I have had my F2 since Feb 2009 and have a great time using it. I have found about $30.00 in clad. What I have not found is any thing gold or silver. Can someone tell me what a gold ring or silver coin should read? Going by my air test a gold ring is 29 on the VDI. I can't believe after all the tot lots and areas I have hit I have not found anything of value, for that matter I have not found any wheat's. What would that read? Thanks for the help
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Your missing something with your post. If your gold ring test #29 then I would suggest checking out any target within that range of numbers. Say #27 to #31.
A silver ring will come in at the top end of the display with quarters, 1/2 dollars, etc.
Take a #8 or #10 nail with you, lay it on the ground, set your discriminator to just elemate the nail most of the sweeps. Dig all good sounding targets, pay less attention to the meter, more to the sound. It will take time, it you will learn.
Have fun
A silver ring will come in at the top end of the display with quarters, 1/2 dollars, etc.
Take a #8 or #10 nail with you, lay it on the ground, set your discriminator to just elemate the nail most of the sweeps. Dig all good sounding targets, pay less attention to the meter, more to the sound. It will take time, it you will learn.
Have fun
I found my first gold ring with the F2 shortley after they first came out. In our local park the ground is pretty mild and when the ring hit, the VDI read #16....It was only about three inches down. The tone was smooth and repeatable in all direstions so I dug. The ring was a mans 10K Gold Band and read# 46 after I got the ring out. Go figure.....
BuckeyeBrad
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and that is even though one can come up with "on paper" air test ID's of the different targets in question, real world in ground ID's will usually be different, sometimes to an extreme degree. Partial masking, target orientation, and depth will obviously affect ID's also. Knowing the potential of the site and if and how its soil might skew ID's is about as good as it gets. If it was as easy as a certain number has a high probability of telling the operator what he is over at the moment, there wouldn't be more than a small fraction of good targets left. Bad news, good news. 
$30 in clad since February? That isn't very much. I've found that in the last 3 months. I humbly suggest you need to do two things:
Get your detector out more, and hit the right spots.
Gold rings are not as common as we like to think. Just because you see them here, does not mean they are. That is misleading. The posts here represent a cross section of forum users, from across the globe. Site selection and the realization that it is purely a numbers game will matter most.
The thing to do is to make sure you are in the right place for gold - that is site selection. This means being in the places where people are physically active in large numbers. This includes a fairly short list, in order of priority:
Athletic fields of all kinds, but especially those where throwing, tumbling and jostling occur.
Sunbathing/swimming spots.
Parks with huge numbers of people, where activities like outdoor fairs, concerts, etc. occur
Fairground/carnival sites where people get tossed around by rides, etc.
Any places where lots of people are concentrated in a small area and are active.
Even your run-of-the-mill tot lot can hold very little gold if it is in the wrong area. One that sees little more than a few kiddies and stay-at-home-mommies may not produce well. One to keep an eye out for is the playground with large latino populations nearby.
Now some will argue these points saying that just swinging your coil is enough... I mean, sooner or later even a blind hog can find a nut. But if you are to be successful at bagging a certain quarry, you must move the odds into your favor. You wouldn't hunt deer in the WalMart parking lot, after all, since that isn't where they live. The same applies to the finding of gold jewelry.
Get your detector out more, and hit the right spots.
Gold rings are not as common as we like to think. Just because you see them here, does not mean they are. That is misleading. The posts here represent a cross section of forum users, from across the globe. Site selection and the realization that it is purely a numbers game will matter most.
The thing to do is to make sure you are in the right place for gold - that is site selection. This means being in the places where people are physically active in large numbers. This includes a fairly short list, in order of priority:
Athletic fields of all kinds, but especially those where throwing, tumbling and jostling occur.
Sunbathing/swimming spots.
Parks with huge numbers of people, where activities like outdoor fairs, concerts, etc. occur
Fairground/carnival sites where people get tossed around by rides, etc.
Any places where lots of people are concentrated in a small area and are active.
Even your run-of-the-mill tot lot can hold very little gold if it is in the wrong area. One that sees little more than a few kiddies and stay-at-home-mommies may not produce well. One to keep an eye out for is the playground with large latino populations nearby.
Now some will argue these points saying that just swinging your coil is enough... I mean, sooner or later even a blind hog can find a nut. But if you are to be successful at bagging a certain quarry, you must move the odds into your favor. You wouldn't hunt deer in the WalMart parking lot, after all, since that isn't where they live. The same applies to the finding of gold jewelry.
Been in the game since the 70s and run many machines dahut gives many tips.
Attempting to cherry pick is only for real trashy sites, beep & dig is where success is found. Every year I dig around 60 pounds of trash I know this because I take it home and fill two buckets a year.
One hint is that if the VDI is bouncing around and not able to lock on these targets need to be dug. This year with limited hunting time due to work I have still managed 700.00 dollars and nine gold rings dirt fishing. My silver count is way down somewhat strange but I can live with gold.
Dan
Attempting to cherry pick is only for real trashy sites, beep & dig is where success is found. Every year I dig around 60 pounds of trash I know this because I take it home and fill two buckets a year.
One hint is that if the VDI is bouncing around and not able to lock on these targets need to be dug. This year with limited hunting time due to work I have still managed 700.00 dollars and nine gold rings dirt fishing. My silver count is way down somewhat strange but I can live with gold.
Dan
I think Dan hits it pretty well. There are one or two instruments out there that can help you to "cherrypick" as he puts it, but they are in a different class than the F2. With basic detectors like that Fisher, familiarity with your instrument, good site selection and a willingness to bend your knee will carry you far.Daniel A. said:
You might be interested to know that about half of the gold rings out there (47%), fall in the range associated with foil and nickles. Only a small number (15%) are in the range we assign to beavertail ring pulls, while the remainder (38%) can be anywhere between square pry-tabs and coins. This means the best you can do is learn how ring pulls react and avoid those, to bypass a little trash.
The downside to this? Some of the nicer rings fall right in that 15% range around ring pulltabs. There aint no magic bullet on this one.
Gold rings are most often alloys. Normally mixed with silver and copper. If all rings were the same size, a pure gold ring would ID higher than a 18 ct ring and and 18 ct would read higher than 12 ct and 9 ct. Silver rings nearly always read high because they are mostly pure silver. Try some air tests with different quality rings. Sadly most common gold rings fall within the ring pull range. My guess is that you found a 9 ct ring. also try this. Air test just the "ring" of a ring pull. mark the number. Make one cut in the ring with wire cutters. retest. the number will be lower. Thats EDDY currents for you. Justin Jordan Perth Australia