Bottle caps are driving me insane!

[thebiggerdigger]

I was getting so many of the bottle tops and crowns that my middle son and I started to make use of them. He was making picture frames surrounded by different bottle caps and writing sayings on the frames. They sold like crazy down at the beach. I am sure he has made more money from doing that than I have from hunting...haha.

 

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[mikeraydj]

I swing a Fisher F5 and my machine loves bottlecaps too and I don't have iron audio like the Garrett does. I was taught that if I rim the target with iron notched in I could tell a cap from a Quarter as it gives a quick iron tone before a quarter tone if it is a cap and won't if it's a quarter. The thing is about this hobby is the " I gotta know." factor. I still dig all repeatable targets cause I gotta know for sure. Plus there is masking. After removing a cap I have run my coil over the hole again and found coins.

 

[Boatlode]

I started collecting beer bottle caps. Dug up a mint condition Red Stripe last week.

 

[mikeraydj]

Plus digging the trash metal I find is a public service I provide for having the opportunity to find the treasure.

 

[Auriemma]

Bottle caps suck... Plain and simple (so do pull tabs). But I still dig each and everyone up.
Why? Like mikeraydj said... I gotta know!

And it part of the MD game.

 

[gulfcoaster]

I feel your pain with the AT Pro and bottle caps. You can tell some/most of the time, but you don't want to miss something good. My local beach is like a military bottle-cap bomb testing ground, and there's supposed to be "no glass allowed" on the beach. HA! I'll tell you what though, when I set the discrim to 2 on my CZ-21, I dig very few bottle caps, and I don't think I'm missing much/any of the good stuff. I still dig a bottle-cap here and there, but way less than I use to. I still get all the pull tabs and most of the little foil wrappers though, so yay for me.

 

[cjrjr507]

I used to have an BH RB 7 detector back in the late 70's early 80's and that detector was a gold ring finder. I could set the disc to just make pulltabs make a scratchy noise, not completely eliminate them and gold rings would make a double beep every time. I miss that detector but it ate AA's like crazy. I think the detection pattern was very tight with those machines. The RB 5, Rb 10 & 12 did the same thing. I use a white's XLT now and bottle caps are no problems for it as it has bottle cap reject.

 

[jeff of pa]

old post, & members Last Activity Nov 10, 2013 01:57 PM

but I rarely am fooled by Crown caps.
on rare occasions they can sound like silver mixed with nails,
but most times when I dig them, I know I'm digging trash to get it out the way.

twist off caps are different. Deep twist offs can sound like small silver.
Shallow Twist offs sound like possible big silver.

dig it all & stop complaining It's fun

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

I dont think its just a Garrett issue, I can tell about 80% of the time that its going to be a Alum screw top. But with that said, if im in an area that produces Indian head pennies, I pluck them out.

But even the CTX- Etrac's will read some bottle caps good. Its because they are shaped like coins, which is what we are looking for