Gold Detector Review

September 10, 2011
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Gold Detector Review – 7 Gold Metal Detectors

This Gold Detector Review of 7 Gold Metal detectors covers 7 Gold Detectors from least expensive to most expensive. Then we review some Gold Metal Detecting accessories, books and supplies.

My Choice pf Gold detector by price / capabilities

  1. If I were a beginner I would say the Ace 250. No question.
  2. If I were a serious beginner – The Fisher Gold Bug 2.
  3. Professional – Minelab!

Final note – there are many great gold detectors not listed here and many all around metal detectors that excel at finding gold. For example you can click on this link to read our review of the Whites V3i Spectra Metal Detector which is a fantastic Gold Metal Detector.

Gold Detector Review #1 – The Bounty Hunter  Gold Digger Metal Detector -

The Gold Digger Metal Detector is really an entry level metal detector and not Nearly as good as the others on this list.

While it will find gold it is not as sophisticated as the true Gold Metal detectors listed farther Below. It is a general use, beginners metal detector.We included it because we get a lot of questions about it and we wanted people to have a low entry price point option> Its cheap and works well.

Gold Detector Review

  • Automatic tuning and ground balance
  • Power and sensitivity control
  • Trash eliminator control to remove most undesirable items from detection
  • Headphones included with 1/8-in headphone jack
  • Motion all-metal mode for detecting all types of metal

The stylish Gold Digger ® Metal detector will detect all kinds of metal from iron relics, coins and household items to precious metals like silver and gold.

For more privacy when treasure seeking, the Gold Digger comes complete with headphones and 1/8 headphone jack for immediate use.

  • Automatic tuning and ground balance
  • Power and sensitivity control
  • Trash eliminator control to remove most undesirable items from detection
  • Earphone included with 1/8 headphone jack

Key Features:

  • Motion all-metal mode for detecting all types of metal
  • Requires 2 9-volt Alkaline batteries (not included)
  • 6" Coin Depth Detection
  • 2' Large Object Detection
  • Analog Intensity Meter
  • Present Ground Balance
  • Progressive Discrimination
  • Two-Tone Audio
  • 7" Closed Waterproof Coil

Rating: (out of 5 reviews)

 

List Price: $ 128.49

Price: $60 – $70

 

Gold Detector Review #2 – The Garrett ACE  250 Metal Detector -

Garrett Ace 250 Metal Detector a very good quality beginners Gold Detector!

OK this is a Gold detector Review Best value award winner.

The Ace 250 is not a pure play gold detector but a great all around detector for someone to start with. This is not department store junk. It is a high quality, hobby class metal detector that WILL find Gold, Silver, coins and Jewelry at a decent price!

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  • ¿Large 10" Scan Area For Quick & Accurate Scanning
  • Electronic Pinpoint Feature With Coin Depth Gauge For Quick Target Retrieval
  • Graphic Target Id With 12 Element Notch Discrimination For Greater Accuracy
  • Touch-N-Go Technology
  • Headphone Jack

Introducing the ALL-NEW Garrett ACE series – not just a new line of detectors, but a new way of thinking. We've taken much of the leading edge technology and well thought-out features from our GTI and GTAx lines and packaged them into the most aggressive, rugged outdoor design in the industry. These attention-stealing detectors are turning heads and sending the competition back to the drawing board. But put aside their aggressive good looks and you'll see just how much amazing technology we've packed into these NEW machines. From custom notch discrimination, pinpointing, adjustable sensitivity and depth settings to the newest addition of the Performance coils series, the 6.5×9" ACE coil, these detectors will never stop impressing you – or finding treasure!

The price is low but this Garrett Ace 250 Metal Detector is a serious metal Detector and one of our favorites when it comes to cost vs functionality on this Gold Detector Review

How Serious?" Check this out:

Gold Detector Review - Garrett Ace 250 finds a $1.5 Million Gold Horde

Here is a very good price on the Garrett ACE 250 

List Price: $ 249.95

 

 

Gold Detector Review #3 – The Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger Metal Detector

Gold Detector Review 5 Star rating! -

This is a True Gold Detector! Hi quality and meant for finding Gold! Given its quality and how well it finds gold, it is an overall 5 Star Buy. The price is cheap for a Gold detector of this quality.

