Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger vs Fisher Gold Bug 2

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So what happened. Did anyone buy the Scorpion and did you find gold?

There are bad and good reviews on this detector. However, most are toward the bad. Why? Is it the ground balancing that people don't understand or is it the detector being inconsistant?

Compared to the more expensive Fisher Gold Bug 2, how to compare? There are a lot of good reviews for GB2, but that's another $300+tax dollars. Ouch! Might as well buy a $1000 detector then!

And I don't see many post on the Scorpion. Is this the sign of doom?

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Hi Mindshare, yes the Scorpion is a wild piece of kit and it has made many a man rich
and made a few dreams come true, at times i wish i had the option to manualy ground balance like you can on the Scorpion,
But for some reason the market has gone away from this type of rotary knob way of ground balanceing, but i'm not sure if it is
a good thing, the rotary knob does allow for more precise adjustment.



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They still make them Garrett does so price is at a standstill still high.I don't think the scorpion is as deep as the new fishers as I have used them all and have a gold bug at this time and a garrett freedom ace 3.The gold bug comes with a 5in head and a 11in as an accessory,so a little money their!! Like the gold bug for trash as the iron infested sites are no problem for it. jmho.

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mindshare the price is around $549.00 and i don't think it's gone up by much

But it has set a bench mark as in most gold / multi purpose machines seem to be around 15khz range it seems to

be the bases for most modern machines, I think it is a timeless setup as far as how much these machines have changed

thats a proven winner and the 5x10 coil is a must, and i don't think that it's worth paying over a 1000 dollars to try and find

anything better, when you can buy that machine and all the accessories and still have changr

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Mindshare that 2 -3" is on tiny pieces of gold on larger bits its gonna see em just as good as the next machine.

with the bigger coil it will go deeper and don't forget we dont pick where or how deep the targets are buried, thats just how it happens

in the videos, if it's there you've got as much chance as the next guy, as i've said before trust the machine,

and if it could'nt do it then they would'nt have kept making them for so long, they don't fix wot ain't broke

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As for spending more money don't, it's easy to tell some one to spend thousands of dollars but then you'll wonder around

trying to find what ever you looking for and thats soul distroying when you have over spent on ya budget,

start of with that machine of if you want a gold detector then Whites do one for $499.00, so there is loads of scope

for you ,and you have got to sell the farm to get into this hobby/ job,

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