Properly Tuning Your Metal Detector

You should make sure to always tune your detector to the general medium of the ground; to the average ground you are working in. Keep in mind the magnitude of the gold nuggets you will get will be found in the general area, and not inevitably under a hot rock. After you have set your detector you can then begin your exploit at searching for that precious metal gold. If there are hot rocks in the area, you will almost certainly find out soon enough because you will be able to perceive noises that you will not be able to isolate. If you find a signal but you cannot seem to find it because it moves around, stay on it and isolate it.

When you run into big rocks they have a propensity of letting off a “boing” sound and seem to have an empty space sound in the middle as you take the loop closer and pull it away from the target. The bigger rocks are easier to isolate since they are more often than not on the top of the ground and are clearly greater in size. If they are on top of the ground simply move them or walk around them.

You will probably be able to find these under the ground as well, but if they are deeply within the ground you will probably not be able to hear them at all. Hot rocks have a tendency of losing their bang very swiftly as the loop is placed further away from them. The smaller hot rocks are trickier to identify because they sound more like targets and do not have the same sound the larger hot rocks give off. You can at times spot them though because they have a little bit more a broader peak sound to them and not the same zip zip sound a gold nugget commonly has. It is a little bit annoying though because they do sound very alike.

Due to the fact that all hot rocks have different sizes and qualities, you may require balancing off a few more until you are able to obtain the correct amount of control over the circumstances. If you go too far off the original balance in order to appease the hot rocks, you will begin getting a signal from the ground and this will just cause the target you want to become indistinguishable and it may be worse then actually trying to plainly pay no attention to the hot rocks you do hear in the ground. Evidently in order to ignore the hot rocks it is essential to learn how to recognize them from your actual target.

There are prospectors that work with multi purpose detectors and they go along with the rule that hot rocks are detected under the all-metal mode means they will not be detected under the discriminate mode and the other way around as well. This means that if you are working under the all metal mode and you make out something you can just change to discriminate mode for a moment and this could indicate if it is a hot rock or not. The only problem with this is that when the detector is switched over to another mode, a small piece of gold might not cause the detector to react. This method seems to work better in moderate ground and in the case of bigger sized nuggets.