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« on: October 08, 2006, 12:54:01 pm »
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when you discriminating iron and pull tub will it still pick up small or medium gold or is it discriminated too? the detectors i use is the Bounty hunter land star and time ranger. why did it pick up copper or bass when heavy discriminating.

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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2006, 01:12:21 pm »
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Hello and welcome to the forum.  Discrimination can be a tricky thing, it's just a matter of knowing your machine and setting it where you are comfortable basically..  Usually...and I should say that this is from personal experience or what I have heard if you set your discrimination high enough to completely filter out pulltabs then you WILL have a very good chance of missing  some  gold be it sizes or types of gold items.  Nickel, White gold and Platinum all fall very close into the range of pulltab if I remember correctly.  If I'm using disc alot of times I will set it just above iron.  Sure I wind up digging some pulltabs this way but I don't ming.  I usually save the pulltabs and give them to people in my area that in turn donate them to the Ronald McDonald house.  I'd much rather dig a few pulltabs than to think i may have missed a lost ring or something of that sort.  After awhile you may even get to the point where you can tell from the signal if it is a pulltab or not.  There are still cases where pulltabs will set you detector off every step or two in some public parks at which time you may want to filter them out so you're not just digging pulltabs with few other good finds.  But alot of it really has to do with your preference of hunting. 

As I stated though this is my personal experience or what I've heard and is not necessarily the universal law of discrimination, just a general rule of thumb.

Hope it helps and good luck.

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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2006, 02:15:56 pm »
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thanks i was more new with the detector then but i was wondering about that. i was back there 1 Oct 2006 to see if i can find what i detected a year ago i didn't dig didn't have the right shovel but couldn't find it did detect nickels in the old creek bed. this is in Utah and old silver and gold mine i just want to see what in the dry creek. then i was at west dip it had lot of shot gun shell and 22 shell i use the time ranger then i had it set to discriminate iron only it would pick up the shells but did detect nickels dime penny one silver dollar then i could find it again i would dug up the silver dollar if i could relocated it. this time i had bikes on back the truck so i have to go back to dig up what ever i detecting

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« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2006, 05:58:06 am »
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Glad to see the info was useful to you. 

Good luck with your finds and if you ever get back there to detect again maybe you can post some of the finds for us to see.

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« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2006, 06:16:28 am »
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sounds good, lets hope u can find that spot again.....hopefully take some pics also of ur finds to post as well..gregg

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« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2006, 06:58:42 am »
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it was great. i can find the area again it easy. like to know what happen to the silver dollar it pick up if that what it was. it might been deep and won't pick it up again.

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I've detected things in the past where i would go back later and try to find themagain.  Sometimes I could and sometimes I couldn't.  Usually the better I knew the area or the more familiar I was with it the odds of me finding the item that set my detector off were better.

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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2006, 03:18:32 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2006, 05:20:44 pm »
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i was going to dig if it pick it up again but no go

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I also like to dig everything that sets it off lots of times.  Sure sometimes it means you dig a fair amount of trash but there have been many rewarding times where the trash had been masking a very good target.

Sometimes you've gotta be willing to put up with digging the trash to find the treasure.

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