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[lilmax25]

Latest date was 1971 i think
Got some pull tabs
I have a question what does gold sound like on the Tracker IV because apparently when i was looking for jewelry i forgot to put it in tone mode and was stid in disc mode and got reapeatedly low sounds which as you can guess.........pull tabs! So im guessing i really had no chance of finding gold because it wasnt in tone mode or what?
Help?

Overall i thought it was good

 

[JB(MS)]

I've been fortunate in finding quite a few gold rings and at least 75 to 80 percent of them were in the foil or nickel range. Three of the mens rings I've found were in the zinc/bottlecap range and were very large, the others in that range I've found were boys big highschool class rings, and two girls class rings, a few boys small class rings and maybe half of the few mens wedding bands were in the tab range The gold bracelets and chains were in the foil range and a couple of the tiny chains were in the nail range. Almost all of the gold rings I've found were found at schools, athletic fields and playgrounds and the number of tabs, pieces of foil and erasor bands from lead pencils I've dug would probably fill several trucks, but that's where lost gold lives so the trash has to be dug to get them. I returned every ring I could with no regrets, but since gold is as high as it is I should have kept most of the ones I sold at give away prices or gave to relatives who didn't really appreciate them. The percentage of foil range gold would very likely be different for someone hunting beaches and swimming areas, but most of the rings I've found were lost by women or girls and are relatively small compared to mens rings.. Photos are of some good stuff I still have that I found while digging trash

 

[dobbie]

lilMax the gold and silver will come to you. be patient...you will get what your looking for

 

[fishes02]

JB, what type of detector are you using? You have some very good finds!!!

 

[JB(MS)]

For the last several years I've been using a Discovery Electronics Treasure Baron Goldtrax in all metal mode for hunting jewelry. It was designed to hunt gold nuggets and it's very sensitive to small gold jewelry. It has iron ID via a staccato audio response and a red LED that ID's iron in all metal mode, and audio variations that allow passing up some low conductive trash like small foil and pencil erasor bands that aren't flattened. It's the best for hunting jewelry at the places I hunt that I've used. Most of the small bracelets, chains and ear studs I've found were found with the Goldtrax, but I found a lot of rings with a bunch of other detectors. The lower frequency detectors, below 10 khz, don't do well on tiny low conductors but any detector that's halfway capable will find rings if the user is willing set the disc to a low level and dig a lot of trash A good example is a friend who bought a $69.99 Bounty Hunter as his first detector a few years ago. Before he found out it wasn't any good he found over $300 in coins, including several silver coins, seven or eight gold rings and around 20 silver rings. The Fast Tracker and the Tracker IV both have a good feature for hunting rings. By setting the disc knob at about the 12 o,clock position and recovering all the low tones most rings won't be missed, but as I said above, it requires digging a lot of trash.

 

[jackintexas]

Some claim they can hear the sound of gold. To me they sound like pull tabs and other junk. A lot of gold rings are in the pull range. ...I have found over a hundred gold rings since I have been metal detecting.(30 years) They were all a surprise. Hunt where gold rings are likely lost, then dig it all....Jack

 

[jackintexas]

Good post JB. There are times when there are just too many tabs and other junk and I think maybe rings may have been lost at that site I hunt in the nicke-foil range only....Jack

 

[JB(MS)]

I've read posts from several people on the forums that claim they can tell gold from junk by the sound, but I kinda have reservations about that. With the Goldtrax in all metal mode I can tell small foil as it gives a distinct audio response, and pencil erasor bands that haven't been flattened because they give a longer, smoother sound compared to a fast on/fast off response on rings, coins and similar size targets, but rings and every other kind of trash that's in the same conductivity range as rings sound the same to me.

 

[jackintexas]

I too have sold quite a few rings. Wish I had them now that gold is high as it is. Here is my best ring find. Appraised for $2000.00.....Jack

 

[JB(MS)]

My best ring was found about 10 years ago with a Tesoro Golden Sabre II. Huge ring, the quarter is for size reference. It's 18 kt and, although you can really tell from the pre digital camera photo, it has 1.5 kts of crushed diamonds on it. It id'ed as zinc penny on several metered detectors I checked it on, that's one of the reason I dig every zinc penny signal.

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[jackintexas]

JB : I sure wish I had found that one. Really great find....Jack