...............detecting ball fields / football fields. But I am mainly a gold ring/ jewelry hunter..................silver coins are a waste to time for me. (One ring has much more value than a worn out silver dime or quarter) Detector needs to be "hot on gold"..... fast recovery time and good disc against iron. I know there will be lots of opinions but that's fine I would like your recommendations......thanks!!!
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Which detector would you recommend for..........
- Thread starter Ivan
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ZincolnDigr
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A Whites DFX with a bigfoot coil, set on 15kHz should work well. Probably cheaper, better options out there though.
You ought to consider the Minelab Xterra 70. Its a lot lighter than the MXT and has a lot of the same capability and will find gold rings just fine. Remember though, if you're looking for gold rings you're gonna dig some pull tabs, because they're going to come up to real close to the same ID numbers. I don't know of a machine good enough to discriminate that fine.
When I hunt parks, playgrounds and athletic fields I'm usually looking for jewelry first and coins second. I've used a lot of different detectors for a lot of years when hunting jewelry, including the Lobo ST, several other Tesoros, Garrets, Minelabs, Compass and others, but the best I've used, still use, is the Goldtrax Treasure Baron. I use the 6X9 coil, turn off the iron audio in disc mode, set it to give low tones on nickels and a high/low tone combination on tabs and run in all metal mode at turn on presets. In all metal mode iron and tiny foil gives a staccato audio response and lights a red LED, thin gold chains and bracelet can also give the staccatto response but it's a softer, fluttery sound than iron or tiny foil. Rings and coins down to around three inches give a fast, hard hit in all metal mode, so will tabs but if you don't want to dig them you can set the disc mode audio to give the dual tone on them and weed out most of those except broken or bent ones. If there's no signal in disc mode, the target is between the nail/salt water range and medium size pieces of foil. When I get a fast, hard hit in all metal mode I lift the coil and swing over the target with a fast sweep speed, most foil will give some rather odd audio responses while rings still give the hard, fast response. Some can slaw and most pencil erasor bands give a longer, smoother and weaker signal in all metal mode than coins and rings, so a lot of those can be skipped.
I would never have believed it before I started using the Goldtrax, and it did take awhile to begin to hear them, but with the audio variations it has in all metal mode I actually dig less trash than I did using all the other detectors in disc mode. The rings in the top photo are a few found using the Goldtrax and are typical of probably 80 percent, or more, of the rings I find. Two of them ID as nickels on metered detectors and the others ID in the foil range. The second photo is a mix of mostly gold and silver good stuff with a few of the nicer plated pieces mixed in, almost all of it found with the Goldtrax at athletic fields, schools and playgrounds. The way I hunt is slow, and the constant audio, especially the iron/small foil staccato, gets a little nerve racking after awhile, but it works well for me. The Goldtrax is out of production and hard to find but Mr Bill, who helps keep Findmall forums going, might have one. He can also substantiate what I posted about how good the Goldtrax, and other Treasure Barons, is for finding gold jewelry.
I would never have believed it before I started using the Goldtrax, and it did take awhile to begin to hear them, but with the audio variations it has in all metal mode I actually dig less trash than I did using all the other detectors in disc mode. The rings in the top photo are a few found using the Goldtrax and are typical of probably 80 percent, or more, of the rings I find. Two of them ID as nickels on metered detectors and the others ID in the foil range. The second photo is a mix of mostly gold and silver good stuff with a few of the nicer plated pieces mixed in, almost all of it found with the Goldtrax at athletic fields, schools and playgrounds. The way I hunt is slow, and the constant audio, especially the iron/small foil staccato, gets a little nerve racking after awhile, but it works well for me. The Goldtrax is out of production and hard to find but Mr Bill, who helps keep Findmall forums going, might have one. He can also substantiate what I posted about how good the Goldtrax, and other Treasure Barons, is for finding gold jewelry.
