I have an offer for a trade from someone on Craigslist. New condition Lobo for my Explorer SE with Pro Coil and ML2900 LI Battery. I mainly want to find the fine gold chains I may be missing in my jewelry hunting. My explorer won't even touch these. Will the Lobo find chains and at what depth? Do you think my trade would be a good one or am I losing something in the deal?
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Lobo Good For Thin Gold Chains?
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Coin$triking Michigan
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Terry Soloman has a video on YouTube of a Compare and a Vaquero both NOT sounding off on a 3 inch deep gold chain. Where as a Deep Tech Vista Gold sounds off easily on it. Truth sucks but it's still the truth. I always wondered why Terry, who is very Pro-Tesoro would post that video, showing both Tesoro's failing miserably.
Rob in (Ca)
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Fine gold Chains are very hard for any Standard VLF Detector.......A VLF Gold Detector would do better on Chains because of there Higher frequency.
Gold Chains with a Charm or medallion attached will hit Pretty good, A Thin Gold Chain without a Charm or Medallion will hit in The Low Foil Range and most Likely will be a Broken Signal .
So The Lobo would be your best Bet and DIG all Foil & Iffy Foil Hits. Good luck
Gold Chains with a Charm or medallion attached will hit Pretty good, A Thin Gold Chain without a Charm or Medallion will hit in The Low Foil Range and most Likely will be a Broken Signal .
So The Lobo would be your best Bet and DIG all Foil & Iffy Foil Hits. Good luck
Coin$triking Michigan
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The Deep Tech Vista Gold is only 25khz. Also tested in the video was a Gold Bug 2 and the Vista Gold beat that as well.
Rob in (Ca)
Active member
Another Note, a while back I ran a VLF Gold Detector at one of my Sports Fields, In just One sweep of The Coil, I had 4 targets In just one sweep, that's how Sensitive The Gold Detectors are in The Foil Range They will hit hard on Needle head size foil. So Hunting for those Thin Chains can be quite a Challenge.
Thats gotta be the toughest target of value out there...even a thin silver chain is hard enough to find, let alone locate down in the grass roots...Now medium sized gold link chains in the 15gr realm give off a good enough signal for a guy to ponder...and at least 15 gr is worth some money, a thin gold chain I would think would be almost impossible to find in a modern park, on account of all a guy may likely hear is that tiny clasp..and if the grass is deep, probably wont even hear that beyond 3-4" from the coil I would guess..let alone it would probably be in the sub 5gr weight realm...I dont know, that sure would be a trophy target to hunt for and actually find not on an accident...but by a dedicated search for one...
I do go out every day hunting thinking 'chains' and focusing on those strange soft low signals..smallest one I've found is the aforementioned 15gr...then I got two other monsters, so theres gold chains out there that dont get heard or explored if they do...its not a signal that stops you dead in your tracks, but one signal you just get curious enough to check out...Good Luck!
Mud
I do go out every day hunting thinking 'chains' and focusing on those strange soft low signals..smallest one I've found is the aforementioned 15gr...then I got two other monsters, so theres gold chains out there that dont get heard or explored if they do...its not a signal that stops you dead in your tracks, but one signal you just get curious enough to check out...Good Luck!
Mud
mudpuppy said:Thats gotta be the toughest target of value out there...even a thin silver chain is hard enough to find, let alone locate down in the grass roots...Now medium sized gold link chains in the 15gr realm give off a good enough signal for a guy to ponder...and at least 15 gr is worth some money, a thin gold chain I would think would be almost impossible to find in a modern park, on account of all a guy may likely hear is that tiny clasp..and if the grass is deep, probably wont even hear that beyond 3-4" from the coil I would guess..let alone it would probably be in the sub 5gr weight realm...I dont know, that sure would be a trophy target to hunt for and actually find not on an accident...but by a dedicated search for one...
I do go out every day hunting thinking 'chains' and focusing on those strange soft low signals..smallest one I've found is the aforementioned 15gr...then I got two other monsters, so theres gold chains out there that dont get heard or explored if they do...its not a signal that stops you dead in your tracks, but one signal you just get curious enough to check out...Good Luck!
Mud
I find more jewelry than coins. I think my goal now is to just look for gold jewelry. Places to hunt are not hard to identify if there is an abundance of tabs and foil you know that noone has bothered to look for gold.
For what it's worth:
My Vaquero with a 5.75" DD coil will detect a ultra fine 2" gold chain, with a very small clasp, at 4" and a gold component, from an old cell phone, the size of a large grain of rice at 2".
My Silver with an 8" standard coil will detect the same chain at 2" and the gold component at 1".
These were all tested in moderately mineralized soil.
So they are both capable machines for finding chains.
My Vaquero with a 5.75" DD coil will detect a ultra fine 2" gold chain, with a very small clasp, at 4" and a gold component, from an old cell phone, the size of a large grain of rice at 2".
My Silver with an 8" standard coil will detect the same chain at 2" and the gold component at 1".
These were all tested in moderately mineralized soil.
So they are both capable machines for finding chains.
machineman
Member
I have a video I am working on with the Compadre, Gold bug pro and my Sovereign elite. I was testing small gold chains in my soil. Its not the best video but it does cover some of this subject. The compadre did almost as well as the GBP as far as depth in Disc. The real important factor is that I would have not dug the GBP signal but I might have dug the Compadre signal. This is where the vid would throw you off. I will link it here when I get it up.