I know before I pull the trigger on a new detector, I like to read unbiased feedback. That said, here is mine for anyone else considering the G2,,,,,,,Background: Have been tectin for 15 years....started with Whites Blue/Gray..used a Nauty for as long as I could handle the weight, got tired of paying for 4 nine volts/pop, went to Tesoro and stayed in that world for a good while..solid machines...lightweight, great warranty....tried a F75 once(demo) but honestly think it would explode in the ground I hunt........never had a Teknetics.....but after doing some looking around for a machine good in trash, I liked what I saw......I prefer to hunt woods for Civil War relics/old coins here in Virginia....I also live in a pre-Civil war home...moved here 6 years ago and you best believe I hammered my property hard.....Paid off as I dug my first buckle right in my own yard....kind of sweet after spending years asking other people's permission....anyway...the ground is slam full of coal, iron nails, mineralized soil (Culpeper/Orange area)..when I say slam, I mean it......hard to get any depth and all metal mode is out of question...so after I covered every inch of the yard with my other machine(not knocking it - just did all it could do), I opted for a hi dollar.....Minelab.....I did manage to add a Flying Eagle cent to the case and some other misc. goodies but the ground here really gave it fits...sold it.....Bought the G2 from Bart at Big Boys and opted for the 5" coil too....Found the machine light and very easy to GB.....doesn't get any easier....I run at 40 on disc and she does exactly what they say...Lots of sounds...dear Lord this yard is junky!....but!....when the G2 swings over a good signal, it really screams out....have been fooled by some large iron but because the machine passes so much info to you, is easy to size targets...this machine WILL FLAT OUT PULL GOODIES FROM IRON INFESTED GROUND....the recovery speed is lightning fast.....this is a very impressive detector.....now I am wondering if this machine may be my choice for my next visit to Richmond in the deep woods I hunt.....if all metal does as well there as disc does in my yard, then I may have a new machine for all digging. Coins? I pulled the sweetest 1905 Indian cent today from the yard....the same yard I have pounded for years with 2 top brand detectors....Also, this week saw 2 nice Buffalo nickels in that trash too....By the way, don't run disc too high..those nice nickels came in 53-55....sweet zip sound.....not done yet......also pulled a fairly rare bullet this week....Confederate Picket.....a few small miscellaneous brass bits, some modern clad, and plenty of shotgun shells.....really enjoying this G2....if you are on the fence and want honest feedback from a new customer, you got it.....this machine breathes new life into iron and trash sites. I was a bit worried that some of the descriptions I read were a bit exaggerated..but they weren't kidding....I am still learning ,but the G2 pushes a LOT of info back thru the h.phones....very happy with the performance of this Teknetics detector and plan to keep it around for a long time.....there is no telling how many old conf. and union buttons are sitting in iron just waiting for a G2 to show'em the light of day....
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G2 first days - honest feedback,
- Thread starter DirtyCrow
- Start date
Ken in Georgia
New member
Sweet, It's a great detector and in all metal it will go deep. I was pulling 22 shells at 6 to 7 inches and Caps at 5 inches.
Big Boys Hobbies
Well-known member
Great post! The G2 is an amazingly simple machine to use since it is so quiet! This should really help people!
Rick N. MI
Member
Great finds. I love my GB Pro. I would try running the disc lower around 29, maybe lower. 29-33 completely knocks out most nails. Higher disc will mask good targets. With lower disc, good targets with iron with it, the numbers will bounce all around. If the numbers are bouncing from 10 to 50-70 dig it.
Rick N. MI
Rick N. MI
EtracTom-AdirondacksNY
New member
Got mine from Bart here also and love it. Extremely fast, fas,t fast no joke. Quiet as a church mouse too.
Love the vco audio easy to tell surface from deep objects by the zip zip sound.
