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Took a plunge today...few questions

When I first got into this...It was because I worked at a state park. I found some one doing it...and asked a buncha questions. Anyway. I bought a 1280 and was in the drink one day. That person came by and says...hey...set your discrimination to 5-6...lol. He prolly wanted me to miss stuff who knows.

I had it at about 2...your sayin I should go lower? DOH! now I gotta do the pond again...lol. Thanks. I will try lowering it again. I am going back tomorrow. There is an area that had a rope swing a few years back...I gotta do that too.

Wish me luck. Heh. HH -Joe
 
YES, Here is what you need to do. Sorry I thought you had a cz-21 wrong thread. get a few different pulltabs. AND a gold ring if you can, A nut screw or nail and put them in your grass a ways apart. Discriminate out the nail nut and or screw. Make sure the pull tabs come in STRONG, and then test the gold ring. Have the loop about 6" above your test material. You also should try a nickel.

Make sure all the alunimum is heard, The nickel is heard and keep that discrimination setting.

GL and happy hunting
 
I've used a 1280-x quite a bit in freshwater lakes. I find that setting the "Disc" between 2 and 3 works well for me. Iron objects will have a "clipped" sound but coins and rings will sound a little more drawn out. You want to still be able to find pull tabs- if you tune those out you may lose the gold signals as well. True, you can set the "Disc" at "0" or "1" if there was little trash. However, where I hunt there are too many bottle caps and other trash and I would be wasting valuable time and energy digging them (hard to dig where I hunt). HH!
 
just remember theres NO such thing as a(CRAPPY GOLD RING)golds gold from any point of view
keep it comming theres more there
 
I am heated I cant find it. My old man found a bag of stuff that I recovered from back in 2002. Mens silver headband. Two other silver rings. And a silver earing. The gold toe ring and other 10k gold ring are MIA. Not sure where when or how I lost them...but they are gone. HH -Joe
 
Well I finished today. More clad. I didnt count. No gold...wa wa wa waaaa. Bummer. I will hit that place again some time. The 1280 is good at finding silver...so I am curious as to where the silver was. I basically hit the entire area twice.

Maybe I need to go back with a minelab. Not sure how the two compare.

When I detected a pool in 02 I believe it was not done...at the time I had my discrimination probably around 5... I got lots of clad...mostly pennies.. And some silver rings...one mens headband. That band took me 30 minutes solid of scooping to get...sucker was deeeep! I am definatly going back to this pond asap. There is just limited access.


Anyway. Thanks a lot for the advice. I believe I found the gold ring because of that. Owe it to the tips I got here. HH-Joe
 
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