Posted by Jbird on 3/16/2008, 1:01 pm, in reply to "Re: Couldn't stand it..."
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.....I was thinking the same thing about the broken ring and possibly the small ear studs. It took JB a couple of years to convince me that lots of that small jewelry stuff was found right about the top of the iron range. I knew small gold nuggets would read in that range but it took me awhile to convert that knowledge over to jewelry shooting. Boy, we are all getting addicted to that iron stacatto sound and its variable nuances arent we? Ive got a 7 grain flat rough textured gold nugget and the all metal mode of the goldtrax makes a nice little beep over it at 1 to 2 inchs but as I raise the coil higher it goes from a beep to a weak flatulent stacatto sound. I used to get all exited when nugget shooting with the goldtrax and hear that weak stacatto sound, thinking it just might be small gold. Of course, it usually was tiny pellets from #6 birdshot, or a 22 bullet about 3 inches deep. or one of those danged boot tacks, or a tiny sliver of rusted sardine can or....well....the list goes on. But you just got to dig those weak stacatto sounds, at least untill you determine what the signals are in that area. There are 60 pellets in a #6 birdshot shell and one shot could mess up a good sized section of good nugget ground. Once, on the side of a ridge in a real good nugget area, I started digging tiny little slivers of brass (or maybe it was copper). Boy!! did that stuff sound good! Right in the middle of a strong flow of rusty looking old quartz flowing down the side of the ridge. It took me awhile to figure out that some crazy hunter must have been zeroing in his rifle by firing brass jacketed bullets at a large boulder on the slope and just splattered the area with tiny pieces of the brass jackets.
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