Hunting fresh water gold chains

[damielke]

I have been doing a lot of fresh water hunting this year. Found a gold medallion that was on a chain. I know the chain is still there but to no avail. I came home and did a test of a gold chain that I have, laid it on top of the ground and got no signal from it at all. I tried both beach and all other settings and nothing except on prospect it was all over the meter. I hunt mainly in beach 1 & 2.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Thank in advance!

 

[Joe Black]

I have been doing a lot of fresh water hunting this year. Found a gold medallion that was on a chain. I know the chain is still there but to no avail. I came home and did a test of a gold chain that I have, laid it on top of the ground and got no signal from it at all. I tried both beach and all other settings and nothing except on prospect it was all over the meter. I hunt mainly in beach 1 & 2.


Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Thank in advance!

It won’t detect every chain but, still gets a bulk of them. My hunting partner found a nice 24” 10k last week. It ID at 1. here it is.

 

[laplander]

Hit the chain with no discrimination and see what happens I.E. all metal. Your going to have to max out your sensitivity. Beach modes are for salt water/ beaches, I fresh water hunt in field mode with sens. maxed.
HH Jeff

 

[flysar]

I use Gold 1 exclusively for freshwater hunting, especially if your target is small gold; water hunting for me is dig-it-all above iron. You get more feedback than other modes but the audio tone seems to be perfect for my aging ears on the deeper/faint targets and I do get better depth in my highly mineralized sand/rock.