Hj everyone I just had a question on how to find gold jewelry with the mxt pro. It seems very hard because it alwaysbcomes up as a pull tab / ring. When using the stock 12" coil there are so many targets that come up as pull tabs. Is there a way to tell the good pull tab/ ring targets from the bad.if I were to dig every pull tab or ring target I would be digging holes every 3 or 4 feet. Maybe this will change withe smaller coils but it seems impossible to know which pull table /ring ids to dig. I was just wondering how do you know which ones to dig. Or do you just have to dig them all. Thanks. Frank
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Finding gold with the mxt pro
- Thread starter Seabass2k
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Larry (IL)
Well-known member
You have to dig them all my friend. Some hunters will know what the common tabs ID as and ignore those but even then, you might pass on a good ring and not know it. If there were a detector that can tell the difference, they wouldn't be able to make enough of them fast enough.
I have a 12" 300 coil and i know what you mean. so, i bought a 5.3. thinking that might be the answer. wrong, I do see the difference in the coil. the 5.3 isn't picking up the deep stuff in the ground or the surrounding stuff as much. it's made for more shallow stuff. but, Larry(IL) is right you do have to dig. remember dig, dig, dig. you don't want to miss out. I;ve been out in my yard today and i keep finding cast iron,and oil can tops. I'm new at this game too with a month of experience I'm learning and reading other letters so i can find the edge. so, go luck and I know it's hard digging everything but that's the game of being a winner I guess. mouseman crescent city,ca
Walkingadam
New member
I learned my lesson, sorta.
Went to a park nearby in Elk Grove, Ca. around 1980 with a greenhorn and he was excited to find something. Handed him my Whites and he was digging up everything(about a million beavertails and poptops), I mean he dug every single signal and an hour later after covering about 10 square feet basically in the middle of nowhere of the park grass he pulls up a gold diamond encrusted ring which he sold for $4100. ARGHHHH!!!
Fast forward 2000 I'm back into detecting and had forgotten the lesson after years of gold dredging. No jewelry.....then it dawns on me, get off my butt and dig more "iffy trash" and like magic, jewelry ! Started finding rings and chains again. Business busy and fell out of detecting again.
Now, actually two days ago I got a MXT Pro and starting just a step above "greenhorn" again. Gotta relearn the blips and beeps, the odd readings indicating jewelry likely even as its indicating as trash or more like "5 cents or ring". Arm & shoulder is sore, back is sore, knees are dirty. Got the little pile of clad growing, a 3" copper bell shaped thing or whats left of it after the park lawn mower whittled on it a bit, got the dog tag, the key, the porno token and a bus token...I need to dig more trash, I know them rings'n'stuff is awaiting for me to bring them back into the sunlight.
Moral of the story - DIG, DIG, DIG !
Went to a park nearby in Elk Grove, Ca. around 1980 with a greenhorn and he was excited to find something. Handed him my Whites and he was digging up everything(about a million beavertails and poptops), I mean he dug every single signal and an hour later after covering about 10 square feet basically in the middle of nowhere of the park grass he pulls up a gold diamond encrusted ring which he sold for $4100. ARGHHHH!!!
Fast forward 2000 I'm back into detecting and had forgotten the lesson after years of gold dredging. No jewelry.....then it dawns on me, get off my butt and dig more "iffy trash" and like magic, jewelry ! Started finding rings and chains again. Business busy and fell out of detecting again.
Now, actually two days ago I got a MXT Pro and starting just a step above "greenhorn" again. Gotta relearn the blips and beeps, the odd readings indicating jewelry likely even as its indicating as trash or more like "5 cents or ring". Arm & shoulder is sore, back is sore, knees are dirty. Got the little pile of clad growing, a 3" copper bell shaped thing or whats left of it after the park lawn mower whittled on it a bit, got the dog tag, the key, the porno token and a bus token...I need to dig more trash, I know them rings'n'stuff is awaiting for me to bring them back into the sunlight.
Moral of the story - DIG, DIG, DIG !
Dug a gold ring around the nickle range of 13-15 and dug a thin silver ring that rang a "SOLID" bottle cap. You just never know, however if you are detecting in a game field (Baseball, soccer, etc.) and detect a non iron object, you MUST DIG. Though there is some trash, but most trash will be found off the playing fields!!!
Critterhunter
New member
Love to hear the land ring hunting stories. Just remember, if you are hunting a sports field digging it all in the hopes of a gold ring try to probe the shallow stuff with a screwdriver. Digging it all in a sports field could lead to getting kicked out for good. I always probe what I can on shallow stuff, especially in sports fields. You guys may have different areas then I do but the ball diamonds I hunt on occassion are so nicely done that I'm deftly afraid of the city kicking me out if they see me digging in there, so I try to probe what I can.
I've been hunting with my White's MXT for about 6 months now and YES I've dug my share of pull tabs and screw caps but I dig just about every signal. A couple of weeks ago, I got a nickle/ring display on my screen and I thought here's another pull tab but when I dug it I pulled out a 14 Karat gold ring! Being persistent on your digging really does pay off.
Take the rings that you have & do a test with them. In my soil a nickle is always 18 or 20 vdi, most gold rings I find are 18,20,32,42 vdi & I have noticed that the vdi does not change when going over them. Can slaw will jump around & most of the pop tops are 22,24,26 hope that helps.
Critterhunter
New member
Very good tip about most gold rings locking onto one or maybe two VDI #s. I scanned in over 100 gold rings that a friend found water hunting over the years digging every signal above iron, so the test pool of rings wasn't biased in any way by only digging the good sounding signals and such. Anyway, the vast majority of rings would lock onto one or perhaps at the most two VDI #s. There were a few that changed by 3 or more numbers, but those rings had odd webbing such as fine holes all over them and such that gave them an unstable VDI and a sick sound. Rings are round like a coin, so most of them should sound round, smooth, soft, "warm", and so on, while trash can sound bouncey, bangey, harsh, hollow, sick, and change by 3 VDI #s or more (especially if it's odd shaped trash). You have to swing at these potential rings from two different sides 90 degrees in relation to each other to see if the ID changes by say 3 digits or more indicating it's probably odd shaped trash, but being that a ring is round it will usually stay with one or maybe 2 VDI numbers when doing that. Just pay attention to how a nickle sounds and acts with the VDI and rings should be that stable and sound "round" like that, although of course the pitch could be higher or lower depending on where they fall on the VDI scale.