M6 and Gold Rings?

[kybowhunter]

Can anyone give me some advice on how to find some gold rings?

I am mainly hunting around soccer fields and finding plenty of clad and a silver ring or two but I can't manage to find the elusive gold ring.

What ID range would I expect to find a gold ring to display? Will it jump or will it lock on?

thx.
dan

 

[Rob (IL)]

You find silver because it reads in the coin range, penny, dime, quarter etc. Gold is a different story. I've found rings from the foil to bottle cap range. That means you will be digging tabs and junk or you won't find rings.

Most men

 

[Dang]

Well,....hmmm. My best advice for you would be to get some gold rings of different types and see how each effects the M6's VID.
Bench test show me how each ring displays a different number on the VID. Most of the time it locks on a reading. Meaning the values don't bounce around like can-slaw does. However, if the ring is broke or bent, or even has a stone the readings can also bounce around I discovered. Put a piece of foil next to it and it reads like a piece of trash.....
The gold necklace I found yesterday was a solid +37. Another ring I have is +18 and I also found a antique gold wedding band that reads right there on the zinc penny range. The plain wedding band reads a nickle. In other words.....to find the gold that just might be in your path (if your so lucky) you have to dig all targets. Doesn't matter what brand or how expensive the machine is. If you want to find the gold expect to find a lot of trash too. If you want, you can ignore the high silver end of the range. But then you're going to ignore silver jewelry too. Which is a lot more common then gold.
And keep this in mind: 99% of this hobby is luck.
Personally I ignore the erratic readings. I go for the solid readings. Sometimes I'll dig up a bouncer, if its consistent.
I started detecting about this time of year back in '03. and so far I found only 4 gold rings. a bracelet and the necklace I found yesterday. And that's only been during the past 2 years....So you been in this hobby about a year now, right? You got a great detector. And sooner or later you're gonna find a big fat gold ring. And thousands and thousands of pull tabs.

 

[Terryve]

Hi,

I am an M-6 user. Where do you hunt to find your gold rings? Are they solid gold or electroplated? My son's big class ring does not even show when I have a small amount of discrimination on. I think that is because the ring is electroplated.

I found a small .925 silver ring today ringed with porpoise images. I found it by a small city play ground in Dayton Ohio. It was 3" down in a hillside--down hill behind a tree. The signal was a loud solid sound indicating a penny. I almost didn't dig it since I had to dig through snow. When I washed the ring, I found a penny lodged in the center of the ring. However, I am not sure it was not picked up from dirty coins in my field carrying pouch.

Merry Xmas
Terry

 

[Groundshaker]

Location is very important.Where people meet.Like local swimming holes etc.When someone goes swimming.fingers shrink and rings fall off

 

[rmptr]

Groundshaker, you got it.

There is no activity I can think of that compares to the effect of a digit entering cold water.

All other activities create swelling from the strenuous exercise...

An upscale hi-dollar hotel or weight-loss clinic with a nice beach and plenty of splashy, gradual shallows
might be a dream come true for a ring recovery expert.

rmptr