The true test for the GBSE will take place next month at Diggin in Va.

[Detectorguru]

In the super hot ground of Culpepper Va. No VLF has conquered the ground there yet. I will take it along with my TDI Prototype and give it ago. Tex Kinsey

 

[morelic55]

Tex, I was waiting on someone to do the DIV with the GB. It looks like it should do better than others, please keep us informed on your field test.

 

[Mr.Bill]

One needs to remember that the Gold Bug SE was primary designed for nugget hunting, and in nugget hunting one uses All Metal Mode.

As a secondary benefit, it is a super relic, salt beach, and a darn good coin hunter. Almost a Johnnie do all detector.

Keeping this in mind, if it performs well in VA using the discrimination mode, that's a big +.

Mr. Bill

 

[Clad2Hunt]

Hey my ground is hotter than your ground!(Ha Ha). Got a GBSE due here Friday and I live near the old NC Reed gold mine and others I hear. I'll let you guys know next week. Going to be relic and coin hunting on old farm near coast this weekend and hope to try it there. Will only have stock coil. No MDs there as far as owner knows and its been in family since 1875. No road to shack just long walk through woods. Not alot of undergrowth but got a pair of tall boots in case. Im going to be by myself hunting but owner is walking with me. Hes going to build a housing development there at first of year. So long old shack.

 

[jimpugh]

I have seen this machine in a mountain of Physical Iron in Overload and still tweep out good targets left and right...... it is that Fast and deadly.....

jimpugh

 

[azsh07]

No machine deserves to be put through that kind of ground. I know Manassas is bad and my friend who I hunted with there has hunted Cullpepper. I remeber him saying the ground was so bad in spots that you could put a coin on the ground and the detector would not even see it.

I would think any VLF out there is going to struggle there. Maybe a higher frequency would do slightly better but I know in Manassas the iron level in the red clay was so high that any target beyond 4 inches always gave an ID as iron. I don't know how those guys hunted that stuff all those years...although if you grow up with it that is what you are used to.

I hope you do well but I would imagine the TDI will be used 99% of the time.
scott

 

[BuckeyeBrad]

use AM and do the best you can do with a VLF or use disc and miss more targets. I'll be giving my SE a good workout at the hunt.

 

[Mr.Bill]

Hi Brad

I suspect that the Gold Bug SE will do better than expected. It did good in Arizona, and I hit a few red dirt areas that most VLF's have trouble with in the East. Time will tell.

 

[azsh07]

I mean we had Purple dirt in Arizona...looked like grape juice almost sometimes. The SE did just fine in it....but that stuff in parts of Va. is just unbelievable...maybe because it is wet..or mixed with clay...I don't know. I just know it was like running a detector in black sand in some spots.
Running in all metal is correct....Disc was painful....everything IDed as iron you mights well just go AM and dig small targets.

 

[Shenandoah Digger]

I've hunted in Manassas since the 1960's, The ground here is like air testing compared to the ground in Culpeper. Really never thought this ground was that bad, but I haven't hunted a lot of other areas.

 

[Detectorguru]

I would bet the red dirt in Culpepper will rival Australia. What makes it so bad includes the fact that most of the bedrock is shallow and it's cold rock. Yikes. 30 plus years detecting in that crap taught me patience . But I went home many a day with a terrible headache.

 

[Detectorguru]

Bill.
I think I will change my handle to Jonnie do all.