  • Analog Operating System
  • Adjustable ground balance and tuning
  • Three operating modes
  • Famous Groundhog 15kHz circuitry

Scorpion Gold Stinger

The Scorpion Gold Stinger is the cure for today's Gold Fever! Its world renowned 15kHz Groundhog circuitry has the power to penetrate through heavily mineralized soils to locate nuggets, placer, float and ore veins. Use it when prospecting to sample ore and check "hot rocks" with ease and dependability. Choose between Non Motion All-Metal operation, Motion Discriminate for coin searching or true TR Discrimination to accurately identify or grade conductive ore with the flip of a switch.

The Scorpion Gold Stinger will not let you be fooled by iron rocks, fool's gold, non-conductive specimens or low-grade silver ore! Whoever said Gold Fever was cured, never used the Scorpion.

Features:

 

 

 

  • All-Metal Deepseeking Mode
  • Audio Threshold, Adjustable
  • Discrimination: Full Range
  • Headphone Jack
  • Sensitivity / Depth Adjustment
  • Speaker
  • Surface Mount PC Board Technology
Specifications:

 

 

 

  • Length: 42" to 51" – Adjustable
  • Weight: 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kgs.)
  • Single Frequency Operation – 15 kHz
  • 3 – 9V batteries

Search Modes:

  • Non Motion All Metal
  • Motion Discriminate
  • Calibrated TR Discriminate

Settings:

  • Ground Balance – 10 turn
  • Discrimination
  • 10-Turn Audio Threshold
  • Sensitivity

Who knows what treasures lie beneath your feet? Unearth your own piece of history and take up a hobby that could very well pay for itself with a few good finds: metal detecting. The Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger metal detector is at once a sophisticated and sensitive piece of machinery as well as a rugged and lightweight tool. While detection depths vary with conditions, this detector generally finds metal objects at depths of 2 to 6 feet. The metal detector includes a padded collar that cups your upper arm and steadies the search coils at the bottom of the device. The control panel, located conveniently above the cushioned handgrip, includes knobs for tuning the device's discrimination, depth, ground balance, and audio volume settings, plus a headphone jack and a retune button. Included with the metal detector are an instructional video, an instructional cassette tape, one pack of treasure wipes, and a Garrett baseball cap. –Benjamin Reese

 

List Price: $ 549.95

 

 

Gold Detector Review #4 – The Fisher Gold Bug-2 Metal Detector with 10 1/2" Search Coil

Another Gold Detector Review 5 Star Rating.

A little more expensive then the Garrett Scorpion above but this Gold Detector is great!!!

Gold Detector Review the Fisher Gold Bug

  • Powerful 71kHz Operation for extreme sensitivity to small gold nuggets
  • "IRON DISC" mode rejects iron (trash) targets and hot rocks
  • Resistant to dust and moisture
  • Weighs only 2.9 lbs.
  • Convertible to hipmount or chest mount

Like the original Fisher Gold Bug metal detector, the Fisher Gold Bug-2 is designed for finding gold nuggets. It offers extraordinary sensitivity, ultra-high frequency (the highest operating frequency on the market), iron-discrimination, dust and moisture resistance, audio-boost and the ability to operate in extremely mineralized soil with a 3-position mineralization switch. Backed by Fisher's 5 Year Warranty.

* Powerful 71kHz Operation for extreme sensitivity to small gold nuggets

* "IRON DISC" mode rejects iron (trash) targets and hot rocks.

* Resistant to dust and moisture.

* Boosts audio signal of small and deep targets

* Convertible to hipmount or chest mount

* Weighs only 2.9 lbs.

* Quartz-crystal locked electronics.

* Takes only two, drop-in, 9-V batteries

* Dual-knob ground control for coarse and fine adjustment.

* 10" Elliptical Search Coil

* 5 Year Warranty

Rating: (out of 1 reviews)

List Price: $ 899.99

 
 

 

Gold Detector Review #5 – The Minelab Eureka Gold Metal Detector

  • VLF Technology gives you an easy switch and go detector
  • ACCU-TRAK digital ground balance with two speed options
  • Iron rejection in each frequency
  • Variable ferrous discrimination control
  • Minelab's 10" DD easysweep eliptical coil for wider ground coverage

The Eureka Gold is one of the world's most versatile gold nugget detectors. Operating with Minelab's exclusive triple frequency technology the Eureka Gold makes prospecting easier than ever before. The Eureka Gold gives you 6.4 kHz for maximum depth, 20 kHz for general detecting and the super sensitive 60 kHz to find the smallest gold nuggets that others are missing.

