How to find Gold rings with the sovereign GT

[GunnarMN]

Using a pull tab , and a nickle, and a medium gold ring , 14k I proceded to scan and set notch & disq, and the end results are you must dig those tabs or you will lose most gold rings, depth was set by books at 4.5"[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKH6w-6nr8[/video]

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

While the video is a great value it has lots of problems. First off there's no ground and BBS and FBS detectors needs ground to work! Air test are poor at best!The threshold is too high for the test or any use in the real world. The test in indoors which affects the detector.
If you set the notch with the discrimination so the tab burbs rather then nulls you would hear both the nickle and the ring. The notch feature only notches out one number only and any thing else that matches that tab. I have done this same test on many machines over many many years. I did this same test on the ground out doors with 20 gold rings and the same type pop top tab. All the rings and nickle made it though except one. And the strange part was the biggest mans ring matched the pop top and fine ladies rings did not and got though. Now my testing has flaws too none of then were buried. I think you should try this testing again and report back. If you have the same results I would be very surprised And even though all that threshold noise I was able to pick all three correct!

 

[GunnarMN]

Impressive you got all three, I like your Idea, I will try them all in ground at 4.5" and set the disq to whear it just starts to break up , then i will do the same with the notch on the pull tab then we can chat some more

 

[Rick(ND)]

If you ever found a gold ring in the ground and remember what it read on the meter and tones I have found when out of the ground they sound different and read different. One I remembered was a good reading in the ground and after I dug it out and laid it on the ground and got a broken signal when I wanted to see again how it read. Silver don't seem to be a problem, but the gold ones seem to change for me so air test and preburried is not the same as actual ones in the ground, those on top maybe the same.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Impressive you got all three, I like your Idea, I will try them all in ground at 4.5" and set the disq to whear it just starts to break up , then i will do the same with the notch on the pull tab then we can chat some more

You made my day, I thought I was struggling with tones on the GT and with the sound so loud, I thought no way. I wavered on the nickle ring for a bit and to be honest I could have gone either way. Having Coil control is probably the biggest part of the sovereign best attributes,and you coil control in the video was less than perfect. All should give that a try when hunting as coil control can bring the best out of your hunts! Also remember that these coils are highly powerful and pick up all kinds of influences from every part. I hunt in all metal more than discriminate and I can here the scoop on my shoulder come though in the form of a hum if I pass the from right to the left too far! I love that others have taken the time to try different things with there detectors, its the only way to learn. the best detector in the world is no good unless you know how it works!

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks for the test & video Gunnar. Due to my hearing loss, All-metal was difficult for me due to the tones. However in disc the tone variations were much greater and knew right off the bat which one was which. My wife's gold ring is small and registered down past nickels @ 132 with a nice "smooth" low grunting tone so gold rings are all over the Sovereign spectrum. Like others have mentioned, make a test garden with these items and re-visit the garden next summer. You might want to throw a couple of different size pulltabs in the garden to make things more interesting. If you don't have variable size pulltabs I can donate plenty - Jim

 

[GunnarMN]

Jim , its to bad i could not have seen the numbers on the meter , I think they would help lots I remember my M-6 i could always tell pull tabs by the numbers, as far as a TID machine the whites M-6 was Exelent but only to about 4" to 5" but then again it was advertized as a machine for parks, when I dug my gold cladda ring it sounded just like a scrap of can slaw no kidding , but i was in my clean up attedude and dug it

 

[Jiminsandiego]

Interesting video. Reminds me of a "shell game". Just give me a 180 meter. The nickel would read 145-146 and the pull tab and ring probably wouldn't. Now I have a fifty fifty chance to guess the ring. If the ring read 120ish and the pull tab read 150ish I would pick the ring. Of course this is just playing the odds and there are way too many variables in the real world of different targets but if you want to play this "shell game" a 180 meter is going to be a big help. The main problem with notching out pull tabs is that they (like gold) can read as many different numbers. When I first got my gt I was trying very hard to "learn the tones" then I got a meter and it made the gt a much better machine at IDing targets for me.
Cheers,
Jim

 

[JimmyCT]

When in doubt - dig it. I know I dig my share of pulltabs lol hopefully, one of these days, one will turn out to be a nice gold ring. Have you ever thought of investing in a meter?

Jim , its to bad i could not have seen the numbers on the meter , I think they would help lots I remember my M-6 i could always tell pull tabs by the numbers, as far as a TID machine the whites M-6 was Exelent but only to about 4" to 5" but then again it was advertized as a machine for parks, when I dug my gold cladda ring it sounded just like a scrap of can slaw no kidding , but i was in my clean up attedude and dug it

 

[GunnarMN]

Jim I am thinking about it , It may just come in handy but Im so stubborn i would dig all the tabs anyway

 

[JimmyCT]

Then you can create a numerical list of where all your tabs end up.

Jim I am thinking about it , It may just come in handy but Im so stubborn i would dig all the tabs anyway

 

[dewcon4414]

There will always be a ring that matches a pull tab thats a fact. However that ring that matched it in the ground will CHANGE based on depth and mineralization. Smaller gold is even more difficult because the machine is SALT set. If there was a way to tweak the GB + or - you have a better shot. I realize larger gold rings have greater value and fall close to the pull tab.... but over 80 percent of rings are bought by women so you have a better chance looking for those. Now what are we looking at.... foil? If you are looking for gold you just have to dig in the pull tab and foil range. Ive not found a machine yet that allows us to get around that. If you are notching you might as well notch out coins and other targets to create a worth while pattern that reduces the amount of time you those targets that distract you. A penny or a gold ring.... a penny or a gold ring. Which would you rather be digging?

Dew