I bought a second hand new condition G2 on eBay which showed up at my five days ago Friday. I bought this after reading some reviews on line and comments in these forums which were very favorable. So far I am extremely pleased with this detector. I have buried some clad quarters in my front yard at 6 and 8 inches depth. The 8 inch deep quarter has some kind small iron object within a few inches. My Tesoro Vaquero will barely pick this quarter up when super tuned with sensitivity maxed with disc set to just below nickel. If the quarter is checked by rotating the disc, it will not be detected when the disc is just above pull tab. On the other hand, the G2 will will detect this quarter and correctly ID it as 85 on the VID scale with the gain at 50%. This is very impressive. Someone has commented that the G2 is like a Vaquero on steroids. I tend to agree with this. The G2 will pinpoint very accurately in disc mode without pinpoint and is basically a beep and dig machine much like the Vaquero. I have not had to use the pinpoint feature that much and the signal loudness gives a good indication of depth. The pinpoint/depth readout is very accurate though.
Initial hunting in my neighbor's yard produced a slew of clad coins and a charm bracelet.
The focus of my detecting for the rest of this season will be more on looking for jewelry in lieu of older coins which are becoming scarce in my area. My two favorite sites are major sledding hills in my city. I picked up a nice silver ring at one of these hills last season. Now my focus will be on finding gold jewelry. Experimenting with the contents of my wife's jewelry box has suggested that I will basically need to dig just about everything short of the silver coin range including some signals in the iron range. Some of my wife's small gold jewelry overlaps the high end of iron and foil. The target response of the G2 is very good on this small gold stuff.
The things I like the most about this detector are its simplistic controls, large display, and power/depth of detection. This detector will be my first choice for quite some time.
Initial hunting in my neighbor's yard produced a slew of clad coins and a charm bracelet.
The focus of my detecting for the rest of this season will be more on looking for jewelry in lieu of older coins which are becoming scarce in my area. My two favorite sites are major sledding hills in my city. I picked up a nice silver ring at one of these hills last season. Now my focus will be on finding gold jewelry. Experimenting with the contents of my wife's jewelry box has suggested that I will basically need to dig just about everything short of the silver coin range including some signals in the iron range. Some of my wife's small gold jewelry overlaps the high end of iron and foil. The target response of the G2 is very good on this small gold stuff.
The things I like the most about this detector are its simplistic controls, large display, and power/depth of detection. This detector will be my first choice for quite some time.