Featuring Minelab's ACCU-TRAK Digital Ground Balance with switchable two speed recovery, combined with new microprossor controlled discrimination circuitry, it takes the guess work out of detecting so YOU will find more gold, more often. Hot rocks are no problem for the Eureka Gold, it will punch through highly mineralized soil with ease.

List Price: $ 1,250.00

 

Gold Detector Review #6 – The Minelab Gpx-4500 Gold Prospecting Metal Detector

OK  this is for the Gold Hunting Professional. The best of the best.

  • The ultimate gold prospecting detector
  • New SETA gold nuggett hunting technology
  • Automatic functions & pre-set Search Modes that make you an prospecting expert in a matters of moments
  • BACKLIGHT, Lets you read the minelab gpx 4500 metal detector LCD menu in any light, day or night
  • IMPROVED DISCRIMINATION that gives you access to the worst of trashy ground.

The Minelab GPX 4500 metal detector features new technology, new timings, new discoveries await! Find gold deeper in all ground types with improved discrimination and more. Minelab GPX-4500, A creation worth its weight in Gold!

New GPX-4500 Features:

NEW TIMINGS so the Minelab GPX is even more versatile. Users of the GPX-4000 have learned just how valuable it is to have a range of timings available, to optimize the performance of the detector in various conditions.

The GPX-4500 introduces two new timings, Enhance & Sharp, in addition to the four found on the previous model. The new Enhance timing is a powerful feature, similar to the Sensitive Smooth timing, but provides an improvement in the depth and signal response on small and large targets alike.

The Sharp timing is more suited to the quieter soils and provides the most powerful detection field of all the Soil/Timing options. The Sharp timing can also be used as an aid to pin-pointing faint signals. Increase in Audio Gain. The design of the amplifier and the use of the high-quality low noise components ensure the signal response is clear and crisp, without the added background hum of some boosters.

Minelab GPX 4500 metal detector is the ultimate gold prospecting detector with the new added features that makes it stronger and more versatile than ever before.

Incorporating new SETA gold nuggett hunting technology, it is quieter and more immune to interference, so that it is a real pleasure to use.

No matter if you've never picked up a detector before, the GPX 4500 has automatic functions and pre-set Search Modes that make you an prospecting expert in a matters of moments. Quieter threshold, louder target signals, improved discrimination, and more versatile, the GPX-4500 is the gold detector that gives the best results.

List Price: $ 5,595.00

 

 
 

Gold Detector Review #7 – The Garrett Sea hunter Mark II Submersible Metal Detector

Finally here is a totally waterproof Gold detector. Great for wading OR SCUBA in the surf and looking for treasure.

Even the headphones are waterproof!!

Product Description

This sophisticated detector boasts an enhanced discrimination mode, in addition to a standard one, which enables it to differentiate between targets precisely. Simply switch on the Garrett Sea Hunter II's Discrete Trash Elimination mode, set the dial to eliminate pulltabs from detection and you'll still receive signals from most thin gold rings. This unique search mode helps you to zero in on valuable treasure without digging up a lot of trash.

Features:

* All Metal Deepseeking Mode

* Audio Threshold, Adjustable

* Discrimination: Full Range (PI)

* Submersible Headphones – Included

* Hip Mount Control Box

* Microprocessor Controlled

* Salt Elimination Mode (PI)

* Sensitivity / Depth Adjustment

* Surface Mount PC Board Technology

Specifications:

* Length: 28" to 52" – Adjustable

* Weight: 5.7 lbs. (2.6 kgs.)

* Batteries: 8AA

* Multiple Frequency Technology

* Operating Depth to 200 feet

* Independently sealed battery compartment

* Choice of four housing mount configurations

Search Modes:

* Non Motion All Metal

* Standard PI Discrimination

* Discrete PI Discriminate

Settings:

* Elimination / Discrimination

* Audio Threshold

Warranty:

* 1 Year Parts & Labor Warranty

The Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II metal detector replaces the Garrett Sea Hunter XL500, XL200 and the XS500 metal detectors.

 

OK, Thats it for our Gold Detector Review!

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