a couple of questions?:wiggle:

[blowfly1967]

does anyone use a glove on the digging hand ? if so what type is it ?my fingers are getting sore.next question is for all those who have nothing better to do with their spare time.what is the percentage rate of pull tabs to gold rings,in other words how many of the little bludgers do you have to dig up to get your first gold ring? blowfly hh enjoy!!!

 

[JB(MS)]

For a gold ring to be in the tab range it will have to be a fairly large ring. A large womens ring, and probably most mens rings can be but other than at swimming areas a huge percentage of lost gold rings are womens and girls ring, and most of those will be in the mid to high foil range. Some white gold and tiny yellow gold rings are very low in the disc range, not much above iron. I've been fortunate in finding quite a few gold rings and at least 65 to 70 percent of them were in the foil range, maybe 10 percent in the nickel range and the rest in the tab and bottlecap/zinc penny range. Three of the mens rings I've found were in the zinc/bottlecap range and were very large, the others in that range I've found were boys big highschool class rings. Some girls class rings are in the tab range, I've found two that were, as were a few boys small class rings and maybe half of the few mens wedding bands, but 75 to 80 percent of the gold rings I've found were in the foil or nickel range. Almost all of the gold rings I've found were found at schools, athletic fields and playgrounds and the number of tabs, pieces of foil and erasor bands from lead pencils I've dug would probably fill several trucks, but that's where lost gold rings live so the trash has to be dug to get them. By the way, I returned every ring I could and since gold is as high as it is, or has been, I should have kept most of the ones I sold at give away prices or gave to relatives who didn't really appreciate them and sold them when gold was over $1,000 an ounce. Photos are of some good stuff I still have that I found while digging trash.

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[pulltab]

one day I to will get a good ring or to

 

[SkiWhiz]

Thats some great finds and a nice post. JB. Steve.

 

[tabdog]

If you do a good swim beach after the water goes down the ratio i would guess 150 to 1.
This is close to water hunting finds in good spots for some people. Depends on a lot of things.
And I'm not talking about hunted out beaches.

There will be places that take finding. The good ones 5,000 to 1.

Some don't last long.

That's real good for most people.

Sometimes better.

These would be a good sports area or a good park.

Tot lots maybe a little higher rate. Or lower.

All my other stuff is from 10,000 to one to 50,000 to one.

That's when I'm hot.

If I could get out of bed, I could easily do over 100 an hour

in a tot lot in an hour.

If I did three, three hour tot lot hunts in a day for a week, that's

like 1,000 recoveries.

In some environments this can go to 2 or 3 an hour.

Hard question. That's my guess.

I am not very knowledgeable about what to expect.

I jumped in last July 2007.

Happy Hunting,

 

[blowfly1967]

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[blowfly1967]

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[trueblue]

JB(MS) thats an Awesome collection

 

[Wayne/TX]

Yes, they're good for protection or warmth in the winter.
I've usually used the cotton types found in paint stores
or hardware, but there are better ones like kevlar or
steel mesh that are cut & puncture proof. Try for
tough but thin ones for flexibility for detector controls.
Try here in their glove listing:

http://www.northerntool.com

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

Ive been detecting hard , for two years and have not found a gold ring yet i would say in my earea 1 100th of a percent chance you wana find rings you have to get to the beach i dont hunt the beach and if you get out in the water at the beach your chances are verry good you will find a ring i found two rings as a kid i found them at the base of a damm whear people swam and i used a sifter to find them one was 14 k one silver whith a rube and several silver coins

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

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[JHM]

I always wear thin leather gloves. Easier to wipe off the mud and protects against sharp glass, metal and poison ivy roots.

 

[Beale]

Yes I do wear gloves when hunting. I am glad I do also, sometimes the can slaw can be sharp. I also found a hypodermic needle once. Stuff like that and no protection can ruin a good hunt.

As to rings. I have found 6 rings. Five of those were silver, one was gold. All 6 have been found on school grounds. The gold was in the tot play lot at a middle school. I do dig a fair amount of junk also, Beale.

 

[southon37]

Hi,
I just use some rubber with cotton mess on top, cotton gloves are alright but them nasty burrs will embed themselves and can be troublesome. Try whatever suits your type of turf. Happy Hunting!

 

[blowfly1967]

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[Beale]

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Hey Blowfly I am in Central North Carolina. A place called Burlington NC. We are about 4 hours from the beach or the mountains. Where are you located? Beale.

 

[EdUK]

I use a pair of these in the winter - they keep my hands safe,warm and clean and they give enough feel that I don't need to keep taking them off while making adjustments etc. They also come up like new after a visit to the washing machine. They are ron thompson power gloves and made of neoprene.