CO - 47

[jkline]

Gold is a vicious metal detecting mistress. It's all over on the Etrac... on my Goldbug pro all the rings I've tested are in the 60's... howeverthehell you measure it, you will dig trash. Lots and lots of trash.

 

[Elmy]

yes....absolutely....the main reason I hunt mainly silver coins !......If you ever figure it out, pm me !!!!

 

[Monkeys Uncle]

As ya'll know, among the problems of chasing gold is gall-darn "pull tabs/beaver tails". Read on a MD site (don't remember which one) where someone was so curious about the 'ratio' of pull tabs to gold rings the he/she kept a record of 'hits' vs 'misses' and their findings were something like 1100:1. If real...and being a dry land detector, I'm tooooooo old (and ornery) to do that much digging. I will always dig nickel values and keep my fingers crossed...hoping for gold, but ok with an occasional 5 cent payday. Yesterday, dug a FE 14/12 CO signal and got a small, mower-damaged clasp/pin. Felt heavy enough to be Au...but it's 'plated' at best with major crimp into a "V" configuration. Suspect it's pretty old as school was built in 1911 and design is kind of ornate.