Best spots for gold?

[travis1460]

Hi,

I have been detecting for about 10 years and I'm only 25. I have used all the top brands of detectors except for fisher although that will change because I just purchased a fisher coinstrike. I have found quite a few barber dimes, mercury dimes, silver rosies, silver rings, v nickels, buffalo nickels, indian head pennies, and numerous wheaties. I have dug tons and tons of pull tabs and foil but no gold? I mainly hunt public parks known for plenty of activities and foot traffic and still no gold. I hear beaches are good but I have never hunted one and don't know where all the local hot spot beach sites are. Am I looking in the wrong types of areas? Where have some of ya all found most your gold rings from?

Thanks

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Hi,

I have been detecting for about 10 years and I'm only 25. I have used all the top brands of detectors except for fisher although that will change because I just purchased a fisher coinstrike. I have found quite a few barber dimes, mercury dimes, silver rosies, silver rings, v nickels, buffalo nickels, indian head pennies, and numerous wheaties. I have dug tons and tons of pull tabs and foil but no gold? I mainly hunt public parks known for plenty of activities and foot traffic and still no gold. I hear beaches are good but I have never hunted one and don't know where all the local hot spot beach sites are. Am I looking in the wrong types of areas? Where have some of ya all found most your gold rings from?

Thanks

I just found two this week a man's ring 3.2 grams 10k and a ladies gold band 14k 4.1 grams
The mans ring was found in a park that host musical shows and the ladies was a wide open park field.
Using Whites XLT coin and jewelry program
Ladies band VDI 32 Mens ring VDI 27
I also hunt the same sites that you do and usually my gold ring summer finds average 4 to 6
Silver are a bit more so far no silver yet.
Just keep at it and you'll find them yet
Funny thing I hunt lots of beaches and have yet to find gold

 

[UK Brian]

I can never see why a park should be considered a good place for rings as the very best you can do is locate the small percentage of rings that have been lost because they don't fit the current owner. Buying a new ring you would get a correct fit and it should remain in place even if throwing balls etc.

Pick a site thats got water and public activity and you multipy the odds up as fingers shrink as they enter cold water and you have a 100% of rings potentially able to fall off. Not as good as the average beach for ring losses as there's never the amount of people but then you don't have the competition either.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

In the water and adjacent swimming beach areas are #1.

Parks where their is throwing and the like along with volleyball sand pits.

Sledding hills in the winter while in use as wet gloves etc. are taken off, even after the snow is gone.

One thing we do know gold rings are lost every day but silver coins are not reseeded.

Foil area seems to be the best area on the meter as they consist of thin gold rings with nice stones and account for over one third of the gold rings lost and usually not that much foil in most places compared to the thousand varieties of pulltabs that litter our public areas..

 

[Larry (IL)]

Second to beaches are tot lots, (playgrounds). Kids not only lose their ill fitting rings, but they tend to get into mommy's bling and are lost at recess. If you hunt private property, (homes) takes extra time around flower beds and gardens.

 

[slingshot]

I don't rule out any place. Here are some of the places from people who got me to find theirs:
By a tv antenna outside for a man who was adjusting his antenna and the ring fell off.
In the side yard by a man whose fingers got sweaty mowing the yard
School yards because their children got into the jewelry box
Side of the road from a lover's spat
Small pond from the jet ski turnover
For the elderly patients whose fingers have shrunk from illness near the carports,etc.
EYEBALLING while detecting for the rings that are not detected from discrimination too high or whatever. I've even found them while riding on my bike on the side of the road.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

You've gotten good answers so far. Parks and turf are actually poor areas to try to be a "hero" and get gold rings from amidst the tabs and foil. Sure some are there, but you will pay a penalty of hundreds of tabs, shrapnel, foil slaw, etc... before you ever get a gold ring (especially in the more blighted older parks, perhaps not as punishing at upscale nicer parks).

