware of that. I know you will
get better depth with lower freq. Availability is another thing, the F5's are all backorder and who knows when GB pro will
be available. Cabelas has the GB pro at my local store. I called Fisher and a Lab tech returned my call and claims that
they were not changing the the GB pro from the Cabelas and that the only detector that had a problem was with a false ID
reading in Disc. Well Thanks again for your help.

Tim
 
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