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