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:jump:The Fabulous, Gold And Silver Seeking, Ring/Jewelry Loving Scorpion 2009 Finds..... :jump:

John-Edmonton

John-Edmonton

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The season should be wrapping up soon. I sorted out most of my jewelery, and used the Scorpion for most of my land hunts. Shown are 6 x gold rings + 1 gold bracelet, along with mostly silver, stainless steel and cheaper costume jewelery.

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Here is some miscellaneous jewelery, also found with the Scorpion this year. Most of the chains are silver, but there are also some metal ones too. The Scorpion Bangs hard on all of these.

I run my Scorpion a little different then some of my other detectors. When I go to a site, I crank the audio up to the point where it becomes unstable, then back off one complete turn. I use the auto mode. This seems to give me my best setting for sensitivity and discrimination. I set my discrimination at the default position, about 6 1/2, sometimes near but not at 7, depending on how many pull tabs are at the site. When I get a good signal, I center the coil over the target, then set it flat on the ground and switch to all metal mode. I drag the coil towards me, and the point at which I lose the signal, is where the target is below the forward foot of the coil. Now, depending on how quick the target audio cuts off, gives me a hint whether it is a coin or canslaw. You have to wear headphones to understand this sound. I try to hunt in all metal mode, unless there is just too much junk. Then I switch over too discriminate mode, set at the previously mentioned settings. Once the Scorpion is set up properly, it is a killer on rings, both gold and silver. You get a nice audio burst on such targets. But, as with all machines, you must learn these things. The things I have mentioned, are not in the manual, but have learned through trial & error plus digging up thousands of targets, both good and bad. If you are considering getting another machine, don't overlook the Scorpion Stinger. It's not a depth killer, and easily uses good quality 9 volt batteries. But in the top 3-4 inches, it's a killer with coins and jewelery. To go deeper. I pinpoint off the center of the coil, and can easily get a signals for coins at 8 inches.
 
great tips John if I consider another detector it might just be a scorpion,, great finds to, I found another ring on the weekend , first with the 1350,,so will post when I find the camera
 
Awesome collection of finds for the year!:clapping:Thanks for the tips!:biggrin:Happy Hunting!:)
 
Good collection of jewelry finds. Congrats !!
 
Hey, nice items you found there John! Per your settings on the Scorpion, ...do you hear any threshold at all, in all metal, while in parks? My first nugget hunt I set mine at just audible tone and slightly positive grnd bal to add more sensitivity to small low conductors. But park hunting is a whole different ball game with the Scorp. Good post and description of your settings.

Alan
 
If the park hasn't too many targets, I can set it to a slight level of threshold. Of course on this machine, that seems to give added depth, unlike other machines where it gives ONLY an increase in audio and nothing else. I am guessing that a lot of people never really figured this machine out, and only got mediocrity results. And, searching for those little nuggets in crevices would definitely require a greater threshold, and even setting of a more positive setting like you mentioned.

I hope you are having as much fun with yours as I have. Good luck!

John
 
Thanks for sharing your tips on the Scorp there John. I am going to run them on my machine right away. You sure are an inspiration to the Scorp owners.
Sure like the way you stand up to all the know it alls dissing the Scorp as archaic and useless!
Ever notice the Garrett forum is the most active and productive in finds ( more go and less show)? Kind of like the good folk on this forum.:cheers:


PennyFinder
 
The Scorp when set up properly is a very effective machine for digging coins and jewelery. It's been around for a long time, and there is a reason that it is still being manufactured. It is available as a gold machine at a great price. No it won't pull out large gold nuggets at 10 inches, but then it isn't priced at $5000.00 either. It can however pick up tiny nuggets and larger ones at less depth. It also doubles up as a great coin hunting machine, something a $5000.00 PI can not do. It is also hot on anything round like both rings and round pull tabs. You can knock out some of the common square pull tabs, and still get some nice gold rings, such as the one shown below. The reason I can stand up to the critics, is simply because I have the finds, both coins and jewelry to back up my arguement. And I know others who are also getting some nice finds, including relics.

If I was using one of the other Deep machines available at twice the price of the Scorp, I would be spending a lot of wasted time digging junk at deep depths. Sure, sometimes I will get a silver coin at a deep depth, but often, some of the reported real deep finds are nothing more then the coin falling into the 12" hole, after being dislodged from the side, and ending up in the bottom, at 12" where it was eventually retrieved. I have been in this hobby a long time, and have come to realize that most of the good finds are in the top 6", not the bottom 6". Depth should never be the sole reason for getting a metal detector, unless you specifically need to get to real deep to retrieve targets. For the majority of us, the medium detectors work just fine. If inserting the batteries bothers you with the Scorpions' design, then don't buy it. For a lot of us Scorp users, inserting batteries is nothing more then a minor wort to contend with.

Below are two rings, the one on the right found with the Scorpion, The one on the right was in a sports field sideline, littered with a lot of square pull tabs. I set the discriminate to where it would just barely knock out those square pulltabs. I got a decent signal, at which about 4" was that 10K/14K gold ring.
 
The Scorp has a place in my arsenal because it readily picks off lower conductors in high mineralization all in a nice ergonomic little package.
My Scorp is snug as a bug in a rug inside a weatherproof fanny pack type belt, mounted on my hip, under my coat.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?32,999025,1000708#msg-1000708

John I think the Scorp's battery corundum can be rectified with the installation of a charging jack, an overcharge protection diode and some NMH or nice new lithium 9v rechargable batteries that just came out on the market. The Lithiums have an overcharge circuit built in I believe.
Someone must have suggested this already, no?

PennyFinder :garrett: Scorpion
 
Great finds with the Scorpion John.:thumbup:
That fade your talking about in all metal. I asume it's the same as the Ace's pinpoint is it?
Mick Evans.
 
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