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Here is the GB SE and a silver coin test

Jessgo33

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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY26whmyvGo[/video]



I think its pretty darn good for the most part. The coins were hit pretty deep..:buds:
 
It was pretty sharp on the targets even at like 10 inches. I can't complain. It was just a 100th of a second slow on the half dollar. The other coins were dead on. Sry for the bad video, I just woke up and wanted to try it out. Well Its not defective at all. I don't have many old coins in California so I don't really care about the silver issue. Its only 15 dollars an oz, and doubt i will find any old coins whatsoever. Well have a good day.:blowup:
 
To Jessgo33 and others,

I have no problems hitting on silver dimes, quarters, half dollars, etc. with my Gold Bug ( Cabella's ) and not the Special Edition with
the standard 5"DD coil at 10"-11" air test. 11"-12" with the 11"DD coil.

I'm thinking a few, not most, of the Special Editions are not up to par compared to the Cabella's Gold Bugs, personally speaking.

Sorry, I don't own a video camera, but if I did it would show no sound delay hitting on a silver half dollar.
 
Love to see a video of that 10-11 inch dime air test. My CZ won't even do that with the small coil. Not even close.
 
Out of curiousity, are metal detectors made on an assembly line by robots or is it all done by hand?
 
Dwayne2010 said:
Out of curiousity, are metal detectors made on an assembly line by robots or is it all done by hand?

Im not sure but i just got mine today and whoever put it together needs to be fired...
"I can train a Monkey to do a better job"""
 
I think its just the operators fault. Mine works fine and is pretty darn sharp at picking up stuff. I think some of you wanted a 1000 dollar machine for 500 dollars.
 
Jessgo33 said:
I think its just the operators fault. Mine works fine and is pretty darn sharp at picking up stuff. I think some of you wanted a 1000 dollar machine for 500 dollars.

I guess you would know since you are a expert at operating detectors, Wait a minute isn't this your first one, and how long have you had it??
And i can not speak for anyone but myself when i say, "all i expected was it to function as advertised", nothing more and nothing less.
And when i buy a new detector, (NEW) i expect it to look new....
 
They are not that hard to opperate. I figured it out pretty fast. Im just saying its been all I can hope for. For me it can pick up very small gold, and coins of all kinds. Well have a good day..:cheekkiss:
 
But I think people need to realize the GB is advertised mainly as a GOLD detector. Obviously additional verbiage is put into the ad to preach it as an all around unit, but it still is mainly a gold seeking unit, hence the name Gold Bug. If it was named Silver Bug and had these results on silver, then I would be upset. If the unit is crappy at hitting silver hard and still hits gold hard, then that's ok for ME. The bad thing would be if it's crappy at both. Others may want the machine to hit hard on all targets, and that is their choice.

I for one am getting one to find gold...I have plenty of deep seeking silver machines. If the unit can hunt wet salt sand and is stable, as well as the dry sand ( which it should do easily) , then that's what I want....it's ability to hit the lower conductive targets in a light weight, 2 tone ID unit that has both auto and manual ground balance. If I am going out to hunt older land sites for old silver coins, the GB will not be the machine I pick first. Now, if there are people out there who are looking for their first unit and they mainly hunt for old, silver coins, then the GB is probably not tops on the list.

This may also be a case of putting the cart before the horse, and these first production units may not be quite right. I asked my dealer, who is holding one for me and he is generous enough to allow me to put money down little by little, if he tested my unit. He did, as all good dealers should do, and everything works fine. I have bought many units from this dealer, so I trust him and I believe when I get my GB, everything will be in working order.

As long as it can hit small gold targets at better depth and sensitivity than some of the other machines I have, then it's a keeper for me since I am starting to get older and my good ole shoulder is shot, some of my machines are HEAVY and I am not too keen on hip/chest mounting them.

What I can't wait to see is how it stacks up to my Baron CT since that machine hits gold very, very well...surprisingly well I might add.

JC
 
I bet a Dollar is even worse!!

Keith
 
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