Whites GM 2?

[Rebel1]

I just picked up a Whites Gold Master II. Anyone have any input on them? I bought it for hunting nuggets. Figured it should be better than my Tesoro Eldorado for that as it operates at 50 Khz and was designed for gold. So anybody have, or had one and what do you think of them?

 

[dirt doctor]

A few years ago I was in a detecting club in which one of the more experienced members had recently purchased a GM3 his opinion was that his GM2 was a better machine
I recently picked up a GM3 at a heck of a price . I haven't had a chance to go nuggett hunting with it yet but just messing around with it the sensitivity and performance of it blows me away .I will be watching this thread with much interest . Sorry I'm not able to give you a better answer to your question .I think we both made good choices.Hopefully someone with real experience comes aboard .

 

[Larry (IL)]

If you don't get the info you are looking for, you might try the Prospecting forum; http://www.findmall.com/list.php?27

 

[Bobbylikesgold]

Hi ,
I've had one of these for some years now , I bought it of a guy who used it once & got frustrated because he didn't bother to read the manual & had it running with full gain & not ground balanced .
I found it very sensitive to mineralisation as it would give gold like signals that when dug just disappeared
What I did was buy the smaller 6x4DD as this coil handles the hot ground better , then reread the manual a made a test garden to practice.

Fist trip out I started sweeping with the threshold just a low hum , not long after I got a loud zip-zip signal ' after digging down a few inches down it was out , I used a little plastic scoop the isolate the target & found a deformed bullet .
Another hour passed when I found a dry wash away that cut below a small hill , I started detecting the fine gravel & immediately noticed the change to the hum in the earphones on scraping this with my boot it was a clearly a signal of sorts , I made the mistake of grabbing a hand full of dirt and passing this under the coil thus getting a signal even when I'd poured all the dirt out ! yep these 50kHz detectors go off on human hands with nothing in them .
Used the scoop to at last find a match head sized nugget then another & so on .

Many nuggets later I'm still impressed with the old GM2 , just remember to keep checking the ground balance often & use only enough gain to stay stable .

Bob.