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2nd time out with the Acc 250
- Thread starter ccs
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MNCoinhunter
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I think my nickel to pulltab ratio is 1 for every 20..even more it seems sometimes.Unfortunately a few years ago mfgs. started putting the square tab on drink cans that had the same charasteristics of a nickel, so much so that on most VDI with numerical values they're only one or two numbers off-and that's if you're lucky. To make matters worse, the idea was spread that they were carriers of germs and people started yanking them off the cans and discarding them. No detector that I know of is perfect on ID'ing them. I read one post where a certain brand can rid them by the numerical value-and then another poster using the same machine says they id the same. Bill and John-Edmonton say they can "twitch" the coil on the Ace and hear the difference-but I tried it and found some nickels on edge or fairly deep that sounded the same as the tabs were supposed to sound. But the nickel is nicely picked up by the Ace,even in the coins mode. I use the Relics mode and they give a longer signal than the tabs-but I still don't trust any ID. With the sniper coil I find LOTS of nickels.
The Ace will find nickels but I find more of them with my MXT.
1 in 20 is about right, depending on the field your hunting. I the cursor jumps
back and forth from nickel to foil,
its usually always a pull tab. If the cursor STAY on nickel, does not
jump back and forth it is usually one of three things,
pull tab
slaw
nickel
Usually I dig everything, but this last hunt with the Ace 250 I did nothing but cherry pick the good stuff.
I plan to go back over the area (it's a HUGE area) with the MXT..
Katz
1 in 20 is about right, depending on the field your hunting. I the cursor jumps
back and forth from nickel to foil,
its usually always a pull tab. If the cursor STAY on nickel, does not
jump back and forth it is usually one of three things,
pull tab
slaw
nickel
Usually I dig everything, but this last hunt with the Ace 250 I did nothing but cherry pick the good stuff.
I plan to go back over the area (it's a HUGE area) with the MXT..
Katz
One of the bad side effects of digging alot of pull tabs thinking they are nickels. is occasionally one of them will be a gold ring instead of a nickel. Most of my gold ring finds is a bounce between nickle and pull tab. I dig them all thinking...... here`s another gold ring...
Did you dig the nickles? To be honest the Ace loves dimes. It will go nuts over them. The sad part about nickles is they are smack in the middle of the trash. So is gold! Just get fast at recovering your targets and after 1000 tabs you just might hit a gold ring that will pay for you detector.... Maybe 2000 tabs? 
Yea, I got lots of dimes from this last sports field. Loves quarters too.
One thing though, many of the signals that said dime, turned out to be a penny, the older
ones. As for gold rings when the cursor bounces between pull tab and nickel, I've
never pulled a gold ring from there. Maybe one day though.
Katz
One thing though, many of the signals that said dime, turned out to be a penny, the older
ones. As for gold rings when the cursor bounces between pull tab and nickel, I've
never pulled a gold ring from there. Maybe one day though.
Katz
Digging a gold ring in the tab section can make you go crazy in your mind. Because from then on every time you leave a tab in the ground you'll wonder if it was gold. It is hard for me to walk away. I find myself going right back and digging up that gold ring only to find a tab! But that's how you know for sure... Oh - wait till you dig one in the foil notch too!