Quick Hunt With 5.3 Coil on IDX Pro

[RLOH]

It never warmed up to the 40 degrees forecasted, but at 3pm it got up to 35 with no wind so I took my new Pro to a very trashy concession stand area of a lakeside park. The coil worked great on the modded Pro. I found 28 coins with two wheats in the two hour hunt. All coin were 6 inches or less deep. The two deepest coins turned out to be nickles and since I started looking for the nickle to foil flash, it is turning to be very accurate on the nickles. The small coil with the ability to use a slow sweep is going to be a deadly combination in trash. I also have an Explorer 11, but if the Mr Bill modded Pro was my only detector, I would feel confident that I wasn't leaving too many coins in the ground. When spring rolls around, I will probably keep the small coil on use it for trashy spots. Now that the experts got me straightened out on the nickles, how do find the gold? Thanks all. R.L.

 

[Rd2nowr]

If ya dig it, IT will come!!! Tim

 

[khouse]

You'll find a lot of gold in the jewelry stores! Second to that would be swimming beaches in the water. Third to that would be in the dry sand at the beaches. Fourth would be tot lots and sand volleyball courts. Set your disc to just knock out a small nail. About 8:30 to 9 o'clock on the dial. Then simply dig it all. Now in the dirt you may need to get more selective. But if it's easy scooping (yes buy a scoop) then dig it all.

 

[Hombre]

Howdy RLOH

I can't help you with the gold on the IDX PRO, since I have not found any with mine. I have'nt given up though! only had it for a little over a year. It is hot on coins though, found a mercury dime on edge at about 7"s with the stock coil. That is after I had scoured the place with 2 different detectors.
I just got my friend an old Bandido earlier this year and he is a newbie at the hobby, he wanted a good detector that he could learn on. I have been showing him the ropes, and a few trade secrets to bring him up to speed. To make a long story short, he went to an old high school that I had been hunting, and I told him that he would find a class ring if he really tried. The first 30 min. into the hunt, he called me up and said he had found a class ring!!!!! I put my IDX PRO in my car and headed right on over to where he was, sure enough, he found a nice one. It was a large 10k mens class ring, turned on the PRO and it read the ring as a pulltab, nice and solid. So dig them pulltabs!!!...........Hombre

 

[goodmore]

I've read many times that you should set an amount of junk to dig. Like today I will dig 20 pull tabs. Of course soil conditions (Like hardness & well manicured yards) will change the amount you dig.

 

[khouse]

Time management. The more time I have the more trash I dig.

 

[Hombre]

Howdy people

Like they say, Location is the key to success in this hobby, ya look for places that will hold the objects you desire to find. Gold jewelry is hard to find, my gold jewelry finds increased when I bought a underwater detector, and started detecting a popular lake in a College town. My first attemps were dismal at best, and I believe I could have filled a 5 gallon bucket with pulltabs, corroded zinc pennys, fishing sinkers and the usual suspects. I would hit an occasional gold or silver ring, but my hunting style sucked.
During that first summer at the lake, I met up with another water hunter. We hit it off from the start, and he gave some hunting tips that were priceless. In sumation he said he digs all repeatable solid signals at a low discrination setting on his detector, he said he could not tell a difference in sound from a pulltab or ring. He went on to explain that if he goes to a lake and finds no pulltabs, he pretty much gives up on those, he said some of the lakes in his area have been pounded so hard
that there is'nt any signals left.
Another tip he showed me, in the shallow water he would use a tecnique he called noodeling, he would kneel on the lake bottom with his detector coil down by where he got the initial hit. He would grab handfulls of lake bottom sand and pass it over the coil until he had the target. In closing, to find the gold you have to dig trash, but be efficient, find the trash quickly,put it inyour trash bag and move on to the next target..............Hombre

 

[khouse]

Very true. But I use a long handled scoop. I get a signal. Use my toe to mark the spot. Set the scoop at my toe then push it in. Pull the scoop up and rescan for a beep. Keep doing that until you there is no beep then it's most likely in your scoop. Some guys in muddy water build a floating sifter and dump the material in that.

 

[Hombre]

Howdy Khouse

A long handled SS scoop was bought right along with my detector first thing! He also taught me the tip that you mentioned, I just figured the story line was off the subject enough, and it was time to close up the story. In sumation, to find gold a person has to hunt where gold jewelery was lost, and they have to put up with lots of trash. The key is to find the target quickly and efficiently, and move on to the next target. Later..................Hombre

 

[trixncap]

The nicest antique gold ring with 1/4 diamond I found read as a pull tab. I have been digging pultabs ever since . The ring, I lost it wearing it on my pinky doing construction a few days later.