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[goldstinger]

Hi everyone, im from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. i just got a garrett scorpion at the end of october and regret not getting one sooner cause of the snow. Heres a pic of my first ring found at a playground under the swing, 14k and 0.62 grams its tiny. maybe 20 hours of swinging this machine so far its my first detector. thanks for a great forum!

 

[John-Edmonton]

That machine is really going to work well for you. It loves gold and is the best detector I have ever used to find our Canadian clad. Are you using rechargeable 9 volts in it?

 

[goldstinger]

thanks for the welcome, yes i agree with it being good on clad, the day i got it I was screwing around with it in my backyard and my second find in the garden with it was a 1942 nickel at 5 inches in a couple minutes or so. Ive actually still got 3 beeps with the batteries that came with the machine ill be getting some rechargeable lithium-ions though off ebay when i get a chance

 

[John-Edmonton]

Good luck! looks like you are well on your way.

John

 

[metalhead]

Welcome to the forum!This is a wonderful community and a great place to share info!
Congrats on the gold ring!May it be the first of many!Happy Hunting!

 

[goldstinger]

Thank you. Hey john I live in the bonnie doon area and am just wondering how hard youve hunted this area, and around the u of a. I would love to get out more but its a busy time of year so for now just trying to take it easy and wait for the weather to warm up a bit before i can do any hunting. I work 10 hour days so im there there before the sun comes up and after it goes down, my hunting is limited to weekends at the moment.

 

[John-Edmonton]

I haven't really hunted to much in the Bonnie Doon Area. maybe 6 x at the most and that was at some schools and playgrounds. There should be lots there to pull a bunch of rings and coins. I haven't hunted the University grounds themselves, but the schools around there and sports fields.

 

[Smudge]

That machine is really going to work well for you. It loves gold and is the best detector I have ever used to find our Canadian clad.

Any word on how works on American clad?

 

[metalhead]

Scorp is a great coin shooter, but not my favorite. I primarily just use my Scorp for electronic prospecting.
GTI and GMH is much deeper on coins. Scorp sure is hot on gold(nuggets and jewelry)Happy Hunting!

 

[Dig'em All]

That machine is really going to work well for you. It loves gold and is the best detector I have ever used to find our Canadian clad.

Any word on how works on American clad?

Let me start by saying welcome!

The Scorpion is a very good machine for U.S. Coins. If you get one or are thinking of getting one you can bet if you take your time to learn the machine you will be happy with it. It is not an out of the box coin shooter. It has one sound when you get a target. But that sound will have a different hardness or softness to it, that is the only way can tell you, you will learn those sounds as time goes by and I can say this that in almost five months of having my Scorpion I can almost tell with like a 90% to 95% of the time if it is a quarter because of the hardness and cut off of the sound. A dime will have a much softer sound and will trail off slower. Penny sounds like a quarter but the sound will not be as hard and will trail off faster. Nickel is a bang sound of its own.

 

[Dig'em All]

Hi everyone, im from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. i just got a garrett scorpion at the end of october and regret not getting one sooner cause of the snow. Heres a pic of my first ring found at a playground under the swing, 14k and 0.62 grams its tiny. maybe 20 hours of swinging this machine so far its my first detector. thanks for a great forum!

Welcome you will have fun with that machine. Very powerful machine, I have hit nails at fourteen plus inches. So I know it will go deeper.

 

[KevinH]

Welcome and everyone is right. You may even get one more.