Gold Objects

[fjs440]

I have just spent an hour on a different forum. I was reading about people discussing looking for Gold items and how to do it. It went on and on about settings and everything else. Good Grief!!!

I keep hoping to find Gold, but it has not happened yet.

I discriminate out the low stuff and dig all the good SOLID SIGNALS, no matter what the display says. I have collected a lot of junk, but one of these days I will hit my first Gold item.

Like all treasure hunting, you have to be at right place at the right time and have the right equipment, which you also know how to use.

Hope you Fisher owners find some Gold!

Damn, I love this hobby!
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Fisher F70 w/Fisher 11” DD and NEL Snake Coil
Fisher 1280-X w/8” Coil
Fisher F2 w/4”and 8”
Makro Pointer
Killer B Stinger Headphones
Garrett Z-Lynk

 

[WV62]

If you keep the disc down just below nickels you will hit gold someday. I have found a few gold items but you got to take out a lot of trash.

Keep at it,

Ron in WV

 

[REVIER]

I have just spent an hour on a different forum. I was reading about people discussing looking for Gold items and how to do it. It went on and on about settings and everything else. Good Grief!!!

I keep hoping to find Gold, but it has not happened yet.

I discriminate out the low stuff and dig all the good SOLID SIGNALS, no matter what the display says. I have collected a lot of junk, but one of these days I will hit my first Gold item.

Like all treasure hunting, you have to be at right place at the right time and have the right equipment, which you also know how to use.

Hope you Fisher owners find some Gold!

Damn, I love this hobby!
______________________________________

Fisher F70 w/Fisher 11” DD and NEL Snake Coil
Fisher 1280-X w/8” Coil
Fisher F2 w/4”and 8”
Makro Pointer
Killer B Stinger Headphones
Garrett Z-Lynk

How low is the stuff that you are discing out?

Many say if you disc out around nickel or just below like WV62 just suggested you are good to go.
Sorry WV, who is one of the three brothers I really like on this forum, but this is incorrect.
Many good targets do come in around nickel for sure, that is why so many think this way, and the same can be said about the tab area for bigger rings, but in reality a whole bunch will actually come in way lower like in foil...even low foil.
Small rings and even large white gold rings can easily come in at the exact same place as all kinds of low trashy things.
The lowest I have found gold rings at are the exact same numbers that condiment packages and those stupid, round drink freshness seals come in.
Others have found them even lower into iron depending on conditions.
If we are talking about gold chains those can definitely come in at iron on up...even big ones because links in a chain tend to confuse most detectors.

I do the same as you, pretty much dig all the solid signals I come across but I do it at all areas and numbers no matter what and I usually use very little if no disc.
I have just been luckier than you so far so just keep going but take nothing for granted.
Every piece of gold I have ever dug was a complete surprise except one, and 98% were all trash numbers.
Solid, non jumping repetitive trash numbers but still supposed to be junk every time.

To give you an idea the picture below is a lot of my gold dug in mostly public parks and the numbers all came from either an F2 or an F70.
Even when I use disc I rarely go higher than 20-21.

 

[dfmike]

I'm with REVIER. I'm not sure what you mean by discriminating the low stuff but most of the gold I have found so far has been in the foil range. It's a hassle because you have to dig all good signals above iron or maybe slightly higher. It takes a lot of patience but finding your first gold will get you hooked for life.

Of course looking for gold in the right places will up your chances. People don't just drop gold jewelry at random. People engaged in swimming activities, sports and general recreation will eventually lose stuff.

 

[jim tn]

Keep at it, but much, if any, disc. will end up knocking out a high percentage of gold items. Quite a bit of gold falls into the foil range, which, means a lot of digging. Although I run 0 disc., sweet, softer sounding tone gets me more gold then digging pouches of trash each outing. Regardless of the reading, if there is no broken raspy sounds I will dig it if I'm looking for gold. Quite a few gold bands of medium to heavy weight fall in and around the nickel range. Larger class rings often come along in the zinc to copper cent range. First and foremost, though, location, location, location. HH jim tn

 

[LW Steve]

1. Soccer Fields
2. Baseball Fields
3. Parks that always have adult activities of some type ( like frisbee throwing )

The taller the grass the better.

