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Metal Detecting for Gold
Beautiful little nug with the AT Gold
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<blockquote data-quote="heavymetal" data-source="post: 24213" data-attributes="member: 202"><p>Yeh mate I get that a lot too. It is normally a hot rock or hot ground. Is it a really horrible "bouncy" signal? The AT Gold will struggle a bit on that highly minerized ground. If the ground is really hot I run the GB window at 6 and normally manually balance a couple of points above what the auto balance comes up at. If you move back on to quieter ground then balance the machine again. You have to remember that the AT doesn't just balance itself like a lot of the other detectors do. As a rule if the signal doesn't improve as you dig then you are a chasing hot ground. Also a good target will normally sound the same left to right as it does right to left. A bad target (or hot rock) will sound different each way. Heaps of the gold I have found has started out as a low signal (4-10) on the ID then if it comes up higher once I have began to dig then I continue to dig the target. If the signal remains as low numbers then I normally walk away but if you're not sure then dig it anyway. It is important when starting out to dig every target just to get used to what different targets sound like. Also don't totally rely on the iron audio as a lot of nuggets will give that iron grunge sound. It is a good idea to buy or borrow a nugget and practice finding it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="heavymetal, post: 24213, member: 202"] Yeh mate I get that a lot too. It is normally a hot rock or hot ground. Is it a really horrible "bouncy" signal? The AT Gold will struggle a bit on that highly minerized ground. If the ground is really hot I run the GB window at 6 and normally manually balance a couple of points above what the auto balance comes up at. If you move back on to quieter ground then balance the machine again. You have to remember that the AT doesn't just balance itself like a lot of the other detectors do. As a rule if the signal doesn't improve as you dig then you are a chasing hot ground. Also a good target will normally sound the same left to right as it does right to left. A bad target (or hot rock) will sound different each way. Heaps of the gold I have found has started out as a low signal (4-10) on the ID then if it comes up higher once I have began to dig then I continue to dig the target. If the signal remains as low numbers then I normally walk away but if you're not sure then dig it anyway. It is important when starting out to dig every target just to get used to what different targets sound like. Also don't totally rely on the iron audio as a lot of nuggets will give that iron grunge sound. It is a good idea to buy or borrow a nugget and practice finding it. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detecting for Gold
Beautiful little nug with the AT Gold
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