How To Tell The Difference Between Gold Rings And Trash???

[Badger-NH]

I can tell the difference between a gold ring and a pull tab just by looking at them. 

[Xergix]

It is not you who finds the gold, but it is he who finds you!
Most of the time I found a gold target it was a surprise, I never thought that that target would be gold, the last ring I found was giving out vdi 25, 15.2 gr 750k !
The ear is the only way to distinguish a good target from the trash.

[Tom Slick]

"The ear is the only way to distinguish a good target from the trash."

I would argue it's the eye. We're talking gold verses trash, we're not discussing music. ?

[Badger-NH]

Saying you are able to tell the difference between gold and aluminum by ear is a little like believing you are psychic.

The ability can easily be proved or disproved using tests similar to the tests used for testing psychic ability.

 

[Xergix]

I am not kidding when I say that it takes ear, the metal detector speaks to you its language you have to learn it, the garbage has dry, torn sounds, certain gold objects have a round sound, I dug several targets with a good sound, then the surprise, if I had agreed with the vdi I would not have dug them, then the minelabs have an unmistakable sound, I have always preferred them, maybe it will be because I play music and I will have a trained ear but this is my thought.

[Rob in (ca)]

I wish a Detector exist that would discriminate Trash from Jewelry…..wait…. there is …..it’s called dig it all 

[Dan(NM)]

This is how I tell the difference ?  Didn't find any gold last hunt....

[Gerry in Idaho]

Interesting thread.  I do agree that some detectors have a sweet sound to the ear for round gold ring targets.  But since there are so many types of gold rings and so many shapes or the way it's laying in the soil, the only 100% full proof way it to dig.

Now I have been able to up my odds at finding gold rings with certain detectors and or areas by ignoring some of the targets and sounds.  For example, take the pic above of all the finds on the green lid.  If the goal for me is to find a gold ring at that location, over half those targets I would not have dug.  They don't register in most gold ring ranges.  I would not have dug most of the coins, the silver rings, the toys, the bigger sinkers, the vape pipes or that many bottle tops.

My time at that site would produce much less targets, but the targets I go after would be what most gold rings read it.

There is no 1 way to find gold rings.  But there are way to up your odds and dig better targets possible of being a gold ring.

[Badger-NH]

14 hours ago, Xergix said:

I am not kidding when I say that it takes ear, the metal detector speaks to you its language you have to learn it, the garbage has dry, torn sounds, certain gold objects have a round sound, I dug several targets with a good sound, then the surprise, if I had agreed with the vdi I would not have dug them, then the minelabs have an unmistakable sound, I have always preferred them, maybe it will be because I play music and I will have a trained ear but this is my thought.

What numbers would you not dig based on VDI?