gold finding

If you using discrimination, it's going to stay that way!

Gold is one of the first thing that get discriminated out.

 

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Hi Shep74, I couldn't find a outback bounty hunter metal detector. Maybe you can post a pick of it. I have an old BH 202 I love for the coins in the park. I have found a small gold childs ring, it was gold plated so not sure what set off my detector, but I dont get the depth I would like for the old stuff I know is there.

I use a lot of discrimination and homefire is right, you wont see any gold or much jewlry. Thats how I plan to buy my next machine so digging a couple bucks a day in clad is slow going.

I did purchase a 4 inch, "Gold Nugget" coil, and seen my hunts do a lot better in the trashy areas. Its not as deep as the stock 8 inch coil, and only goes about 5 inches on targets. It was not sensitive enough to find the gold ear ring back, till I actually put it on the coil. I had no discrimination and full sensitivity. I may pick up a 10 inch coil and see if it does any better.

They are really good machines for general use, but if you want gold, or jewlry, it will have to be close to the top. We have a lot of festivals and fairs. The laws are pretty lax here, so I just put my big coil on after a event and hit the parking lots, around trees, and such not digging, just picking up whats there. I can usually run my discrimination high, and have found you dont need a lot of power doing that.

If I dont find a target at 6 inches when I do dig, I usually fill the hole back in if my pinpointer doesnt pick it up. Its big iron or aluminum can, and I dont like digging big holes in the park. My best advice for anyone with a bounty hunter machine is to take a gold or silver ring and put it on the ground next to a nickle, as long as you can detect all three with the coil 6 inches above the ground, you will be able to locate simular items. Good luck.




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Shep74 thats what i was saying, I've found gold rings that come way up the scale too, be to heavy handed with the disc

john

Posted on: February 11, 2011, 02:23:00 PM

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Well just try this, find the target then check it with the minimum amount of disc, then check it again and step up the disc again

if the target is still there when you check it in disc the first time then thats when you decided to dig or not

john

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