I know this subject has probably been beat to death on here but

[mathews28]

i am needing a decent program setup for the explorer geared mainly for gold rings while eliminating as many pulltabs as possible. I have had several people tell me about rings they have lost at a local baseball diamond from as far back as 7 years ago. There is going to be a lot of pulltabs because of consession stand and simple fact that i can see a lot lying on top of ground. Also what depth should you expect to see gold rings lost from as far back as 7 years.

 

[Jason in TN]

You should try to find the most common pull tab or tabs and go over them on the reject setting. Then hunt for the gold rings. If you want to get all of the gold rings you go over you will have to dig all of the pull tabs as some rings will fall in the pull tab range. If the rings are a mens wedding band size or larger you should be able to find them with out digging the newer tabs. As they should come in higher than the new tabs. good luck and let us know how you do.

 

[cachenut]

When questions get beat to death it usually means no one knows the answer. Everyone just thinks they do and the the group decides not to talk about it anymore.

Well I think shallow gold rings will be easy to tell from the pull tabs but the deeper you go the harder it will get. My guess is gold rings if lost recently will still be shallow. Say 2 or 3 years.

I would watch the depth gauge and not dig deep targets. I would swing fast and hold the coil an inch or 2 off the ground. Also I would set the detector to accept several different gold rings and use the large icon or wide acceptance. Whatever they call that. I would also set it to reject pull tabs but use the narrow setting or icon. Listen for that low gold ring tone and check everyone out removing them if you can. Shallow strong signals only. No need to bump up gain and sensitivity.

This is just my guess and not based on my digging up gold rings.