Does anyone find nickles with the exployer?

[SgtSki in MI]

Before Uncle Sam saw fit to give me a little break from detecting by sending me to Iraq, I was getting better and telling a nickel when I hit it. When I came home on leave last april I hit 3 deep signals and guessed nickel and was right (1897, 1911, 1927). What still throws me is the pulltab with the ring broken off.

 

[jb]

Gotta tell you Sarge the pull tab isn't that big a problem to distinguish but your right on the little Beaver Tail when separated from it, especially if it is rolled up some. The other big problem one for me is the little pencil eraser holders from a pencil. These 2 usually hit at 5 when I check but try to use the cross hairs all the time. # 5, 6, 7 are nickels for me and also the above plus rings are in there and even a little lower than 5. The rectangular pop tops are another problem area. Curse the Red Baron for inventing them critters.

 

[Ocean7]

n/t

 

[MJP (IL)]

Yes, especially for nickels. All nickels (Shield, V, Buffalo, Jefferson except 1942-45) are basically the same composition.

 

[Jack(IN)]

n/t

 

[Jason in TN]

Got to dig those low tones to get nickels you are hearing them if you go over them you just are not digging them. I dig hundreds of them at the beach each season. I also dug 15 gold rings last year.

 

[Ace]

I do find lots of nickels, also lots of pulltabs, and I found a nice 14k wedding band while at it ina site that promissed nothing but trash according to me, heck, was I in for a surprise when I dug that hole and saw this thing stuck in the roots shining:

This is how my Explorer's Discrimination Pattern is set:

Some people put a limit to the pulltabs they dig, for example one day you'll say to yourself "50 Pulltabs and that's it!" and if you find jewelry while in the middle of the limit you can start counting again or keep at it until you reach your limit or get tired of digging trash, so if you'll switch from time to time I'd suggest you make a program that includes jewelry (pulltabs, foil, etc.) and another one eliminating them so you can switch when you like.

If you want to find Half-Dimes, 3-cent pieces, gold coins, etc. In a place that looks like it could yield those finds I'd suggest to hunt in IM-16 OR hunt accepting a wide array of Non-Ferrous items.

If you're interested in Jewelry, then by all means dig pulltabs and foil, if you don't chances are you will find little if any gold at all.

The Explorer is a machine that you can adjust to whatever you'd like to find, it is really a user friendly machine. Hope this helps.

 

[Boony]

HI Mitch,

I must agree with the majority of answers on this thread, I dig pull tabs and ringtops and in the process have pulled up a nice number of gold rings, also as someone stated it cleans the ground and makes it a bit easier for the next time you hunt that location.
However I must disagree with the other gentleman that reckons clad coins are worthless junk, after digging about 500 bucks worth of two dollar coins I,m very Happy to dig this worthless junk half of which paid for my X1 Probe.

Happy hunting.....Boony

 

[Ocean7]

colonial coins, or gold rings and diamond rings. Sometimes clad mounts up to paying for a new piece of equipment. Sometimes I'll go to places where it's not considered old and just dig quarters. One place I was doing this - I was actually blown away to dig a colonial large cent at 12". So sometimes you can be quite surprised or fooled by what you think will pop out of the ground.

 

[Ace]

As Dick Stout said: "Silver should be your goal, but dig the clad and invest in a coin that will add up its value as time goes by, or a gold coin, consider clad as "accidental" while trying to recover silver/copper coins" And I agree, clad WILL eventually add up to a nice amount and with it you can buy something like extras for your detector, or a backup detector, etc.

 

[RingProfessional]

n/t

 

[RingProfessional]

very true for the beach. On trashy inland sites the vast majority of low tones turn out to be junk more than %95 of the low tones are trash. I like to work an area of a site first by clearing all the silver and copper coins out over a few months then when the high tones start to get few and far between i will use a gold program and start to dug all the trash and hopefully a ring or 2.

 

[Holedigger]

I can't disagree with anything you've mentioned. But if you have only about "thirty" drop and kneels (bad knees)in you for the day, you become selective. I will not even intentionally dig any clad if I can help it. But you are absolutely correct about finding gold rings! They will hit all over the trash/nickel range, depending on the karat. The only gold I find is in the hole with something else. If you don't dig you don't find.

 

[Holedigger]

I'm sure your talking "sand" and not hard earth?

 

[william king]

Yes, I find a fair share of them. I usually dig any target that hits around 10 05 which is usually a nickle. As mentioned by some one else, if you are not finding nickles you are possibly missing gold rings as well.

 

[RingProfessional]

Many people can Dig 300 or even 700 nickels And fail to find a gold ring - Quite a common situation for many i suppose.
On the other hand some people win lotto jackpots at the first go and so it possible to find a gold ring within ten minutes of working a site. I have now decided to work my Victorian parkland sites looking for gold rings and silver. I have the base gold screen set up as in the andy sabische book with a little corner of the top right opened to give me a chance of some silver coins too -plus a few other little windows opened UP where some of the silver victorian sixpences a three pences fall. So now i will be going home mostly with trash every day i expect- i will experiment to see what the ratio of trash items to gold rings is. My "GUESTIMATE" will be that i will have to dig around several hundred trash targets to get a ring. My results will be posted here in a few months time .

 

[Boony]

Hi guys,

Like RingProfessional says you never really know what makes the sounds until you dig it up, I have certainly been surprised to get something that sounds very much like a pull tab and been pleasantly surprised to find it's a gold ring. On the other hand where I'm hunting at the moment wine bottle caps sound very much like our $2 coins and consequently I dig up five to one in favour of the bottle caps, I guess the benefit is that you know your doing your bit to tidy up the parks, I take all the rubbish home with me so I don't have to put up with it a second time. My rubbish collection is quite impressive as I'm sure yours is.

All the best.....Boony

 

[william king]

That is about my average!

 

[RingProfessional]

The only trouble with digging all the low tones all the time is that on parkland sites (which are one of my favorite types of site) it gets hard, boring and frustrating because of digging all the sliced bits of tin cans and gold coloured bottle tops that try to imitate the gold rings,i have been digging many low tones recently and after an hour of digging crap i will select a "cherry picker" screen and go for copper and silver coins / rings. Like i have said before on here the only bonus with digging low tones is that nickels will be found.