12-20, 21, 22

[coindude]

Pull tabs in my area read a SOLID 12-20, 21, 22. Right in the middle of the gold ring readings. And they have a loud solid sound too. Has anybody found a way to distinguish the difference between these !&@*$ nuisance tabs and a gold ring. Do I have to dig 20,000 poptops for every gold ring I find? Please help if you have any information on this.

 

[Jason in TN]

The best you can do is dig it all on the beach where the digging is easy and the chance of a ring is higher. In the park may want to dig signals that come only below then you will get some foil also or just above. I have done this and gotten a few gold out of the park with out digging every pull tab. Good luck. If they ever come up with a detector that will only get the rings and leave the pull tabs and trash I want the first one in my area and I will quit my job for a few months with the price of gold now.

 

[moseng]

Do I have to dig 20,000 poptops for every gold ring I find? Please help if you have any information on this.

Heh, I think the ratio might only be about 5000-1 if that helps?

 

[Neilo]

Gold rings come in all numbers from 1-12 to 12-40 this is due to size shape and different metal compounds used plus different gold carats 9 to 24. Dont despair dig all good solid signals just out side of where the bulk of the pull tabs appear this in fact is where most of the gold rings are. Remember the Etrac is much more accurate in its discrimination. On machines with poor less accurate discrimination the pull tab discimination area is much bigger and less precise this is why they will disc out more of the gold rings. You might also notice the response from a gold ring on an Etrac is a shorter sharper signal. good hunting seeya Neilo

 

[texastreasures]

Would it make sense to set the e-trac to reject 12-20 through 12-22 if I want to avoid tabs altogether, or does rejecting these prevent nearby good targets from signaling?

 

[C&RHunter]

Coindude...Different types of tabs will have different numerical readings..There are several styles of the older actual "pull tabs", also a few variations of the rectangular "pop tops". For me they all have a somewhat different reading, especially if they are bent into different shapes. I've popped a few tops over the years and know how the beavertails get rolled and broken off, the poptops get folded, twisted, and broken. I sure would like a way to just eliminate them, but doing so on all of them seems to close a lot of area that gold will read in...But if you come up with a reasonable descrim. pattern keep us informed..Good Luck with the hunting!!

 

[bcoop]

Like Andy states in his book. If you are in an area that has a large quantity of pull tabs it could be a benefit to you. Reason is that other detectorists probably discriminated these out to avoid digging them while concentrating on coin targets. Needless to say 2 hand fulls of pull tabs and a ring or 2 would be better than 10 bucks in clad. The sad thing is like everyone knows there are thousands more pull tabs and screw caps than gold rings lost. People throw pull tabs down but people don't go around throwing rings on the ground. My 10k wedding band shows up as a 12-22 a 14k was 12-28 air testing however gold rings show up from a 12-4 all the way to a 12-38 for the majority. A friend of mine has been hunting for 30+ years and has hundreds of rings, his motto is "Dig it all". I just wish I didn't live so far from the beach.


B.Cooper, Missouri

 

[The Beep Goes On]

The way to reduce your pulltab count while still getting most of the rings is to figure out what the dominant types of pulltabs are that infest the site. You know, the top 2 or 3 offenders. Once you know what they are you can discriminate their primary FE-CO numbers (just one cell, like 12-23) so you don't get a clean tone on them. Then you dig all the others that give a clean tone. You will still dig a lot of whole, bent, broken and twisted pulltabs and you might miss some rings, but this seems to be the best method if you don't want to, or can't, dig it all.

Beep