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 Treasure Snoops in mineralised goldfield soils where it excels. 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 10Inch 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 this 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 don't 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.
$279.00
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!
Testimonial
HUNTER HITS GOLD TARGET BY “Ironestone”
I’m calling myself that name because that’s the country I operate in! I’m not giving my name away I don’t want to be followed,. Make sense? Although I live in the Kalgoorlie area I hadn’t done any detecting. I’ve been a shooter and rock hound all my life. I love shooting and it gives me a kick to get rid of the feral animals in the area. Wild dogs kill livestock and goats don’t help native fauna much. Seeing I’ve got kids, I bought a gold Snoop one Sat morning. I gave it to the kids to play with and in 1 hour they found some coins in my yard. So on Sunday we went to a local picnic ground and found 4 gold chains, One with a nugget hanging of it plus $27.50 in coins.
On Monday I went shooting and as an afterthought grabbed the Gold Snoop. Everybody else seems to be chasing gold in the area, but I really didn’t think I had much of a chance.
I bought the detector from Finder Keepers in Boulder where I got lots of good advice, hints on where to go and ideas on finding that elusive metal which gives people gold fever and I settled on a Gold Snoop marketed by GoldHunter detectors QLD. I also bought a set of Jack Lange’s Nugget finding Secrets DVD's which were a great help, especially for a beginner. I don’t think gold fever has bitten too deeply yet, I mean its only a yellow rock that feels heavy, looks nice to awesome and comes in lots of shapes and sizes and honestly looks fantastic hanging of the neck of the other half. Will I get full blown gold fever? I’ll tell you after the next piece.
Well that day about January, I went a long way out in the hills near a trail where I hoped feral goats would pass on their long track they follow to find water. As usual I took food for a couple of days and plenty of water, 40 liters. I always carry recovery gear too and a first aid kit plus spare 60 liters of fuel and a UHF radio and a hotted up HF radio. I’d be a fool not to –its 45 to 47 degrees most days!
Detector operators don’t like that bit of country much for detecting, especially summer, Although the grounds got lots of quartz on it, its covered with ironstone too which heats up so much you cant even touch it without getting burnt.. I don’t mean just brown hot rocks but rocks that assay 55% iron! Generally, detectors don’t handle it, I’m told. There are a few patches of sandy soil too with salt scattered salt pans surrounded by ironstone outcrops.
Ironstone reefs crisscross the hills. The closest active mining site is 100 kms away, but there was an old shaft not too far away.
While I was waiting for the goats, I pulled out the little Gold Snoop and turned it on. I could hear none of that noise I thought I’d hear when waving the coil over the ironstone. There was no threshold noise and no beeping over the iron stone, just silence. The detector was set at max sensitivity in all-metal mode. I didn’t like my chances.
Below an ironstone reef I got a sharp signal. This detector usually gives sharp signals whether targets are deep or shallow. I dug down about 6 inches and kept digging until the signal disappeared out of the hole. Was it one of my bullets? I detected the heap and sorted it until I picked up a small heavy rock and brushed it off on my shirt and had a good look at it. I realized what it was-a bullet sized slug of gold! I was amazed, shocked and stunned and wondered what would happen next! My first detected nugget!
Well I forgot about the goats and spent 4 hours detecting that afternoon and dug hole after hole. No rubbish at all. I pulled out nugget after nugget. One of them weighed 2.5 ounces and I dug it at 14” or more from among the heavy ironstone rocks and finished with an 18” round hole to get down deep enough. Not bad for a $300 detector! The snoop might not win a depth air test but it loved that hot ground. I got another signal and looking down I saw yellow and picked up a three quarter ouncer lying on the surface! It was a new run of gold alright, in a compact area the size of a big living room. I finished that afternoon with 6.5 ounces of nuggets and felt a bit stoked. I haven’t taken anyone back and don’t intend to, I’m keeping that area for myself.
Later I went back to the area a few times and found another 8 ounces with the Snoop. I also tried my mate’s Sovereign on that ground and it was hopelessly noisy. Obviously it’s well suited to the beach and quiet ground. Then I tested a borrowed Minlelab SD2200D with the standard DD coil and it was much better but there was still a lot of ground noise present. My mate didn’t believe me that you hear NOTHING with the Snoop until you pass over a metallic object. He’s tried it since and is now a believer. I’m getting another Snoop for the other half who wants to have a go.
Me and the kids found the Gold Snoop fantastic for finding coins. Once you get the hang of the tone switch it really talks to you and gives a certain sound that’s even different to the normal 2 tones that tells you what’s down there.
I’m only sorry I’ve sold or given away most of the nuggets before photographing the lot of nuggets together but at least I’ve got a few to show you although some are now pendants.