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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Metal Detecting For Jewelry

When it comes to metal detecting for jewelry,make sure you test your detector at home with the jewelry you have on hand.

Even the most expensive detectors pick up alot of jewelry as a junk target.Don't ask me why,it's just the way it is with alot of the models out there.

Find a silver ring,and test how your detector picks it up.Watch the single you get.

Don't practice out in the field.Be knowledgable on what your detector's signals are before you get there.

Rings are the most troublesome for alot of us.

My metal detector seems to always pick them up as a nickle,that's because I always have my unit set up for coin shooting.

When I'm in jewlery mode,I just pick up to much dam junk.

Yes,at the beach I ocassionally use the jewelry mode when in the sand,because it's not to much overly a pain in the butt digging up potential targets in the sand.

In the parks however,I'm usually always on the coin setting.The reason why for that is,there has just been to many dam cans of beer drank over the years,not to mention cans of pop.Parks are a graveyard of pulltabs,and pulltabs in most all cases register as a ring in jewelry mode.

That's a problem when it comes to metal detecting for jewelry.You have to dig up alot of junk targets,unlike when you're in the coin setting mode.

With my detector in coin mode,I'm usually always 99% of the time correct when identifying a target in the ground.

In jewlery mode it's usually always 99% junk,and even the pro's in this game tell you,when it comes to jewelry that's just the way it is.

The great thing is,your detector will always let you know when jewelry is in the ground.You'll just have to dig up all the other trash to find it.

In many cases I refuse to have my detector set up in jewelry mode.It would be easier just escavating the ground with a screen & shovel.

Detecting for jewelry is just not my thing,but at times I do go out specifically ring hunting.

I usually do so after I've cleaned a location out of coins,and when I have no other place to go for the time being,then I resort to doing my best metal detecting for jewelry.

I actually find more jewelery while coin shooting,than when my detector is set for jewelry.

If a location is not to overly burdened with trash,then the jewelry setting aint so bad,but always have a mind set that you will be digging up alot of trash.

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