High Schools with lots of grassy areas where the kids eat their lunches and get on and off the bus I'm finding
lots of clad but no rings.

Do High School girls wear much gold these days? They must not.

 

[fjs440]

I should have written down where I set my discrimination. I keep my setting at 15, to reduce the iron.

 

[REVIER]

I should have written down where I set my discrimination. I keep my setting at 15, to reduce the iron.

That is a good spot, now ya just gotta get lucky and get your coil over gold.
LW Steve gave some good suggestions for a little more high percentage areas to look, personally I have found about a dozen of mine around the perimeter of basketball courts.
Also a few around picnic pavilions, most of the rest all over parks.
Where people walked, sat or played.
A ton were found in areas of heavy trash which is why I love to use snipers so much.
Soccer fields maybe, the perimeter of soccer fields where parents and spectators stand or sit even better.
If you have a beach or an area with water near the edge are probably some of the best places.

 

[LW Steve]

I should have written down where I set my discrimination. I keep my setting at 15, to reduce the iron.

That is a good spot, now ya just gotta get lucky and get your coil over gold.
LW Steve gave some good suggestions for a little more high percentage areas to look, personally I have found about a dozen of mine around the perimeter of basketball courts.
Also a few around picnic pavilions, most of the rest all over parks.
Where people walked, sat or played.
A ton were found in areas of heavy trash which is why I love to use snipers so much.
Soccer fields maybe, the perimeter of soccer fields where parents and spectators stand or sit even better.
If you have a beach or an area with water near the edge are probably some of the best places.

One of the biggest silver rings that I ever found was on the grassy edge of a basketball court as the guy took off his ring before he played and then went home without it.

It is the reptile ring in front with the 4 legs.

LW Steve

 

[kevinnc]

Small real foil will usually break up and ID as iron if you sweep real fast across them. Won't work for big foil wads, but I find it works and have dug small flat buttons and relics that way. No gold in a long time, because I hunt real old sites. Some old nickles hit foil, but will still hit hard with a real fast sweep and usually ID Higher.

 

[REVIER]

One of the biggest silver rings that I ever found was on the grassy edge of a basketball court as the guy took off his ring before he played and then went home without it.

It is the reptile ring in front with the 4 legs.

LW Steve

Along with all the gold I also have found more than my share of silver around basketball courts.
I call those sites beach hunting on land because of the great possibility of finding jewelry.
The two biggest, baddest, heaviest silver rings I have ever found were sitting there buried right next to courts.

 

[dfmike]

Great finds !!! Inspiring.

 

[fjs440]

Basketball courts are my favorite spots. I always find something good there.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

40% of the Jewelry falls (below) the nickel zone.

 

[MarkCZ]

Well you say WV 62 is wrong in what he said but he's more than right to a point. If you hunt just below nickels and dig the good audio targets then you will in time find some gold, at lest that will get you into the larger gold items anyway,
But! your still going to miss out on a lot of smaller gold. What Ron meant is that there is a fair amount of gold that can be found in and around the Nickel range and your still disc'ing out a vast
amount of trash and that also includes smaller gold items like ladies rings and other dinky jewelry. They're are some very LARGE men's glass rings that will make the Zinc penny range but not that many.
Not very many people that I know of can hunt a trashy area with the discrimination set to Foil and survive until they find dinky gold.
Ron was speaking of the easier larger gold, not all the gold, and REVIER knows that.

