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I drove by the local elementary school today and noticed a small strip of grass out front with no snow on it. I couldn't resist.. I brought my new Gold Racer over along with my CTX to play for an hour. I didn't expect to find much since I hit this last fall.. It was an eye opening experience. Running my CTX with an open screen except for one line of discrimination across the bottom the area is pretty quiet. Fire up the Gold Racer in disc 2 mode, stock settings and the ground came alive! The amount of tiny pieces of foil is disturbing. This detector is extremely sensitive! Even though the Gold Racer is hyper sensitive to foil I have hope it still could be a good gold ring hunter. What I noticed is that all these tiny foil signals were in the upper 30s low 40s and the numbers jumped all over the place. Doing some air testing at home I noticed the Racer locks on to rings hard! You can't shake the number. Several gold lady's rings from thin 10k to med. 14k with diamonds each had their own number. 48 50 51. Different numbers for each ring of course but it locks on hard to those numbers. The Gold Racer numbers would bounce around on the foil and even on the little flat round peel off tops from the plastic juice bottles that give nice steady solid numbers on my CTX. If this holds true to in ground real world hunting the Gold Racer might turn out to be a ring cherry picker when park hunting. If not it would be near impossible to hunt gold rings in a modern trashy park or ball field. The Gold Racer locks on to coins hard too. That's not what I bought it for though. Nugget hunting is what it was designed for and this detector should do that very well. Again I was impressed with its very smooth behavior.. Really easy and fun to run. Feels light and balanced with the stock 5x10. Menu is a breeze just like the original Racer. Bryan

I did find some small pieces one of which is a little quartz specie. But I did find the source of the gold I had been getting. It was up the draw a bit farther than I had been previously. Thank you guys for the advice and expertise.

It is a histamine reaction in your skin, so over the counter antihistamine in medications help. Cortisone anti itch creams help. Things like Tecnu or dawn only help if you use them right away aft exposure. The oil in the plant actually bonds to the proteins in your skin and cannot be washed off after that.

Whenever I get it I seem to carry it around for a month or two...alcohol dries it quickest. Best to just learn to like it!

Hi Fred, Here is a small article I found on the subject, in the mineralogical record.

General is NOT a timing its a lower frequency, it behaves more like the different frequency's on a VLF. And the Ground modes affect how the detector's tracking works, Difficult basically holds more ground info for longer whereas Normal updates and erases certain info quicker. READ THE MANUAL then read it again. The timings on the GPX detectors change the RX waiting/receiving times, an entirely different process, this cuts out a lot more info. Its not my intent to be patronizing with the read the manual comment. I seriously think everyone should read the manual more. I must have read mine more than 200 times now, there is a wealth of information in there