Question about notching out unwanted targets.

[Dirt slinger]

So you're out with your ACE 350 and you've shifted your search efforts from the old home site and looking for anything old, to say the city parks and wanting only jewelry. I've seen where guys will notch out everything but nickels because gold usually gives a nickel tone, but if you notch out the 10/25 and the 50/100 wont you be missing anything silver as well? Thoughts/experiences?
Thanks.
Ken.

 

[GoGoGopher]

I Notch NOTHING...I let my ears be the judge...I have a hard enough time finding Silver and Gold as it is...lol...I do not need to handicap myself.

HH,

 

[Hank68]

Sometimes I leave 5cents and the 25/10 cents and everything else notched out, so it's either bell tone or middle tone and works very well!

 

[widebody]

[size=large]if you're not going to dig all solid signals then you might notch. gold shows up anywhere between .05 and .10. if all you keep is the nickel range then you're cutting the gold range down to the smaller gold items. other than that i'm with gopher. learn the sounds.

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[metalhead]

In my experience, gold will show up anywhere between foil and penny, due to the various alloys, shapes and sizes of jewelry.
So, often times, especially while beach hunting, I'll notch out everything below foil and everything above penny. Yeah, you dig a ton of trash, but if your search coil goes over gold jewelry you'll here it(granted it not too deep of course). I'd rather have one piece of gold jewelry than a pouch full of crusty clad.