Best Detectors For Finding Rings

[CoilFisher]

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[treasurehound]

Metal detectors do not find rings they find the alloys the rings are made of which is why they sound like pull tabs. You have to dig the pull tabs to get the rings and all machines will find pull tabs. If you discriminate the pull tabs you also discriminate the rings.

 

[jmoller99]

None of the the detectors mentioned here would find any of the rings of Saturn, but my daughters telescope can find them.

I have only found 3 rings in all the years I have detected (I don't coinshoot very often anymore, so that really cuts down on the odds of finding them) - I started detecting in 1988. I have located 2 Silver and 1 Gold Ring. I also used to find a lot of gold jewelry in kids play areas at parks (Tot Lots). Most metal detectors will find gold rings, but you have to be ready to dig up lots of trash before you get any. Finding gold chains usually requires a detector that runs at 12 kHz or above (I have a Tesoro Compadre and its very good at finding small gold things - its currently the cheapest Tesoro made - I have it for people to borrow/learn to detect with when I am hunting). While my Whites GMT will find very small gold, its not a very good choice for general purpose detecting (you probably want the ability to discriminate).

Also, keep in mind that most pin pointers are useless at finding any small gold at all - they may find some rings if they have enough alloy in them for the pin pointer to pick up. Small gold is much harder to detect.

I don't detect near salt water, and usually am working in areas that were once mining areas, or have known to have placer gold. I used to relic hunt in these same areas (one of my silver rings came from an abandoned mining area), but since there are now laws relating to artifacts, I leave relic hunting alone unless I have permission to hunt on private property.

As you have probably discovered - 'best' relates to the big picture of what you are trying to do and where you are planning on trying to detect. Getting to know you detector is very important. I often would detect in areas right behind other people and find things they missed - in that case, its not because my detector was any better than theirs - they often were in too much of a rush.