I give up so time for everyone to make me smart. I may be a year long newbie to the E-trac but I have a real good feel and comfort level with it. Have had great results with coins,artifacts of all kinds of other goodies but I could not find a ring in a jewelry store. Have dug every set of high tone repeatable signals and numbers there are and still nothing for rings. What am I not getting here (other than rings ha ha) Are they that difficult for the E-trac? Hunt mostly in TTF and relic pattern. Or are there numbers that I should be digging that I am over looking. Thanks for any help or advise.
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58 billion coil swings = zero rings
- Thread starter Deep Down
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BH_Landstar_
New member
Silver rings for me have been in the FE 12 - FE 14 lines with a CO number from 40 - 48.
Gold has been lower on the CO number -- 7 - 18.
It's just a matter of putting the coil over one.
Hope this helps.
Gold has been lower on the CO number -- 7 - 18.
It's just a matter of putting the coil over one.
Hope this helps.
Deep Down,
Have had my Etrac several years now and only recently found a 10k gold nugget ring. It was in an area of about 6 foot by 12 foot where some stands stood by a park basketball court. I had hunted this area a number of times. I usually use Bill S trashy park pattern and decided to open it up and used Andy Sabisch gold pattern and dug all good sounding low to mid tones . Dug a lot of pull tabs and junk...but did get the gold.
Stay at it....it'll come
HH
Ksabubba
Have had my Etrac several years now and only recently found a 10k gold nugget ring. It was in an area of about 6 foot by 12 foot where some stands stood by a park basketball court. I had hunted this area a number of times. I usually use Bill S trashy park pattern and decided to open it up and used Andy Sabisch gold pattern and dug all good sounding low to mid tones . Dug a lot of pull tabs and junk...but did get the gold.
Stay at it....it'll come
HH
Ksabubba
sprchng
Well-known member
Deep Down said:
I didn't think this would be possible. It must be the sites you're hunting.
I've been swinging the e-trac in public venues since September when my White's machine croaked in a City which was 80% of it was built after 1960. Your post made me curious so I dumped my good stuff in a gold pan and counted it. 54 silver rings, bobbles, pendants , chains , ear rings and other doodads. 5 gold rings and a nearly full quart baggie of "junk" jewelry not to mention 18 pre-64 silvers from the parks old enough to see silver in their youth. If you digging clean tones above 40 i don't see how you can NOT dig a ring now and then.
I agree it seems impossible. I average 25 to 30 hours a week in the field. Have found 24 silver,46 Indians,three large cents,over $32 in clad, and a boat load of tokens,tags and trinkets since March 19Th. And not a single ring same results in Sept and Oct 2012.I do hunt mostly older sites but you would have thought Aunt Agnes would have lost a ring some where my travels have taken me. Thanks for the advise and I will let you know if my luck changes. Also may try 4 tone ferrous and see if the mid tones help. HH Dave
Id have to say you have to go over them to find them but if I were you id start checking all good repeatable signals. My hearing is gone so tones don't register with me and numbers on the E can be like a wife and lie to you once in a while to keep you on your toes. Patience and good repeatable signals and you should only have to pass over one with your coil.
Good Luck
Grumpy
Good Luck
Grumpy
Ya can't find one unless it's under your coil. Or maybe right on the surface where you can see it, but it still has to be there. Gold rings will show as pull tabs many times, so if you have those completely disced out you are missing out on the rings too. But really it's luck and as someone said, "I'd rather be lucky than good any day of the week!!" I took a friend out to an older farm so he could try out my AT Pro (he was new with a BH), and he found an 18k ring. We went out a couple of days later and he found a Tiffany sterling ring with a tiny diamond in it. All the while I only managed clad with my Safari. LUCK!!
looknforgold
Member
Even though I have yet a gold ring, I have found 14 Silver Rings. All hit around 12-44, to 12-48......
They are there, you just have to get your coil over one. It's just a matter of time, GL and HH
They are there, you just have to get your coil over one. It's just a matter of time, GL and HH
sprchng
Well-known member
Deep Down said:
Like I say , it has to be the venues you're huunting.
Hunted a park this morning that was built around 1967 .
Dug 61 coins - one wheat probably 20 to 30 "nickel" signal which were mostly trash but --9 nickels and one 12-08 turned into 4.6 gm 14k mens white gold wedding band!!
I know how you are feeling,I think we all have been through your phase,it took me 18 months to find my first gold ring.But now things are different (24 so far this year) and lots of silvers.It is just a matter of getting tuned in to what your etrac is telling you.Yeah ok we all dig lots and lots of tear tabs etc,but the thing is it has to be done to get the gold.My experience has been that gold will fall anywhere from 12:03 through to 12:36 all depending on the size and the kt quality,There is no doubt when you hit a big mans gold ring there is a real solid tone,it is the small ladies fine rings that can be hard to distinguish.By the way even after 3 years now on the etrac I still hunt in the factory mode sometimes with a fully open screen in light trash areas,and as the trash gets worse I just wind up the disc to eliminate anything I don't want to find........Don't despair I bet there is gold where you are,I look forward to seeing the results......KJ
Idprospector
New member
I have found silver and gold rings pretty much from the start. I have found more silver and gold rings than silver coins. The most common place I find rings is in grassy strips with parking meters. also any curbed road edge with grass where everyone gets in and out of their car. The more times a day people get in and out of cars the better. Dig every repeatable tone and every quarter and dime signal for sure and you will find a ring for sure. Second most common area for me to find rings is in JR high and Senior high school football and soccer fields. I also find more rings in the grass at parks with swimming areas than I do in the sand or in the shallow water. I think everyone hits the water and leaves the grass alone.
electricmetal21
New member
Some things to remember about finding gold rings:
Gold rings give the same signal as pop tabs and lawn mower aluminum can slaw.
In a park, pop tabs, pieces of can slaw and other such junk that give the same signal out number gold rings about 50-100 to one.
For every gold ring you find, you'll have to dig maybe 50-100 pieces of junk.
Some of the posts you see here make you think that finding gold rings is easy. It's not, it requires a lot of digging and a LOT of really hard work
There aren't that many gold rings lost. If someone loses a valuable gold ring, they're going to hunt for it until they find it. It's only lost when they give up looking.
Gold rings give the same signal as pop tabs and lawn mower aluminum can slaw.
In a park, pop tabs, pieces of can slaw and other such junk that give the same signal out number gold rings about 50-100 to one.
For every gold ring you find, you'll have to dig maybe 50-100 pieces of junk.
Some of the posts you see here make you think that finding gold rings is easy. It's not, it requires a lot of digging and a LOT of really hard work
There aren't that many gold rings lost. If someone loses a valuable gold ring, they're going to hunt for it until they find it. It's only lost when they give up looking.
postmanpete14
New member
What is the average depth of the ring finds?
BH_Landstar_
New member
postmanpete14 said:
This depends on ....
Time (when it was lost)
weight of ring
size of ring
density of the ground (this affects the depth, an object can sink slow or fast in different ground conditions.)
Resent drop -- 0 - 1 inch
6 months -- 1 year -- 1 - 3 inches
2+ years -- 2 - 10 plus inches
Ok now the quest is on. Have hunted 13 hours in the past two days at nothing but parks and ball fields and can say with great confidence that there is not one pull tab,can slaw or ball of foil left in any of them. And still no rings not giving up but dammmmmmm it is getting to me. Dug a small round charm "almost a ring" that rang in at 07-19 so will even dig in those range of numbers where I would not have before. Thanks for the help and advise. Will let you now when the impossible happens. HH Dave PS if anyone is looking to buy 18,000,000 pull tabs I can set you right up!!