High Ironpit,
Dieseldust and Rmptr are both giving you good accounts of gold hunting strategies.
I have dug several gold objects with a Silver Sabre uMax which has the same kind of
ED-120 discriminator and reacts very similar, if not the same.
Seems most places I hunt have been hunted before I got to them, so usually I find small
gold that they miss for the same reason you and others have trouble finding it.
I promise you that small gold more often is at the very bottom end of your discriminator.
That is because you have a ED-120 which rejects small iron and small gold starts hitting
at that point. So to get it, it has to be all the way down. Also you loose sensitivity
to gold if you use any discrimination. If you have a ED-180, you can afford to turn the disc
up just a little and not loose as much sensitivity. Not with the Silver. Some people are
confused about that. The Silver will accomplish the task pretty good with no disc. So the
tone will more often be broken because it's at the bottom end of the scale.
I suggest going to tot lots or swim beaches where the likely hood of finding gold is higher.
Turn your sensitivity as high as you can stand it. Dig all targets, even the iffy, hard to hit
on signals. Use Killer B's or same quality headphones. Targets are easy to recover in most
tot lot media. So after recovering about 3,000 or 4,000 targets, you will start to get some
idea of how it sounds. That may sound like a lot of targets but I can do about 300 or more
in a couple of hours, no problem. So it is no stretch of the imagination that you can easily
recover that my targets in only 30 hours of hunting.
It's not a big hard secrete that only the pro's know. It's just a simple thing that most people
are afrade to attempt. What!!!!!!!!! DIG ALL TARGETS!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT AFTER I PAID A
THOUSAND DOLLARS TO KNOW WHAT I"M DIGGING BEFORE I DIG!!!!!!!!!!!
That's the attitude that leaves me my booty. Thanks fellas.
HH,