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First gold with sov gt

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Murphdasurf

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Found my first little bit of gold this morning with the new detector. Had I been running the disc setting I asked about in a different thread this would have stayed in the sand. Good call gulf hunter. Well I guess I am officially convinced on the discrimination thing and will have to dig just about everything on the beach other than the tell tale bottle cup grunt.

Charm is 14k and just under an inch from top to bottom and half inch wide. Eight inches down in the soggy stuff. Never found the chain.
 
That's the ticket...disc out NOTHING. And as you have seen, the BBS machines (I use an Excal) have a very specific sound with most bottlecaps. There are other things you can tell with experience. Like quarters, dimes, and pennies. And GOLD. :)

Here's a link to a post I made a long time back on some common sounds for the Excalibur. Your GT will be very similar. I recorded these with a small mic from inside my headphones so the recording level is low. Crank the volume all the way up and they sound real good. Please remember to crank it back DOWN again after listening, lest you blow your speakers out. :)

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?21,405738,405738#msg-405738
 
Great find Murph! I will not lead you astray mate! Believe me, I have agonized over settings, for a long time and finally am getting somewhere, thanks to cjc! You will not believe how sensitive the unit is, to fine gold pieces. Hate to be a nag, but be careful passing the bottle caps too. I usually am right, when I guess what it is, but an 18K fine gold chain(no pendant, charm or medallion), was a broken low tone. Broken rings and sideways rings have funny tones too. Dig it all, if you get tone, that's my motto, IT PAYS! The more trash you take out, the less you will have to find or deal with later! GH

OBTW, consider yourself wrecked! You now have an incurable obsession, which is very difficult to quench! You know what makes me feel better? Another piece-a gold! ARRRRRRRRRR!
 
excellent work . I am glad this happened . sometimes seeing for yourself is the only way. it looks small, any disc would have most likley zuzzed that bad boy out...there is so much small gold earings and what-not that fall below the small ring ...glad you saved that sucker from a sandy grave .......
 
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I have to wonder how in the world cans are getting shredded up into little pieces at the beach. I have three varieties a coin sounding and two low toners. Oddly not much in the way of pull tabs. The beach where I found the little gold was infested with it especially the closer you get to the "tourist" areas. I found three buried cans no more than twenty feet from a trash can. What the hell. And who takes tin snips with them to the beach to cut these things into little pieces?:confused: The best I can do so far id wise is to check size. The little ones can sound really good though.
 
Murph, I don't think it is a tin snip thing, as much as it is various stages of decomposition of the can. I think those little pieces are just what's left, that has not fully decomposed, just my opinion and YES, they sound GREAT! GH
 
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