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NEW Golden Umax
- Thread starter gobum62
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SkiWhiz said:
I think this is good advise and the best approach to finding the most stuff as well as not missing out on the jewelery.
On my GSII I found it helpful to set the notch so that it would give a mixed tone on pulltabs, and then not dig that signal where there was too many of them.
I don't have one, but some of the best write ups I've read on the Golden are by Mike Hillis and I'll let the posts say the rest.
Here's a link that Mike put in the forum that links to 3 other forum threads on the Golden:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1624612,1625263#msg-1625263
Here's a link that Mike put in the forum that links to 3 other forum threads on the Golden:
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1624612,1625263#msg-1625263
No! Pretty soon the tones will begin to associate with targets you dig and you'll have an extra bit of info on each target. Of course, as with other detectors also, you can't always believe what you see or hear!Smudge said:Well, that is sound advice.
But doesn't that also kinds defeat the purpose of owning a Golden uMax?
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Thanks for putting that link up, TVR.
Regards the Cleansweep coil question, the Cleansweep is a 3" x 18" DD coil that allows one to cover a lot of ground in a short amout of time.
HH
Mike
Regards the Cleansweep coil question, the Cleansweep is a 3" x 18" DD coil that allows one to cover a lot of ground in a short amout of time.
HH
Mike
All kidding aside, a word of caution.
Like a TID screen, tones can quickly become an excuse not to dig a target.
It happened to me. Because I was digging junk with the mid tones, I slowly started only digging high tones because I knew they were almost always going to be a good target.
At the end of the day, I found I had dug coins and little else. Its an easy trap to fall into, so be careful. Unless you're just a dedicated coin hunter, of course.
Like a TID screen, tones can quickly become an excuse not to dig a target.
It happened to me. Because I was digging junk with the mid tones, I slowly started only digging high tones because I knew they were almost always going to be a good target.
At the end of the day, I found I had dug coins and little else. Its an easy trap to fall into, so be careful. Unless you're just a dedicated coin hunter, of course.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Mike,
Are you finding nickels?
Take a nickel and set your notch width dial so that the nickel responds with a solid middle high tone. That is your starting place. Go hunt nickels for a few days by only digging that tone. After a little while hunting nickels you'll learn how to adjust the dial. Got to start there or what I'll tell you won't make sense. But after a few days of hunting nickels it will.
Hunt nickels for a few days then come back here and tell me about those nickels. Then I'll tell you about gold.
HH
Mike
Are you finding nickels?
Take a nickel and set your notch width dial so that the nickel responds with a solid middle high tone. That is your starting place. Go hunt nickels for a few days by only digging that tone. After a little while hunting nickels you'll learn how to adjust the dial. Got to start there or what I'll tell you won't make sense. But after a few days of hunting nickels it will.
Hunt nickels for a few days then come back here and tell me about those nickels. Then I'll tell you about gold.
HH
Mike
gobum62 said:
Low tones I didn't dig. I might have missed something occassionally doing that, but the mid-tones need to be dug if you want to find gold.
The real key to any detector is your discrimination setting. Once I have thumbed my dial to where I want it, I dig every solid signal I get.
Once I hit on that forumla, I found I didn't need a mutli-tone machine. It really didn't add anything to my style of hunting.
Now if I was a dedicated coin hunter, I would set my discrimination low so I get the best depth I can and then dig only the high tones.
That is where a mutli tone machine shines IMHO.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Eyeballed this in the parking lot at work this morning and sucessfully reunited it with its owner.
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HH
Mike
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HH
Mike
Ok, here is what I have done the last couple of hunts. Got 1.10 in nickels which is alot more than normal for me, but also dug alot of newer pull tabs and small bits of tin. I believe I am starting to tune in on the nickel sound, in fact about 1/3 of the nickels collected I was able to say 'nickel' before I dug up. So far NO gold jewelry.
THANKS
MIKE
THANKS
MIKE
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Hi Mike,
I think 22 nickels is great! And you got some experience with the notch width dial.
I forgot to ask, do you have the new tone model or the old tone model?
The majority of women/girls gold rings will register the same place as foil does. The majority of mens gold rings will register in tab range or higher depending on size. The nickel range is right in the middle. Very few rings will register as a nickel. But since the nickel range is in the middle, you need to know where that range is so you can adjust it properly. 22 nickels helped you figure that out.
The secret is that you hunt the rings with your mind and then recover them with the detector. By that I mean that you don't set up your detector for mens rings in an area that has the most potential for girls rings. You study your site, find the hot spots (hunting clad is a great way to learn the hot spots), determine what type of gold has the most potential to exist and then you set up and focus on that.
Learn to ask and answer the question, "Why did I find what I found where I found it"
Good luck!
HH
Mike
I think 22 nickels is great! And you got some experience with the notch width dial.
I forgot to ask, do you have the new tone model or the old tone model?
The majority of women/girls gold rings will register the same place as foil does. The majority of mens gold rings will register in tab range or higher depending on size. The nickel range is right in the middle. Very few rings will register as a nickel. But since the nickel range is in the middle, you need to know where that range is so you can adjust it properly. 22 nickels helped you figure that out.
The secret is that you hunt the rings with your mind and then recover them with the detector. By that I mean that you don't set up your detector for mens rings in an area that has the most potential for girls rings. You study your site, find the hot spots (hunting clad is a great way to learn the hot spots), determine what type of gold has the most potential to exist and then you set up and focus on that.
Learn to ask and answer the question, "Why did I find what I found where I found it"
Good luck!
HH
Mike