Silver Slayer
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- Jun 19, 2010
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- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Explorer SE Pro, XS, Minelab Excalibur Sea search, Fisher F2
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Has anyone dug a solid Zinc signal and actually came up with a Gold ring?
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fishbone3d said:Naa- Just loaded the picture for an extreme example. Had to chuckle a little bit. It would have to be a piece of gold of large size to get a zinc signal, because of it's conductivity.
Treasure Pleasure said:Has anyone dug a solid Zinc signal and actually came up with a Gold ring?
Dano Sverige said:One of these days you stubborn yanks (and Reb's) will learn to stop depending on what your machines screen tells you and just dig ANYTHING that gives a good sounding tone on both swings!!!
You'll know exactly what it is once you dig it up. If it's gold then well done and congrat's. If it's crap...then welcome to the joys of metal detecting!
Dano Sverige said:One of these days you stubborn yanks (and Reb's) will learn to stop depending on what your machines screen tells you and just dig ANYTHING that gives a good sounding tone on both swings!!!
You'll know exactly what it is once you dig it up. If it's gold then well done and congrat's. If it's crap...then welcome to the joys of metal detecting!
( i have an at pro and copper pennys "pre 1982" come up as dimes, zinc pennys ring from 75/79. so i dont think his detector needs recalibrated. but i do believe someone in here did say they got some gold that rang like a zinc penny.)fishbone3d said:I would call Fisher, and see what is up with that. Your detector may need calibrated or something. Pennies should be pretty close to the penny range, not dime. It just doesn't seem right.
I was just saying to call Fisher, because of that. I have a Teknetics T2 SE that is made now by Fisher, and it usually always rings true on Pennys. True on the gold and penny reading though. I would guess, that if it was like 10k or so; that the reading would be higher because of the other metals in the gold. All the gold that I have found though, has been lower. You never know though. Good luck on your Fisher. You have a hot little machine there!zincmaster said:( i have an at pro and copper pennys "pre 1982" come up as dimes, zinc pennys ring from 75/79. so i dont think his detector needs recalibrated. but i do believe someone in here did say they got some gold that rang like a zinc penny.)fishbone3d said:I would call Fisher, and see what is up with that. Your detector may need calibrated or something. Pennies should be pretty close to the penny range, not dime. It just doesn't seem right.
hh zinc
Your right, there is nothing wrong with his machine. The Ace 250 reads copper pennies and dimes on the same notch also.zincmaster said:( i have an at pro and copper pennys "pre 1982" come up as dimes, zinc pennys ring from 75/79. so i dont think his detector needs recalibrated. but i do believe someone in here did say they got some gold that rang like a zinc penny.)fishbone3d said:I would call Fisher, and see what is up with that. Your detector may need calibrated or something. Pennies should be pretty close to the penny range, not dime. It just doesn't seem right.
hh zinc