Best Detector for Jewelry?

[MetalDetectorDude]

What would you say is the best detector for finding gold/silver jewelry at the parks?

 

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[hunterbill]

Whatever you are good with. Just dig all targets. I like my gold bug pro with 5" coil for its easy pinpointing. Good pinpointing= fast recovery=more targets dug=better odds one is good.

 

[cudamark]

What would you say is the best detector for finding gold/silver jewelry at the parks?

According to your personal info, you already have one of the best.

 

[MetalDetectorDude]

Dude, Etrac is NOT the best for jewelry. You can swing a gold ring 2 inches under its coil and hear crickets. A T2 would sing like a bird doing the same test at 5 inches.

 

[crazy4coins]

Dude, Etrac is NOT the best for jewelry. You can swing a gold ring 2 inches under its coil and hear crickets. A T2 would sing like a bird doing the same test at 5 inches.

Agreed

 

[Fletch88]

Dude, Etrac is NOT the best for jewelry. You can swing a gold ring 2 inches under its coil and hear crickets. A T2 would sing like a bird doing the same test at 5 inches.

If you can do that, you have a problem with your Etrac or something way out of wack with your settings. That being said though Minelabs aren't super duper at air test anyway. The real advantage is when your hunting in real world conditions, i.e. iron infested sites,trashy sites, salt water beaches, highly mineralized ground, etc! Have you done a reset on your Etrac?

 

[MetalDetectorDude]

I've tested the Etrac under various settings with gold. The fact is, Etrac is not a good gold machine. Silver, it's one of the best, but not gold.This isn't new news.

 

[Fletch88]

With my 6 gram, 14k wedding band in auto sensitivity, standard Minelab coin mode, I get 9" easily and in manual sensitivity (26) I get 14.5". And yes it's new news to me. I'm glad my Etrac can't read these posts, she may start believing it too!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I've tested the Etrac under various settings with gold. The fact is, Etrac is not a good gold machine. Silver, it's one of the best, but not gold.This isn't new news.

metal-detector-dude, Fletch88 is right. The etrac can pick up gold rings just fine. Either your setttings are askew, or the gold ring you're sampling with is some super teensy-dainty thing?

Yes the Etrac (ANY power house deep-seeking machine, for that matter) will wain on earing studs, tinsel thin chains, etc.... But given the power-house that they are, the explorers can still be set to find gold rings, just fine (barring, as I say, something dainty and feather weight?).

So to answer your question, a LOT of machines can be made to find gold rings in parks just fine. All you do is turn down the disc. knob, go to any urban park, and I bet you have no lack of low conductors to choose from. Finding low conductors in parks in hardly the problem for any machine. In older blighted parks, guys have been passing low conductors for years (in their quest for old deep silver coins). So you can go to a lot of parks now, and dig low conductors till your arms fall off. Having a machine that "finds more of them" hardly seems to be the problem, if there's all you want, as it is, with most any machine. JMHO.

 

[Fletch88]

If you bought this machine new and you've done a factory reset there has to be a problem if it can't get but 2" on a wedding band. I would send it in for a checkup.

 

[Ronzie]

It's not the best but I've found 4 rings, an ear ring and 2 really thin gold necklaces with my Outlaw. My Explorer SE with Pro Coil wasn't good at all on small gold.
Three of the above finds were found with my Outlaw in places I already did with my Explorer.
With the higher frequencies the AT Gold and Tejon should be really good on the gold.

 

[treasurehound]

Just about all machines will find jewelry. You just have to dig all targets. Gold rings will ring up as pull tabs. Silver will sound like quarters. I don't know if there is a best machine but some may work better than others.

 

[mamabear]

I would say the best jewelry detector would be umm, your wife, or girlfriend. Sorry had to say it.

 

[cudamark]

If you can do that, you have a problem with your Etrac or something way out of wack with your settings. That being said though Minelabs aren't super duper at air test anyway. The real advantage is when your hunting in real world conditions, i.e. iron infested sites,trashy sites, salt water beaches, highly mineralized ground, etc! Have you done a reset on your Etrac?

Agreed, I've found gold rings at amazing depths. Something must be wrong with his machine.