Count Boris
Full Member
- Jan 27, 2007
- 136
- 12
- Detector(s) used
- White's M6,White's Prizm IV,Garrett AT Pro
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello Everyone.
This is my question. I know gold seems to have allot of different VDI readings. But I still would like to know what most gold rings show up on the VDI scale. As for me, I found A 14 kt. That bounced between 24 and 26. Are some readings a better percentage to dig?
Thanks
Boris
This is my question. I know gold seems to have allot of different VDI readings. But I still would like to know what most gold rings show up on the VDI scale. As for me, I found A 14 kt. That bounced between 24 and 26. Are some readings a better percentage to dig?
Thanks
Boris
). They carefully graphed all the coordinates of those rings. I do not believe that that resulted in any one type of #s they landed on. That is, gold rings can be ANYWHERE from 00 (tiny little platinum thin rings), up to the mid 40s or 50 (big men's class rings) and anywhere inbetween. But what the studies were good for, was to make these "ring enhancement" programs. They would also plot out the most commonly recurring junk items too (small foil wads, round tabs, etc...) and compare their #s with the numerical plots of the most recurring ring #s. From that, they developed programs that tuned out *most* junk, while accepting *most* gold rings. You can probably find some of those ring enhancement programs. I recall a few that were made for the Whites scales. Wouldn't help on limited quadrant machines, like the CZ6 (with only 5 or 6 group-all zones) etc...
2) Rings with a crown on them (ie.: anything but a band) tend to work themselves sideways in the turf, after many years (ie.: will be on edge), thus skewing their TIDs 3) There's still the nagging doubt that you're missing something. For example, the ring programs tuned out very small foil (01 to 07), because: "85% of foil (or whatever) reads down there, but only 9% of rings read down there" So yes, you'd pass most foil doing that, and risk a low percentage of ring losses. But heck, we all know that some of the BIGGEST ladies' diamonds are set on those fine thin little solitaire rings, right? 
So naturally, you would only use these programs for environments where junk is so prohibitive, and digging so limited (ie.: can't dig 100 holes in the turf), that you'd have no other choice. By the time you did all that, you'd be better off just to choose a different hunting ground: Namely swimming beaches where digging and disc. is not a problem, and swimming and sunbathing are more conducive to jewelry losses anyhow.