jackintexas
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Very good post JB.....Jack
jackintexas
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I know you are going to laugh but I have had very good luck finding gold rings with the Garrett Ace 250. It just seems to hit gold well for me. I have owned about fifty detectors since I started detecting. I own twelve now. After seeing what some one found while specializing in find gold rings I started specializing in looking for gold rings only. I have sold quiet a few. Wish I had them now with the price of gold what it is. Here are a few I have left. The ring in the ring case appraised for $2000.00. Most were found with the acAce 250.....Jack
Take a hard look at the Minelab X-70. With the 18.75 kHz DD coils (10.5" & 6"), it is a killer on gold rings and small gold chains etc. The TID makes it easy to identify if the target is in the gold range. The 10.5" coil goes really deep and the 6" coil is great in the trashy areas. It has great iron rejection, seperation and fast recovery. The bonus is the prospecting mode for gold nuggets and it is very sensitive when trying to find an elusive small object. The beach hunting mode works about as good as you can get from a VLF machine. The TID is rock steady on good objects. If you see it bounce more than one number, it's usually junk. It really helps with the pop tops. You can also tell a lot just from the tones the machine makes.
Good hunting, John K
Good hunting, John K
That big ring is a super find Jack
. Nothing wrong with an Ace 250 for hunting rings. I found a lot of gold rings with a Garrett Freedom III Plus back in the early to mid 1990's, and more coins with it than I've found with any other detector I've used. I like the Goldtrax because it doesn't miss gold, even the tiniest chains that a lot of detectors can't see, and I don't have to dig nearly as much foil and low conductive trash as I did with the many other detectors I used for hunting jewelry.
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. Nothing wrong with an Ace 250 for hunting rings. I found a lot of gold rings with a Garrett Freedom III Plus back in the early to mid 1990's, and more coins with it than I've found with any other detector I've used. I like the Goldtrax because it doesn't miss gold, even the tiniest chains that a lot of detectors can't see, and I don't have to dig nearly as much foil and low conductive trash as I did with the many other detectors I used for hunting jewelry.[attachment 101693 14ktchain.jpg]
Hi JB
I doubt that there is anything out there that would perform like the Gold Trax in your setup. I certainly have a lot of detectors at my disposal, and nothing mentioned here is close.
The down side of it all is trying to locate a setup such as yours. I do have a couple, but there few & far between, plus there is a bit of a learning curve with it like there is with all of George's creations. They are because there different from what most are use to now.
Nice photo's.
I doubt that there is anything out there that would perform like the Gold Trax in your setup. I certainly have a lot of detectors at my disposal, and nothing mentioned here is close.
The down side of it all is trying to locate a setup such as yours. I do have a couple, but there few & far between, plus there is a bit of a learning curve with it like there is with all of George's creations. They are because there different from what most are use to now.
Nice photo's.
Mr.Bill said:Hi JB
I doubt that there is anything out there that would perform like the Gold Trax in your setup. I certainly have a lot of detectors at my disposal, and nothing mentioned here is close.
The down side of it all is trying to locate a setup such as yours. I do have a couple, but there few & far between, plus there is a bit of a learning curve with it like there is with all of George's creations. They are because there different from what most are use to now.
Nice photo's.
Are you talking about Treasure Baron by Discovery Electronics? Or about something else? What exactly is Gold Trax? I never heard about one.
Mr.Bill said:Hi JB
I doubt that there is anything out there that would perform like the Gold Trax in your setup. I certainly have a lot of detectors at my disposal, and nothing mentioned here is close.
The down side of it all is trying to locate a setup such as yours. I do have a couple, but there few & far between, plus there is a bit of a learning curve with it like there is with all of George's creations. They are because there different from what most are use to now.
Nice photo's.
Even better than MXT in prospecting mode?
I've had a few detectors, Shadow X5, Lobo ST, a Newforce CS-1220, any of the Cointrax Baron models and a couple of Compass Scanner models that would detect jewelry as well as the Goldtrax. The X5 and Lobo ST in particular were deadly on small gold, but gold jewelry, foil, pencil erasor bands, can slaw, pellets from air rifles and all manner of low conductive trash gave the same signals as jewelry. A tiny piece of shallow foil, for example, gave the same signal as a small, deep ring. Not so with the Goldtrax. There's not a detector made that will allow finding every piece of gold jewelry the coil is swung over at ballfields, which is what Ivan asked about to start this thread, or anywhere else without digging a lot of trash, including the Goldtrax. The reason I said the Goldtrax is the best I've used for that purpose is that, once learned, the variations in the all metal mode in conjunction with toggling to the dual tone disc mode to check questionable signals, allow finding more jewelry while skipping quite a bit of the low conductive trash that I would have dug while using any of the other detectors I've used.