"REVIER" is often times speaking as a seasoned hunter, someone who has put the beginners stuff behind them, and so his advice comes across that way, like he was never a beginner nor are there any beginners in the world.
He, NEVER air test anything anymore, NEVER its a waste of time, but if you sleep with your detector, have lunch an dinner with your detector, and you've come to know when the detector is telling you a solid or when its uncertain
and only hinting at a possibly good target, then your getting into the realm of being a seasoned hunter.
Sometimes, there is a problem in this and that's when a good number of people on these forums are not considered to be SEASONED hunters. Normally that's easy to tell by the questions the users are asking, or the number of questions
they're asking. Take "REVIER" for example, its not likely that he will EVER come on the forum and ask a detecting question, because he answers WAY more than he ask.
Ron and I try to take into consideration that if a person has been detecting for sometime and searching for gold and asking question about it, then maybe that person could try this to get started into finding a piece or two of the easier gold.
If I was somewhat a newbie and someone told me the best way to hunt is with the discrimination set to just above all metal then I wouldn't have lasted very long in the hobby, nor would that poor metal detector, I would have wrapped in
around light post pretty early in the day.
Lets help him find his first gold and stop nick picking!
Ron, was right,
REVIER, is right,
Its just that Ron was on the first gold find aspect of things and REVIER was on the more advanced version of things.
Has anybody been around a teacher or instructor that spoke over your head all the time? that happens a lot.
There is a conversion to lay the ground work for finding gold,
then there is the conversation where the gold hunters that have found gold have, the basics are the same, but the seasoned gold prospectors have moved on from the basics.

MarkCZ

 

[MarkCZ]

"fjs440"
I'll also say this and I'm speaking of mainly land hunters hunting lots of public access areas and other types of trashy sites. It takes miles of patience sometimes to find any type of gold
among the millions of tiny metal objects that is seeded in with the very few gold items. Gold rings don't sound any different than a beaver tail pull ring, or anyone of the millions of foil sports bottle seals.
And to add to that, Gold rings comes in hundreds of different sizes, each different size comes with it different gold content, 10k, 12k, 14k so each little difference moves the Visual ID meter.
I've known brother Ron to fill both pockets of a hardware store nail apron with pull tabs (FULL both pockets) and have to empty the apron and go back hunting and in all that only get a few modern coin finds,
No JEWELRY!
I know I'm a coin hunter but on several occasions I've applied the gold hunting rules like setting the discrimination to very low foil and hunting ares to likely have gold jewelry. But my problem I thought was using detectors that had visual target ID, I mean
there is NO set marker for gold jewelry, its anywhere from high iron to the Zinc penny range and that just covers most of the jewelry items. So, then I went the route of beep & dig detectors, I tried a couple of Tejon's
I've tried hunting with my Fisher 1265, run low discrimination and DIG EVERY WITH A GOOD SOUND! well I might make an hour of this trash hunting before I'm back to coin hunting. I sold both my Tejon's I did keep
my 1265 seeing how my neighbor gave it to me. I know what it takes to find the gold, I have found a few pieces. The last gold ring I found was a 10k mens wedding band I took it to one pawn shop and they wouldn't take
it, I took it to another and got $15.00 out it, that kind of dampened to gold fever for me too, $15.00! So, I'll admit I don't have the patience in the area of the country that I live in for gold jewelry hunting!!!!! the ratio of gold to trash is VAST I don't know if its a million to one but it
sure seems like it.
I think people who start off in metal detecting as coin hunters with visual target ID detectors may set themselves up at a disadvantage to the one who starts out say as relic hunter that's wants to dig everything, and I didn't say everyone.
The last gold ring I found I actually dug it on the way down to retrieve a higher tone Car Wash Token, or to say it was an accident.
And OMG finding gold chains is another story altogether, the simple side of that is it doesn't matter how much the chain weighs the detector doesn't see it as one piece of gold, its a pile of tiny links, so if a single
link in the chain is to small for the detector to detect (hit on) then it will pass right over entire chain. NOW! if the chain has a large enough clasp or larger medallion on it or near it then the detector will hit on that, but not on the chain.

