HEY I'M STILL LOOKING FOR MY FIRST HIT ON A RING HAVE NOT GOT IT YET BUT A HOLE LOT OF CLAD I'M BEEN HUNTING IN COIN MODE SHOULD I CHANGE THIS ? I STOP BY THE PAWN SHOP THE OTHER DAY THEY HAD WHITES SURF PRO FOR $250.I GOT IT AND IN THE FIRST DAY I HAD A GOLD RING I DID HAVE TO GO IN THE WATER WHERE MY GTI CAN'T GO SO IF THERE'S ANY HELP YOU CAN GIVE ABOUT THE 1500 I;LL THANK YOU FOR IT MAKE NO MISTAKE I'M HAVING A LOT OF FUN WITH COINS I HAVE THE DETECTOR FOR TWO MONTHS NOW AND GOT OVER A $100 IN COINS
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GTI 1500
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Best luck I've had finding gold rings with a GTI/GTA is to dig foil. Alot of lady's rings with nice stones will hit like 'foil'. Little chunks of canslaw will hit here too. You will be looking for "A" sized targets with that 1500.
The foil you find (and you will find plenty) will be shallow and easy to recover.
You've already discovered the best way to improve your trash to jewelry ratio; hit the water!
Gold is tougher to find on land because of all the aluminum junk.
Good Luck!
Skillet
The foil you find (and you will find plenty) will be shallow and easy to recover.
You've already discovered the best way to improve your trash to jewelry ratio; hit the water!
Gold is tougher to find on land because of all the aluminum junk.
Good Luck!
Skillet
It's one of the best coil and jewellery machines available. You can stick with the coin mode for the next several hours. If you just started metal detecting, you have to realize that all of us dig a lot of junk. We just don't post it. And the rings are not as common as coins, so if you haven't found one yet, it's probably because you haven't swung your coil over it. Buying another make of machine will only confuse you more.
The GTI 1500 is not an entry level machine. There is a learning curve to it. Now that doesn't mean you should sell it. Learn it well! Read the manual more then once and watch the video. Don't expect to get to get to know that machine well until you have about 100 hours on it. Once you truly learn the GTI 1500, you will have the ability to leave a lot of the junk in the ground and only dig the probable good targets. If you have any specific concerns about the GTI 1500, please ask. We were all in your shoes at one time. There are a lot of GTI 1500 users on this forum.
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The GTI 1500 is not an entry level machine. There is a learning curve to it. Now that doesn't mean you should sell it. Learn it well! Read the manual more then once and watch the video. Don't expect to get to get to know that machine well until you have about 100 hours on it. Once you truly learn the GTI 1500, you will have the ability to leave a lot of the junk in the ground and only dig the probable good targets. If you have any specific concerns about the GTI 1500, please ask. We were all in your shoes at one time. There are a lot of GTI 1500 users on this forum.
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Dick from IA
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...can I interject some questions??
I read an answer to a post I made at another forum that the 1500, even with its' lower khz, does very well in highly mineralized ground, like Arizona, and that even gold nuggets can be found with it. Without a true manual ground balance and it not being a higher khz, can this indeed be the case?
Not that I'm a full time gold hunter; I'm not, but do travel to various areas and want a machine that is quite universal for a lot of different conditions.
I'd welcome any opinions, thanks
I read an answer to a post I made at another forum that the 1500, even with its' lower khz, does very well in highly mineralized ground, like Arizona, and that even gold nuggets can be found with it. Without a true manual ground balance and it not being a higher khz, can this indeed be the case?
Not that I'm a full time gold hunter; I'm not, but do travel to various areas and want a machine that is quite universal for a lot of different conditions.
I'd welcome any opinions, thanks
I had a GTI 1500 a few years ago and brought it with me to Arizona one winter. We did some tests using a 1 DWT nugget. It did pretty good and had some real depth. I don't know how well it would do on the smaller stuff (might even track out a small nugget) but it should suffice for the bigger stuff. The GTI's might be even better now insofar as they've got that new chip installed for ground handling. One thing I noticed is that the disc. mode might not have a true zero disc. The GTI 2500 I tested wasn't as sensitive as the Xterra 70, both with stock coils. Another thing I noticed was that the stock GTI coil is considerably more sensitive to small low conductors than the 5x10" DD. Go figure. ..Willy.
Hi Shoe,
Glad you are enjoying the GTI 1500. It's one of the better coin detectors about.
If you are looking for rings with the GTI 1500, I would take it out of the coin mode as this has the 5 and 5.5 notches taken out and this where a lot of gold rings fall into. If using this mode you will miss a lot of gold rings.
I would use the Jewelry mode if looking for rings. In this mode you will tend to pick up more pull tabs but this can't be helped as many gold rings are in the same conductivity range as the pull tabs.
You will find this will happen with all detectors; remove the pull tabs, loose some gold rings.
Hope this helps out.
All the best from the the land down under.
Phil
Glad you are enjoying the GTI 1500. It's one of the better coin detectors about.
If you are looking for rings with the GTI 1500, I would take it out of the coin mode as this has the 5 and 5.5 notches taken out and this where a lot of gold rings fall into. If using this mode you will miss a lot of gold rings.
I would use the Jewelry mode if looking for rings. In this mode you will tend to pick up more pull tabs but this can't be helped as many gold rings are in the same conductivity range as the pull tabs.
You will find this will happen with all detectors; remove the pull tabs, loose some gold rings.
Hope this helps out.
All the best from the the land down under.
Phil
Uncle Willy
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Yeah if you don't dig tabs you don't dig many gold rings.
Bill
Bill