10 k gold ring target number

[budster]

I recently recovered a 10k mans gold ring and the target ID was an 8. I don't even usually dig an 8. Am I missing a lot of rings or was this 8 just a fluke reading?

 

[Tinfoil]

1. Yep

2. No

3. HH Happy New Year Jerry aka Tinfoil

 

[budster]

Well, POOH!!!

 

[Simpsonslammer]

It must have been a small ring? This year I found a mens 10K class ring, locked on to #15

 

[budster]

3.3 gram. About 2 inches deep in extremely dry ground and no other targets in the vicinity. Guess I'll just chalk it up to lessons learned, and start digging everything TID 6 and above. I have always loved tin foil and small aluminum pieces anyway.

 

[Goldstrike]

Ive come to the conclusion that gold rings irrespective of Karat/gold content can and do I.D. at different numbers that don't always conform to the numbers that some people say they do or should do. My very simple rule is that if a target sounds more solid than usual even if the number is a traditional "trash" number, it's worth digging. This 9+ gram 14K ring came from near a park metal bench which was littered with many pull tabs. I dug it because it didn't sound like a pull tab EVEN THOUGH it registered a solid 15!! which is the normal pull tab number with a few variations depending on the size and age of the pull tab.
10K Class rings generally register lower numbers but as we all know, they vary greatly in form, size and some have stones and some don't so numbers will vary. Just my personal experience and observations here!.

 

[Champ Ferguson]

... if a target sounds more solid than usual ....

I think that's the key or at least an important distinction that a gold jewelry hunter needs to understand. The gold rings I have found with my Safari were thin women's rings and they have all come in at 6 or 9.

 

[Fishers Ghost]

I just did a quick check with my safari of 42 gold rings that I have found and 14 of them came in at between 1 and 9.
These 14 rings range between 9kt and 22kt. and weight range 0.63g to 2.74g with 9 of them between 0.63g and 1.15g. one 18 kt g ring is just 1.78g. and it gave a reading of 12.

So if you don't wish to leave gold rings in the ground you will have to dig the iron tones right through to high silver tones and there are a lot of gold and sil rings in the pull tab ranges.

 

[kschae4]

Great info above from GS, Champ and Fishers Ghost. Just to add to complexity of gold tid....here's a woman's 10k ring, tid 19, found about a year ago.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?3,2260611,2261293#msg-2261293

 

[Fishers Ghost]

If you are a person who feels a burning desire to use discrimination when searching for coins and jewellery then I suggest that you use a detector with multiple notch capability like the safari. The notches will allow you to pick and choose the trash you want eliminated / ignored while still retaining the ability to detect all items above and below the notch settings and most notch discriminators these days will still display a target in the notch section of the display and so giving you the ability to choose whether to dig or not dig a notched target, whereas a single blanket discrimination control set for argument sake, to not respond to pull tabs or maybe steel/aluminium bottle caps will pretty much kill your chances of detecting small to medium gold rings and most gold chains as well as many ear rings , pendants, broaches, etc.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Jewelry id's from foil to the zinc range, regardless of the detector used.

 

[budster]

Jewelry id's from foil to the zinc range, regardless of the detector used.

That is probably the best thought!!!

 

[croakersmoker78]

Yes you are probably missing they come up low like that a lot I dug a 14 karat wedding band came up a12 my chain 14k a 3