Has anyone had any luck with the ETRAC Factory Jewelry Pattern?

[looknforgold]

Which pattern would you suggest, the factory Jewelry pattern or one more closed pattern like I see posted here. I have dug a lot of Silver, but I would love to start turning my focus on more Gold. I know I'll be digging more trash, but the Gold to Silver Payoff is huge, thoughts?

I will be using a 6in Excelerator Coil...

 

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[cudamark]

Depends on where you're hunting and how/what kind of junk you're running across. I like to hunt in all metal when possible. When it isn't, I mostly use a modified Andy Sabisch beach pattern. If there's tons of iron junk, I switch to a 2 tone ferrous setting otherwise I like the multi-tone conductive. Gold jewelry can range from 08 to the mid 30's on the conductive side and gold coins even higher so you'll have to dig some sketchy numbers if you don't want to miss anything. The ferrous numbers will stay pretty consistent around the 12 line. I haven't found anything below 10 or higher than 14. It will vary a little depending on the metal that's been alloyed with the gold. Platinum can read even lower on both scales....down in the foil range for small pieces.

 

[looknforgold]

Depends on where you're hunting and how/what kind of junk you're running across. I like to hunt in all metal when possible. When it isn't, I mostly use a modified Andy Sabisch beach pattern. If there's tons of iron junk, I switch to a 2 tone ferrous setting otherwise I like the multi-tone conductive. Gold jewelry can range from 08 to the mid 30's on the conductive side and gold coins even higher so you'll have to dig some sketchy numbers if you don't want to miss anything. The ferrous numbers will stay pretty consistent around the 12 line. I haven't found anything below 10 or higher than 14. It will vary a little depending on the metal that's been alloyed with the gold. Platinum can read even lower on both scales....down in the foil range for small pieces.

Thanks..... I try to dig everything around 11-12 on the Ferrous side like you stated if it has low conductive numbers. I use TTF a lot anyways, I have to for the places I hunt most of the time.

Just get worn out sometimes and there are some Soccer fields, etc around the City and I'm just looking to chasing some Gold for a change besides the Silver.

Also, what kind of Vibraprobe you have, I'm thinking about buying the waterproof PI one for Salt water, are they well made?

 

[cudamark]

I have the 580 and it works great. Very well built. You might get some cross-talk with your E-trac (or other detectors for that matter) if they get too close to one another. When I use it, I keep the detector coil as far away from the pin pointer as possible to keep that from happening.

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

For jewelry I really like to open up the screen. That stuff can hit anywhere. I have noticed it usually hits harder than the average can slaw.