F5 and nickles....plus....

[Dan-Pa.]

On my unit 30 on the meter with no fluctuation dead nickel...used a lot of units and never saw one so dead right on modern nickles....
Another tip chances are if you get a number in the tab or foil range which doesn't fluctuate good chance for a gold ring...at least chances are increased and dig every one of these...

 

[Skwerly]

i can't wait to get an f5. that sounds about right!

 

[sqwaby]

Same here Dan, once in a while it will drop to 29 on a sweep in one direction, but comes right back to 30 and usually stays there. If it gets up to 32/33 it's a sq tab consistantly. If 31-mid 30s and ground phase # goes way low, it might be gold and I'll dig.

 

[Lakota]

Dan you are spot on with the no fluctuating tab and foil , though I did have an exception to the rule a couple nights back. 14k gold " Aries" signet ring was shallow ( another good indicator of a ring) and it didn't lock down on one number like the 10k white gold 8 gem ring last Thurs. (And other before it). Now in fairness my machine is an F75 , won't have my Omega package for about a week.

But man oh man does my 75 like the nickels, did have a 1904/6 V nickel show up last month at around 7-8" and its numbers were bouncing between zinc and nickel/tab , such a funky signal I had to dig it ( depth being the big decider)

Hope the Omega will lock onto the nickels as well as the F5/F75 and hopefully won't lose out on to much gold due to freq.

Good luck out there and be stay safe,

Lakota

 

[Digger 45]

The best find i have had is a Platinum ring with three 1/4 ct diamonds and it rang out at 33 no matter which way i swung across it, so the thought that it was a pull tab is not always right. I dig most everything above 22 on the F5, just found a toe ring at the beach making my total of 19 rings this year, six were gold. Two of the gold rings rang up in the low 50's so here again with so many things to consider, ground conditions, wet ground, different type of soil and so on, not everything is for sure.

This is the first year in my 35 years at detecting that i have done this well, usually one or two rings per year, and i believe that hunting in the right places and digging targets that most people think are junk makes the difference.

 

[fisherf5user]

Digger that's a really impressive year. When you say you dig everything above 22 do you mean everything with a solid signal and low phase or everything everything?

 

[Digger 45]

Everything, it just seems that there are no signals that are 100% and like i said by doing this, this year i have dug more rings than i have in any other year. These are good signals both ways and with numbers that are not jumpy, if they are high on the phase meter i usually don't dig them. There has been many times when i just have to find out what it is. Needless to say i have many, many pull tabs.