Fisher F-75 LTD at the beach for jewlery question

[comisoas]

I am going to be concentrating on a particular freshwater beach in the area as soon as my scoop arrives. I mainly am interested in pulling as much jewlery out as I can with limited time. What numerical reading would you concentrate on? I have air tested several rings with the following readings:

14K gold chain -19
Triton Titanium ring-34-35
Platinum ring-31
white gold ring-35-36
wife's diamond ring-22-23

If the ring is on it's side, the number seems to go up 2 or 3.

From what I have read, JE mode is very sensitive and perhaps the best mode for my hunting. I came to the conclusion after my air tests, that my best bet would be to dig anything between 19 and 36 or so, for my best chance to come up with some rings. Also, run in 2F and dig repeatable tones, even ones that tend to skip around. I have heard advice to dig ALL repeatable tones at the beach for jewlery.

Does anyone have any experiencial advice to give? Numbers would be welcome. I have recently been digging just 19-36 repeatables. I have been finding foil, tabs and nickels, which I know is good because that is were the rings are. I have not found one yet, but know I must have perseverence. Thank you for your advice for this fresh water beach hunt. I plan to spend all day there when I can, take it slow. Also, where would perhaps be the best place to focus; just inside the water line, up on the beach where people lay, etc. Eventually I want to get the CZ-21 to get deeper into the water, but the F-75 is the best I can do for now. Thanks, Bryan

 

[comisoas]

Wow, not one comment on the Beach Forum! I received 8 comments on the F-series Fisher forum. I thought it would be the other way around....anyway, here is what ai found on some tests:

Here are the readings that I had during a test, buried 5" in my yard:

wife's diamond wedding band-20-22
my wedding band-50-54
about 6 other small gold rings my wife had all fell between 19 and 24

I found that all signals were very very jumpy, but the numbers above were the predominant numbers. Also, I found that because of EMI, I ran sensitivity at 30 and still received very strong signals in BP mode. DE could pick up very well too, yet not quite as strong. I even put a tiny gold ring on its side at 5" and found that I could barely pick it up going one direction, but the other direction I would get a loud double beep. I even went to sensitivity 20, and in BP mode, still received quite a strong signal. Fascinating test, particularly on the jumpiness of the numbers.

I air tested some other rings and here is what I came up with:

14K gold chain-19
Triton Titanium ring-34-35
Platinum ring-31
white gold ring-35-36

If the ring was on its side during air testing the numbers would go up 2 or 3.

 

[qkslvr]

The type of metal and thickness of band will affect the VDI numbers. I would dig everything from 18 up, the bigger silver rings will ring in the 80s. All you need to eliminate is the small nails, dig everything else.

Wayne

 

[comisoas]

At the beach I would dig anything in the 70's through 90's too

 

[GeorgeinSC]

The machine I use at the beach (Excalibur II for wet or Sovereign GT for dry ) discriminates out iron and steel and I dig EVERYTHING else. Even when all indications are that it may be a bottle cap or a pull tab I still dig it. Some times that pull tab comes out of the sand round and yellow marked 10K. Or in the case of the Gold Grill that I found not marked at all.

 

[mudpuppy]

What George said is mega important for a beach hunter..DIG It ALL....all you need is one good find to make your day...dont waste time evaluating the ping...focus more on finding the ping and scooping it fast, and quickly assessing what that particular ping is telling you about the area...its age, depth, composition, etc...all super important...if you are hitting deepish small foil and old beavertails, you should be getting excited...if you are hitting lead split shots, and nickels you should really focus up..so right behind site evaluation, regarding cuts and sand movement, fast target retrieval is the key, and maybe primary on a major popular beach, THE primary skill....I will toss out this non-ring picture as an example of what may await you, unlike a ring, they dont hit hard, nearly anybody with halfway decent gear is not gonna miss a ring...my first find of any note beach hunting, at a popular place hunted hard....can you imagine what this signal sounded like? [attachment 294700 gold.jpg] F70 up n the dry sand, off to the side...
Like a freaking piece of foil, wire or scrap of somesort! Good thing at the time I didnt know any better and was digging it all! So dig it all and you will learn a whole lot of what we all pass over as 'trash"...get good at fast and ALL target retrieval, like George said, and let your eyes sort it out, and your brain tell you whats up with this?... Of course this find was not an aberration, since then, I hunt all the signals on the beach, especially the 'bad' ones and am damn quick at getting them and moving on...thats about it...beach work is tough duty...bad pings are your friend..pay attention and recognize hot zones when they show up...they may not be anywhere near the water either... both these other ones though found with the Pro, would have also been found with the 70...so dont worry about that...
Mud