what is the deepest gold item you have found with the explorers?

[moytatdog]

im trying to bust this myth claiming explorers are worthless on gold...
i heard people say 3-4 inch max..

 

[beep stick]

a mens class ring at 7....but then again it could have just been a ghost signal as you suggested on the pro coil......oh yea ...i also returned that ghost signal back to the original owner ....

 

[beep stick]

now smaller gold like small chains and such dont seem to be found with the explorers as well as other machines it seems

 

[dewcon4414]

I guess id have to ask.... at what depth do detectors hit gold regardless of brand? Gold like pennies dont seem to find their way down there very quickly.... unless they have been covered up by fill dirt. Id say a class ring at 5" is a pretty fair find.... no matter the detector. I havent read of too many people finding nickels at say 8 or 9 inches. It could be we just arent looking for them.

Dew

 

[bgscofield6]

I guess id have to ask.... at what depth do detectors hit gold regardless of brand? Gold like pennies dont seem to find their way down there very quickly.... unless they have been covered up by fill dirt. Id say a class ring at 5" is a pretty fair find.... no matter the detector. I havent read of too many people finding nickels at say 8 or 9 inches. It could be we just arent looking for them.

Dew

On days where I feel like hunting for nickels, I regularly find them at 8-9". Gold can get deep more quickly then other items because it is heavier for its size.

As for the answer to the original question. 6" deep... Of course I've only ever found one piece of gold with the explorer and it just happened to be a big (1/2 oz) smashed class ring from the 1960s and it hit like a wheat penny. So it wasn't like I was digging low tones.

 

[utahshovelhead]

Hey Moytatdog,
I don't usually say to much about my digs (having learned the hard way about vultures...you know who you are) but I thought I might say a little about the Explorer.
I completely love the explorer for gold rings. I have found close to 75 gold items with it one being a 2.5 dollar gold coin that was next to iron and lots of folks had gone over it at 8 inches deep. Once I started dialing in the sound of the rings I could swear they have a nice clear ring sound in the tone and they range with the karat of gold mix they have. I know that sounds loony but I have shown this to others with the rings I have found. The rings will target up and down the graph depending on size, shape, and karat but they rarely sound with a double beep and they usually hit solid even when deep, I bought a 14 inch excelorator coil and started going over my spot and over it and over it. The depth is incredible and nobody can ever tell me different. I had to use a shovel with the 14 inch coil. No one will believe me when I tell you the deepest I have retrieved targets but I was completely shocked at how deep I have found them. My buddy with his machine just stared into the abyss of a hole I dug and said " I'm not coming with you anymore." That's the truth.

Good luck,
utahshovelhead

 

[moytatdog]

a mens class ring at 7....but then again it could have just been a ghost signal as you suggested on the pro coil......oh yea ...i also returned that ghost signal back to the original owner ....

im not trying to be a wise guy about the pro coil but only thing i can say is to try the sef and you will see what i mean..
got a different feel to it ..
yes i have found a lot of good targets with my pro but when you run out of good hits on a site and have to chase iffy signals ,the sef was giving me more of an idea whats happening deep..

 

[beep stick]

a mens class ring at 7....but then again it could have just been a ghost signal as you suggested on the pro coil......oh yea ...i also returned that ghost signal back to the original owner ....

im not trying to be a wise guy about the pro coil but only thing i can say is to try the sef and you will see what i mean..
got a different feel to it ..
yes i have found a lot of good targets with my pro but when you run out of good hits on a site and have to chase iffy signals ,the sef was giving me more of an idea whats happening deep..

hey man no problem...its all in good fun and it kinda makes us all better hunters when the heat is turned up ...sort of like hunting harder to prove your point kinda thing....as for the sef coil...i have found silver with it ...but honestly nothin that my pro would not also read and read WELL i might add...as for ghost holes...hhmmm i have owned this pro coil for over a yr and never once dug a hole that didn't have a target in it AND it don't wear out your shoulder.....I'm not seeing the stability of the sef as others...because to be honest it wont let me get past 22 manual sens. and i regularly run my pro coil at 24 to 27 manual and it is rock solid but you cant scrub it ya have to sort of glide it.. given that...hands down for me the best at being stable is the old 1050..a work horse you can actually scrub HARD on the ground at those levels and still not false

 

[dewcon4414]

Im not having that problem with the SEF beep, i run in manual back home and put the coil on the soil running normally as you do 24 to 27. Now like someone mentioned if dirt gets under the coil you will notice it more. That happend mostly when the coil is getting wet. I keep getting kicked in the butt for saying i dont dig many ghost holes, its very rare that i dig a hole and cant find a target... even if it turns out to be iron.... but maybe im digging text book targets. I tell you what does give me a signal that goes away... ashes and sometimes moe holes, the SE dont seem to like holes in the soil. Ive not done nearly as well with the Explorer finding gold... but i do find some... but its not been overly deep stuff.... unless like i said on a beach with a lot of sand movement. Class rings do ring in loud and clear... but even those ive found no deeper than 6 or 7 inches. Maybe people find them before they get deep or maybe they dont loose a ton of them in regular park situations. Gold is heaver than other metal and you would think they settle quicker.... doesnt that take us back to... are targets settling or getting covered up? I must admit i had a lot better find rate with the whites maybe its just the threshold tone they use... i believe set at 5 its pretty close to what the DFX was, but i run mine at 8. What are you running yours at moytatdog? I had a pretty good collection of gold and other jewerly and did a pattern once. It turned out to look a great deal like the jewerly pattern with that identifiable S curve to it. I have noticed im finding more nickels that ever. The jeffs seem to have a more consistant tone.... now the others still jump around on the screen sometimes hitting in the lower right corner of the screen and are a little more scratchy like pull tabs. Cant take a thing away from bgscofield6... ive hunted with him hes a mad man at what he can find DEEP. So id say hes and exception.

Dew

 

[moytatdog]

i have found larger rings made of gold with the se .but chains and thin rings seem to me are harder for this unit..
the rings i have grabbed are not more than the 5 inch range...
im asking if the smaller items are successful with this unit...
on land i hunt deeper silver and dig deep looking for old anything..
i dont really concentrate on shallow gold range hits....
but when i go for jewelry ,its the excaliber on the jersey shore...

 

[dewcon4414]

chains are just hard no matter what unit you are using simply because of the way a detector sees chains... a link at a time. You can find them but you have to dig more targets... what you will find on gold it sound more hollow with a distinct sound. Well if you have the Xcal then you got the best of two worlds. It does a pretty good job on gold and is deep, not to mention water proof. If you arent concentrating on shallow targets in the parks id say your are missing 4 out of 5 pieces of jewerly. It been my experience that they just dont settle that deep.... thats silver or gold. You are certainly in a good location to find old and new stuff.

Dew