Bounty Hunter Fortune Hunter

[Sideways Sherry]

Hi,

I got a brand new BH Fortune Hunter from a friend about a week ago. I want to go MD for gold/gold nuggets where gold is currently being found. Can anyone tell me what the best settings for gold is for this MD? Is there a specific coil I should be using over the basic one that came with it?

Thanks for your valued input.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Sherry, that machine is not designed for nuggets. It's a coin/relic/jewelry machine. Nuggets found in nature are rarely bigger than pinheads and grain-of-rice sized. So detectors made to find nuggets, are different that machines like yours.

 

[RobRieman]

Or you could look at it on the bright side, the only nuggets you will find will be worth a lot of money.

 

[SusanMN]

Try taking that detector to playgrounds, schools and tot lots. Set the discrimination low and search for gold in the form of jewelry. You might get lucky and you will have a lot of fun.

 

[Oregon Viking]

There is a nugget coil for a lot of the Bounty hunter detectors. Does it help? I don't know.

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Thanks for responding everyone. That nugget coil looks very interesting, thanks for the tip!

 

[Ism]

If you don't have a test nugget or small gold clasp from a necklace, ball up aluminum foil into BB sized piece or smaller.
Set your detector to discriminate just above iron (disc out iron). That is how you will want to set if for gold.
See how well it does detecting the aluminum foil. That should give you an idea how it will do on small nuggets.
Mineralized soil conditions will affect depth so if you air test, that is the best it will do on the small stuff.
While it's not a gold specific detector, it might work satisfactory till you can upgrade.
All detectors will detect gold. Not all detectors are suited to the task of nugget hunting.

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Ism,
Thanks for the tips. I have some gold that I sluiced from the river in a vial. I can't get it to register it at all. What could I be doing wrong?

 

[Ism]

If it's flour or flake gold, many detectors won't detect it. Likewise a very fine gold chain will be hard to detect. (Try your vial in all metal).
You should use a 4-6 grain nugget, maybe larger. Like the others said, you won't find the really small gold with your detector.
Probably not even large pickers, but you need to find out what size you can realistically expect to find before you go out.
The best would be with iron discriminated, but all metal will detect smaller gold.