Golden

[JB(MS)]

For the last several days I've been using the A & S Treasure Baron with 5.5 inch coil to hunt what was a gravel parking area from the late 1950's until around 1970. Now it has a couple of inches of dirt and grass on top of the gravel and it's tough to dig in. The coins I've found have been from one to three inches down in the gravel, and date from the mid 1940's for the oldest to 1969 for the newest. In maybe five hours of hunting there in the last week I got 5 silver dimes, 4 roosies and a merc, and several late wheaties, but had to leave some good signals because the ground is is so hard from lack of rain I couldn't get to them. A lot of the coins in the gravel were on edge, way more than anywhere else I've ever hunted.

I went back this morning and got another silver roosie, a 1957, and a few early memorial pennies with the A & S and then switched to the Golden

 

[Beale]

Congrats on the finds! That is impressive for sure, Beale.

 

[Pap]

the Golden as we have discussed, is often overlooked. However it is a pretty darn good unit and as you mentioned can be run with low discrimination while using the tones to sort things out. Nice recovery and impressive with that "hunker" of a carriage bolt trying to mask out the signal. Congrats!
Pap

 

[Cliff KS]

Hey JB,

I think packed gravel is the worst place you can try to dig a coin. It is nearly impossible to get any kind of digging tool to penetrate into the gravel --- you just have to chip away until you get down to the target. I've often thought I should just get a pick for gravel, but have been hesitant because I figured with my luck I would hit a good coin with the pick. I have given up on some targets in gravel after hammering away with a sharpshooter and only getting down 2 or 3 inches, but once I kept after a deep signal hoping it would be an old coin. I got it at 6 inches, but it was only a clad nickel and the lime in the rock had turned it red almost like a copper coin -- a really ugly find. So now, I will hunt around the edges of rock driveways and parking lots, but don't venture out into them. If I do in the future, it will be with pick in hand.

I've read a lot of positive and interesting posts on the Golden. I may have to give one a try!

Cliff

 

[JB(MS)]

I used the backside of a hatchet to hammer a big screwdriver into the gravel to get most of the coins that were more than an inch or so down in the gravel. It's been so dry here the ground has been kinda like concrete anyway, but we got a lot of rain yesterday and last night and that helped a little. Still hard digging though. Although I don't use it as much as I should, the Golden is an excellent coin hunter with more than adequate depth for most of the places I hunt. By the way, my Golden is a Kansas native. I got it from a guy who lives in south central Kansas about 5 years ago. He posted as Ken-KS on here but haven't seen a post by him in a year or so.

 

[rmptr]

If you can locate the Mike Hillis post on use of the Golden, it's great!

Best

 

[trueblue]

I focus mostly on coins and jewelry and the Golden is a sweet machine. With a beep dig machine, you either dig the beep or you raise the disc when you get tired of trash digging. Raising the disc cuts some of your depth off. With a metered machine like the Cortes, you either dig the beep or stop and look at a meter for every hit you get. With the Golden you just listen for the tones you are after. Just want to high coin or silver hunt? Just listen for the nice soft high tone response on the deeper targets. Steel bottle caps giving you fits? Flick the notch switch over to Wide and poof, 99% of them are gone and the ones that are left are easy to distinguish. Want to include Nickels but still skip the trash? Move the Notch Width to about the 10:30/11:00 o:clock position, switch the Notch to Narrow or Wide, set the disc half way between the Foil and 5cent mark and bingo you are digging nickels. The two middle tones giving some audio feedback you find confusing? Flick the notch switch to narrow and then to wide and see if it clears up some. Gold jewelry your focus? Dial in your disc and notch and ignore the high tones and focus on the middle tones and listen for the goods ones. Hunting in iron? Put a widescan coil or small coil on it, put it into all metal and hunt the zip tones.

I can't say enough good things about the Golden MicroMax. I can not imagine not having it around. My ground runs moderate to extreme in iron mineralization and I have a Golden with a manual ground balance modification. That and widescan coils allows me to use it anywhere I wish.

Tones rule

HH

Mike

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

cool spot do you have a lesh knife if not get one it will dig thru anything