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Rings and things....

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First of all let me say Ray, I admire your enthusiasm. I wish I had half your energy. Not only do you do the field work on the MXT, you are kind enough to share it all of us on the forum. But the discrimination at zero made me do some thinking. Since they first came out with the discriminating detector years ago, I have read about making sure that the discrimination level is not set up so high that rings are missed. I am sure there is some truth to that, but I am wondering what the odds are of me finding a gold ring at zero level that won't still be detected using the preset marking of 3.5 on the MXT? I have found quite a few rings over the past 30 years with my other machines. Putting my question to an airtest, I ran the MXT over all of the gold stuff, one at a time. At a discrimination level of 3.5 (preset range), it hits them all. I don't know if all MXT's are tuned the same, so you better make your own tests. Anyway, I just got thinking that, as a coin shooter, would it be worth the time it takes for me to dig every hole in hopes that somewhere, there may be a target sitting there that may come in under the 3.5 level of "radar"? Tough call! If I can hit my test targets at 3.5, what is it I am missing? Platinum and maybe a small white gold ring? What are the odds of me stumbling across one of them anyway? You young guys can have at it. Personally, I think I will keep the discrimination level at the 3.5 level and pass up some of the junk. I will set my machine to dig silver, gold and copper coins, and have confidence that I won't miss any rings if they are like the 50 or so I tested. Do any of you MXT users have gold rings that cannot be hit at 3.5?
 
You have a good point Digger. And I do know that you can run the disc at 4 and still pick up a nickel. And to date about the smallest ring (other than junk) that I have found was a small wedding band which came in at a solid 22 vdi. And to be honest to date the lowest vdi I have dug on a good target was 12 and that was a small gold cross on a thin chain. Maybe I could cut back on some trash by using a little discrimination and still not miss a good target.I do know that with the ex coil for what ever reason it seems to do better with very little, if any discrimination. The bulk of them chewed cans and tabs came in at the nickel range or higher and most had a consistant vdi. <img src="/metal/html/shrug.gif" border=0 width=37 height=15 alt=":shrug">
Ray
 
Digger,
I hear what you are saying and agree. Finding the occasional gold ring while land hunting is fun but digging a ton of trash is not. It's one of the reasons I prefer to hunt in C/J mode where you are in tune with those occassional deep whisper signals. I will almost always dig those no matter what the VDI reading (actually the lower the better) <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Perhaps a very small 10K white gold ring may be passed up at a disc setting of 3.5, but out of the many rings I have found wading they are very few and far between. The norm on the smaller cheaper rings that kids lose is 10K yellow gold which hits well above nail reject settings. I found a tiny yellow gold toe ring with a small diamond in it last summer while wading and it is well above nail level reject.
In my opinion, when you are keying on gold the only time its neccessary to drop down to nail level reject is when you are hunting in iron and want to dig every better sounding signal so as to not miss a single thing.
The MXT is a prospecting machine at heart designed to find tiny gold nuggets. Rings are an easy target in comparison. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
HH, Tom
 
but I believe the area will determine your plan of attack.
If it is a semi-trashy area then preset, etc.
If you are in an extremely clean park area that may have been used for ballplaying, etc. then you may choose to lower disc for that possible platinum ring which 99% of the time holds one of those nasty diamonds... <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
If you are at the ocean on a nice resort sand beach then you best dig it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HH
Johnny B
 
don't frequent the parks very often and it is a 3 day drive to the nearest beach. During the past 30 years, I have grown so fond of Seated coins, Barber coins and Indian cents that I would rather spend all day finding a handful of them than filling my pockets with the new stuff. I spend my free time in the winter reading local histories and finding the spots people congregated back in the mid to late 1800's when my State was settled. Chatauqua grounds, picnic grounds and old ball fields to name a few. Since we are just 150 years old, I don't find many pre-1850 coins, but I do love the Seated Ladies. However, you make a good point. Different strokes. HH
 
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