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Fisher gold bug?

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Jessgo33

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Was thinking about buying a fisher gold bug 1 with the digital face. What do you think? Is the coil able to go under water? And any one have one any good stories..
 
I guess they haven't came out yet. Darn they look killer. Anyone planning on buying one, or know when they plan to come to market?
 
calbelas had them on sale for 399, thats 100 of the regular price. i bought one but its in layaway for a couple more weeks. cant wait to get it out in the field. if you go to their site they are also offering a free 99 dollar gold kit which the store added to my order for free. not sure when the sale ended
 
Keep in mind that what Cabellas is selling is a special detector made by Fisher for
Cabella.Its called Gold Bug III. Its not the Gold Bug that Fisher is coming out with in a few weeks.
I'd wait and see a few more reviews about the Cabella brand. What I've read so far is a mixed bag,
some good reviews and some not so good. One thing a reviewed said was that the other Fisher
coils DON'T work on the GB3 as claimed. Buyer be ware.
Katz
 
Thanks for the info, Will the new fisher gold bug be able to use other coils? If so what kind... I was reading about cabels geniric brand of detectors so I will buy from another company. I was thing of Kellycodetectors, however I found one at metaldetectors.cc for 467.99 Kellycodetectors will have to give me 120% cash back..lol
 
first off, the gold bug from cabelas will be the same for evey company that will sell them. there is no gold bug lll. i have the one from cabelas and there is nothing on the box that says gold bug lll, it reads gold bug. i also called fisher direct to get more info on the coils for this machine and they do have the 11 inch dd coil but the teknetics omega coils will work on this machine also but the price is the same either way so if you are able to find a used one for sale get it. i only paid $399 for the gold bug from cabelas with a free $99 gold kit where kellyco is selling it for 499 but that is for advanced orders, not even in stock yet. the only reason cabelas has them first is that they have a contract with fisher
 
Has anybody tried the new gold bug sold by Cabelas and, how does it compare to the gold bug 2?

Thanks,
 
If I remember my past history, doesn't Cabela's often get FT's first detector runs? And haven't there been a number of problems with those Cabela's units?

I remember reading that FT would often rush to get units to Cabela's to fulfill their contracts, without getting all the bugs worked out.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, and I could be.
 
Will the fisher be able to coin shoot? I have been wanting to try some schools out. Also I have looked a Cabelas and they are 499 for the gold bug.. Whats up with that.?
 
I just bought a regular Gold Bug detector yesterday from Cabellas and it works great. It will detect a 1 grain flake of Gold
and detect coins up to 10" deep using the 5"DD coil that came with it.
 
I have been using one off and on for 2 months. Been saying just that....glad you saw what I saw. Now...wait until you slap the Ohmega 11" DD or 8" concentic on it.
 
azsh07
That's what I want to know how the Omega 11"DD works with the regular Fisher Gold Bug.
Kellyco is not sure if this will work OK. They said they will test it soon. But it sounds like you and others
have tested it and it works fine. I just have to be sure it has the screw-on connector for my Gold Bug.
Please let me know the results of the Gold Bug with the Omega 11"DD coil.
 
By true definition a regular fisher Gold Bug is the old box version from the 90's. Or are you asking about the first release of the current new style Fisher Gold Bug 3/SE/PRO?
I don't tsee it working at all on the original Gold Bug and Gold Bug II
As far as the first release of the new style 19KHZ bug...it worked just fine. I did notice that the ground balanced about 4-5 numbers lower than the stock coil did. The depth reading is shallower as the meter is calibrated for the 5" puck coil...maybe an inch off.
Machine runs just fine with the 11" Ohmega DD from all my testing.
I know Mr. Bill will test the 11"DD on the new SE bugs as soon as they show up....so if you want another opinion you should have something as soon as he gets the first load.
scott
 
azsh07

It's the Original Gold Bug, as far as I know, that I bought at Cabellas just 3 days ago. However, sometimes when you buy a detector at Cabellas
it might be an updated version (they have a special contract with First Texas). It's just marked Gold Bug and has a 1999 copyright date on the box.
So, you don't think the Teknetics 11"DD coil will work with my Gold Bug detector?
I don't want to spend $189-$199 on this Coil if it won't work very well.
Kellyco will be testing this coil on a regular Gold Bug when they get a Teknetics 11"DD coil. Evidently, they don't have this Coil in stock.
If my Gold Bug can detect a 1 grain of gold flake and can detect coins up to 10" deep, how much better can the new version be or
the forthcoming Gold Bug Pro be.
 
The orignal Gold Bug came out in the early 90's...it was replaced with the Gold Bug II. Both are a square box on the handle and DO NOT jhave meters.
The next Gold Bug was the Gold Bug 3 as cabelas called it BUT...and I say BUT!!!!!!....the box just says Gold Bug and it has a meter display and control box like the F75 .In which case the 11" DD WILL work with it. They called it the Gold Bug 3 so as not to confuse it with the same machine that is expected to be released soon from dealers...The GoldBug SE. Which...looks identical as will THE GOLD BUG PRO...but has a few supposed changes.
So..does yours have an LCD meter on it and a control box like the teknetics Ohmega and the F75....then you have the new GB3 which is Cabelas version....and the Ohmega 11"DD should work.
So....to be sure..if it has an LCD meter...it is the GoldBug3 ( as cabelas called it) and the coil will work.
Besides..Cabelas does not sell the older Gold Bug II. It is still made and runs at like 70KHZ...but again it does not have a meter and looks nothing like the newer styles....it is old Los Banos style.
As for the questions as to how MUCH BETTER the PRO and SE will be. I would not expect a huge improvement on raw depth. the One you have is AS DEEP as an LTD. Do you really think Fisher is going to best the F75LTD with a detector half the price. if they could get such improvements ind epth ti would already be so in their top of the line F&%LTD. you DO NOT blow away your top machine with one half priced.
Since they are marketed as gold machines i would expect improvements along those lines maybe. Possibly a different coil as there are none really for gold prospecting for the new Gold Bugs...accept the 5" puck style. the rest suck for true gold country.
I laugh at all the chatter about how people expect this new Gold Bug to not be good on coins especially from people who have never even seen one. they just read some Dogma and spew it back out as gospel. or worse...they read somewhere that 19KHZ works good for gold and 7 KHZ for silver and so they must be sure that this will not be a good coin hunter. Which is funny as I doubt they even can explain how frequency plays in to the equation when the Inductance property AS WELL as the conductive property of a target are figured in.
In theory it should make a SLIGHT difference but guess what..not really. Sometimes on small targets like a few grain nugget or say a small silver piece of jewelry but not so much on coin sized targets.
The only reality behind it not being as good a coin hunter as an Ohmega is that it does not have 4 tones. So for coin hunting by tones you will have to look at the meter or set your dual tone break for silver.
You will see that it is as deep on coins as any other deep machine.
ignore comments from people who either don't own one and haven't used it....and since no one has accept a few of us...that in effect means none of em have. Also beware those whos job it is to promote them. Fisher needs to sell detectors so it would serve them well to point you at one detector for coins and another for relics and get two sales when one would do fine.

scott
 
I thank you for your help. Some of the other people I have talked to don't seem to know their - - -
from a hole in the ground concerning the differences between detectors.
It just takes a little research to find out these differences.
Thanks again. Now I feel confident about buying a Teknetics Omega 11"DD coil for my Gold Bug.
 
Those coils are not cheap and you don't need to waste your money and time for the wrong thing. I wish i was back in NH already as i would try it there and the soil there is a good test. But won't be back until late June it looks like.
scott
 
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