The Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger is a simple, old school analog gold hunting metal detector. No fancy display just some tones and threshold to go by. Kind of like driving a VW Beetle. Set it up, keep adjusting as you hunt for optimum performance and it will be your little buddy on every nugget hunt.

It incorporates a 15Khz frequency for sensitivity to small gold nuggets. It will easily pick up .1 gram nuggets and a bit smaller with its optional 3” x 7” DD coil. The Scorpion is a great bedrock sniping detector for picking out those tiny nuggets stuck in bedrock cracks.

That is where I usually find my nuggets when using the Garrett Scorpion.

Once you get use it to it, ground balancing in a breeze but must be done fairly frequently as you hunt because the ground changes and you don’t want to miss any small nuggets by being out of ground balance.

The coils are waterproof for hunting in creeks to find placer gold by searching for black sand deposits with using the threshold in a way that will signal black sand. The threshold on the Scorpion will go negative when hitting a pocket of black sand depending on you set it up correctly for this. If you find these deposits, it’s a good place to start mining.

Also see for Prospecting the new Garrett AT Gold here.

                       

                       ~This metal detector has been discontinued by Garrett~

Scorpion Gold Stinger Metal Detector

Product No. 1194370.....MSRP: $467.95  

Key Features

1. Circuit type: 15 kHz Groundhog circuitry, ideal for detecting small nuggets
   
   

2. Audio Threshold, Adjustable: adjust to user's preference with 10-turn control
   
   

3. User-adjustable Discrimination: for use with either Motion Discriminate or TR Discriminate modes to reject unwanted items.
   
   

4. Search Modes:
   
   

1. Non-Motion All Metal—Hover over targets in deep-seeking, Non-Motion
   All Metal mode. Balance out ground minerals precisely with the 10-turn
   Ground Balance control.
   
   

2. Calibrated TR Discrimination—Sample ore or check "hot rocks" in this
   Non-Motion mode.
   
   

3. Motion Discrimination—Eliminate iron, foil and trash items with user-
   adjustable discrimination. Automatic ground balance feature makes this mode ideal for coin hunting.
   
   

5. Belt Mount Configuration: Control box is detachable for alternate belt mount use (belt not included).
   
   

6. Retune Button: Press to reset the audio threshold as desired.
   

See the video below of Charles Garrett demonstrating how to ground balance the Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger.

This Metal Detector has been Discontinued by Garrett.

It is replaced by the new Garrett AT Gold.