:bouncy:Reading a Gold bug thread I picked up a new technique..It works BTW:tesoro:

[Darkflight]

I have a Tesoro Silver & hunt in Oregon near the Columbia river. There are a few freshwater beaches here but they are very well hunted. The spot I went to today on my last visit I found some coins in out of the way places. But it was obvious it had been hunted.The beach is very hot (black sand & I think some buried iron) compared to the local parks. Luckily I have a ground balance mod on mine & I had to reduce the setting a lot till it ran almost silent. I like a hair of feedback on full power & silent on 10.

The coil is the 10 x 12 & it is what works best for me. Slowed way down it can pop targets out of trash & I did it again today for a nice small silver ring. Find your signal & give the coil a quick shake.A good target almost never breaks up.The rusty stuff & can slaw will break up usually & save you some wasted time.

I was reading about a Gold bug as there was one for sale on Craigs. The reviewer told a person who owned one outside of gold country-but near a beach - how to get the best use of what he had.

He mentioned that a lot of smaller jewelry has some very nice stones attached.I found some studs as I posted earlier so yea-this got my attention.
He said to slow down & use all metal to pick out stud earrings & other possibly valuable stuff that most detectors ignore.

Well I tried it at a the beach I had skunked (for jewelry) on yesterday.By using all metal & slowing way down. I heard 2 tiny targets. Quick sift & a pinpoint- a silver toe ring w/ blue stone. Then I found what I thought was a tack-its an earring but really cheap. Then I found a smashed tiny toe ring with a embossed pattern. Marked .925 but very dull. When I tried to hand straighten it-it cracked immediately. I'm guessing many years on the beach made it brittle.

The last goodie was in a local park. I had been there a month back but its in a busy area & also very hunted-probably by Monte!(Howdy-I'm the pellet gun guy you met a while back).

Not a lot going on-few stray coins. But by the swings in the hard dirt-there was a large patch of junky sounding targets. And a blip of a good one. Slowed way down & it was there but just tight between some junk-inch on either side I'd guess. But shaking the coil right over the spot it stayed solid in tone so DIG!. A nice silver ring from Ireland. It was split to make it smaller size & I bet it had been passed over a lot of times. I was running in Disc at the lowest setting & thumbing to reject tabs. But in this park the screw cap wine O's have done a good job & I had a pocket full of them. They just sound too good & I kinda long for a VDI sometimes.

BTW...
To test my machine I pulled out a fragment of a fine gold chain. It didn't record at all at my normal setting-below foil. It had to be in all metal to nail it & at zero disc it had to be right under the coil in the right spot-so I knew I was missing some small stuff last time out.I tried my troy X2 with the 5.75 coil & it has a threshhold all metal. So I tried min disc & it would hit on it but only when very close. So the 12" worked better there.

With visions of stud earring I went to the exact same spot as yesterday & well-it does work. Also note that all 3 of the rings were "split" The toe rings on purpose & the other to size it. And split rings don't ID very well as I'm sure you already know-so isn't that special! .

 

[tvr]

That little wiggle does work well with some detectors I've used. My issue is that more than a couple times hurts my elbow, even with the light weight detectors and it's a long time to heal.
tvr

 

[Darkflight]

I went to a local river today & a park. Frankly I was pretty tired from the day before & ended up using my Troy with the 5.75. I figured working the tight areas might find something the other detectors missed.

No such luck and just a bit of change for the effort.

For me the coverage/depth is that much better that I prefer the 12" in most areas. And the Tesoro shake works very very well.

But another point I was trying to make-that the Gold Bug review led me to try.
For the itty bitty stuff-All metal is the way to go. That is after the area has been cleaned using the normal methods. Thats what I was trying to get at with the thread. It was an area so detected that there were only a few poptabs on the whole beach. I ended up with at least 20 bobby pins & a few other hair holders & such. But I also scored some tiny rings ignored by mine & other detectors.

I'm going back to the 9" on the Troy for the saltwater beaches.. It's the X2 & I plan to reject the coins that ring in the high range. To maximize the chances for the good stuff.And many many tabs etc...The 9" is a very light coil & the depth is very close to the 12". I also did a GB mod on the machine so I can dial it in to the sand or whatever. I use a hot rock to make the initial setting. When changing coils it makes it easy to get it dialed in.The beach is a long drive & I only have so much time. Nowhere near enough to get to the all metal search mode so the X2 should have the edge.

 

[Furious T]

Thanks for the tips, and good luck with your hunting.