So the trick to getting gold rings, is NOT the old addage of "turn down the disc. and dig foil till your arms fall off". That is the knee-jerk advice you will most often get. And pitty the poor soul who tries to apply this, and goes to junky urban blighted parks, and digs foil and tabs till his arms fall off.

The trick is to go the places where gold jewelry is more likely to be .... TO BEGIN WITH!! Namely, as you have seen in the advice others have given: swimming beaches. Think of it: they are the perfect recipe for jewelry losses: 1) people lathering up with slippery suntan lotion (read: rings come off easier when fingers are slippery). and 2) people frolicking around in cool waters (read: cool waters shrink fingers), and 3) people lying flat on the ground sun-tanning (read: un-natural position where necklaces come off easier than up-right positions) 4) people swimming in the prone position (again, an un-natural position), 5) people taking off their jewelry for "safekeeping" and putting it in their shoe at the edge of their beach blanket, etc... 6) people pitching frisbees, balls, thrusting their fingers in and out of sand to make sand castles, etc....... all "recipes" for jewelry to come off. And lastly 7) sand is much easier to dig in

And the worst part of parks is where people eat and cook. Like around picnic tables, and around BBQ pits. Because those areas of foil and tab magnets (and molten can nuggets from cans and foil getting in the flame portion of BBQ pits). If you really wanted to be a hero and rescue gold rings from turf, at least distance yourself from picnic table and BBQ pit areas, and instead go to the sports/athletic usage areas of the turf.

When I hunt turf, I'm usually angling for high conductors. If I really wanted gold jewelry and nickels badly, my time is much better spent on swimming beaches. Just like in the game of blackjack: If you have 20 in your hand, it's time to "hold", EVEN though the next card *might* be a one card. Because odds are, it's not going to be a one card. The same logic applies in detecting. Sometimes you have to use your time wisely, and go where the odds are, and be a little discriminating in areas full of junk.

 

[slingshot]

Tom, I hope you'll forgive me-but 75% of the rings I've found in my area showed as "foil". Perhaps we can meet on agreement with this: I set my Ace 250 in a special "custom mode" setting which is the same as the "coins mode" but with the "foil" icon added. This allows me to find rings in the "foil" zone and reject the tabs-and I only use this in the places you're referring to. There are MORE likely to be rings there because no one else wants to hunt there. I also use the sniper 4.75" coil to work amongst the trash. That's how I paid for my sniper coil in 2 months.

 

[travis1460]

n/t

 

[Tom_in_CA]

slingshot, the question at hand is not "where do gold rings read?". That is a given, that they will read down into foil and tabs range. That is not the questino. The question I was focusing on, is where is the best places to look for gold rings. Sure: you can go dig foil till your arms fall off, in blighted urban park, before ever finding a gold ring. Why? Is it because gold rings don't read in the foil range? No. It's because the ratio of foil to gold rings, where you're hunting, is very poor. There are better hunting grounds (where yes, you tune foil and tab #'s to edit in your disc. range) to look for gold rings.

To illustrate this: I have been on beaches after storms, where all the light-weight things (foil, tabs, and caps) are washed out, leaving only the heavier items on the beach (mother nature's natural sluice box). You can bet that we're "holding our breath" with each low conductor signal we get But those same "low conductor signals" in an urban blighted vacant lot will ....... 99.9999999% of the time be: foil, tabs, and caps

 

[celtex]

best place is the grass around pools. Any pool, private or public.

 

[harvdog42]

It is tough finding gold at parks. It is tough finding gold anywhere but less so at the beaches. In one park close by my house that I detect often, I've probably found a dozen or so rings...but only one gold. Having said that, I seem to find the most jewelry in shady areas. I read a post somewhere that a guy that had been detecting for twenty-five years had never once found a gold ring digging a pulltab signal. The gold ring I found at that park was in the foil range right off a concrete picnic area. Come to think of it, the half dozen or so gold rings I've found on land have all been under the nickel range but the signals were all strong sounding. About all that's left in that park are a couple hundred pulltab signals. My best guess based on the experience I have is that if I dug all of them...I would have two hundred pulltabs.

HH Harvdog