Nice being able to set the low high break point or even no tone and then the low tone and a high tone if you crank the discrim all the way up. You can blank out up to 20 with no sound to totally eliminate iron I think if memory serves me right, and then get a low tone from 20 up to I think 70 and high tone from 70 to 100 after that. Cranking discrim on this to 40 to 50 allows you to detect those numbers (1 - 40-50) but you just get a low sound on them and high on the rest of the numbers up to 100..
Kind of neat how it works really.
Love the vco audio easy to tell surface from deep objects by the zip zip sound.
Nice being able to set the low high break point or even no tone and then the low tone and a high tone if you crank the discrim all the way up. You can blank out up to 20 with no sound to totally eliminate iron I think if memory serves me right, and then get a low tone from 20 up to I think 70 and high tone from 70 to 100 after that. Cranking discrim on this to 40 to 50 allows you to detect those numbers (1 - 40-50) but you just get a low sound on them and high on the rest of the numbers up to 100..
Kind of neat how it works really.
cedarswamp
Active member
I mentioned this in another post lower the discrimination to about 19 go back over the same ground and report back to us finds that you missed in between the grunts.This machine out of all the teks I will not sell my favorite very fast.Etrak,,,,Excal,,,,Musky,,,,G2,,,,,Alpha,,,,Lobo S.T.,,,,Deleon on the way.CEDAR
cedarswamp
Active member
What is the rectangular object with the slots I found one like it a couple days ago CEDAR
Reed Harmonica-----....found that one with the Vaq.....harmonicas were popular during the war....slot sizes correspond to notes....This is the first one I ever found whole...they are often in pieces...thx for the tips....i will drop the disc down even further and see what happens...
Jason oldsouth
New member
That is a good review DirtyCrow. It is a great detector! I also am a diehard Nautilus user, but always bring the G2 to cherry pick. And, a fine job it does at pickin'. The information the G2 sends through the headphones is mind boggling at times.
I also use mine on the beaches from time to time as well. The G2 will jam out some coins and jewelry. I won't go so far as saying it's the perfect all around detector, but it does get an A+ for heavy iron cherry pickin', and running so silent on full gain 
It's a nice addition to my family!
I also use mine on the beaches from time to time as well. The G2 will jam out some coins and jewelry. I won't go so far as saying it's the perfect all around detector, but it does get an A+ for heavy iron cherry pickin', and running so silent on full gain It's a nice addition to my family!Gosh I have also wondered about the slots as I have found several over the years while detecting around old worked out placer mining dry-washing and trommel areas in northern and central Nevada and the Mohave desert of California.
The Teknetics G2 and the Fisher Gold Bug Pro, while they are very difference in outward appearance are both very similar in their software...
For those who are using either; the mineralization that gives VLF's the trouble in the desert-like gold fields is magnetite, (Fe3O4)... Unfortunately over the past 30 years the placer gold fields have been well pounded by VLF- metal detectors with the ability to find the ubiquitous "bread and butter" small grain sized placer gold.
Fortunately, thanks to Mr. David Johnson, both the G2 and Gold Bug Pro have specialized Bar Graph and Phase Readings that can be most helpful to those of us who are metal detecting for placer gold... If the ground shows a couple of Bars and the Phase reading around 75, and if you are in a known metallogenetic area that once yielded placer gold, this can be a good area to concentrate on. (Hey... I do not sell detectors, just use them)
The Teknetics G2 and the Fisher Gold Bug Pro, while they are very difference in outward appearance are both very similar in their software...
For those who are using either; the mineralization that gives VLF's the trouble in the desert-like gold fields is magnetite, (Fe3O4)... Unfortunately over the past 30 years the placer gold fields have been well pounded by VLF- metal detectors with the ability to find the ubiquitous "bread and butter" small grain sized placer gold.
Fortunately, thanks to Mr. David Johnson, both the G2 and Gold Bug Pro have specialized Bar Graph and Phase Readings that can be most helpful to those of us who are metal detecting for placer gold... If the ground shows a couple of Bars and the Phase reading around 75, and if you are in a known metallogenetic area that once yielded placer gold, this can be a good area to concentrate on. (Hey... I do not sell detectors, just use them)