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  • Page 1 Labs ® ® is the responsibility of the consumer. To return your detector for service, please first contact Fisher ® Labs for a Return Authorization (RA) Number. Reference the RA number on your package and return the detector within 15 days of calling to: Fisher ®...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Treasure Hunters’ Code of Ethics ..........pg. 28 Where to Use Your Gold Bug™-2 in the U.S......pg. 29 Fisher ® Research Laboratory does not warrant suitability to specific use. Fisher ® Research Specifications ............... pg. 30-31 Laboratory shall in no event be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential or indirect damages.

  • Page 3: About Your Gold Bug™-2

    The Fisher Gold Bug™, the predecessor to the Gold Bug™-2, was ® Collapsed ..........40” designed and engineered by Fisher engineers from the ground up for ® the sole purpose of finding deep, small, and large gold nuggets in highly Weight .......Complete ........2.9 lbs.
  • Page 4 Forest and Federal lands—Metal detecting is allowed only it easier to find smaller nuggets at greater depths. Already a successful by special permit acquired from the federal government. Each area and proven feature of the Fisher Gold Bug™ line of land and underwater ®...
  • Page 5 UsInG HeadPHOnes ABOUT YOUR Gold Bug™-2 (continued) Using headphones (not included) improves battery life, and allows you to hear subtle changes in the sound more clearly, particularly Detector stand if searching in a noisy location. For safety reasons, do not use headphones near traffic or where other dangers are present.

  • Page 6: Setting Up

    seTTInG UP BATTERY REPLACEMENT (continued) The Gold Bug™-2 comes to you just about ready to use. There are only three steps required: sliding the lower stem into the upper stem, connecting the loop coil to the control housing and adjusting the angle of the searchcoil.

  • Page 7: Hip-Mounting

    COIn sHOOTInG, beaCH and RelIC HUnTInG SETTING UP (continued) There’s no reason why you can’t use your Gold Bug™-2 for “coin- CAUTION: MAKE SURE THE CABLE IS NOT PULLED TIGHT AT THE CONTROL HOUSING AND THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH SLACK AT shooting”...

  • Page 8: Control Panel

    OPeRaTInG TIPs HIP-MOUNTING (continued) 1. We’ve already said it, but it bears repeating: take your time, 4. Put your belt through the slots on overlap your sweeps, keep your coil close to the ground, recheck the underside of the housing. your ground adjustment often.
  • Page 9 Furthermore, we recommend our Fisher ® 5. Digging tool: If you’re carrying a digging tool in one hand, Phones, which enhance faint-target response by blocking out your Gold Bug™-2 may sound off each time you swing the...

  • Page 10: Mode And Mineralization Switches

    false sIGnals CONTROL PANEL (continued) 6. grOunD reJeCt: This dual-knob control is used to A false signal occurs when something that shouldn’t sound like a good electronically tune the searchcoil to prevailing ground- target sounds like one. For example, the Gold Bug™-2 may detect metal mineralization conditions.
  • Page 11 TARGET RECOVERY (continued) MODE AND MINERALIZATION SWITCHES (continued) The MINERALIZATION switch adjusts your Gold Bug™-2 for ground You can find an elusive target in a handful of dirt by pouring it conditions. It does this by decreasing or increasing the sensitivity (or gain) of your Gold Bug™-2.

  • Page 12: Mode And Mineralization Switch Selection

    MOde and MIneRalIZaTIOn sWITCH seleCTIOn TARGET RECOVERY (continued) The chart below shows how your Gold Bug™-2’s sensitivity and 2. Your digging tool should be selected for the type of soil you’re ability to operate in mineralized soil is affected by each combination of in.
  • Page 13 PINPOINTING (continued) MODE AND MINERALIZATION SWITCH SELECTION (continued) irOn DiSCriMinatiOn MODe the HOT SPOT was, and quickly mark the target location with your finger or digging tool. Don’t search in the IRON DISC Mode unless the area is heavily littered 7.

  • Page 14: Turn On Procedure

    TURn On PROCedURe SEARCHING (continued) 1 . S e t y o u r c o n t r o l s a s DISC Mode, however, will ignore most hot rocks and small a follows: ferrous objects while responding to gold and other nonferrous MODe: NORMAL objects.

  • Page 15: Ground Reject Procedure

    GROUnd ReJeCT PROCedURe SEARCHING (continued) When your Gold Bug™-2 is properly tuned or “ground balanced,” it will you also slightly decrease the sensitivity of your Gold Bug™-2, and the retune speed increases slightly. This increase in the have only a minimum response to ground minerals when the searchcoil is retune speed helps your Gold Bug™-2 ignore abrupt changes raised or lowered.

  • Page 16: Searching

    seaRCHInG GROUND REJECT PROCEDURE (continued) Your objective now is to adjust the GROUND REJECT control Keep the searchcoil moving at a comfortable rate. Remember that the Gold Bug™-2 is a motion detector and responds only so that there is no change or at least only a small change in when the searchcoil (or the target) is moving.

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