I was never sure about those products but I love there detectors easy to use an they work great I have the ace 250 an 350 love them both

I never new Garret made sluice boxes. I looked them up online and I can't find a sluice box made by Garret. Where did you purchase it? You can make that snuffer bottle work by filling it up with water, turn it upside down in a pan with water so the bottle is straight up and down and making contact with the pan. Lift it up off the pan and bang it a few times on the pan without letting much water out. Shake it sideways with the bottle maintaining contact with the pan. Let some water out. Repeat a few times and you will get all the gold out.

I bought the Sluice at Cabela's for around $35, and the snuffer bottle too for much less of course. I found the sluice filled the riffles with small sand very quickly, like the first spoon full, and everything else would just run out. When it came to the snuffer bottle it would work fine for normal wear and tear, but the inside lip on the lid would trap the fine gold making it much more difficult for beginners we were trying to teach to retrieve their fine gold flakes. As you know Colorado gold is salt crystal or smaller at times and to have that all trapped in the edge of a lid of a bottle it makes life much more difficult.

As for metal detectors I just don't know, I own another brand that works very well and can detect a very small piece very far down. I owned a cheap Garret to find my wife's lost ear ring in the snow a long time ago, I ran the detector over the whole area for a long time and then spotted it with my own eyes, after having covered it with the detector with no detection.

So I guess that truly makes it three bad strikes with me. Some people may have some luck but it would appear Garrett is not for me.

That's probably the same one and they don't work at all, for some reason the box said Garret, but yes it was all aluminum and it clogged up with a few spoon fills of dirt, and I was glad to give it away. I am going to stick with Keene and switch out the matting with different types.

A $35.00 dollar sluice? You got what you paid for.

Arthur, you will have to see the bottle for yourself to see what I am talking about, it's just a poor design, it doesn't have a cone at all, and they sell them at Cabela's.

Matt, you are 100% correct, I got what I paid for, garbage. I gave it to our club and they sold it to raise money for charity, so my loss went to a good cause, but from here on out I am sticking with Mr. Detector in Montrose and Keene products, with a few modifications of my own.

Being new to Colorado has been a treat, there is a lot to learn and I must say I love this place. Some is trial and error and others is asking a lot of questions from the people that have been here their entire lives working the earth. This is the first time in my life I can get my wife to drink tap water and everyday we are surrounded by beauty. I was stationed out in Aurora years ago and hated it, that's why we now live on the Western Slope in Junction.

I have even surrendered my back pack to my wife for her to use because I need a different one, different areas require different tools.

I normally go to the Garrett factory and buy direct from them. I have not had any problem with the quality of their products, even the imported items. Sometimes retailers will "bundle" other products with a brand name like Garrett to sell at what appears to be a discount. Maybe that is what happened.