Ground Balance?

[Mike RB.]

Guys: I'm in the process of deciding on a buying another metal detector, one I can use for nugget hunting. I've narrowed my choice down to either a Fisher goldbug 2 or a whites GMT.

My question would be this: Since metal detectors do a better job of finding gold when the coil is closest to the gold, which of these two detectors would work best in the following application....I would like to use the metal detector on a wall of dirt. In the picture below is where I had been highbanking and there is a lot of exposed area which might or might not contain a small nugget...could I hold a metal detector against this wall of dirt and search it? I've only used a metal detector on flat ground, never holding it up in front of me. It seems that the ground balance would be all out of whack if I lifted it up to search this wall of dirt...yes? No?

 

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[Jim in Idaho]

You set the ground balance exactly as you would search. If you're searching a wall, you GB to the wall. All the GB is is setting the detector to ignore the general conductivity of the background soil. Either detector would do a good job in that application. I use a GMT.
Jim

 

[Hard Prospector]

Tough choice ,since I do have both. If swinging a detector along a vertical face to be used like a "pin pointer" is your main objective, I would go with the GB2.

 

[DesertNuggets]

I've detected small stretches of walls with my GB2 without any issues.

You might want to do some research on the Falcon MD20.

 

[Hoser John]

Forget crutches and learn to pinpoint correctly. Try out a tesoro lobo supertraq and you'll be a much happier miner. I refused to even sell them thangs when in the biz and skill beats crutches anyday and in everyway-John