Gold Snoop Pro
The Gold Snoop Pro
This detector has amazed professional prospectors with its uncanny ability to silently work the most mineralised of goldfields at reasonable depth. If you will be mainly detecting the goldfields, this unit is recommended. It will give better depth than the other two Snoops in mineralised goldfield soils where it excells. It's simple to use: Find the gold diggings and preferably select a place where the old timers left behind a fair bit of metal junk like nails, wire, rusty tin etc. Other operators avoid these areas because their professional detectors reject none or little junk and who wants to dig junk all day long?
Next, Turn the Snoop ON with full SENSITIVTY in ALL METAL mode, Wave the coil close over the ground. You wont hear anything until you pass the search coil over a metal target. is it Gold or junk? You flick the switch to DISCRIMINATE and if the signal disappears, don't dig it. If it is still there it could be a gold nugget so dig it. This is the simplest, quietest detector you could use. For considerably extra depth, fit the optional 12Inch coil.
You can effectively use this detector on the beach even on soaked salty beach sand and find jewelry at the depth of a detector costing far more. Its good on parks and play grounds too.
TONE Setting. To further help you identify a buried target, flick thius setting on and high or low pitched tone beeps will tell you if its likely a good target or junk target.
PINPONT This setting enables you to locate exactly where the target is so you can dig it out without having to leave an ugly hole. It is also a no-motion mode, meaning you dont have to keep the coil moving to hear the signal as you normally do, enabling more accurate pinpointing.
LOW BATTERY indicator light informs you when its time to recharge or change batteries.
You can detect for a few days with two alkaline 9 volt batteries but the rechargeable batteries and chargers aren't expensive and can be recharged hundreds of times
These detector are especially suited for Australian conditions. Australian soils, typically have 10 times more mineralisation than other countries. That is why other treasure hunting detectors have trouble detecting them. The soil has chemical metal content and gives off false noises and signals!
The best of other VLF detectors need to have the following controls to cope with our soils:
a) Ground tuning (balance)
b) Sensitivity control which had to be set low, thus losing a lot of detecting depth. Even after tuning the detector, there is still some ground noise remaining which drowns out faint deep nugget signals!
The Snoop series of detectors are revolutionary in that they ignore ground noises even when set at full sensitivity and they do not need a ground balance control! They handle the worst soils at full sensitivity which gives them impressive depth and almost total quietness!
To facilitate such unheard of ability, the overseas factory which improves these detectors especially for Jack Lange, uses a test pit of very highly mineralised Australian soil and and Australian gold nugget which Jack sent them. Jack has also consulted an Australian electrical detector engineer to to further improve performance in our conditions and dialogue with the overseas factory.
Get familiar with the detector using the 8 Inch coil.
Good luck!