#Nugget shooter manual#
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What this all boils down to now is that it is really a matter of taste. I'm using two detectors right now that have auto ground tracking on them and find that, for me, they do a perfectly fine job and they are a lot easier to use.

#Nugget shooter manual#

I used a manual ground balance machine my first five years and found that a neutral ground balance was the best all-around setting for me.Īutomatic ground tracking has improved to the point now that there is virtually no ground that it can't cope with.

#Nugget shooter full#

Some of the prospectors I hunt with still prefer having full control over their ground balance function as there are times when a slight positive setting can give you a small increase in depth and a slightly negative setting can sometimes null out certain types of hot rocks while still enabling you to hear any targets which may be under or around the hot rock. Manual ground balance was the only way to go until just the last couple of years. Ground Balance: The more you can control the response of your detector to ground mineralization, the better you will be able to hear the tiny variations in the sound of your threshold that can signal a small, faint target under your coil. Also, all metal is the only mode you will use because the number one rule of nugget shooting is: DIG ALL TARGETS! Please let me repeat that because, if you're going to be successful at hunting for gold you absolutely must DIG ALL TARGETS! I have done this exactly once in seven years to give you some idea of how often one uses discrimination. If your machine has a discriminator on it, this is an added feature that makes your detector a better all around machine, and in certain very rare instances, can be useful in extremely trashy areas if you're willing to forgo the small stuff. Since most of the gold out there is smallish in size, any discrimination will mask the small bits and cause you to lose the only nuggets that you may come across in that area. Here are those attributes that I feel make for a top notch gold machine:Īll Metal Mode: In the quest for gold nuggets, you always hunt in all metal because your targets can, and do, come in all shapes and sizes from tiny sub-grain size to lunkers of an ounce or more. This came about because over the years certain attributes of the machines in use at the time proved to be valuable in the hunt for those elusive nuggets while other features were of less importance. Since the introducton of Fisher's Gold Bug in 1987, all the major manufacturers have come out with their own version of specialized gold machine. Can any metal detector be used to hunt for gold? Yes, but some will do a better all around job than others. Well, why not? Metal detectors detect metal and gold is a metal, ergo, a metal detector can detect gold.

'Can you really find gold with a metal detector?', I am often asked when a person finds out that I hunt gold as a hobby.