How noisy is the G2 in bad iron trashy site?

[Rick N. MI]

Does the iron sounds get annoying after awhile? I watched some videos and the high tone seemed easy to here. Is it easy enough to here the good deep sounds in heavy iron?

I have an AT Pro that I will be getting updated soon and I'm giving it a thought to try and trade for a G2. My friend has an Advantage and we hunted a spot for 2 days. A couple hours each day. He destroyed me with the Advantage. It could just be luck that he went over right spots but he got 25 wheats and 1 merc to my 5 wheats. It was a little dishearting. I have used the AT Pro all summer.

Thanks,
Rick, N. MI

 

[cometguy]

Grunts on iron, high tones on better things. You can control the grunt and the noise by how much you disc out. I run my at about 50. Just listen for the faint high tones and collect the goodies. Perfect bean field detector.

Don
HH

 

[Bill G]

After messing around a little with my new Gold Bug Pro DP I am thinking 50 is a good setting as well for the break point.

Happy & Safe Hunting To All,
Bill G

 

[Neil]

Does the iron sounds get annoying after awhile? I watched some videos and the high tone seemed easy to here. Is it easy enough to here the good deep sounds in heavy iron?

I have an AT Pro that I will be getting updated soon and I'm giving it a thought to try and trade for a G2. My friend has an Advantage and we hunted a spot for 2 days. A couple hours each day. He destroyed me with the Advantage. It could just be luck that he went over right spots but he got 25 wheats and 1 merc to my 5 wheats. It was a little dishearting. I have used the AT Pro all summer.

Thanks,
Rick, N. MI

Rick you might try comparing signals with your friend who has the advantage next time out to see if your detector is hitting what his is. My guess is you didnt pass your coil over the targets that he did.

 

[cometguy]

Another thing to consider is how hard the G2 hits on some things. I have noticed that I get a very faint buzz of a high tone and I have to be careful to go back and check it and work it until it is a decent signal. The seven and eight inch coins in bean fields aren't hitting super loud the first time I cross them. Just stay alert and check those little high tone blips that you get every now and then. I sometimes feel like I am talking the machine into liking something. I do find a lot of those quick tones when crossed at the right angle turn into beautiful coins signals.

Don
HH

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

The G2 is the quietest machine i have ever seen in iron trash the dual processors really do a great job at discrimination.

 

[sgoss66]

Agree completely with Bart; it is a very quiet/stable machine.

Further, I might also add that by running disc. progressively upward on the machine, you can change the "break point" of where low tones change to high tones, such that -- instead of sounding off as a low grunt (which happens when you set disc. at 40) -- iron can eventually become totally SILENT at a high-enough disc. level (I'm thinking, if I recall correctly, that the disc. level that that happens at is 60 VDI; here, anything from the top of the iron range (40) up to 60 is a "low grunt" tone, and anything above 60 is a high tone -- AND, anything BELOW 40 is SILENT). I'm not passing judgment in any way on whether this is or is not a good way to hunt; that's up to you, and your hunting style/goals. I'm simply tossing out the thought that it is POSSIBLE on the Gold Bug Pro/G2 to eliminate iron tones altogether (as you may not have known that).

Steve