I have been detecting for gold off and on since 1986 and I would like to give a little advice. I believe there are five main things you need to do to be successful. You need to be in a area that has big enough gold to detect. Dig all repetitive targets. It does not matter what sound comes out of the speaker.If it is a repetitive sound dig it. I have dug big deep gold that was nothing more than ground noise but it was a repetitive ground noise and after a scratch or two it turned into a clear