Gold isn’t pulltab range anymore

[Truth]

Video showed me things I didn’t know

 

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[dirtlooter]

dig it all!

 

[flgliderpilot]

Well looks like I just started a foil cleanup non profit.

 

[Ammoman]

I guess that is why beep and dig detectors are still king in the gold arena. No numbers to look at.

 

[Truth]

Well SH#$. Looks like I just started a foil cleanup non profit.

I’ve been passing up a lot of low tones. All that gold lol. Not no more

 

[flgliderpilot]

I guess that is why beep and dig detectors are still king in the gold arena. No numbers to look at.

Machines like the CZ-21 don't pick up small foil but do pick up small earrings, etc. I've tried using 50 tone to identify foil but it sounds just as solid as a good target most of the time.

 

[flgliderpilot]

I’ve been passing up a lot of low tones. All that gold lol. Not no more

Me too... I have been disc below 7 because it's been all trash. My wife's rings also came up at 4 and 6.

 

[Truth]

Me too... I have been disc below 7 because it's been all trash. My wife's rings also came up at 4 and 6.

Yep this video got my head hurtin. I’ve been on the Max, F75 program for the longest. Gotta change my way of thinking.

 

[SultansOfSwing]

The 10k ring I got the other week was 74-75. That's 10 to 12 higher than pull tab on my at max

 

[Truth]

The 10k ring I got the other week was 74-75. That's 10 to 12 higher than pull tab on my at max

Now that is strange

 

[SultansOfSwing]

Now that is strange

Ill see what it is on my 600 in the am. I think it was ringing up 18 or 19. Which is about right. Pull tabs were coming in at 15 and 16.

 

[Peter67]

I guess that is why beep and dig detectors are still king in the gold arena. No numbers to look at.

That's why i first use my Tesoro Lobo Super Traq on new places before i got my Equinox or Deus out.

 

[RTR]

last week at the ocean I dug it all.Every piece is one stinking hole. That little thin wire@ 5 oclock was over a foot down

 

[dirtlooter]

people forget that as the karat number drops, the alloy material used to make it increases. whatever alloy used can change the reading and then size, shape etc. if you are after gold, the number range is bigger than you realize. dig every repeatable signal and you know...yep, you may be digging a lot of trash. I try to dig by tone anyways but sometimes I have to look just because I am curious.

 

[digger27]

Some surprising things in this vid, that first 10k class ring coming in at nickel was one of them for me.
I have found 5 gold class rings from smaller to huge and all of them came in solid at low zinc...48-52 on Fisher detectors including one that looked to be about the size of the one he showed.
I wonder if using another mode would change his number?

It boggles my mind that people still believe and spread the misinformation that gold comes in mostly or only at nickels or tabs.
No way that is true and as you can see on that gold chain he passed over the coil even iron is in play.
He did not show or mention if any of those were white gold.
I learned my lesson long ago about that stuff when I dug this channel wedding ring on the left that was white gold, heavier and at least two sizes bigger than the similar yellow gold one I also found on the right...and both were 10k.
White gold can come in from low to higher depending on which white metal alloy the jeweler mixes the yellow gold with to get that white color.
In this case this fairly large men's wedding ring was low.





You know what else comes in around the 21- 24 number on Fishers and at the same area on my Tesoros and I assume all other detectors...these things.




I found that white gold ring next to a very old and super trashy basketball court, the one area where I always did and still dig most signals because of the extreme trash and masking problems around these courts and the extra high percentage of jewelry possible.
I must have dug about a dozen actual foil seals on that hunt before this signal popped up.
I bent over to dig another one just to get it out of the way, or so I thought at the time.
Couldn't have been more wrong and I was pretty shocked when that ring with ice popped up instead.



I use very little disc when hunting nowadays but even if I do about as high as I ever go is that 20-21 freshness seal foil area on anything I swing because of the lesson I learned on that white gold ring.
If you want to consider yourself a true gold hunter you are insane to use any more disc than that or believe that gold won't come in that low because it does...often.
It has for me, anyway.
Other gold could easily come in below those numbers too, broken rings, smaller pieces, but in a very trashy public site you have to draw the line somewhere or at least I do because digging tons of trash isn't my thing anymore.
Still like to find gold, though, so that freshness seal area on disc is pretty much my line in the sand when jewelry hunting.

The real range for looking for gold is pretty much...everything.
From iron on tiny pieces and chains up to about the quarter to half dollar area for large, pure jewelry pieces or the bigger gold coins.
If anyone has given up on a spots that only hunted them with disc a little below nickel or up and thinks there couldn't possibly be any precious metals hiding there please tell me where these sites are and I will be eternally grateful.
I don't seem to have gathered enough gold in my career quite yet.

 

[adamBomb]

I guess that is why beep and dig detectors are still king in the gold arena. No numbers to look at.

Yep. The numbers give me some information but are not 100% accurate. As long as it can tell iron from non iron on the beach its a winner. On my nox, I have had pennies, gold, and bottle caps all ring up the same # in air tests.

 

[sprailroad]

Ya know fella's, I do not think a lot has changed with any detector, not really, in that it is STILL a judgement call, to dig or not. Pull tabs, gold rings, nickels can be all over the map, be it shape, size, angle, depth.....still up to the operator. I for one cannot dig IT ALL, legs just won't take it anymore. Air test can be helpful, but not of course the final answer. Lots of great machines out there, and a lot of good people using them. What I tell people now is simple. 25% machine, 25% operator, and 50% luck.

 

[flgliderpilot]

Sounds like we should be disc'ing only negative numbers if we are jewelry hunting.

 

[Truth]

Ya know fella's, I do not think a lot has changed with any detector, not really, in that it is STILL a judgement call, to dig or not. Pull tabs, gold rings, nickels can be all over the map, be it shape, size, angle, depth.....still up to the operator. I for one cannot dig IT ALL, legs just won't take it anymore. Air test can be helpful, but not of course the final answer. Lots of great machines out there, and a lot of good people using them. What I tell people now is simple. 25% machine, 25% operator, and 50% luck.

You’re absolutely right I tried today for 5
hours and this dirt’s too hard to do all that I did. Never again I tip my hat to those Park gold diggers. I’m gonna stick with the luck.

 

[Truth]

Yep. The numbers give me some information but are not 100% accurate. As long as it can tell iron from non iron on the beach its a winner. On my nox, I have had pennies, gold, and bottle caps all ring up the same # in air tests.

It’s impossible to dig all those numbers 1,2,7,8,11.... I tried today NEVER AGAIN.