When you found your gold rings this was with the sniper coil? What where they ringing in as? Where I live EVERYWHERE is littered with pull tabs and cans galore. I tried to find videos to see what number they were ringing but have only found a few. What is a usual number some of the gold rings you have found ring in as on the display? Like Quarters for me always ring in the 77-82 range. 76 is usually just trash. Thanks for your help. I have yet to find any gold but silver and clad don't get me started!
35 gold targets to date and I just passed my 5 year anniversary in this hobby..3/4's of them found with the F2, 13 were found after I put on the sniper coil in a span of 14 months.
I found a few in the first two years by luck, a couple more in the 6 months after that but all the rest in just the last 2.5 years after I decided to really study this metal, how it behaves in the wild and I studied sites to in order to figure out the highest percentage areas to find that metal.
Most of the time I did not dig all signals to find them either.
Far from it, what I do is dig SOLID SIGNALS with the F2, rarely dig anything I come across that jumped more than three numbers, for instance a 28-30 signal I dig, a 28-32 hardly ever because that would usually be trash.
I slowly over time learned to get the center of he coil, any coil, over the target efficiently and using short quick swipes get most targets to either stay within that 3 number jump from one if not two directions...or not.
After digging tons of different targets for a long time I finally decided that those targets I could not get to stay within that three number span were trash and I would not dig them anymore.
Those that stayed within those rules I would dig every time no matter where they came in from foil on up.
This is not foolproof, I very could be missing some good targets this way, and not all trash jumps more than those 3 numbers, about 20% will still come in stable.
However by spending my time digging all targets at good numbers for coins and the 20% of those stable trash signals I still come across I waste very little time and energy digging bad signals and the bulk of my time digging better high percentage signals.
The result...I now dig way less trash than ever before and found and continue to find a higher volume of good targets and better quality targets too, and by that I mean gold.
I still do it this way no matter what detector I use and I still am finding more gold than I ever did when I started, more than I probably should deserve but I will still take it.
As far as where they come in I dig all numbers from 24 on up where small yellow gold rings come in to 52 where the largest of 5 10k class rings came in.
Higher karat can come in higher so I am always on the lookout for that, and silver can come in lower than the dime area, also, so in effect my rules are in effect for all signals I dig.
Jumpy ones stay in the ground, solid numbers get dug.
All gold I have dug had been from very shallow to no more than 5" deep.
Very deep gold can act differently and be jumpy, but every one I have dug has stayed within my 3 rule jump.
Every one.
I have found many in foil from that 24 on up through the rest of the foil numbers, in nickel at all those numbers and tabs at most of those numbers too...at least up to the 42-44 area.
5 class rings came in between 48 and 52.
Look for gold any way you want to, you don't seem to have much trouble finding everything else.
If you can use something useful to help you find gold in what I wrote here I hope you do and find some soon.
Here is some of the gold I have found and VDI numbers.
A few of my newest ones are missing from this group photo but it will give you a clue on where gold might come in.
