The Bounty Hunter brand and its abilities to find gold....

[rumme]

Well Ive been doing some research with my new Time Ranger detector. It seems to be very reliable in identifying silver, clad,etc but when it comes to gold, its a bit tricky.

I tested several gold items..including a gold ring, a gold necklace and a gold bracelet. All gold items register to the left { low conductivity} of the I.D target LCD readout. The Time ranger has 4 different levels of detection for IRON and it seems that it is not a good idea to discriminate out all of the iron. On the 3 gold itmes I checked, they all would jump around in the 1st and 2nd iron I.D or the foil or nickel I.D areas. I then tested some nails/bolts and they came in under the IRON settings of 3rd and 4th.

This unscientific test would seem to indicate that it may be possible to discriminate out the 3rd and 4th IRON settings which may keep one from digging to much iron junk but it seems that its important to keep the 1st and 2nd IRON settings accepted if one wants to find gold...

I have no idea if these findings would be the same if I wasnt using new gold and where trying to I.D gold that may have been under the ground for years. Maybe that gold would I.D under the 3rd and 4th IRON I.D .

For now, im gonna accept the 1st and 2nd IRON settings along with foil/tabs/nickels/etc and the onyl thing I plan to discriminate out is the 3rd and 4th IRON I.D....since it seems that , from my tests, gold doesnt register under those catgories but nails and screws do.

 

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[Stainless Steet Rat]

I don't think gold was in mind when they made Bounty Hunter MDs. I have a Discovery 3300 and 2 other Bounty Hunter MDs. I have only found 3 gold items 2 of those showed up as iron targets and the men's gold ring showed up on the target id as a pulltab. I was lucky the 18k gold earring was next to a wheat penny because it reads as iron 3 on my display. I guess I will have to start digging more targets to find the gold.

 

[joelt]

I do the opposite I ignore Iron 1&2 but keep 3&4 (usually just 4). I'd like to know how it works out for you.

I think 1&2 will be micro-jewelry, which gets lost very often because its harder for the person that lost it to find it again or even realize they lost it. However, where I've searched 1&2 ring all the time (foil!), it would drive me nuts to dig 'em all, but maybe I should. Iron 4 should give you smaller gold rings, not gold chains, unless of course the chains have something on them.