Hey all! I thought I would open a discussion that has been raised before but I am more and more perplexed by it. I found a gold chain the other night that was broken and had no pendant. The funny thing was I dug it up because it was a null with chatter (Im using an Excal II - 10") . So far in the last 2 summers I have found four or five chains but they are almost always a lucky find. It just seems like even though they are gold unless they are clumped into one pile or have a pendant the detector wants to null them out. I have even gone so far as to take a chain out into my yard and arrange it into different patterns and try different settings to see which one might work best and its still really hard to get a decent signal from it. Im curious what my bretheren of the water suggest for better results?? I often circle my nulls and wiggle the coil "inside" the null to see if it will speak...if it does I dig it. I find a few like this but even moreso I find a buttload of bobby pins. Please feel free to drop your two cents on me!
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Finding chains....
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Gulf Hunter
Active member
Dig, they are just tough to get a read on. Best case, it is kinda a nasty signal, one you may not dig, but I do. Broken low/mid, in most cases. I tend to believe what you are hitting is the clasps too, assuming there is no pendant, so a shallow chain is helpful too. You actually have the luxury of just kicking some sand outa the hole to see the target. I couldn't see the bottom here, if I had goggles on and had my face in the hole, savvy? It is always a good idea to kick some of that sand off a null, somtimes you can get a signal to come outa the null too. Hope this helps some.
Willee - Texas
Well-known member
Yep ... small gold chains are a tough one.
I have often wondered how many small gold chains there are under the sand being walked right over.
It might pay to take a gold prospecting type detector out the the beach some day and just look for them.
One that is sensitive to tiny gold flakes might detect them.
Place a small gold chain in a plastic bag and see if your detector can detect it.
I bet it can not.
If it can please post what detector and coil you are using.
Willee
I have often wondered how many small gold chains there are under the sand being walked right over.
It might pay to take a gold prospecting type detector out the the beach some day and just look for them.
One that is sensitive to tiny gold flakes might detect them.
Place a small gold chain in a plastic bag and see if your detector can detect it.
I bet it can not.
If it can please post what detector and coil you are using.
Willee
Neil
Well-known member
Willee said:
Shadow X5, X3, Tesoro Tejon, Vaquero, Cibola, Fisher F75........these all hit small chains and earrings well. GH is right, its mostly the clasp that the detector hits on, on a small chain that is.
Also a Fisher CZ5 and CZ3D will hit a pretty small chain, not as small as the above mentioned, but pretty good and will do really well on broken rings that some other detectors give a funky signal on.
Those are the detectors Ive used that are discriminators that will find them. The other Tesoros will do well also but not as good as the newest hot series, and Ive never tried the LST but would imagine that would do really well also.
Ive tried a Fisher gold bug and its a nightmare hunting with if youve got beaches that are packed with small iron, any iron really. Just to much digging.
HH
Neil
GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va
New member
thinnest gold chain of all times yesterday. = 9"er - sq. type chain
i believe it was due to the lobster claw or the little SO tag.............i sounded nice and low
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i believe it was due to the lobster claw or the little SO tag.............i sounded nice and low
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woodwizard
New member
to answer Willee's question about how many chains are under foot-alot.gold is just hard to detect thats why its so sought after.I think it takes a keen ear and lots of luck.with the amount of chain and pendants people wear to the beach you'd think hitting upon it would happen more often
trailblazing
Member
I use a Excalibur 1000 and I would also get the same iffy signal on a chain. I was in CA once detecting the beach low tide and found a small 14K baby bracelet that would have probably belonged to an infant or newborn. I was hunting at night and found it in the wet sand at the water line at about 7" . It gave me a iffy signal with some nulling like a broken signal but I decided to dig it as I usually dig most things and thats what it turned out to be. The links are made up of little hearts with rose gold and yellow gold with a small lobster clasp. You would think that they would be easier to find with a solid signal since the detectors are so sensitive.
Thanks and Good Luck
Thanks and Good Luck