Rings v necklace's

[Water wizard]

Hi guys, I was thinking the other day about necklaces. I find a fair amount of rings when I wade, but not very many necklaces. It's the same on the beach. All the necklaces I've found have had pendants on them, except one 35gm 14k thick chain. I use an Excalibur 1000. I love it and it finds me lots of goodies. Do you guys find many necklaces compared to rings? I'm sure there must be more out there. I've done tests with my detector and chains, they are so hard to detect If they are spread out. He do you guys get on finding 'em? Do you find them Mainly with pendants? Anyone made anything to help find them? Thanks for any input, good luck out there, I'm going detecting today, fingers crossed......

 

[chipmonky]

Anyone made anything to help find them?
Whites TDI a beach beast or a GPX if your supper rich lol

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah..unless they are heavy links, they are scratchy soft signals like foil, and the depth for me has to be within 3-4"...I've got two in my 3yr. career, one with a big pendant and one without that came in like foil, this one I got early May. 15. something gr of 10k..I now listen for those soft foil signals since one gold chain can weigh substantially more than a ring. Good Luck WW!
Mud

 

[Roscue2]

I don't usually beach hunt, but with the At Pro on land it does surprisingly well at finding chains. Usually ring up as a penny.

 

[Water wizard]

Thank for your replies guys, Nice chain mud! Yes, I am developing a keen ear for those soft low tones on my Excalibur, the chain I found sounded scratchy and low. I was wondering whether it was possible to make a rake or something to find chains. Like you said, 1 chain can be the same as 5 or 6 rings. I bet most chains found have a pendant on them.....

 

[ZOFCHAK]

I water hunt with the Excalibur about 90% of the time and Excals are just not very good at picking up chains. Try air testing on a few and you'll be shocked on how close you have to get to get a good signal! If the chains are right on the surface, bunched up, have a large pendant or are just really chunky are the only way they're going to signal off well.

 

[Goldstrike]

It's my understanding that most detectors PI and otherwise read the single connected links separately and not as a connected chain. It gets a little technical and I don't pretend to understand why they do that but it would make sense as the previous post pointed out that IF they are bunched up, you will get a more solid reading than if it were stretched out. As far as beach detecting, I pretty much dig all just in case that scratchy reading is really a chain and not foil!!

 

[Merlin cadogan]

Yes I have done some tests and chains are so hard to detect! I was wondering about making something to catch them, like a rake.... There must be plenty out there waiting for us!