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[blowfly1967]

before i bought the e trac,i was using the tesoro vaquero and finding on average one to two rings a week.silver,gold or trash,but since the e trac,i haven't found anything.i find lots of coins that have been there a long time that others have missed,but,no rings.have i wiped the areas out with the vaquero?or is the e trac not capable of finding these things?other thoughts is that i'm not using the right program.any sugestions out there in yanky land.blowfly

 

[sugar]

what ground setting in the expert are you using i have watched a very interesting video that had ground on neutral and struggled to see a silver coin switching to ground difficult it pinpointed coin no problem see if that helps only beginner so you need to do your own tests perhaps with these settings happy hunting

 

[The Beep Goes On]

Play with some test targets and settings to see what works best for your ground. You may be sweeping to fast. Is the coil size different compared to your Vaq? That can have a dramatic effect depending on trash.

 

[LabradorBob]

Gold rings should be no problem!
You gotta dig a lot of pulltabs to find them though.
I have found one that registered 12-10.
a friend found two gold classrings one registered 12-21.
The other 12-27.
Rings vary so much in carrot,and size that they could register anywhere.
Remember the old saying,if it beeps dig it!

LabradorBob

 

[tippyhound]

I've only owned my E-Trac a little over 3 months, so to date I haven't found a gold ring. I do dig all nickle readings as I feel I have a good chance digging one there. I have dug a couple really deep pull tabs thinking I might have a gold ring down there. No Luck.

A few years ago I owned a Fisher CZ-6 and I found a total of 6 small gold rings in the nickle range, I always dug all nickle readings because of that. I dug perhaps as many as 4 in the pull tab area, a couple because I was trying to help someone locate a lost ring and the size as they described it made me feel that is where I needed to look. The others was due to depth of the target.

A few years further back (mid 80's) I owned a Teknetics A 9000. Now this was not a audio target ID machine (it was a visual target ID machine) as they had not come out with audio target ID at that time, but the machine had a peculiar audio response on large gold rings. The machine would give a lower, smoother audio response on those large gold rings and after I found a couple like that, when I heard that sound I knew what it was before I even dug the target. The first I dug was when I got into a wheat penny spill on a piece of private property. I was digging Wheaties when all of a sudden I got a wheat target ID but the sound was completely different and it was at the same depth as the Wheaties. It turned out to be a mans 22K gold wedding band weighing 1/2 OZ and from that day on if I heard that audio response I knew it was a ring. The KT of the gold didn't seem to have anything to do with the response but the size did, if it was a very large man's ring the sound was there. I didn't find a lot of rings that way, but I did find a few. I friend of mine that also owned a Tek. A 9000 experienced the same thing as he called me up wanting to know if It had happened to me.

Unless you have a lot of Patience I would watch the depth gauge in the pull tab area, the deeper targets are your best bet but be prepared to dig a lot of tabs, and always dig your nickle readings.

Rick (IL)