New to site and one specific Q?

[Ronstar]

Hi folks! Have had my F5 for two years now. I have nearly $300.00 in clad coins and 27 rings, mainly .925. My Q? Is will the gold bug coil increase my chances for gold rings? I have the 11" DD and 5" concentric. The gold bug is listed as compatible with the F5 but is it worth the money. I was asked to try and locate a lost 10k thin band but could not get a sample ring to sound off. Any answers appreciated.

 

[WV62]

Anytime you change to a different coil things change a for your detector, but to hang a gold bug coil on the F5 it will not make it a great gold detector. For the most part it is the machine not the coil.

Now the one of the best ways to find that gold ring is to see if you can come up with another one that is close to the same size as the lost one and run your detector over it with that 5" coil and get a ID number. Then go back and look for the lost one and check out everything within plus or minus 5 ID numbers of the like ring. If you run across that ring that F5 will find it.

The F5 does like silver but if you have the patience it will do good on gold as well.

Good luck and welcome to the forum.

Ron in WV

 

[jimmy24us]

Your f5 should find a thin gold band. If you have an idea of where to look you should be able to find it. Regardless of which coil you are using maybe try turning up your threshold a little higher and lower your gain. That machine can find the back of an ear ring.

 

[sprchng]

If you are looking for "gold rings" in general versus a ring in particular the Gold Bug coil will be of little help if you don't first increase your odds by hunting sites where gold rings might be lost and digging all the good sounding foil and low conductors tones while detecting there. I do neither with any regularity and my gold to silver ring ratio is about 1 to 15. I'm sure if I lived near an area which lent itself to more lost gold the ratio would decrease , however , high rent neighborhoods , beaches and certain ethnic populations are not plentiful around here.

 

[Ronstar]

Thanks folks. I live in a college town and students leave jewelry on their gym bags where it promptly falls off. I think i am missing some gold but your tips i will try.

 

[WV62]

Here is some testing results I did on my F5 and the 11" DD coil, I didn't have a 5" coil. My chart says best all around settings, but I did this chart for me so these are my best all around settings. I also included a picture of the gold targets I used so you would get a better idea of what I was testing.

I will never know but I think if I would have had a 5" coil it would have done a lot better on the small gold over the 11" coil. I sold the F5 to my brother and he is pretty much a silver hunter and he does pretty well with it.

Your best bet I think would be that 5" coil, if you can get that sample ring I would think it would hit on any ring. Now that ear ring stud or a chain will be a lot harder to detect.

Also if the ring is a open type or is broken open it will read way lower than the same ring closed to make a full circle, same on your silver rings.

Ron in WV

 

[still looking 52]

The best advice I could give you for looking for a recently drop gold ring is to set your sens on 20/disc on 0/thres 0 and then check every signal while holding the coil just about 1 inch off the ground. I'm thinking it should be on top of the ground or just barely down in the grass, then take hour hand held pinpointer after you have pinpointed the target and you should be able to cover a lot of ground without any digging.

 

[Mike Hillis]

I'd recommend you pick up the stock 10" eliptical concentric coil. It will do better for you than the 5x10 DD. The 5x10 is ok, but you get better discrimination with the stock eliptical concentric.

A thin 10K band will sound off just fine. You will not miss it.

Good luck.

HH
Mike

 

[Ronstar]

Just a fast update. Thanks for the tips and the ring was found but outside the parameters of the search zone. Apparently the lawn was mowed and the ring got sucked up and cut in two and in turn discharged a short distance from the target zone. I did manage to get a similar ring and recorded the digital reading but the damaged ring was way different. At any point the ring was recovered. I did use the 11"DD as I have more experience with it and ultimately it covered more ground once we moved the search area. Iron was discriminated out and the ring pinged in the foil range but I didnt record the digital readout. Again thanks for the tips as it ultimately lead to the recovery.

 

[amberjack]

2 rings for the price of one , bloody lawn mowers

never say never with gold if you think its not there and don't look you will never find it or if you think its not there and look for it anyway maybe the detecting Gods will give you something for your hard work just a thought.

AJ

 

[tc1967]

Do you have a copy of the f5 bible, if not I highly recommend you get it. Its the best set of tips and tricks for the f5 I have ever seen, or for any detector really.

 

[Ronstar]

Ok, someone tell me how to get one. Keep hearing about it and would love one.

 

[Ronstar]

As a beginner(ish) I am lucky to have the perfect initial hunting grounds. I live in a university town which has a large public access intramural ballfield, I am guessing 5 plus acres. 22 of the 27 rings I have come from that field as well over $100 in clad ( a 44 and 64 silver quarter and a 53 dime as well). I hear what your saying about digging everything but even a seasoned veteran would gringe at the tabs, tops, zinc pennies, ace bandaid clips, and other junk that sounds off. I know its probably bad ju-ju to not dig those solid targets but since I started passing the solid tab and foil reads my coin and ring count went way up. I have had that funny feeling with some sounds and have dug buttons and cow/pig ear tags but nothing super significant

This field has been around for several years. It used to be used for the community fireworks in July, several intramural sports meets including summer camps for hopeful university prospects, large outdoor welcome student concerts etc etc. Gotta be some gold in there just based on the silver ring counts. No easy answers but guess I will just man up and dig the junk. Hard decisions usually make eventual easy recoveries I was once told. Thanks for link I will read and learn.