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what machine would you use to find gold chains

Waterdog

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I went out the other day detecting along a beach and I seen this guy toss something into the sand. As I got a little closer to him he told his little one "watch him find it" as he pointed to the ground where he threw it. I went over the area where he pointed to and heard a Little scratch of a sound with numbers in the Iron area. He reached over and ran his finger thru the sand. dangling from his finger was a Nice Gold Chain that I would have walked away from with the sound and numbers I had just got.
Any ideas?
 
Waterdog, gold chains are without question the toughest target for any metal detector to hit, unless the clasp is large enough or there is a pendant on the chain.

Most metal detectors just flat out will not hit on them.

I have seen a few that will and they were all gold detectors.

Maybe the best of the bunch I watched with my own two eyes was the Fisher Gold Bug 2, but at 71 kHz, it also hit on every little tiny flake of chewing gum wrapper and the like.

It can be a real challenge, but then again, you will find what most others are missing.

I don;t know how the AT Gold or AT Pro would do as I've never used one.

Maybe someone else out there can help you.

Oh, and don;t be surpirsed about the IRON reading. Sometimes gold can show up there too.

Most of it falls under FOIL and the bigger pieces under NICKEL and PULLTAB.
 
I always bring a long a GOLD RING. SILVER RING, SMALL GOLD CHAIN AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST A NICKLE. These are my test items I always use to setup my detector for different soil conditions. 46 years detecting never fails, try it.
It's not so much the detector but the user and the time you take to learn it
 
Good advice from tarajudy.
Every chain I have ever found , silver, or gold, or junk was most likely the result of whatever clasp or pendent was attached to it sounding off not the chain itself, they are tough!!
HH Ed in co.
 
I use my GTI 2500 in the true all metal mode.
It can find them but they can't be too deep.
 
tarajudy said:
I always bring a long a GOLD RING. SILVER RING, SMALL GOLD CHAIN AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST A NICKLE. These are my test items I always use to setup my detector for different soil conditions. 46 years detecting never fails, try it.
It's not so much the detector but the user and the time you take to learn it

Sounds like a really smart thing to do. Would you give us some more details on how your use the test items to adjust your machine to the soil? Do you bury them? What settings do you adjust?
 
All the small gold, silver, junk chains I have found with one of my AT Pro's have had some sort of a charm on them. I air tested a variety of thin gold necklaces with the ATP with no charms and got no response unless I balled the necklaces up. I did the same test with my XP Deus 9" coil, and did get responses without balling them up, but nothing that would have screamed dig me.
 
The Tesoro Compadre hits gold and silver chains surprisingly well.

tabman
 
My Fisher Gold Bug Pro with the 5" NEL Sharp or the 5 x 10 elliptical coil will hit hard on gold chains. My wife's 5mm bracelets are no problem. I have found small gold hoop earrings and earring backings as well.
 
Chains are a challenge for any machine, if they dont have something (like a charm or pendant) attached to them. I was using my Sea Hunter II (years ago) and the only indication I got that something was there was a nulling of the threshold. There was a very small belcher style bracelet about 1" to 2" in the wet sand. Saltwater beach.
 
I'll chime in...I'm a seriously addicted gold chain hunter...I leave the house hunting for gold chains and everything else is just 'bycatch'...I run my Pro in pro-zero, 40 disc, sens down a few clicks, and iron audio off...I've had the Pro for going on three years now..found two gold chains with it...one is huge, 75gr of 24k, the other was 15gr of 10k, both in the water...the 75gr sounded like a few pulltabs or a piece of stainless steel strap, like a hose clamp of something..the 10k sounded like foil, and even though I run that high 40 disc, with iron audio off, some signals lower than 40 bleed through, which is good!

Theres a few long time detectorists that have used a lot of rigs that swear by the Pro's ability to find gold chains...I'm a relative noob, only 5yrs into this sport, but like I said, I hunt them hard on pounded beaches and parks, got three so far, one massive 6mm 32" figaro14k with the anchor I got with the F70, and the other two I mentioned...both the Pro and the 70 run around 15khz..both have the DD coil if that helps...

All this said, whether a guy is totlotting, sportsfielding, beachhunting or whatever, a guy has to seriously think about gold chains where they might be lost, and hunt those strange small signals...its actually a fools errand, but they are the White Buffalo when it comes to this sport...harder to find one than a gold coin signal wise...lots of coil time, luck and signals..these were all found within 15 miles of my house, so they are out there...the signal is just not a 'good' one, so they get passed over I'm guessing...:shrug: You gotta have a rig that can see them though, and be focused up, or you havnt a prayer...that +4 thousand $ of gold chains represents maybe 3 cents/mile of coil time!:sadwalk: A guy is better off financially stabbing clad truth be told! Still, they are out there and dont get hunted if thats any consolation...probably a few within 10 miles of your house right now just laying there waiting on you!...:rofl:
Mud.
 
Homebuilt, out of an icescoop!....cheap as I am, I just could not see paying +100 for what is essentially a shovel with holes in it! :lmfao: My third attempt! :lmfao: its held up remarkably well..I keyholed and dovetailed everything together, so nothing is going nowhere...I may do a post and take good pics of the build...I bought two ice scoops just in case, so theres an extra one sitting around here someplace.....super easy...I did the whole Whale tail design just on account of the art and all!:rofl:
Mud
 
I just hit gold a couple of weeks ago, second so far this year, after a nice wedding band.
This time, a bracelet with a charm, from the fifties, 750 gold.
My AT Pro found it, I sifted it out from a hole in the woods under a pile of dirt, leaves, and rubbish.
At first I thought it was just cheap worthless jewelry as it seemed too light to be gold.
But, after I washed all the mud out of it, the shine came out and I immediately got out the lense to check for gold incisions.
Sure enough, I found the 750 mark on both the bracelet and the charm.
With this find, I'm now over the 50 gram limit in 750 gold.
:thumbup:
 
I wonder if the sniper coil or the 5x8 would hit on shallow chains better?
 
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