A friend asked me today what I've been doing and when I said metal detecting, her face all lit up. Said she lost her expensive silver ring. Going to go next week sometime and hunt for it and will use the Minelab 705. I have the 9" stock mid freq, 9" 3 kHz concentric, 5" 18 KHZ DD and 5" coiltek 3khz concentric, and 5 x 9 18 KHZ DD. Which would seem best for finding a ring, lost in the yard within the last month, probably not that deep?
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Which coil for finding a ring
- Thread starter pplinker
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I would use the 9" 3kHz coil and a pinpointer personally. It will light that silver right up, and the audio difference between silver and everything else will make the recovery much faster and easier.
Just turn the SENS down to about 10 and get busy. Being a recent drop it will be virtually on top of everything else, and the pinpointer will make checking out probable hits much faster.
Just turn the SENS down to about 10 and get busy. Being a recent drop it will be virtually on top of everything else, and the pinpointer will make checking out probable hits much faster.
Good luck! Let us know how it turns out.
Oh...and we want pics too!
Oh...and we want pics too!
There is a good video on YouTube about rings and the VDI #'s they produce, (by Gerry's Detectors)---- Use the 7.5 stock coil, notch out everything except 6-8-10-12-14-and 16-----That should be the VDI that the ring will appear under. ---- Some larger, heavier mens rings might chime in a little higher, but if it is a womans ring, it will be one of those lower numbers. ---- Sens at about 20 will be plenty. -----keep the coil off the ground a couple inches. ---- Have confidence, it will show up under one of the numbers mentioned.
????????? Our TID only goes to 48 on a 705. If it rings up 80 there's something wrong!bd1024 said:
Bummer! Unfortunately that's the way it goes sometimes.pplinker said:
I went on a ring recovery mission a couple weeks ago, but what I didn't know until I got there was that the area it was lost in had been mowed in two different directions earlier THAT DAY! I spent three hours searching and didn't find it or any parts of it. I told the lady that it had either been found already by someone else or been thrown out of the immediate area by the mower....we'll never know.
Neil
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I would try putting the sens as high as it will go without falsing. That's a high conductor item and round so its gonna read high above the majority of junk. Dig anything higher than a pull tab. If your in grass and someone stepped on it you want as much sens as possible to pick it up as far away from the coil as possible.