etrac & finding gold jewelry

Jason in Enid

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Re: etrac & finding gold jewelry

Gold rings? The E-Trac does great!

Gold necklace? Not very good at all. The only concillation is that most detectors have a lot of trouble with things like chains, necklaces, and small pendants.

It all has to do with frequency and coil size. The E-Trac is geared towards silver.
 

Tom_in_CA

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Re: etrac & finding gold jewelry

The info that jason gave is pretty much true not only for the etrac, but for most deep-seeker discriminator power-house machines. It's just a natural drawback. You can find coin 2-filter coin machines that will do better with fine chains and earing stud type things, but they won't tackle bad ground as well (and certainly not the wet-salt beach), nor will they go as deep as the Etrac. But for all other gold jewelry (rings, etc...) it's just fine.

Welcome to the forum. I'm 2 hrs. south of SF. What have you found in the back-yards of the victorians there? Have you run into any other explorer users in SF? There's a couple who do ok in the SF parks there (older silver coins, etc...).
 

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Faust

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Re: etrac & finding gold jewelry

Thank you Jason & Tom.


I have only been detecting for about 6 months with a mxt pro in the parks of SF & Daly City. I have found 9 junk/kids rings, 12 silver rings, one gold ring and alot of outher stafe. I have been detecting a victorian in the mission the last two saturdays and have found nothing but junk sofar. I have two more victorians I can hunt when I find the time.
I have not met no one to hunt with, but its cool I do this for relaxtion.

I am buying a etrac from Mike at Woodland Detectors.
 

SEmer1969

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Hey guys, I'm also here in the Bay Area (work in SSF, live in Vacaville). I've found quite a few silver rings with the E-trac, but to be honest, I've done better on the old gold with my White's MXT Pro and also my Garrett MasterHunter. Love the detector for it's depth (E-trac), but it can be frustrating digging up clad 9 inches down.

I've wondered about the SSF area. Have you guys given this area a try yet?

Stephen
 

Treasure_Hunter

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Ask crackbadger how it does on gold jewelry at the beach, he loves it. No trouble finding gold.
LOL
 

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Sandman

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Just don't disc out Pull Tabs and you will find plenty of gold since it is in the same range and even into foil.
 

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