Whats Your Oppinion- Best Detector For Finding Rings?

[youngbuck]

The Question Simply is...
What metal detector have you found to be your best ring finder, be it gold rings, silver, platinum ect..., on the beach.

Please state the environments your chosen aqua ring detector performs best in- salt water, fresh water, areas with little trash, or areas with lots.
I believe this will be a very interesting survey, and everyone will be able to learn from it. Everyone who can contribute to it please do. You only receive as much as you give.

 

[Ron Lord]

n/t

 

[Craig-PI]

Its not about the detector... its the hunter... being able to read a beach and in the water far outweigh a detector... Everytime I go to the beach I look for the cuts and troughs and hunt them..

Everyone has their favorite detectors but the coil has to go over it...


I have a favorite detector and many don't like it but its my ring finder

 

[Chi Town Bruce]

Your new to this forum how about an intro hang in there you'll get to where your going.

 

[Grumpy (Texas)]

YoungBuck,

Thats kinda like asking how long is a string.....

BUT for fresh water hunting in MY area I have found more "Rings" with a 30 year old whites TR Amphibian cost new $69.00...is it the best out there?

By no means, but after hunting with it (several of them) for 30 years I KNOW wat it will do. MY Favorite machine..Detector Pro Wader but that wasn't what you asked was it.

Grumpy (TX)

Old Fart

 

[Bence]

Its not about the detector... its the hunter... being able to read a beach and in the water far outweigh a detector... Everytime I go to the beach I look for the cuts and troughs and hunt them..

Everyone has their favorite detectors but the coil has to go over it...


I have a favorite detector and many don't like it but its my ring finder

So what detector do you use?

 

[harvdog42]

I hunted with a Fisher 1265 for years because I got very used to it and found many a ring with it. The 1265 has a couple of drawbacks though. It does crappy in black sand and falses when salt water runs over the coil. I was determined to find a detector that didn't have those drawbacks. I owned an Excalibur for awhile and liked it but there was one thing I didn't like about it and that had more to do with me than the detector. I could never decide which mode to run in. All metal or iron discriminate. That started to but the crap out of me so I got rid of it. I had a Whites surfmaster pulse for awhile but never found one gold ring with it so I got rid of it and went back to my 1265 and started finding rings almost immediately. I can't explain why. I finally found a detector I like more than my 1265 and that is the detector I'm using now which is the Garret Infinium. Plenty of gold but the dam thing loves bobby pins. Some people say they can differentiate the sound of a bobby pin but I'll never leave anything in the ground that sounds that good.
My two cents worth.

Harvdog

 

[Craig-PI]

A PI of course Whites PI Pro have since switched to the Dual Field which I love

 

[youngbuck]

Super, So far so good. It seems there is a variety of opinions, no definite detector seems to stand out, thus far. I find this input a unique contribution-

Its not about the detector... its the hunter... being able to read a beach and in the water far outweigh a detector...

To summarize, these are the popular ring finders in water:
Whites PI Pro
Fisher 1265
Garret Infinium
Whites TR Amphibian
However, only seven voices of the numerous water metal detecting community has been heard, so keep 'em coming.

Thank You,
Young Buck

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I own and use two Whites water detector and have been quite successful with both. All my hunts have been in fresh water(no salt).
The BHID that I use the most and the PI PRO that is the back up machine.
Hunt chest deep to dry sand.
Have used the BHID in soccer fields(dry land) and found clad and gold rings plus lots of trash.