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Gold bug pro or gold bug 2 which one?

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Dgoldman

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Hi all,

I am looking for a little help.

I have been prospecting for the past 30 years as a hobby. I want to purchase a metal detector but am a little confused. I understand gold's properties
And how to read rivers, streams, bedrock and tertiary river Chanel's. I have read a lot of your posts and gone to metal detector stores all to find out many just want to sell me what they are pushing. I will be mostly nugget hunting and have heard and read about the gold bug 2. Recently, a fisher distributor was telling me about the gold bug pro and he has had many customers that have had great success. I know the GB2 runs at 71 kHz vs the pro's 19 kHz. Will I sacrifice targets with the Pro? The other day, I was at at shop and the owner was telling me to get the Minelab Eureka as it can operate on three frequencies. Do any of you have any input on that Minelab. When I research, I dont see as many success stories as the GBG 2 or the Pro. I am leaning to the Pro with the 5" and 10" coils. In 4 weeks I have an opportunity to go to a friends 200 acre ranch in the Ca, Mother load. He has 2 miles of the Consumnes river running through it. No mining has been done here for the last 70 years, as it has been in the family. We were there a year ago when I showed them how to pan and read the river. Lot's of tailing piles from the late 1800's and bed rock galore. Our first pan produced gold last time. I'm just itching to detect the bedrock and surrounding area. I have been looking for a used one and would like to know if the serial numbers on a gold bug 2 would let you know the manufacture date. Any ideas on how to read the serial number for a assembly date.

I would appreciate any help or suggestions anyone may have.

Thanks for your time!

Dgoldman
 
The GB2 will find smaller gold particles and at greater depths than the GB Pro.

For gold prospectors, there is no better gold hunting machine than the GB2, IMO.

The GB Pro is an excellent gold hunter too, but it was also designed to have other applications, such as relic hunting.

The GB2 was designed for absolutely no other purpose than gold hunting. It is entirely geared for that sole purpose.

Some may argue that point with me. Again, just my opinion here.
 
I thought I wanted the Eureka for the multi frequency feature. I hunted high and low for a dealer that had one but as of this past july there were no new machines available. I finally found a used Eureka and bought it. Man, was I surprised at the cheap build of the machine. I had a, "if not satisfied send it back" agreement and after one outing with the Eureka it was on it's way back to the owner. Can't say much about the function of the machine because I didn't have it long enough but it looked and felt like something that should be sold at WalMart. I already owned a Garrett Infinium LS which is a rugged built durable machine and the down grade to the Eureka was not a good step. For an alternate machine I purchased the AT Gold and am very happy with it as a multipurpose machine. It too will find small gold. I am currently saving my pennies to purchase a Gold Bug 2 specifically for the shallow crumbs it is famous for finding. With these 3 machines I can go anywhere do anything. By the way, the Finny is a PI machine.
 
I have a Gold Bug 2 and a Gold Bug Pro and I recommend having both. They complement each other well, one doing what the other will not. I have used the Eureka and honestly it is a heavy, overpriced detector. If you gave me one I would not use it. I doubt it will be on the market much longer as it is a holdover from he days of big and clunky.

Steve Herschbach
 
I had a minelab xterra 705 with a couple of DD Coils in the 18.75 kHz range and it was great for coin/relic etc but the more i read about the gold bug 2 at 71kHz i knew i had to have one living just on the south side of the Bradshaw mountains in Arizona and only want to hunt the yellow stuff. now i just got it and did a test on a .012 gram nugget which is really small and the gold bug 2 screams on it at near surface tests and still picks it up a few inches down so this thing is great for crevacing the bedrock .... the xterra just barely picked it up on the surface and nothing an inch down. the gold bug 2 brings a smile to my face when i turn it on. the pro sounds like a good unit too but being very near to the kHz of the xterra i didn't want to take a chance. There's no LED Screen or auto tracking on the gold bug 2 but it's absolutely no problem to me and easy to ground balance..... type in gold bug 2 on the youtube site.....it's interesting.
Joe
 
Not sure about serial numbers but old Gold Bug 2 units had a Gold Bug decal on the side of the control box and were made in Los Banos, California. New ones say Fisher on the side and are made in El Paso, Texas.

The oldest units had a white lower rod.

Steve Herschbach
 
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