Here is something else that might help you. Try not to think of every item you dig out of the ground that isn't what your looking for a junk item even if you throw it in the trash, I mean foil is trash, sport caps liners are trash, rusty nails are trash,
but wheel weights are not, copper tubing isn't, brass locks are not, brass keys are not, sinkers, bullets, shell casings are not, gold filled fountain pen caps are not. The lest of these items can be very large, but if you look at them with the thinking
these are good targets, the detector is working good, I'm not digging very many of the real trash items it might help to keep you motivated.

Here is something that "REVIER" and most everyone else on this forum can agree on, We Try To Help Others Through Their Detecting Hurdles.

Keep your coil to the soil, and Keep On Keeping On!
Good Luck With Your Gold Hunting.

My wish list,
That the edit option would stay active for a longer period of time, I would like to fix some type-o's in my earlier post.


MarkCZ

I have just spent an hour on a different forum. I was reading about people discussing looking for Gold items and how to do it. It went on and on about settings and everything else. Good Grief!!!

I keep hoping to find Gold, but it has not happened yet.

I discriminate out the low stuff and dig all the good SOLID SIGNALS, no matter what the display says. I have collected a lot of junk, but one of these days I will hit my first Gold item.

Like all treasure hunting, you have to be at right place at the right time and have the right equipment, which you also know how to use.

Hope you Fisher owners find some Gold!

Damn, I love this hobby!
______________________________________

Fisher F70 w/Fisher 11” DD and NEL Snake Coil
Fisher 1280-X w/8” Coil
Fisher F2 w/4”and 8”
Makro Pointer
Killer B Stinger Headphones
Garrett Z-Lynk

 

[dfmike]

I suspect a lot of newbies get duped by the youtube videos showing guys plucking out ring after ring out of park grounds like some people just threw them around at random. I remember seeing a video when I first started out of a guy with an F5 hunting public parks and he seemed to find gold for every 3-4 piece of trash or modern coin. Looking back, he either edited the videos to death or he planted the rings before he dug them out. It was just too good to be true. I was quickly getting discouraged when I still hadn't found a single gold ring after 2 years of metal detection.

It took me 3 years to find my first gold ring !

Also, the pawn shop is the very last place I would turn to if I wanted to sell any gold or silver. Everybody wants to make a profit but all the pawn shop wants to do is rip you off.

 

[MarkCZ]

I hate pawn shops too, I let that ring go because the first one questioned it being real gold due to its slightly off color, it looked like it had an antique finish on its surface and he didn't have a REAL gold test method, the second one did, so I buffed the rings finish and I took what I could get at the time.
more recently I've found out that the pawn shops around here want to pay you about 1/3 the melt value and they make the 2/3 to which I see as a rip off, when I have the gold, and the value is in the gold,
and they get more out of it than I do. I have also found out that if you turn down the goofy first offer and pick your gold up and start to leave they'll stop you and ask, "What Do You Have To Have Out It" so for sure NEVER take their first offer.

MarkCZ

I suspect a lot of newbies get duped by the youtube videos showing guys plucking out ring after ring out of park grounds like some people just threw them around at random. I remember seeing a video when I first started out of a guy with an F5 hunting public parks and he seemed to find gold for every 3-4 piece of trash or modern coin. Looking back, he either edited the videos to death or he planted the rings before he dug them out. It was just too good to be true. I was quickly getting discouraged when I still hadn't found a single gold ring after 2 years of metal detection.

It took me 3 years to find my first gold ring !

Also, the pawn shop is the very last place I would turn to if I wanted to sell any gold or silver. Everybody wants to make a profit but all the pawn shop wants to do is rip you off.

I hate pawn shops too, I let that ring go because the first one questioned it being real gold and he didn't have a REAL gold test method, the second did, so I took what I could get at the time.
I've found out that the pawn shops around here want to pay you about 1/3 the melt value and they make the 2/3 to which I see as a rip off, when I have the gold, and the value is in the gold,
and they get more out of it than I do.

 

[REVIER]

I ask questions...
If the #2 pencil is the most popular why isn't it #1?

 

[wvrick]

This is a good video that shows gold falls in all ranges and you just about have to dig everything but iron.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsgspduZA_8[/video]