Uncle Willy, please explain....

[slingshot]

You advised to use the coins mode to avoid junk. Then down just a few posts you said that you wouldn't miss rings, that they would show up as foil, tabs, etc. Now I'm pretty sure I know what you meant, but you said you had 200 rings and I would sure appreciate knowing how you use your Ace, find rings, and avoid most trash. I think it would be an informative and much needed post. Thanks. And if I have missed it in the past, I'm pretty new and I apologize.

 

[cwilk]

This question comes up a lot on the board. On the DVD that came with your Ace 250 Charles Garrett recommended that you hunt for 100 hours in All Metal mode. Most of us think this is a terrible idea because in some trashy sites you could dig 50 or 60 junk iron targets before you get a coin or a piece of jewelry. You would get frustrated very quickly. Using Coin Mode is a better place to start. After you become familiar with coin mode (probably 5-10 hours of solid hunting) add notches or switch to jewelry or relic mode. You can and will find a lot of jewelry in coin mode, but there are heavy and light gold items that will hit above and below the nickel notch. The theory is that it is better to get familiar with the detector than to get overwhelmed with pull tabs and pop tops early in your career. If you have a lot of patience start in Jewelry Mode. There are rules of thumb that say for every gold ring you find you have to dig 1000 pop tops. Sometimes it seems more like 5000. At any rate, dig a lot of pop tops and one day you will be handsomely rewarded.

I hunt about 90 percent of the time in straight jewelry mode. I use my brain to discriminate out what I don't want to dig and usually return at a later date to dig up all those pop tops I skipped over.

Photo is 6 of 7 gold rings I found last year in 3 months with my Ace 250. I kept the best one (not pictured) and scrapped those. I got $393 bucks and 5 Silver US Eagles. I suppose I should have gotten six, one for each ring.

Chris

 

[dahut]

n/t

 

[jackintexas]

test

 

[jackintexas]

Sorry I did not mean to hit post but review as I was looking for something else....Jack

 

[Uncle Willy]

I advised using coin mode to keep you from getting frustrated and wrapping your detector around a tree. You can't eliminate trash and find valuable rings because sadly they fall into the same conductive range as most junk. They haven't made a detector yet that will separate trash from gold rings so you have to dig your share of trash to get those rings - many of which fall into the nickel/pulltab/foil range. Some silver rings will come in as coins while others won't. It all depends on the composition of the ring and how it is postioned in the ground. A typical band-type ring will not ring in the same as a ring standing upright as there is less metal for the signal to grab onto. Many hi-karat gold rings will come in as foil as they have the same conductivity as foil.

As I've always stated, " If you ain't digging some junk you ain't digging much else either."

Bill

 

[slingshot]

Thanks, that's what I thought the take was. Interesting about the high kt. rings at the foil level-I often add the notch right above nickel (foil) when I go into the coins mode to have a chance at some of those rings-kinda like trying to get the best of both worlds when in a high trash area.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah keep poking around and you'll score one.

Bill