Coin Shooting In Gold Mode

[Gold Kruzer Jerry]

What is the deal with the pencil erasers while detecting in school yards ! Kids must eat their pencils !

I have hit about 10 of them last time out !

Gold Kruzer Jerry

[Past Member]

1 hour ago, Gold Kruzer Jerry said:

What is the deal with the pencil erasers while detecting in school yards ! Kids must eat their pencils !

I have hit about 10 of them last time out !

Gold Kruzer Jerry

You think those are annoying in the school yards? Try the tot lots!

I never used to hunt tot lots, but one year when the ground froze up, I was desperate to hunt. I spent a few hours hunting 6 different tot lots. I was digging everything nonferrous, and all I got was a few pieces of kid's junk jewelry, and massive amounts of pencil erasers and zipper parts. I didn't even think kids used pencils anymore! lol

[Gold Kruzer Jerry]

I feel your pain !

I did find a debit card under the wood chips hidden ! Could have bought a new detector with it, But honesty is the best policy, RIGHT ?

Gold Kruzer Jerry

[GermanGuy]

On 12/2/2023 at 5:56 PM, glacialgold said:

With the sun setting so early on DST, I haven't had a chance to go out after work lately for a relaxing bout of coinshooting. As a result, I've been fiddling around with some programs at home, waiting for the right weather and free time to test them out on the ground.

This morning I ducked out before breakfast and tested out a coinshooting program in Gold mode at a nearby schoolyard. I'd noticed in air tests that gold mode had solid depth on coins, and wanted to try make the mode work for coinshooting. So, here's what I tried out:

Gold M
Sensitivity (adjusted in the field, settled at 25)
Recovery speed 6
IF 3 / St 3 / BC 0
AG 2
GB auto
Noise cancel auto
Custom notch, keeping 23-27 and 38-57

The test site was a small section of a schoolyard I've hit many, many times with the Legend, the Nox, and the MXT Pro. Lots of modern clad, a few rings (silver at best), and plenty of aluminum (shredded cans, puil tabs, and small foil) and pencil erasers.

I'm not accustomed to running in Gold mode or pitch tones, so the audio part took a little time to get used to. After an hour of detecting, I pulled a quarter, a dime, 4 nickels, part of zincoln, as well as some aluminum scrap and pencil erasers. Nothing exciting, but still what I call good results for a brief period on hunted ground using new settings. I should add the coil was the LG24.

Normally I run Park M 1/2 in 60 tones all metal, but otherwise similar settings to the ones listed above. In Park and in my soil, nickels center around 25, but can hit at 23 if deep, and sometimes a 26/27 if shallower. In the Gold program, nickels hit at 23/24, and showed 1-3 ferrous bars for some reason. I found pencil erasers sounded great but stayed right at 27. The quarter was a weird one, 2" down and jumping from a 47-55. (I'd typically see quarters at a rock solid 50/51 in Park.) Today's quarter, however, was like 6" from a metal piece of playground equipment, which may account for the odd signal.

Overall, it was a fun experiment, and a chance to learn how the machine behaves differently in Gold mode. I don't think I'd use this program on a new location, but this test indicates it has some merit on previously-worked ground catching targets missed with more traditional settings.

I also tested the Gold Mode on a field for a few minutes. It seems to be really sensitive and might be an interesting option. On my next hunting I'll give a longer try. From my point of view the high sensitivity could be related to the hight default threshold setting of the Gold Mode...

[Zaj56]

I am starting to dabble in gold mode  for relics and so far I have found no downside.

[GermanGuy]

I tried the Gold Mode on one of my fields but it's really too sensitive for me. Every swing I get several signals and that's too noise for me. I I think it depends on the soil and the amount of trash.