Critterhunter
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I've got a large beach on the great lakes that is just loaded to the gills with trash. A few times when I've been there I've seen a few other beach hunters and this low lifes leave the trash they dig laying right on top of the sand. No wonder it's loaded with trash. Anyway, I'm curious who else out there has a local beach that is just full of non-ferrous trash such as bits of aluminum cans, pulltabs, pennies, bottle caps, and various other usual bits of trash that people leave laying around. The other beaches I hunt don't have nearly as much trash and are fairly clean for the most part, making it an easy decision to scoop each and every signal I come across that isn't iron. With this beach, however, it takes me about an hour just to walk say 80 yards in a straight line, scooping each and every signal I come across.
What is getting old is the bits of can slaw. Every time I hear one I know darn good and well what it's going to be, because they often give a worbly kind of sick audio sound to them and will range up and down in digits by say 3 to 5 or more, never locking onto one or two digits for the most part. Even if they give a solid ID from one direction they'll often change drasticly in ID (and audio) when sweeping from another angle.
I've about had it up to here with digging that stuff out of this beach, as it's simply loaded with junk and would take me months to grid out any large portion of it. Even though I scoop penny and coin signals at all other beaches in the hopes of a silver or large gold ring, have to admit that I'm not digging anything that reads above a zinc penny (173) on the meter. Just too many of them pennies laying around here. I find myself avoiding this beach and wanting to go to cleaner beaches where there isn't nearly as much trash. On the other hand, for the same reason I'm sure most other hunters are also avoiding this particular beach.
I'm not going to put the kind of effort into this beach to scoop each and every signal out of there. Not enough time and too many more productive places to hunt this summer. Lacking that kind of effort, I'm asking if any of you hunt a beach under the same kinds of conditions and if you've developed a strategy for hunting it. Currently I'm only scooping solid signals that don't change by more than a digit or two regardless of what way I sweep over them. That eliminates much of the can slaw and oddly shaped foil for the most part. Not digging anything above 173 gets rid of the pennies. I of course don't mind and want to dig any tab signals or anything else that gives a consistant audio and doesn't change in ID by more than a digit or two.
In my testing of well over 100 rings I have found that 99% of them don't vary much in ID, perhaps only changing by a digit or two at the very most but rarely even that. The audio stays good and for the most part the ID should be as stable as say a nickle. If it varies more than that it's probably an odd piece of trash. What I'm wondering is how many of you have dug a nice ring that gave bad audio and ID like a piece of can shard? It kills me to pass those signals at this beach but I see no other way to hunt the place.
What is getting old is the bits of can slaw. Every time I hear one I know darn good and well what it's going to be, because they often give a worbly kind of sick audio sound to them and will range up and down in digits by say 3 to 5 or more, never locking onto one or two digits for the most part. Even if they give a solid ID from one direction they'll often change drasticly in ID (and audio) when sweeping from another angle.
I've about had it up to here with digging that stuff out of this beach, as it's simply loaded with junk and would take me months to grid out any large portion of it. Even though I scoop penny and coin signals at all other beaches in the hopes of a silver or large gold ring, have to admit that I'm not digging anything that reads above a zinc penny (173) on the meter. Just too many of them pennies laying around here. I find myself avoiding this beach and wanting to go to cleaner beaches where there isn't nearly as much trash. On the other hand, for the same reason I'm sure most other hunters are also avoiding this particular beach.
I'm not going to put the kind of effort into this beach to scoop each and every signal out of there. Not enough time and too many more productive places to hunt this summer. Lacking that kind of effort, I'm asking if any of you hunt a beach under the same kinds of conditions and if you've developed a strategy for hunting it. Currently I'm only scooping solid signals that don't change by more than a digit or two regardless of what way I sweep over them. That eliminates much of the can slaw and oddly shaped foil for the most part. Not digging anything above 173 gets rid of the pennies. I of course don't mind and want to dig any tab signals or anything else that gives a consistant audio and doesn't change in ID by more than a digit or two.
In my testing of well over 100 rings I have found that 99% of them don't vary much in ID, perhaps only changing by a digit or two at the very most but rarely even that. The audio stays good and for the most part the ID should be as stable as say a nickle. If it varies more than that it's probably an odd piece of trash. What I'm wondering is how many of you have dug a nice ring that gave bad audio and ID like a piece of can shard? It kills me to pass those signals at this beach but I see no other way to hunt the place.
