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Gold ring settings?

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I need advice on the best settings to find a friends gold wedding band in a trashy area. What settings should I use to cut out some of the trash and make the detector ignore deeper targets?
 
I would set it in the jewlery program in the select mode and set the sensitivity to about 2 so you wont get anything deeper than an inch or two. Hope this helps.
 
Travis's settings are a good start, and if he can describe the size of the ring, you can tighten up the discrimation a bit more. Take foil out if it's a normal sized mens ring, which should signal around the pulltab area. Unless the ring is very large, the upper right hand corner coins area can be blocked out too. If you have lots of pulltabs where he lost the ring, you're in trouble. Try taking a few out and if they are the same then learn-reject it with the small cursor. However, I find that even I'm careful with rejecting pulltabs, it's very possible (one out of six or so) some gold rings will be affected by the pulltab-reject setting.
 
I would put it in digital and only check readings in the 2 to 10 range. Most mens gold rings will hit around 5 to 7. ocasionally a little lower if it's 14 or 18K. If its 10K it will hit much higher.
Best bet is find one of simular size and karret type, then black out the screen entirly and learn (accept) only that ring using the large cursor. The karret reading is very important using this method.
 
I had the same situation a while back. I got a ring similar in size and shape to see where it hit in the window. I lowered sinsitivity to 1 or 2(you can adjust this if your having to dig in the dirt and go as loww as you can). recovery fast and move at a normal speed but not too fast. took me 45 minutes to find it but it been lost for only 2-3 months, was right on top of the ground hidden by grass. sound came in loud and strong. pretty big yard and had to cover the whole thing. you will probably have to pick up a lot of trash to start with but you will soon know what is not the ring and can pass some of the trash up. good luck, its a great feeling
 
searching for a gold setting...looks life a leaf or a vine....hold four stones about 1/4c each.
 
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