bearkat4160
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Well I paid Garrett $137.50 for my new Scorpian last week and have had it for a few days now. All I have is the control box and one 5x10 coil, but it works well. I am impressed with it so far. I have the coil hooked to an extra GTI 2500 stem I have just to play around with it. I belt mount it and lean over and detect ground holding the little lower stem. Just around the home though.
Heres how I got it.
Some fellow friends/gold miners of mine had the Scorpian but it didnt work, so they gave it to me back in MARCH at the gold show in Roseburg, Oregon to send to Garrett for fixing. Garrett fixed it and had been calling them to pay for it to return it back to them. I saw them in Happy Camp this Summer and the husband fell real ill and was rushed to hospital in Medford:sad:. Good thing he is doing much better now.
But they accrued alot of medical bills and didnt want to pay Garrett for getting the Scorpian back. I offered to pay for, it if I get to keep it...ha, they said OK
, as they didnt see themselves getting out much now with bills and continued hospital visits to make sure he will be ok.
So yesterday they told me they had shipped the remainder of the Scorpion (stem,handle,etc) to me so I will have a complete one! Woohoo! She said just send me a small nuggey you got this year dredging, I said, no problem. Been wanting to get one for awhile now. Other good news is, they have a Garrett CX III for backup. So they can detect still.
I did some air test and buried test with it and was pleased. It picked up a .1 gram nuggy in air test and I buried a .25 nuggey 2.5 inches in the ground and it picked it up with a decent signal which I would have dug it while hunting. I also tested same nugget with my GTI 2500 at same depth and heard it, but was not as pronounced as the stinger as per the higher frequncey of the Scorpian.
I might have missed the target with the 2500 in the field, maybe, but the Stinger could make it pop out just a bit more because the 15k ground hog circuit to make it a "dig it target".
So there you go folks, Hope to get some, out in the field test to share for you's here soon and pics to go with.
So far so good,
Alan
Heres how I got it.
Some fellow friends/gold miners of mine had the Scorpian but it didnt work, so they gave it to me back in MARCH at the gold show in Roseburg, Oregon to send to Garrett for fixing. Garrett fixed it and had been calling them to pay for it to return it back to them. I saw them in Happy Camp this Summer and the husband fell real ill and was rushed to hospital in Medford:sad:. Good thing he is doing much better now.
But they accrued alot of medical bills and didnt want to pay Garrett for getting the Scorpian back. I offered to pay for, it if I get to keep it...ha, they said OK, as they didnt see themselves getting out much now with bills and continued hospital visits to make sure he will be ok. So yesterday they told me they had shipped the remainder of the Scorpion (stem,handle,etc) to me so I will have a complete one! Woohoo! She said just send me a small nuggey you got this year dredging, I said, no problem. Been wanting to get one for awhile now. Other good news is, they have a Garrett CX III for backup. So they can detect still.
I did some air test and buried test with it and was pleased. It picked up a .1 gram nuggy in air test and I buried a .25 nuggey 2.5 inches in the ground and it picked it up with a decent signal which I would have dug it while hunting. I also tested same nugget with my GTI 2500 at same depth and heard it, but was not as pronounced as the stinger as per the higher frequncey of the Scorpian.
I might have missed the target with the 2500 in the field, maybe, but the Stinger could make it pop out just a bit more because the 15k ground hog circuit to make it a "dig it target".
So there you go folks, Hope to get some, out in the field test to share for you's here soon and pics to go with.
So far so good,
Alan