Lots of mixed reviews

[Bigtom123]

On jewelry hunting..Some say get the biggest coil, cover lots of ground..Others say small col for better sensatuvity..Just so many different styles I guess.
I have a F75SE and I'm leaning towards gold rings, I've found 4 or 5 in ten years, more by accident than anything.
Silver coins are great but im a little burned out on them, I could buy them cheaper than finding them..although I have found alot and that's the thrill I guess over monetary value.
Maybe I have the wrong machine for rings, I'm leaning towards foil and nickel range only because it's said 97 percent of all rings lost are female and ring up in the foil nickel range..Thinking a f19 or somthing with more stable ID would do better? Anyone who wants to ad to this post feel free, experience is defiantly welcome.lol

 

[Mike Hillis]

Any metal detector can find gold rings so its not the detector you are using that makes you successful. It is the sites you hunt that make you successful. Hunt the places where rings are lost and you'll find rings. Figure out why jewelry gets lost and hunt those sites and you'll be successful.

I hunt jewelry with an F75 and it does a fine job. Add the small 3x6 concentric coil for tiny stuff, add the 10" elliptical concentric for better discrimination in trash and keep the 11" DD for open turf. Get a decent pin pointer and you are fixed up, equipment wise.

accept high foil and low nickel range, reject high nickel range, accept tab range, reject zinc range. Run your sensitivity where ever its required to be stone cold stable, even it if means running at 0. Then use the tone mode that gives you the best audio. I like dP delta pitch audio mode in turf.

Have fun.
HH
Mike

 

[Bigtom123]

Thanks Mike, I have the stock and 5dd coil and a pinpointer. I'll try your settings

 

[lytle78]

Typical Mike H. Guy asks a simple question and Mike goes on and on.....Yeah - on and on with thoughtful and valuable detailed information based on hard-won experience.

It’s because of guys like Mike that I keep up with the forums, in spite of all the stuff that I have no interest in.

Thanks Mike.

 

[Mike Hillis]

Thanks Rick!

I don't get to post as much as I'd like to but I try when I can.

HH
Mike

 

[D&P-OR]

Thanks for gracing the rest of us with your presence Rick!

Typical Mike H. Guy asks a simple question and Mike goes on and on.....Yeah - on and on with thoughtful and valuable detailed information based on hard-won experience.

It’s because of guys like Mike that I keep up with the forums, in spite of all the stuff that I have no interest in.

Thanks Mike.

 

[REVIER]

I have had lots of experience with 2 Fisher detectors, in my opinion they have no problem finding gold...or anything else.
The key is hunting in areas where you might have a chance of finding that precious metal and learning to understand how that metal behaves on your chosen detector if you roll over it.
Below are just some of the gold targets I found with my Fishers...and I found most of them in public parks that have been scoured in areas that are super trashy like picnic areas and around basketball and volleyball courts.
Didn't dig a ton of trash to do it, either, because I hate doing that so I evolved into a high percentage hunting system that targets mostly just the better more solid signals while avoiding about 80% or more of the jumpy trash signals.
I also use snipers more often than not because of the trash volume at my usual sites and that helps a lot in acquiring more solid signals faster and easier.
I might miss something doing it this way but if you saw how many coins and other treasures I have found using this high percentage method or if you look at the pics below you might agree I am not doing bad.

Your detector will definitely find gold rings, you just have to figure out the best locations to hunt for them and recognize how the act if you do.

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

Jewelry falls all over the VDI range ......Best bet is to hunt active sport's fields & Tot Lots & dig all repeatable signals above iron..... even the jumpy ones ..... you just gotta dig it all .....good luck