Hip Mounting the Sovergn GT

[larryk56]

Just wondering how others have their chest mounts for
the Sovergn GT.

Do you have the meter mounted on the shaft?
or some using another set up other than the Minelab hip
mount bag and then chestmounting.

Going to take mine on a vacation soon and trying to
think of the best set up when using on the beach.

If anyone has photos, please post!

Happy Holidays!

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

If your going to use it on the beach just ditch the meter, it's of no use to you. You dig everything in the sand. It would just be more wires to deal with. Even with the tone difference I still dig all targets and so should everyone else. I have mine in the hip mounted bag and sling it over one shoulder, not the waist. I find this works best for me.

 

[fir469]

I actually have an odd homemade setup. It's a junky Bounty Hunter finds pouch that came free with a BOGO Pioneer 505. Stays very tight to the hip unlike the Minelab bags that hang out wide. Snug fit for the Sov and I cut a nickel sized hole in the bottom for the cable. I took my meter mount off the rod and placed a lightswitch cover inside the pouch and ziptied the meter through the pouch and the cover making it a nice solid stiff mount. Perfect for me, cheap and very effective. I actually own a blue Minelab pouch for the Sov and hate it... I'd take a few pics but my camera is down and my phone lense is full of silt from construction sites lol.

 

[otlew]

I use an $8 binocular strap purchased at Academy with a $2 web belt through the minelab bag belt loop to keep it close to my body when bending over. I agree with ditch the meter, it is useless on the beach for the reasons stated and you run the risk of sand and salt getting in your expensive meter unless you have a good cover for it. This what suits me.

 

[larryk56]

Thanks for all the replies! I won't use the meter at the beach!

That was easy!

Larry

 

[jbow]

If I hunt in the woods or on the beach I chestmount. I use the nicer binocular harness from Cabela's. I also use the offset meter mount from Dixie MDs and loosely wrap the extra cable that goes from the meter to the box around the offset mount when I hunt with the box under the cuff.

Works very well for me!!

Julien

 

[Critterhunter]

I hunted on land for a while with my GT hip mounted. Didn't help much with fatigue because now you've got no counter weight to the coil on the shaft. So I built a light weight shaft and am running a lipo in my GT. Dropped about a pound and a half off the stock GT with meter's weight and now I can hunt all day without fatigue becomming an issue. It's as light or lighter than the Whites I've owned now. For water hunting I chest mount the GT and use the stock shaft which is stiffer. Of course it's stiffer, they built that thing to hunt for real mines in a war or something. I can use my custom shaft to water hunt but I'd have to take the meter off for that, so it's the perfect solution to just throw the control box in my chest bag and plug it into the stock 10" coil on the stock shaft for water hunting. My land coil is the 12x10. I plan to try that in the water this summer and it probably will become my water coil too. The 15x12 has too much drag in the water for me, though, but I'm sure the 12x10 is no worse than the stock 10" coil or the S-12.

 

[larryk56]

Thanks for all the replies!