After reading many posts on the various forums, I have become curious as to the VDI readings of various gold rings. I use a White's V3i and would like to know (from the users who note the VDI's of their targets) where on the scale the rings read. I remember a Fisher model (I believe it was the CZ7) where the meter didn't use numbers for ring ranges but rather percentages for each range for rings. I have been focusing on the nickel range (16-20) when searching for small gold. I assume that the medium sizes fall somewhere in the 30-40's range and the larger ones in the 50-60 range. So let's hear from those of you who find a fair amount of rings on this matter. Thanks in advance for your input. HH and GL.
This is where gold can come in on a White's unit.
Notice it is just about everywhere.
These are the 29 gold targets I have found in 4.5 years of hunting.
Most came from parks, a large amount from the perimeters of public basketball courts, a few came out of grassy dividers in parking lots.
The breakdown is on the right side.
I don't hunt with White's units, these are Fisher numbers, but they would come in at the same areas on any detector.
Nickel is the most common, probably, but I have found many at foil and 4 large class rings at lower zinc.
Every gold target I dug except one came in as trash in numbers and areas.
One target came in as a dead on nickel but that is all.
Every target was solid and I dug them because I know my detectors good enough to avoid very jumpy targets that have always turned out to be trash for me.
All of these were 5" or less in depth...most of them 3" or less so deep gold could well act differently and masking can also cause signals to be skewed and/or jumpy out in the field.
I have mentioned I am a dig-it-all hunter in the past but that was a long time ago.
Nowadays I am a dig-it-all, solid signal digger and doing it this way I am satisfied I am avoiding a lot of actual trash and my success rate seems to be fine so I will continue doing it like this till I learn differently.
I
might miss something good now and then but I just don't have the time, energy or inclination to dig absolutely every signal I come across...anymore.
I still dig lots of trash being the gold hunter that I am, the trash that still comes in pretty solid in numbers and tones, but as I learned more about my detectors I slowly dug less trash overall and found more gold despite that.
Just remember always...Gold is the Ninja of all metals and mostly will be disguised well.
