p2c said:
Great find! that will bring in some $$ if you decide to sell it. Then again if you know anyone whose name begins with J...
I found a 14K with f70, but the only gold with my E trac (besides plated and rolled rings) was a broken 10k ring last year. I don't think its so much that its bad on Gold as it is where it Ids gold and our tolerance of digging crap. The partial 10k ring I dug was 8 inches deep.
Hey Jon, very big difference between the F70 and the ETrac on finding gold. Finds from the ETrac in the hands of the capable users is audio driven. F70. like most other detectors simply lacks that awesome audio functionality. But like the Teks and a few others, the F70 has a much wider band in the low-to-mid range target ID values. Simple bands will lock on with a single value, not bouncy like trash or even bands with more complex settings.
As that inductive field crosses a target, the different facets of a medium or large setting will give off varying responses as with canslaw or even pull tabs. Simple bands and flat coins, within the fields readable range will give much more consistent readings. If you have a smaller range of values to guess from, you will be left with the option of digging it all. Then again I'm not familiar with whether or not there is a markedly different audio response from gold than there is from the multitude of trash items in the ETrac system.
So I'll throw this one out for you, if you're aware of the canslaw/tab trash layer in your search area, do not dig bouncy or junk targets within that range, only those deeper than the average trash layer. Conversely, if you have a solid read without variance in tone or TID in that square tab range, that's where the highest amount of good gold targets will be found at shallow depths.
I know most employ this scheme already with regards to silver finds, but it may also help in the mid range TID values also, where the pinpoint function can help with sizing the target at depth.
I know this works for me, using the F70 because there's one thing it is very good at, those mid and lower range targets and giving a good TID value within it's useable depth. Now what I need to do is to stop hanging around with you guys with ETracs and trying to keep up with you on silver finds!
Always figure out what you're machine is good at first, then let it play on that strength!
Golden fall coming on!
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