Gold ring testing

[Tom Slick]

Just got done testing the Racer on about 50 Gold rings I have found. The lowest TID I got was a 46 on a very small and thin child's gold ring. The highest I got was a 72 on a large class ring. Still quite a ways below the zinc penny 82. I didn't try the silver rings as they almost always come in at a dime 83 or higher. That makes me feel better about discing out the zincs without the worry of missing gold rings. I'm sure, somewhere out there in the world there is a gold ring that would read an 82 but it would have to be huge and probably 10k. The odds of me swing over one at a park have to be pretty slim. I did have three men's wedding bands that read 55, right on the nickel number. I went out for awhile yesterday, dug three nickels out of 63 coins, that sounded just like a nickels and read right on 55. Sometimes you hit those 55 signals and I've found that If I'm a little uneasy about the sound, it will end up being a tab but when I'm confident it's a nickel, it will be. The audio on the Racer is excellent. Those coin and ring sounds are soooo clear and round.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

There's one problem with that test. The Racer will upaverage them to a higher TID the deeper they get. For shallow targets no issue, but deeper ones the TID will be completely off.

 

[3RINGER]

But even with a TID being off do they still have that sweet tone? When I'm hunting the tone is what I'm mainly paying attention too. If it's ruff it normally turns up junk IMO.

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Yes it's the tone I've found in 3 tones mode.
Every time there is a crystal clear banging tone it's been a good item. You can stand still and sweep at a crawl 2-3" sweeps back and forth with this machine and it still gets it done no need to hurry. If there is a bit of a buzz it's trash unless the target is deep and you're running stock 70 gain/sensitivity and get dashed lines on the screen and the sound is modulated or not loud indicating deeper target possibly. Then I used to turn up the sens/gain into the 90's and it gets an id and either gets a clean tone or a buzz still then I know good or bad. Turned out the first time I went back and checked this phenomenon out after having it happen a couple of times when I first used the machine and it was deep buffalo nickel.
I generally run gain/sens at 95 now and just give a good listen and use the pinpoint trigger to center a target then re sweep over that small spot to listen in normal mode especially co located targets.
I had a nickel and crushed can piece next to each other the number was jumpy high 40's to low 60's but hit on 56 a few times and I pinpointed and re-swept and got a tiny good spot tone clear and next to it a buzzy tone so I dug and got a nickel then re swept and dug the can piece next to it with the OOR coil.
I mean you can really crawl along and sweep very small 2" sweeps and listen for real clean hits over the buzzy fringe hits and know it's probably a good target especially in dense target rich spots. If it's a clean area then sweep away like normal and it will keep up no problem and blam on a target to make you stop and investigate it.

 

[Tom Slick]

I'm usually hunting parks that don't have much age to them so I'm looking for more recent drops of coins and jewelry in my trashy park areas. I usually run the gain at 01 to really help separate the good targets from the bad. The low gain also keeps the coins from overloading but the bottle caps usually do overload. This in addition to the fuzzy sound make skipping the bottle caps fairly easy. I run in three tone and then set my two tone gain to somewhere between 70 and 95. If I get one of those deep double dash TID's then I just toggle over to two tone and it will show a TID number almost always. You're right about the Racer up averaging but that's not an issue because if I get a good sounding signal I'm digging it no matter what the TID number is because it's above my Filter (disc) setting.

 

[TabWhisperer]

I found a silver ring today. It was hitting a loud 93-94 only about 3 inches down. I thought it might be a silver dollar. It was similar to a wedding band and marked 925. Pretty rough though.

 

[Tom Slick]

Congrats on the ring! I love those targets in the 90's. Usually something pretty good.

 

[Furious T]

I just got my Racer 2 days ago, and tested on 6 gold rings today...all 9 ct (9k), lowest reading was 51, highest (on a large wedding band) was 82; medium sized bands came in at 66-67, white gold med. came in at 60.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

I just got my Racer 2 days ago, and tested on 6 gold rings today...all 9 ct (9k), lowest reading was 51, highest (on a large wedding band) was 82; medium sized bands came in at 66-67, white gold med. came in at 60.

9K is a mixed bag, because it's probably alloyed with copper, and/or silver.

 

[Furious T]

You're quite right, Cal_Cobra, but then anything below 24k is alloyed with something other than gold, usually silver or copper, or both. The lower reading on the white gold ring is cause by the nickel alloyed with the gold...nickel brings the reading down.