How do I find Gold or Coins?

[lawman0210]

Am i confusing the descrimination that you guys speak of eith the sensitivity? My Ace 250 and GTI 2500 have discrimation modes, and notches but the user fucntiopn is only able to adjust sensitivity. The hight the sensitivity the deeper you go correct? Where does the discrimination "3 bars" as described?

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Am i confusing the descrimination that you guys speak of eith the sensitivity? My Ace 250 and GTI 2500 have discrimation modes, and notches but the user fucntiopn is only able to adjust sensitivity. The hight the sensitivity the deeper you go correct? Where does the discrimination "3 bars" as described?

Yes. Level adjust/discrimination is a seperate adjustment on some detectors. Mine has seperate dials for sensitivity, discrimination and ground balance. The disctimination is the one that filters out "less noble" metals like iron and lead. I made up this chart (if you look at it you owe me three dollars!) for setting my discrimination (aka level adjust). Ground balance is usually fixed in the less expensive units (jokingly described as "automatic" in some of them

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I bracketed things like pull tabs to show what I would lose by selecting them out. Nicer units have "masks" that can select ranges within that scale of conductivity. But just where a three cent piece or a twenty cent piece, or a large copper cent is they don't tell you. Some also select out gold rings when you de-select pull tabs. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[dlindsay]

The road to gold is from digging pull tabs!

 

[Farmercal]

Ant, I hunted a swimming hole of a temporary drained lake (Lake Nasworthy) in San Angelo, TX with a Fisher 1265X and found a man's gold wedding band and a baby gold ring (really small) using very low discriminization. Now the 1265X isn't designed specifically for finding gold but it saw it non-the-less. Also note at the time this area I was hunting was in fact dry land. I beleive you CAN find gold with most detectors you just have to be able to dig everything. Are you telling us that your detector will find ONLY gold and ignore all other items? Becaues if it can do that I need to get me one of those detectors.

 

[Ant]

Ant, I hunted a swimming hole of a temporary drained lake (Lake Nasworthy) in San Angelo, TX with a Fisher 1265X and found a man's gold wedding band and a baby gold ring (really small) using very low discriminization. Now the 1265X isn't designed specifically for finding gold but it saw it non-the-less. Also note at the time this area I was hunting was in fact dry land. I beleive you CAN find gold with most detectors you just have to be able to dig everything. Are you telling us that your detector will find ONLY gold and ignore all other items? Becaues if it can do that I need to get me one of those detectors.

I admit, I'm not a Writer I'm a Mechanic. But I think I clearly stated that I can pass up iron using the Iron Identification Mode which dose not discrimate pre say, it just ID's IRON. Do you see all that gold in my hand? I found it all in just 3 years, that's over 60 detected gold finds. Now those of you find that much gold without using a gold machine, put up, or, you know the rest.

HH

 

[Ant]

But really, a gold machine will detect all conductive metals and most machines can tune out lots of common iron and steel junk. That's what a gold machine can do that others can't. Don't you think that make a huge difference?

 

[Colorado Kidd]

I got some good advice when I found my first old house site to hunt. The guy at the metal detector store told me to grid off a section and then dig all the good sounding targets and then go back and dig all the bad sounding targets. Sometimes when there are a lot of signals it can drive you crazy. So, Set your discrimination high and only dig the good signals then go back and lower your disc. a notch and repeat. Keep doing this until there isn't a signal in your grid area and you will find some great stuff. Some great coins are hanging out down there and they are masked by junk. Sometimes those nulls in the threshold are deep silver coins. Thats my 2 cents worth. Good luck. Also get yourself a 4 or 5 foot spring steel probe and look for the old privy pits and dump fill areas. In my experience around old homes where I live in Colorado If the probe goes in more than two feet there are usually some great old bottles to be found. And, if you think metal detecting is fun wait until you dig your first privy. Good luck.