MarkCZ
Well-known member
"ScottBuckner" is right! its the coin shooter's that brought about metered target ID machines. I've always been a coin shooter, I started detecting that way in the beginning and I know how hard it is to switch over, how hard it is to dig all the so called trash (tabs, aluminum caps, wheel weights, lead sinkers)
Typical coin hunters has always hit public parks hard and for the most of them they felt it best to just disc out the tabs and the nickels, they could cover a lot of ground and many times come back with a fair amount of coins along with some silver coins and even some silver jewelry and call that a good day.
They (we) prided ourselves on being able to work around those annoying tabs and felt they wasn't losing that much by leaving a few nickels and a gold ring or two a year just wasn't worth the trouble. So, a beep & dig detector just didn't make any sense?? we wanted a better, deeper metered unit!
Our thinking was beep and digs units were only for relic hunters who seemed to have some passion for finding OLD rusty barn door hinges??? to us the coin shooters, that was the stuff we wanted to leave or work around and pluck out a silver half dollar (or other silver coin) wheat pennies weren't that great but more of a sign that there could be silver in the area.
The problem with this is "Patience's" or lack of it, we only wanted to dig coins!!!! we worked and worked to master our technics and we took great pride in at the end of the day coming home with 17 coins and only five trash digs, ZERO tabs! and we just blocked out the fact that we NEVER found a nickel, or any gold jewelry!
My oldest brother was a bit different in that he had "Patience's" and if you were to look through his detecting portfolio you would see a good deal of nickels, gold rings, LOTS of silver coins and THOUSANDS of tabs!!!
I'm still a coin shooter by nature! but the silver coins in our area is so few that you could hunt a whole summer and maybe only find two or three, so that's getting to be a waist of time to try and only hunt that way. A gold ring in the early 80's really didn't bring enough money to make it worthwhile to try and find one, us coin shooters left them! (Always Left Them), we worked around them just like the other junk. Well, now days this just doesn't make as much sense as it once did, I mean, a good size mans ring can bring several hundred dollars while that same little 30 or forty coins and NO silver might only be worth a buck seventy?? and hunting the coins means I know I'm leaving the gold???? so its still about the lack of "Patience's"
For me, I'm trying to take on the new idea that a "Tab" is a good find! its is a ring! its just not one that is worth anything, but its a good target none the less. Now if I go out with my metered machine I know I will just fall back to old habits and start leaving the tabs, nickels, and the gold.. So, the new mindset is to use a beep & dig and try to work around small iron, dig the tabs, dig the all the GOOD sounding responses above small iron, I call this jewelry hunting and just taking the coins as they come, yes! it takes "Patience's" and to me it makes more sense for a beep and dig detector for jewelry hunting than a metered unit, unless your not from the old school and just dig everything above small iron, but then what is the meter really doing for you? I mean gold is all over the place on a metered unit, so for me I have my metered models for clad stabbing and maybe silver coin hunting, but if I want to get the jewelry (the gold) then I can toss the meter out, with it I know I'll fall back to hunting the old way.
How much patience's do you have?
If your only interest is in clad and old coins then I would say research a good target ID model, if you have plenty of money and don't care about the gold and just like the idea of collecting old dug up coins then get a target ID model.
If, your into relics just get a GOOD, Deep Beep and dig unit.
I got my Tejon with the idea that if get the chance to do some jewelry hunting (take the coins as they come) then I didn't want to fall back to old habits and I wanted a detector that is known to be really good on targets in the gold range, I wanted it simple and deep unit that loves gold and then its up to me to practice "Patience's" and think of a tab as a good target, that could have been a gold ring! and with all I dug that day not one piece of junk iron!!
Mark
Typical coin hunters has always hit public parks hard and for the most of them they felt it best to just disc out the tabs and the nickels, they could cover a lot of ground and many times come back with a fair amount of coins along with some silver coins and even some silver jewelry and call that a good day.
They (we) prided ourselves on being able to work around those annoying tabs and felt they wasn't losing that much by leaving a few nickels and a gold ring or two a year just wasn't worth the trouble. So, a beep & dig detector just didn't make any sense?? we wanted a better, deeper metered unit!
Our thinking was beep and digs units were only for relic hunters who seemed to have some passion for finding OLD rusty barn door hinges??? to us the coin shooters, that was the stuff we wanted to leave or work around and pluck out a silver half dollar (or other silver coin) wheat pennies weren't that great but more of a sign that there could be silver in the area.
The problem with this is "Patience's" or lack of it, we only wanted to dig coins!!!! we worked and worked to master our technics and we took great pride in at the end of the day coming home with 17 coins and only five trash digs, ZERO tabs! and we just blocked out the fact that we NEVER found a nickel, or any gold jewelry!
My oldest brother was a bit different in that he had "Patience's" and if you were to look through his detecting portfolio you would see a good deal of nickels, gold rings, LOTS of silver coins and THOUSANDS of tabs!!!
I'm still a coin shooter by nature! but the silver coins in our area is so few that you could hunt a whole summer and maybe only find two or three, so that's getting to be a waist of time to try and only hunt that way. A gold ring in the early 80's really didn't bring enough money to make it worthwhile to try and find one, us coin shooters left them! (Always Left Them), we worked around them just like the other junk. Well, now days this just doesn't make as much sense as it once did, I mean, a good size mans ring can bring several hundred dollars while that same little 30 or forty coins and NO silver might only be worth a buck seventy?? and hunting the coins means I know I'm leaving the gold???? so its still about the lack of "Patience's"
For me, I'm trying to take on the new idea that a "Tab" is a good find! its is a ring! its just not one that is worth anything, but its a good target none the less. Now if I go out with my metered machine I know I will just fall back to old habits and start leaving the tabs, nickels, and the gold.. So, the new mindset is to use a beep & dig and try to work around small iron, dig the tabs, dig the all the GOOD sounding responses above small iron, I call this jewelry hunting and just taking the coins as they come, yes! it takes "Patience's" and to me it makes more sense for a beep and dig detector for jewelry hunting than a metered unit, unless your not from the old school and just dig everything above small iron, but then what is the meter really doing for you? I mean gold is all over the place on a metered unit, so for me I have my metered models for clad stabbing and maybe silver coin hunting, but if I want to get the jewelry (the gold) then I can toss the meter out, with it I know I'll fall back to hunting the old way.
How much patience's do you have?
If your only interest is in clad and old coins then I would say research a good target ID model, if you have plenty of money and don't care about the gold and just like the idea of collecting old dug up coins then get a target ID model.
If, your into relics just get a GOOD, Deep Beep and dig unit.
I got my Tejon with the idea that if get the chance to do some jewelry hunting (take the coins as they come) then I didn't want to fall back to old habits and I wanted a detector that is known to be really good on targets in the gold range, I wanted it simple and deep unit that loves gold and then its up to me to practice "Patience's" and think of a tab as a good target, that could have been a gold ring! and with all I dug that day not one piece of junk iron!!
Mark
