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GTI 1500,. NEED SOME HELP:rage:

L

LS hunter

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IVE h ad the 1500 for about a year now,I hunt about two to three times a week 4<>8hours each trip,IM not finding any nickels,
SO thats telling me IM passing up the GOLD!!! I have a good a mount of silver 12 rings two with domins old school rings,Alot of coins JUST NOL GOLD.
WHAT am i doing wrong is anyone having the same problem,THANKS for the help!!!!!!!!!:rage::shrug:
 
Some of this I just posted on the other nickel thread some is new. Last year I started with the Ace 250 and my nickel total was about 45% of my quarter total. Now I am using a GTI 2500 and that total has decreased to about 33%. The 2500 and 1500 are similar enough for this discussion as I'm talking discriminate mode only. When we had a warm spell this January I hunted but was only digging copper penny and up. So those 4 hunts I found no nickels. That said, here is what I've found. On the 2500 nickels below about 3 inches or turned on their side give a fairly weak (soft) signal. Not a loud bang like a pop top or pull tab at the same depth. Gold seems to hit more like a pull tab than a nickel. I did a short hunt this morning and successfully called 5 out of 6 nickels I dug. The other signals I had identified as pop tops, bits of can, or gold jewelry. Guess what I got. The other problem I have with the 2500 is sometimes there are too many notches. I have found zinc pennies an at least 5 different notches. Nickels on 3 or 4. Finding nickels is very difficult, at least for me, in super trashy areas. It takes patience and discipline both of which I often lace. As for gold rings, it is a lot of luck. I found 7 with my Ace 250 including 4 on 4 days in a row. I thought I was hot stuff. I then had a drought of 3 months without gold and very little silver either. Possibly my locations. This year 2 small pieces of gold with the 2500. One indicated as low nickel and was very small 10k ring, the other 14k a bit larger indicated high nickel. I also find myself more attracted to sites that are giving up silver US coins this year. Maybe that has something to do with my situation.

I am improving my nickel total lately just because I am digging more signals. I know gold will come back to me someday. I've been skunked since late March. I still think finding gold is about 75 percent luck. Maybe not at the beach.

This post has rambled on a bit. I hope it was at least a bit helpful. Gold will show itself when, and where you least expect it. Good luck!

Chris
 
Gold is the LEAST found target found because it is not as common as silver. One tends to guard gold a little more then silver, especially when it comes to rings. Gold can show up all over the face of the Garrett, from pulltabs to pennies, depending on the karat and what the gold is mixed with. The best place to find gold rings is where they are lost in the greatest abundance. From my experience, this is where you will find them, in this order. At a beach (in the water), at the beach in the dry sand and in the sand/bark chips at a playground. Then there are sportsfields, where they show up too. I have found about 15 rings so far this year, and guess what......no gold. I have found over 2,000 coins too! It's not the machine, as my Garrett 1500 & 2500 have each found their share of gold. It's a matter of when your coil will go over that ring. If you haven't disc-ed out pennies or nickels, your number is coming.

The best way to increase your chances of finding gold is to search better places and search often. Even minors get frustrated looking for gold. Their favorite saying is "Gold is where you find it." !
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Lets all pack it in and move to Florida!
Get the sun tan lotion out and the sun glasses!:cool:
Should be some gold laying around in the sand somewhere!
RR:lol:
 
[quote robert roy]Lets all pack it in and move to Florida!
Get the sun tan lotion out and the sun glasses!:cool:
Should be some gold laying around in the sand somewhere!
RR:lol:[/quote]

Yea, there is a lot of gold. REALLY!
And a lot of things you aren't considering. HIGH CRIME, BUGS, HIGH COSTS, BUGS, LOTS OF SMOKE, BUGS, UNBELIEVABLE HEAT AND HUMIDITY, BUGS, COMPETITION, LIGHTING, SHARKS, STING RAYS,snakes, gators, scorpions,chiggers and the fire ants love people MD'ing.
 
You missed a big one! Sort of goes with high crime.

Chris
 
I believe that I had a crash course on the nickel range of the GTI detectors last summer. For about a month I worked in a pine cutover that was full of low brass shotgun shells, common eagle buttons and oddly enough 4 "V"
nickels. All these targets hit right in the nickel range within one click either way. By the time that I dug my third nickel it was quite noticeable that they gave a good hammering bounce over the buttons and shells and also
locked the 5c icon dead on. I recall telling my friend that I had nickel for sure by the sound and agreed that his
GTP1350 sounded off a little more distinctly as well. I wouldn't be concerned that you are missing nickels.
 
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