Gold rings with 705

[ronhob]

I hit a football track area the other day in search of any gold rings. My son and I clad killed this place a couple years ago, but there were so many quarters and such that we opted to disc. anything under dime.
I went there this labor day weekend thinking I'm gonna find a gold ring if there is one.
I used the HF DD 5x10 and came away with 117 coins. Of those 117 coins, 15 were pennies, 30 were dimes, 37 were quarters, and 35 were nickles. I felt the 705 earned it's keep on the nickles end of things, and I felt confident that I didn't miss any gold rings if I went over them.

Here's the KICKER- I decided to check over some of the gold rings I've found in the past with my Xcal ll, and realized I've been missing many more opportunities to find a gold ring than I thought. I generally leave everything under 10-VID discriminated when I hunt newer places. 3 out of six of my prior rings came in under 10 on the VID. 1 at 6-VID and the other 2 at 8-VID. WOW, I'm gonna have to try running AM, Zero Disc at my newer sites as well! I'm gonna see how many rings this yields me by years end. I'm sure I will dig enough alum bits to fund some kids college tuition, but you never know the outcome till you try I guess.
Happy hunting to you all!

 

[Digger]

Great reminder ronhob. You are absolutely correct in that you will miss many opportunites at digging a gold ring ( or other "valuable) by rejecting out specific notches. Here is an exerpt from one of my TTblog posts regarding what you might be "missing".




If you are passing over targets represented by the X-TERRA 70 and the 705 with a numeric TID of +2, +4 and +6, you risk missing rose gold rings, platinum rings, white gold rings and some foreign coins.

If you are passing over targets represented with a TID of +6, +8 and +10, you risk missing more white gold rings, more platinum rings, thin yellow gold rings, lead and brass shells and the US nickel 3-cent piece.

If you set your detector to reject TID numbers +14 and +16, you will risk missing very thin silver coins, the $1.00 US Gold coin, thin yellow gold rings, Shield nickels, Liberty V nickels, 40% silver War nickels, many wedding bands, 10kt class rings, tokens and more foreign coins.

If you set your notches to reject +16, +18 and +20, you will risk missing gold rings, tokens, various gold jewelry, 14kt rings, brass, the US $2.50 Gold piece, Indian Head cents, Flying Eagle cents, more foreign coins and even large 10kt class rings.

If you rejected notch segments +20, +22, +24 and +26, you risk missing more Indian Head pennies, the US silver 3-cent piece, the US $5 Gold piece, large gold rings, small silver pieces, gold jewelry and medallions, and still more old tokens.

Notch Discrimination on the X-TERRA - Ever wonder what you're missing? Part 1
http://www.minelab.com/usa/treasure-talk/notch-discrimination-on-the-x-terra-ever-wonder-what-you-re-missing-part-1

Notch Discrimination on the X-TERRA - Ever wonder what you're missing? Part 2
http://www.minelab.com/usa/treasure-talk/notch-discrimination-on-the-x-terra-ever-wonder-what-you-re-missing-part-2

HH Randy

 

[rjsupersonic]

I'm new to the 705 but so far I believe AM is the way to run this machine. Unless it is an extremely high trash area. Keep us posted on how AM improves your hunts.

 

[Mtnmn]

A ballpark figure for where the various kinds of gold rings hit at is approx. half will come in below a nickel and half above a nickel with about 10% right in the nickel range. So if hunting for gold rings and such, it wouldn't hurt to also plan on digging more of those targets reading above a nickel, if really serious about finding more gold. Personally I ignore those targets in the mayor pulltab range 16 thru 20 as they are too time-consuming to bother with in my area. In any regard you can plan on doing a lot of digging as I'm well over a 150 nickels on the year with nary a gold ring to show for it...