Patchfinder
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What number reading give the 705 on gold nuggets?
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Number reading on gold nuggets
- Thread starter Patchfinder
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Prospector mode is best for nugget hunting, and in Prospector mode there is no VID.
Patchfinder
New member
Old Longhair said:
Thank you, I just bought a 705 and I am still trying to master it.
"Mastering" the 705 is something that few ever do. Many do become proficient, but the shear number of adjustable features and coil/frequency combinations, along with the nearly unlimited variety of hunting conditions make "mastering" it improbable for most.
The best advice that I can give is, read Randy's book (and refer to it often), go to the FAQFAQ pinned thread on this forum page and read as much as you can, and finally...spend as much time in the field as possible applying what you've read.
The best advice that I can give is, read Randy's book (and refer to it often), go to the FAQFAQ pinned thread on this forum page and read as much as you can, and finally...spend as much time in the field as possible applying what you've read.
atomicscott
Active member
You don't hunt by numbers when prospecting. When prospecting you will dig it all anyway, just need to listen & learn a 'zip' from a 'boing'. Zips are diggers, boings are usually iron or iron hot rocks.
"What number reading give the 705 on gold nuggets?"
When in prospecting mode on any goldfields being Arizona, Nevada or Australia, a close to surface - down to 8 inches or so signal response will be a 'bark' to 'squeal' type sound, depending on where your Threshold Tone is set and also depending on ground type as milder ground will produce a more pronounced and deeper Bark.
The deeper responses are threshold changes and are mainly in the form of slight repeatable wavering and slight dips and rises in the threshold. Some responses, not many and usually very deep, can give a small repeatable warble of the threshold, only at the centre of a DD coil or a slide-off at the last side of the inner ring on the Concentric.
I nearly always check every target in coin-mode as well as the pure manual all metal ground balance mode, merely to see which mode gives a better response to that target on that ground which is important to me if that same mode can 'work' the ground well and not just be set to hit the already found target, and more often than not a nugget or specimen will hit very low on the ID if the coin mode can hit it. Usually Iron to a few segments above, depending on size and shape, and depth. On the odd occasion a close to surface nugget will hit mid-range tonal. But the deeper stuff has always been low numericly.
The most common factor I've found is that ID and tone are always different once out of the ground and run across the coil in air.
When in prospecting mode on any goldfields being Arizona, Nevada or Australia, a close to surface - down to 8 inches or so signal response will be a 'bark' to 'squeal' type sound, depending on where your Threshold Tone is set and also depending on ground type as milder ground will produce a more pronounced and deeper Bark.
The deeper responses are threshold changes and are mainly in the form of slight repeatable wavering and slight dips and rises in the threshold. Some responses, not many and usually very deep, can give a small repeatable warble of the threshold, only at the centre of a DD coil or a slide-off at the last side of the inner ring on the Concentric.
I nearly always check every target in coin-mode as well as the pure manual all metal ground balance mode, merely to see which mode gives a better response to that target on that ground which is important to me if that same mode can 'work' the ground well and not just be set to hit the already found target, and more often than not a nugget or specimen will hit very low on the ID if the coin mode can hit it. Usually Iron to a few segments above, depending on size and shape, and depth. On the odd occasion a close to surface nugget will hit mid-range tonal. But the deeper stuff has always been low numericly.
The most common factor I've found is that ID and tone are always different once out of the ground and run across the coil in air.