Operating Tips - Fisher Gold Bug Operating Manual

OPERATING TIPS

1. We've already said it but it bears repeating: take
your time, overlap your sweeps, keep your coil
close to the ground, recheck your ground
adjustment often and dig all targets.
2. Use good headphones: Your Gold Bug will
detect small, deep nuggets other detectors have
missed. But to hear the very faintest target
responses, you'll need headphones.
3. Bury a small nugget and check it at different
depths, sensitivity levels and in each operating
mode. Pay close attention to the nugget's response
compared to hot rocks, nails and other targets.
Take a nugget with you and do the same thing
when searching in unfamiliar soil.
4. Practice. The Gold Bug is easy to use and it's
highly sensitive to gold. But you still have to learn
how to use it. Read this instruction manual
thoroughly and use the Gold Bug often. You'll
develop your own special techniques for optimum
performance in the type of soil you're searching.
You may prefer to search in the Motion Mode at
half sensitivity whereas another might use the Auto-
Tune Mode at maximum sensitivity. Whatever works
best for you is right, but you'll have to put in hours
of searching to really know what "right" is.
5. Research. Spend some time deciding where to
search. The odds are in your favor if you look where
gold has already been found. If you know of a spot
that's yielded nuggets to other detector users, but
been "hunted out", that's Gold Bug territory. Chances
are you'll find the small or deep ones they missed.
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