Does Anyone Else Dig EVERYTHING Above Iron, or Am I the Only Fool?

[AusTexDude]

Am I greedy, just meticulous, or on a fool's errand?

I can't pass up a target because I'm afraid it might be something great.

Yes I have pulled 22 rings from the park I'm working, but that was not cherry picking. That was digging every target above iron.

I pulling a ring about every 100 or so pull tabs. There are so many though.

Today it took me 5 hours to dig an area about 10 feet by 20 feet. But after you go over it, it is now target free except for the deep alum can I did not feel like digging out at 10 inches.

So many targets I spend a good amount of my time detecting from my knees so my 55 year old carcass does not have to get up and down a million times.

 

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[robertk]

I dig everything including iron, if the iron sounds interesting.

 

[Older The Better]

for the most part I dig everything, there’s always exceptions if i go on a long string of nails or bits of fence I lose enthusiasm and move on, other big ones are when my pockets are getting overloaded or I’m running out of time I’ll get selective.

The way I see it if I dig it and remove it from the site i won’t waste time finding it again the next time, it can also be masking a better target, and lastly I’ve had some pretty ugly iron signals be surprisingly good finds

 

[TORRERO]

This is when you have to decide what your willing to accept, I'm too old to dig everything, although when I was younger I did. Sometimes you just have to say "Its ok if I don't get everything of value out of THIS spot"
On sandy beaches I generally dig everything but we were in Brazil last week and the beaches were so choked full of trash that I just skipped targets I thought were bottle caps and pull tabs.. because there were hundreds and I got tired of digging them and showing the tourists watching me ...

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I have Iron like, bottlecaps and bobby pins ,nails notched out but will still find big iron. I mostly do playgrounds although sometimes I hit the grass also. Mainly a park detectorist.

 

[AstralDruid]

I also dig all targets,, except those that scream like a dentists drill... Alu.....

 

[AstralDruid]

I reckon, with a little bit of 'ole fashion' knowhow , i would be able to build some sort of machine out of all the parts and pieces I have dug up... A big ,heavy rusty looking yoke, like you might see behind a disused shack way out in the wilds of Louisiana or some such place !..

 

[AusTexDude]

I probably dig 40 of the 70s style beaver tails to every 1 newer pull tab.