Ever notice this digging around ?

[Dancer]

Trying to hunt places I haven't been to before, or not in a long while this year. Finding places that are being hunted by others. So here's something a little strange. Quite a few places being well hunted. You can tell by absence of fresh /shallow coins. To everyones credit the majority of tabs , can slaw have been removed also. But darn if I can understand how someone can clean up all that trash, and leave the Pennies. Now I'm not setting out for a personal record on pennies, but their 55% of my coins to date. Nothing wrong with that cause Silver rings, etc. hang out in that area also.

 

[still looking 52]

That is strange, can't say I've ever encountered that issue before. Here in WV there is,always trash left behind and most of the coins are gone especially the silver ones. That's the catch 22, where the people are that's where the trash is and also that's where the coins are.

 

[Elton]

"NOT" dig a penny signal .... He said " sure I miss a couple good targets" over the year.".but I don't do 15,000 deep knee bends".
for almost nothing either.
His overall finds for a season were very impressive to say the least. He used a Whites that was a couple pegs away from Zinc, and copper and dime readings.
At the end of a day detecting with Brant..he had 10.00 dollars worth of clad, Wheats and silver. I had 11.00 dollars worth of Zinc pennies LOL ( Example numbers) but you get the gist right.

I used to think he was stupid for leaving the pennies. ( Money is money).as I got older..I realized I was stupid for digging them.

Now I too dig only penny dime signals and leave the zincs for someone else unless I am just detecting for detecting ..then I dig it all.

 

[5900_XL-1]

"NOT" dig a penny signal .... He said " sure I miss a couple good targets" over the year.".but I don't do 15,000 deep knee bends".
for almost nothing either.
His overall finds for a season were very impressive to say the least. He used a Whites that was a couple pegs away from Zinc, and copper and dime readings.
At the end of a day detecting with Brant..he had 10.00 dollars worth of clad, Wheats and silver. I had 11.00 dollars worth of Zinc pennies LOL ( Example numbers) but you get the gist right.

I used to think he was stupid for leaving the pennies. ( Money is money).as I got older..I realized I was stupid for digging them.

Now I too dig only penny dime signals and leave the zincs for someone else unless I am just detecting for detecting ..then I dig it all.

I'm the same way. I have to really be bored to dig zinc signals. I used to and that's probably why I found my few IHs. I personally walk over zinc penny signals every time today. The stiff joints of mine plus the way getting winded by digging all those extra holes for nothing but zinc pennies...I leave them, UNLESS I'm specifically thinking there was a gold class ring lost there.

I'm even beginning to pass shallow copper pennies. Pennies might be money but the personal overhead expended(wear and tear on tired old body of mine), makes me leave the pennies more and more.

 

[azsh07]

The good side of this, and it only applies in areas with old coins, they leave all the IH pennies.

There was an old set of woods by my house that used to be a park in the late 1880's into the early 1930's or so.

I knew one of the old timers who hammered it with a blue box whites DI Pro. they cherry picked pounds of silver and I mean pounds...I saw some pics of the pile.

But they left most of the zinc signals. So when I went back in we dug quite a few IH pennies even a few semi key dates. Granted not pounds of them as they did dig some but he said they usually focused on silver.

So in these cases it worked out and I have been in many areas this has happened. Now if the area is not old old enough to have IH's then yah...I can see leaving them sometimes.

Another cherry pick strategy is the beach. The couple old timers I knew who had piles of rings only dug foil to tab signals. Never any signals above that..ever. They were after gold rings and did not care about any coins or even silver rings..as he said silver rings were worthless and wasted his time digging. He had the pile to prove it.

 

[Dancer]

The good side of this, and it only applies in areas with old coins, they leave all the IH pennies.

There was an old set of woods by my house that used to be a park in the late 1880's into the early 1930's or so.

I knew one of the old timers who hammered it with a blue box whites DI Pro. they cherry picked pounds of silver and I mean pounds...I saw some pics of the pile.'

But they left most of the zinc signals. So when I went back in we dug quite a few IH pennies even a few semi key dates. Granted not pounds of them as they did dig some but he said they usually focused on silver.

So in these cases it worked out and I have been in many areas this has happened. Now if the area is not old old enough to have IH's then yah...I can see leaving them sometimes.

Another cherry pick strategy is the beach. The couple old timers I knew who had piles of rings only dug foil to tab signals. Never any signals above that..ever. They were after gold rings and did not care about any coins or even silver rings..as he said silver rings were worthless and wasted his time digging. He had the pile to prove it.

You know AZ, about only digging coin & tabs at the beach for gold. I really try to work over the nickel/ tab range hard. Just spend nine weeks at a sanded in beach this winter. Horrible. Of course no fresh drops. Four of us musta dug 3-5 thousand tabs between us.
We went 0 for 4 on Gold. Now in season, that's a whole new ballgame.

 

[azsh07]

Yah I am no good at the beach. I clean out all the pulltabs so the ring guys have an easier time.

 

[gabbyhayes]

Yah I am no good at the beach. I clean out all the pulltabs so the ring guys have an easier time.

This made me smile.

Last fall, I was at a beach I often hunt at,... it's pretty well cleaned out....of everything including junk.
I had just finished an area earlier that day when another detectorist showed up with his ATPRO.
According to him he was fairly new at detecting. He proceeded to start swinging in the area I had been thru earlier with my V3i.
I didn't say anything cause I was curious to see if he would find something that I missed.
After about an hour he was leaving, so I asked him how he made out.
He was very frustrated and mubbled something about how his machine wasn't working properly, cause it didn't even make a peep.
I didn't have the heart to tell him I had been over that area previously, actually many times.

I'm sure he had better luck on his next outing!

 

[slingshot]

Class rings fall in the zincer range. That, and they pay for my 4 AA batteries which last about 30 hours. Oh, and keys, charms also hit there.