When to Dig?

[Luckystiff]

Hey Guy's I've been Hunting a Fairground parking lot. I've been finding a lot of clad and pull tabs but I have been passing over the Zinc hits after digging up 50 new pennies. Should I be digging all the zinc hits? I DID FIND A 1970 Bermuda Quarter

Thanks..

 

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[vpnavy]

Personally, I would dig - corroded copper and some coins, etc. can come up as zinc. The only difference is I don't spend a lot of time digging - but I still give it a shot.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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Hey Guy's I've been Hunting a Fairground parking lot. I've been finding a lot of clad and pull tabs but I have been passing over the Zinc hits after digging up 50 new pennies. Should I be digging all the zinc hits? I DID FIND A 1970 Bermuda Quarter

Thanks..

If I am in an area with "lots of clad" (as you say), then ... like you .... I will often pass surface zincs. Might it be something else? (a shallow IH or a big honkin gold ring, etc...). SURE. But *odds are* (99.99%) that it will be: zincs. If the area I'm searching has potential for older coins, then I might dig zinc signals that are deeper (like, 7" or more, for example), but not the surface ones.

 

[Luckystiff]

So do you Guys dig every Pull Tab hit that comes up? because I dug the first 20 tab hits and after that I gave up. There must be Hundreds of those 1970's pull tabs there.After awhile I could tell just by the way the numbers would bounce and by the Tone.
But do you think I'm missing something?

The same day I went to a friends house and found a World War II US Button it came up as a dime.it was made of Brass.

 

[Ronzie]

I dig all pull tab readings. If I didn't then I would've missed all the gold rings & chains that I've found.

 

[doc-d]

From what I have learned from this site is that if you don't dig, you will miss gold.........guess it depends on you and what your objectives are......

 

[Luckystiff]

Thanks Guy's..I will have to take your advise and Dig all the pull tab Hits..it will take me awhile but nothing good comes Easy..

 

[damiani1]

Dig all the pull tabs. Once you master your machine it will be smooth sailing. I have roughly 50+ hours on my silver umax but I feel I have mastered it quite well with what to dig. A key thing to do when choosing a target is to size it. If something is huge and keeps ringing up the exact same and if its a trashy area I sometimes leave those.

 

[dirtscratcher]

So do you Guys dig every Pull Tab hit that comes up? because I dug the first 20 tab hits and after that I gave up. There must be Hundreds of those 1970's pull tabs there.After awhile I could tell just by the way the numbers would bounce and by the Tone.
But do you think I'm missing something?

The same day I went to a friends house and found a World War II US Button it came up as a dime.it was made of Brass.[/QUO
When people say dig all pulltabs they should add you need to be a little discreet about where you are at. At a beach or in the wood chips have at it, but in a nice park you are probably going to end up with some negative attention.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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Thanks Guy's..I will have to take your advise and Dig all the pull tab Hits..it will take me awhile but nothing good comes Easy..

I would digress from this advice, based on the description of the site you give. There are some sites where it DOESN'T pay to "be a hero" and try to rescue a gold ring from a 1000's+ to 1 ratio. If you're that bent on finding gold rings, why oh why oh why are you in a location like this, to begin with? Your time would be better spent on simply going to areas where gold rings are more condusive and ratios aren't like that. Namely: swimming beaches and sports fields.

Because anytime you have an eating/drinking (picnicking for example) venue, by the very nature of those activities, is primed to introduce aluminum and tabs. Because where people drink sodas and at fairs, read: tabs. Where they eat, read: foil (wrapper for the food).

Let me give you an example: there was a rodeo grounds bleachers, blt in the 1920s, where .... for 70+ yrs, spectators has thrown their debri down through the slats, to the under-belly below. And after each event, the cleanup crews would rake out all the debri from this hard-pan surface. It was litterally an OCEAN of pulltabs by the 1990s. Then the city tore down these immense grandstands to make way to build new ones. We got in there during the demolition phase, and there was simply no way we were going to be "heros" and try to get nickels and gold rings. We had to crank our discrimination, and go for the silver (lest we never progress out of a 1000 sq. ft. area). We got hundreds of silver coins (and wheaties and clad) by doing this. If we had tried to "dig all", we'd have never have had the time to get all that silver. And sure, we might have "missed a gold ring". But as I say, if gold rings were our goal, then why oh why would we be hunting a place like that? I can simply go to the beach which is 20 min. away, and have much better odds.

So there IS some places where you DO need to be a little ... uh ... selective.

Oh, and by the way: I got a $5 gold piece from the 1890s during that rodeo grandstands demolition, despite having tabs & square tabs disc'd out. The reason is: A $5 gold reads a hair-higher than square tabs (even the beefier fatter types). I was using a Whites Eagle SLII at the time. And I had found that the beefier thicker tabs read about 46-47-ish. So I had disc'd out everything from 47 and down. A $5 gold, on the other hand, reads 48-ish Other machines, with broad categories, would not have been able to do this. They would lump a $5 and a square tab in the same quadrant.

The same logic would hold true for some gold rings: If you knock out just the round tabs, you will get gold rings that read above and below that spot on your TID>

 

[Luckystiff]

Thanks Tom thats excatly what i was thinking.I know I'm in a trashy area and not looking for Gold rings really.just trying to get some Experience on my machine only had it 3 months.just looking for coins.I have an Fisher F2 and have noticed all my pull tab readings are at 34-37.I did a test with my gold wedding band and it always came up as #39 not saying a gold neckless or anything else gold would read different but i don't want to spend 3 days digging pull tabs.My other question is I was getting a ton of Zinc hits which the first 50 were new pennies so i just started to pass over them.Seems like there were atleast a Hundred of them,not worth time to dig up a $1 worth of pennies.i was mostly only Digging dime hits and up.which i found some of the older pennies were coming up as a Dime,sometime it was a dime and sometimes a pennie.