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thinking about the golden umax
- Thread starter dfg4240
- Start date
Someone get slingshot a new Golden, that way he would have two good detectors instead of just oneslingshot said:I've been fighting this for months now. I keep telling myself my Royal Sabre is enough. I even begged Robert for one-I would make a great field tester!dfg4240 said:Heck, I even tried to lie my way into getting one. I know this is really helping.
.dfg4240 said:
Hi Dave - The Golden works just fine in my area on coins down to 5 inches. The thing that can effect it is mineralization as the Golden does not have a ground balance adjustment. In the parks I'm hunting I don't see any significant difference in my test above ground to those in the ground. With that said, 95% of the coins and jewelry I'm finding are surface to 4 inches.
The notch has its drawbacks, it eliminates gold class rings and mens gold rings along with the pulltabs. I have the older Golden and I have a Coinstrike. I could mentally notch out pulltabs and screw caps on the Coinstrike simply by looking at the numbers on the meter. With the Coinstrike I tested 10 ladies gold rings.The meter showed ladies gold rings to be #8, 9, 10, 11 mostly. Tabs were #11, 12, 13. Mens gold rings, square tabs, and class rings were #14 and 15. Screw cap #19. The Goldens notch will eliminate targets from #11 to 19. Thats the heavier gold rings range. With the Coinstrike I hear all targets and I could choose not to dig certain numbers, it's my choice. With the Golden notch I don't hear the notched out targets, could be a heavy gold ring. Thats why they say you gotta dig all targets from foil to screw caps to know for sure. I like the Golden but I think I have more accuracy with the Coinstrike meter.
Those are powerful words-I do recall that the videos by 53silver said small little girls gold ring.
So you say the notch knocks out class rings and the bigger mens gold rings.I will try to find that out.
if that's true then I have more research to do.
thanks for some important info.
important to me anyway
thanks jabbo
So you say the notch knocks out class rings and the bigger mens gold rings.I will try to find that out.
if that's true then I have more research to do.
thanks for some important info.
important to me anyway
thanks jabbo
dfg4240 said:
One of the reasons the Golden is so popular is the fact that it can be used in several different ways. If your looking for coins and gold, just leave the notch off and use the tones, and when you hear the gold/nickel tone - get digging! When you're coin shooting, switch the notch on, either to eliminate zinc or not, set the lower limit, and have a blast! The videos I posted show how I use it for both types of hunts. The Golden is one of the most enjoyable and effective detectors you can use, and for the money, it's a no brainer.
Just get a Cortez you get the Meter, Notch, TID# and Tones in Sum mode. Most of us never use the Tones or the Sum but it is there if you want it. Mens Class rings are very rare in all but maybe Beach areas. I have a big Masonic Ring and it comes in as a Nickel on my Cortez with a TID of 28. Any of the Goldens would pick that up since a Nickel is 24 to 28 and those pesty Double Hole tabs come in at 31. The Golden has a hard time cutting these type tabs so I know the Golden or Cortez would pick up this Ring as well as the smaller Lady's Gold rings which still hit as Nickels but TID at 14 to 20. By the way I am referring to running the Cortez or Golden with the Notch on. If you want you can cut the Notch off. If I bought a Golden I would want the older version of the tones myself.
In my opinion the notch takes away gold, it cannot add. I found a lot more gold rings, gold medalions, gold chains and gold bracelots with my Cortes. I almost never used the 2 notches (narrow and wide) on the Cortes. Dug strickly by the numbers (0 - 95) depending where I was searching and what I was searching for. In trashy areas, like around park picnic tables the notch can eliminate some digging because of all the pulltabs there. But farther away from the picnic tables where there is almost no tabs I would not use notch, (especially on soccer and baseball fields) you could miss a mans gold ring. My best gold chain found was appraised at $1600, and thats when gold was $800 per ounce, and another gold chain appraised at $900 - $1100, both found with the Cortes, wish I still had it. I still have the Golden but for the past 3 years I'm having more fun finding old coins with my other machine. Here in NJ there is plenty of 1700's King George pennies in cornfields and in the woods. Oh what fun.
Slingshot, My Golden allows foil when in Narrow or Wide notch. Gotta use the regular Disc knob to wipe out foil because the 2 Notches do not extend down into the foil range. Regular Disc can be used while you are using Notch mode but if you turn up Regular Disc too high it will blend in with the Notch. Not good for ladies gold rings, so I would keep Regular Disc set at IRON when in Notch mode and allow foil to beep. The Goldens Narrow Notch allows zinc pennies, Wide Notch eliminates them. Using the Notch and/or Regular Disc will knock out some gold rings along with some junk. Can slaw is a real problem for Notch or Regular Disc. As I said, the 2 Notches will eliminate heavier gold rings and some junk, but will get most ladies gold rings along with some junk. Notch accepts some gold and some junk and it eliminates some gold and some junk.