Silver VS Gold

[LabradorBob]

How many hunt for silver only mainly?
Silver,pennies, and nickels hold their own specific numbers!
Gold, Well that is another story.
It can range anywhere from the bottom of the scale,almost to the top.

Most probably do not dig signals below a nickle or above it to a certain range.
Gold not only can be different sizes,but different carat,white,yellow,rose.

I am betting a lot of people have missed a lot of gold items over the years, including myself.
i am trying harder now to find it. and having a blast with the small sunray coil.

LabradorBob

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Bob, I have noticed alot of the gold I have dug has registered below the nickel range!
Iowa Dale

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, I leave the house thinking gold, but really am opportunistic on all signals. lots of those small 10k 2gram rings are in the foil signal, the 3 girls class rings I found were dead on square pulltab. The larger rings keep going on up to the zinc, or rotten zinc signal..ok, so i decided to get as fast as I could on target retrieval, and that alone has allowed me to capture more signals on an outing that standing there deciding whether to dig or not..also thinking harder about locations where gold has a good chance of being lost. I figure its a mixture of everything to find more gold than usual, but a fellow has really gotta be concentrating on those signals for a chance at it at all. It really is a "dig it all" game in the end, so the faster you are at digging, the higher up your odds go..
Mud

 

[Smooth23]

I've been focusing on gold lately myself, without any success.. just diggin it all. Partly because this park is so cleaned out only pull tab/nickel signals are left. Last time I was out I dug about 40 billion pull tabs and a roll of nickels out of this park.. bound to be some gold there somewhere, I think nickels have just been ignored!

 

[1goldsniper]

n/t

 

[1goldsniper]

We have a tendency to watch for certain #'s but like has been said gold covers the whole scale. I have found a few large gold rings 12 gram area and they were coming in at the higher #'s that get our attention, but the small rings go dismissed as a pull tab or can slaw. Those who have the patience to dig all signals will out do those who dig only the #'s we like.
So that being said. Do the new detectors have an edge over the old ones that you had to eveything not knowing what you might find? Looks to me with all the great modern technology we haven't gained one thing but weight.

 

[Goes4ever]

I spent many many days last yr in search of gold, coming up empty handed, it is very frustrating.

Detecting is my stress reliever in a life that is full of constant go, go, go, non stop, always busy etc......

So when I go detecting, it allows me to really just relax and unwind, finding old coins and neat relics is something that just gives me an almost high, an excitement like nothing else.

And when I go hunting for gold and dig foil, pulltabs, can slaw etc.......it does NOT relieve my stress, it aggrivates me that I wasted several hours, digging garbage with nothing to show for it. A couple days of trying for gold and I am thinking heck, I would rather be at work that wasting my time digging a million trash targets, it is not fun and actually increases my stress.....lol

I have not dug gold of any kind since december 2011, yet I have dug hundreds of nickels, pulltabs, foil and can slaw trying.

I cannot say that about silver though, because in that same time frame of getting NO gold, I have dig a couple hundred silver coins, and rings.....so to me, hunting for gold is just not worth the hassle, the aggrivation, or the stress it causes me.

I will still continue to dig all nickel signals, but I will not continue to designate a whole day of digging low conductors solely looking for gold.

 

[1goldsniper]

Goes4ever you hit the nail on the head!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Yes, I also agree with Goes4ever - it's always a great feeling when you find a nice gold ring - but I rarely look for gold - unless I'm on a beach.
I need the extra money as much as the next guy - but when I'm off work and out on a hunt - I'm looking for a piece of history.
My primary goal is to find coins - old coins - for me any day is a good day when I come home with a silver coin or any type coin with a 1800's date on it.
I found a $700.00 gold and diamond ring two years ago - it's in my display case - I never even look at it - but I do look at the Capped Bust, Seated, Barber's & Large Cents almost every day.

Strange thing is ... this hobby is all about finding money - but very few of us are in it for a profit.

 

[LabradorBob]

Yes Silver coins are hard to come by here anymore.
Thus when i can not travel far i look for Gold for that exact reason,few others are willing to dig for it!
I am on a learning experience.

LabradorBob