Finds from my first hunt with Golden U-max

[Prospector]

Here are my finds from my first hunt with the Golden U-max. These were found at a local freshwater beach. The totals are as follows: (2) sterling rings, (1) junk earring, (3) quarters, (2) dimes, (1) nickle and (6) pennies. Good machine, great depth. Like the high tones for coins and silver. Low tone lets you know its iron. The other two tones kind of overlap somewhat. All in all a good machine that gets better than average depth and is priced reasonably.

 

[Tseeker]

n/t

 

[Prospector]

Never owned a Vaquero, but have had a few Cibolas. The Cibola had a little better depth than the Golden, but not much. For coins and park hunting the 4 tones that the Golden has comes in handy. Both are great machines in my opinion.

 

[tvr]

Nice! Sterling is always fun to pull up!!!

 

[tabdog]

Nice finds Prospector.

I'd be interested in the sounds that small gold makes.

Happy Hunting,

Tabdog

 

[Pap]

The Golden is a nice, fun to use detector. Unfortunately it has, on occasion, received some negative comments frequently by those who have never used one and are repeating what they may have heard. It has good depth but I will agree the two middle tones could be improved upon. The high tone can't be mistaken and another advantage is the fact that the discrimination can be set low so there is no loss of depth and targets judged by the tones. Also the notch system can, at times, be quite useful.
You had a good first outing with nice recoveries. Congratulations.
Pap

 

[slingshot]

I've read that by adjusting the notch width control, I believe, the tones in normal discriminate can be changed to this format: small foil-mixed iron/low tone; large foil-mixed low/nickel tone; nickel-nickel tone; tab-mid tone; zinc-mixed mid tone/high tone, and coins high tone, which gives some pretty awesome info. Have you read and tried that? I try to stop thinking about the Golden, but it always stays on my mind no matter how I try to reason not getting one.

 

[Prospector]

No I just got the machine and have not tinkered that much with it. I am still experimenting with the notch controls.