kentuckycornelius
Jr. Member
- May 14, 2021
- 24
- 54
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Equinox 800
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Finding a lost gold bracelet with an Equinox...
I've been on a great permission site that to anyone's knowledge has never been detected. The owner stopped by yesterday and we were chatting and his wife mentioned she lost her gold bracelet in their current residence a number of years ago. I told her I would try to find it for her as a thank you for letting me detect on their old property. I've never actually found a gold bracelet before so I tested with my wife's (shh, don't tell her!) tennis bracelet. On my Equinox, it rang low, -1 to 1, at about 4 - 6 inches, with one tone. At 1 - 2 inches it still rang in the same range, but I got the distinctive multiple tones consistent with other bracelet and necklaces I've found closer to the surface. So if you're still reading, here's my question: On the Equinox detectors, is -1 to 1 a consistent range for gold bracelets? I only had one bracelet to test with. I'd like to narrow my VDI as much as possible so I'm not digging every piece of foil that got dropped or blew into that yard. If I go between -2 and 2 is that wide enough or do I need to go wider? I'll be hunting in Park 2 or Field 2 and am going to set F2 to 0, recovery to 5, multi-frequency, sensitivity as high as I can get it, noise cancel, ground balance, and discriminate out everything except a narrow band the bracelet could fall into. Thanks for your thoughts.
I've been on a great permission site that to anyone's knowledge has never been detected. The owner stopped by yesterday and we were chatting and his wife mentioned she lost her gold bracelet in their current residence a number of years ago. I told her I would try to find it for her as a thank you for letting me detect on their old property. I've never actually found a gold bracelet before so I tested with my wife's (shh, don't tell her!) tennis bracelet. On my Equinox, it rang low, -1 to 1, at about 4 - 6 inches, with one tone. At 1 - 2 inches it still rang in the same range, but I got the distinctive multiple tones consistent with other bracelet and necklaces I've found closer to the surface. So if you're still reading, here's my question: On the Equinox detectors, is -1 to 1 a consistent range for gold bracelets? I only had one bracelet to test with. I'd like to narrow my VDI as much as possible so I'm not digging every piece of foil that got dropped or blew into that yard. If I go between -2 and 2 is that wide enough or do I need to go wider? I'll be hunting in Park 2 or Field 2 and am going to set F2 to 0, recovery to 5, multi-frequency, sensitivity as high as I can get it, noise cancel, ground balance, and discriminate out everything except a narrow band the bracelet could fall into. Thanks for your thoughts.
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