Can you find a gold chain neckless

[jbc465]

Have an Excalibur and thinking of getting the new CTX3030. I didn't know that you can't find a gold neckless with these detectors. It seems to be a waste of time if you may not pickup these neckless up. Or is this something that we just accept? Or maybe people don't loose neckless. I understand that you may pickup on the clasp or the pendant if it was a small chain. And I would assume a large link neckless you would pickup. Most of the gold found are rings I haven't seen a neckless. Yet. That I recall.

 

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[lost items recovery]

Have an Excalibur and thinking of getting the new CTX3030. I didn't know that you can't find a gold neckless with these detectors. It seems to be a waste of time if you may not pickup these neckless up. Or is this something that we just accept? Or maybe people don't loose neckless. I understand that you may pickup on the clasp or the pendant if it was a small chain. And I would assume a large link neckless you would pickup. Most of the gold found are rings I haven't seen a neckless. Yet. That I recall.

A old hunting buddy of mine bought a 30/30 and said he loved it, then something changed and he bought a excal II and hasn't used the 30/30 since and never seen him swing it since then for months.
I've moved away now but from the brief conversations about it all I gained from him was he liked the excal better. Don't know why but if you're considering a change I'd research it first and ask questions as it's a big jump in price.
Good luck

 

[Longhair]

When/if you see one found, I'll bet the finder has/had a 6" coil on. Coils as big as the stock 11" are too big to be very sensitive to small gold chains.

 

[gunsil]

I found a couple years ago in parks with my old BFO detector. Haven't found any with my modern high tech machines but it could be because I haven't put the coil over one.

 

[cudamark]

Most detectors have problems finding a gold chain if the links are small. Detectors don't see the necklace as a whole, but, just as their separate parts. If you want to find small linked gold chains, you'll want to use a gold machine that is sensitive to small nuggets. Be prepared to dig a whole lot of targets however as they'll pick up every tiny piece of junk too. Using a small coil with some detectors can help but usually they still give a scratchy sound on the small link ones. Machines operating at a higher frequency seem to work better at finding small gold. You have to ask yourself if it's worth the effort. Personally, I don't worry about small linked chains. There's not enough gold in them to lose any sleep over. I'd rather cover more ground and possibly find a decent gold or silver ring instead.

 

[jbc465]

Well I guess I will forget about any chains for now. I'll just wait to see what shows up in the scoop. And if it is a chain. I will be happy. Actually I'm happy every time I'm swinging because you never know what your going to find. Thanks for all the input.

 

[lonewolfe]

2 ways to find gold chains IN the water (on land is a different story and I'll explain that at the bottom).

1: it's attached to a pendent or something that your detector actually CAN detect and so you make the chain find due to the machine picking up on the attached pendent or the like. (addendum --- if by chance it has an extremely large clasp - it may pick it up at very shallow depth too).

or

2: you get the ONLY water machine ever made that can actually pick up on "most" (not all) gold chains but that are not made/sold new anymore and are hard to come by on the used market these days (not telling which one because I'm waiting (have been for over a yr) to find one myself) and I'm not going to ruin my chances by having competition buying it before me or running the price up when one comes up for auction/etc!

3rd way (this is for land/beach hunting) is to buy a Gold Bug 2 OR a DT Vista Gold machine - BOTH are very sensitive to small/thin gold but they're not water machines so you're limited to land use only...

Those are your only choices ;-)

99.9% of ALL machines can not see gold chains -- you can stick a gold chain directly ON your detectors coil and not get a single blip out of it.

Unless you're talking something like the gold chains Rap music stars wore back in the 80s and it weighs like 5 lbs!!

 

[cudamark]

Just about any gold machine and surf PI machine will find small chains but they'll sound off on every other small piece of trash too. It's a matter of value of the chain vs. the time it takes to find them. Most small link gold chains just aren't worth the trouble.

 

[Jackalope]

Have an Excalibur and thinking of getting the new CTX3030. I didn't know that you can't find a gold neckless with these detectors.

Nope. You can put the gold neckless on the coil and it won't respond - it's blind to tiny, thin gold. These are low conductors and are not going to respond. However, if it has a pendant or larger loops, then it may, depending on the alloys. If you want to stimulate low conductors you need a high freq VLF - there are a few out there that can respond to micro-jewelry and fine gold.

 

[Acquisitor]

my favorite detector for gold chains in fresh water is the tesoro lobo with a 12x10" coil, put disc at 1 and sensitivity at max.

 

[jeff of pa]

as mentioned above only if there is a pendent on it.

I have found Silver & junk chains, with my Sovereign,
But the signals sounded washed out, not solid.
in every single case I remember, I wondered if it was a mass Spill of those very small
tiny round Split Shot fishing sinker balls or gum wrappers.
there was no way to pinpoint.
So if your not willing to investigate those 99.9% odds of being a waste of time
signals, No you will probably not find a chain.