Hey Morgan, I'd like to respond, if I may, to your post concerning the G2 and 1266. I guess it's ok here since both machines are Fisher products. I bought my 1266x new back in 1998 and still using it today. My detectors before that were a Nautilus MF, a Double Eagle, and a Metrotech. I remember when Moby Dick's older brother was a minnow
Getting back to your post. Little over a year ago I decided I had to get a new detector, technology had past me by. So after much research on many different forums I decided on the G2. I've been relic hunting, which is the only kind of detecting I've ever done, with both machines on every hunt for the past 13 months. So this is my personal opinion and experiences using and comparing the 2 units. Lord knows there are much more knowledgeable guys out there. This is just what I have learned, in my style of relic hunting, whatever that may be, using both machines, giving them both equal time
during the same hunts.
The G2 is an awesome detector. It is an absolute pleasure to use. It's perfectly balanced. You can ground balance in a heartbeat It'll give you low tones on iron and high tones on every thing else. It has a screen to give you info and help you to decide whether to dig the target or not, and it runs as quiet as a mouse, even under power lines The 1266 on the other hand is much heavier, not balanced nearly as well as the G2, has no screen to read, you can't ground balance it, it's a one tone machine, it takes 8 AA batteries where the G2 takes 1 9 volt, and its chattery as all get out. Under power lines is a nightmare. But despite all this' the 1266 is still a better relic hunting machine.
I'm sorry this post is getting long. I'll try to shorten it up the best I can.
I did a little test in my back yard a few months ago. I laid out 4 buttons on the ground, several different size bullets, and an old rusty square nail. Fired up the 1266 and ran the coil right down the line. In disc 1 it hit on each target with good solid tones like always. In disc 2 it nulled out on the nail. Fired up the G2, ground balanced, set the disc on 40 to low tone on iron and ran it down the line. It hit high tone on everything as expected except the nail and 1 button. Did it a few more times with the same results. I could't figure out why it was giving me a low tone on that one , they are all brass buttons. Reached down, picked it up and it was the iron back GAR button I had found a few years back with the 1266. Now what that told me was the G2 picked up the iron not the brass, the 66 read it as brass. This may have been a fluke but it did reduce my confidence a bit on the G2's performance in searching for relics. But then again just look at all the videos and the success some of these guys are enjoying using the G2. I do wonder though what we would be viewing were the 1266 still on line at Fisher. In closing i'll just say that I'm talking hunting civil war relics, not coins in tot lots or public parks, although I may try that someday. For relic hunting, at least for me, the 66 just has more muscle and it knows a relic when it sees one. I still have far more success with it than the G2. But I'll not part with G2. It's ability in certain situations is indisputable.
