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F2 Settings For Gold Jewelry?
- Thread starter Hotwire
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Read your manual carefully. Learn to hunt right with proper coil speed and overlapping swings. Use your head to find where to hunt with the best chance of gold being under the coil. Nothing works like common sense and hard work. Gold jewelry is the hardest thing to find but it is doable. It is tough to make yourself dig foil and tab signals sometimes it can even come up as iron (usually deeper) pretty much dig everything until you are sure what you are passing up.
I don't hunt with an F2 but spent all last year with its cousin, a Discovery 3300 by Bounty Hunter.
Your answer is really quite simple. Dig everything not iron! Especially all nickel/pulltab signals for gold and all high tones for silver.
There is no magic setting. I think you will do better hunting in All Metal mode and just ignore iron audio, or if that gets to be too much, disc out iron completely and dig everything repeatable regardless of which direction you swing.
Trash metal and rusty iron will give one way signals or jump all over the place, A gold ring or a silver quarter will not usually do this unless it is heavily masked by something.
Dig all nickel/tab signals and all high signals and you will be rewarded. I promise!! You may have to dig a few hundred pulltabs but eventually one will be a gold ring!
Remember that large metal objects will invoke a high tone, so judge target size by pinpointing. If it pinpoint the size of a hubcap, it probably is a hubcap!
Unless of course your on private property, then it could be a cache of silver coins!!
GL & HH...diggindad
Your answer is really quite simple. Dig everything not iron! Especially all nickel/pulltab signals for gold and all high tones for silver.
There is no magic setting. I think you will do better hunting in All Metal mode and just ignore iron audio, or if that gets to be too much, disc out iron completely and dig everything repeatable regardless of which direction you swing.
Trash metal and rusty iron will give one way signals or jump all over the place, A gold ring or a silver quarter will not usually do this unless it is heavily masked by something.
Dig all nickel/tab signals and all high signals and you will be rewarded. I promise!! You may have to dig a few hundred pulltabs but eventually one will be a gold ring!
Remember that large metal objects will invoke a high tone, so judge target size by pinpointing. If it pinpoint the size of a hubcap, it probably is a hubcap!
Unless of course your on private property, then it could be a cache of silver coins!!
GL & HH...diggindad
Sensitivity on 5, and I disc. iron out if it's trashy. The manual says gold will ring from iron through zinc. My only gold rang at 49-51, a number I hadn't seen with other targets. As Pasttom said, "pretty much dig everything until you are sure what you are passing up". And use a good pinpointer. GL HH
REVIER
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Here is where gold has come in for me.
Not all my gold finds are in this pic either but this will give you a good idea where to dig which is...everywhere.
Most of this was found with the F2 in about 3 years, the ones that weren't were eitherr tested with the F2 or found by my F70 with similar numbers to the F2.
Really tiny stuff and thin gold chains might come in at iron, but there is a ton of iron out there.
Using the F2 I usually knocked out iron only and dug all solid signals no matter where they came in from foil on up.
I found a bunch of silver chains in foil too, by the way.
Gold hides in trash and likes to disguise itself as trash.
Not easy to figure out this metal and learn it's behavior and places where it might be found, I studied it for a couple of years and as I learned more I dug more out of the ground.
Still learning, too.
No better target to aim for in my mind.
Good luck!
Not all my gold finds are in this pic either but this will give you a good idea where to dig which is...everywhere.
Most of this was found with the F2 in about 3 years, the ones that weren't were eitherr tested with the F2 or found by my F70 with similar numbers to the F2.
Really tiny stuff and thin gold chains might come in at iron, but there is a ton of iron out there.
Using the F2 I usually knocked out iron only and dug all solid signals no matter where they came in from foil on up.
I found a bunch of silver chains in foil too, by the way.
Gold hides in trash and likes to disguise itself as trash.
Not easy to figure out this metal and learn it's behavior and places where it might be found, I studied it for a couple of years and as I learned more I dug more out of the ground.
Still learning, too.
No better target to aim for in my mind.
Good luck!