First Hunt With My Tejon

[MarkCZ]

Well, I have this small place I've been coin picking for awhile now and I knew it had a lot of un-wanted trash in it. The place is a small T-Ball field that has a couple sets of small bleachers, a little concession stand and a small area where adults set out camp chairs.
Now, when I first hunted it I knew it had never been hunted before because of the amount of clad coins I found, which was several dollars. Well the next time back I found a lot more, but keep in mind that I was cherry picking the coins with different metered detectors and at first I was even leaving nickels. Then I took a Whites 5900 Di-Pro/sl in just work on the nickels, but I was still working around the trash items as much as possible.

So, I got to thinking that if I was to go back and work the area again with a beep and dig unit that's hot on jewelry that there was a good chance of a piece or two being in their. Well yesterday I took the Tejon in for a try. keep in mind that this is the first time hunt for me with the Tejon.
The report is both bad and good, the good first.
I was running the disc on the high side of foil (pointer @ L) I didn't dig ONE piece of iron, so it sniffed around that really well.
The bad, I didn't find any jewelry nor did I find many coins.

Totals,

49 Pieces of aluminum, from foil to pop cans, to catsup packs, square tabs, screw caps, and can slaw.

3 coins, one clad quarter, one nickel, one zinc penny.

I hunted from around 9:00am to around 2:30pm.

I was using the small 5.75" coil.

I'm going to say that in the past I probably have gotten around $10.00 in coins out of this little spot and from the looks of it I pretty well cleaned out the coins.

One thing I was finding that I don't ever remember finding is some kind of plastic/foil cap liners or seals, they look like ones that are a seal you remove after you remove the cap (safety seals or tamper seals)

The pop cans are pretty easy to get around with a metered detector, at the surface the cans will overload, buried they read a penny/dime at less than an inch in the ground, if you can't find a penny or dime within the first inch or so its a can @ 4" to 5"

Mark

 

[tabman]

Nice going. You're going to have to pick it up some if you ever expect dig as much trash as I do.

I use those little foil caps to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

Yes there are some very small tiny baby gold rings that will discriminate out before foil caps, but they're worth the hassle.

tabman

 

[MarkCZ]

Nice going. You're going to have to pick it up some if you ever expect dig as much trash as I do.

I use those little foil caps to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

Yes there are some very small tiny baby gold rings that will discriminate out before foil caps, but they're worth the hassle.

tabman

Those little foil tamper seals held in close to nickels, I did try a little disc control thumbing.
Also, about the last hour I switched over to my Omega to try out the little coil I had for it in hopes of finding a couple of coins in the more trashy area their. I only found a few fresh dropped coins,
1 nickel,
1 dime,
3 pennies.

I was really expecting more out of their with the little coil.

Mark

 

[tabman]

On your Omega those foil caps should give a VDI number of around 47/48 and a nickel should give a VDI number of 56/57. I've been finding small gold rings just above foil caps. The last one was a really small 18K gold ring at 1.75 grams. It gave a VDI number of 53. All I'm saying is, a gold ring that discriminates out before a foil cap has to be really tiny and not worth all the effort to find it in all the can slaw and foil pieces. That's why I use a foil cap to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

tabman

 

[GunnarMN]

I would keep doing what you are doing , dig all the aluminum ,if a gold ring is thear you will find it , but if you disc out that aluminum you will not find it , dont judge the detector on the finds to much ,

 

[MarkCZ]

On your Omega those foil caps should give a VDI number of around 47/48 and a nickel should give a VDI number of 56/57. I've been finding small gold rings just above foil caps. The last one was a really small 18K gold ring at 1.75 grams. It gave a VDI number of 53. All I'm saying is, a gold ring that discriminates out before a foil cap has to be really tiny and not worth all the effort to find it in all the can slaw and foil pieces. That's why I use a foil cap to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

tabman

With the Omega I'm only coin hunting, so I normally run the disc up to about 52, notch out tabs, screw caps so it never hit those foil tamper seals.

"GunnarMN" I had it figured that bigger pieces of foil. and bout any other aluminum would be in the Gold ring range, the good thing is at lest the Tejon skipped the iron.

Mark

 

[tabman]

On your Omega those foil caps should give a VDI number of around 47/48 and a nickel should give a VDI number of 56/57. I've been finding small gold rings just above foil caps. The last one was a really small 18K gold ring at 1.75 grams. It gave a VDI number of 53. All I'm saying is, a gold ring that discriminates out before a foil cap has to be really tiny and not worth all the effort to find it in all the can slaw and foil pieces. That's why I use a foil cap to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

tabman

With the Omega I'm only coin hunting, so I normally run the disc up to about 52, notch out tabs, screw caps so it never hit those foil tamper seals.

"GunnarMN" I had it figured that bigger pieces of foil. and bout any other aluminum would be in the Gold ring range, the good thing is at lest the Tejon skipped the iron.

Mark

I guess I'm not good at explaining things. It's not necessarily the foil caps you are trying to avoid. I use the foil caps as a gauge (starting point). Yeah, you can dig everything above iron, but when you have an abundance of targets, it is best to play the odds. I have found from testing and experience that the mid foil range (foil cap) up through pull tabs is a good range to search. Critterhunter has some good charts and info on playing the odds when searching for gold rings. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?58,1857526,page=2

tabman

 

[MarkCZ]

On your Omega those foil caps should give a VDI number of around 47/48 and a nickel should give a VDI number of 56/57. I've been finding small gold rings just above foil caps. The last one was a really small 18K gold ring at 1.75 grams. It gave a VDI number of 53. All I'm saying is, a gold ring that discriminates out before a foil cap has to be really tiny and not worth all the effort to find it in all the can slaw and foil pieces. That's why I use a foil cap to set the minimum discrimination on my Tesoro detectors.

tabman

With the Omega I'm only coin hunting, so I normally run the disc up to about 52, notch out tabs, screw caps so it never hit those foil tamper seals.

"GunnarMN" I had it figured that bigger pieces of foil. and bout any other aluminum would be in the Gold ring range, the good thing is at lest the Tejon skipped the iron.

Mark

I guess I'm not good at explaining things. It's not necessarily the foil caps you are trying to avoid. I use the foil caps as a gauge (starting point). Yeah, you can dig everything above iron, but when you have an abundance of targets, it is best to play the odds. I have found from testing and experience that the mid foil range (foil cap) up through pull tabs is a good range to search. Critterhunter has some good charts and info on playing the odds when searching for gold rings. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?58,1857526,page=2

tabman

LoL! I knew what you meant. I was just saying when I'm out with a detector like the Omega I work around the foil and any other aluminum as much as I can and just search for coins. (two different detectors, two different methods of hunting)

But, I had the idea when I got the Tejon (beep & dig) I was going to have to start getting ALL the aluminum if I wanted to get the jewelry. but when I started this project I was concerned about also having to deal with a bunch of Iron, but so far the Tejon seems to be able to avoid the iron. I'm trying to keep the same mind set for jewelry as I have for silver coins, very many Wheat Pennies and something silver will turn up! (Wheat's keep me digging) Aluminum, or each piece of it could be a nice piece of Gold.

If I find a public place and I can find a lot of coins in it, then I'll work the coins and that will also get rid of some trash, wire, pipe, lead, brass, and larger aluminum etc. and also get me use to the area as to what's in it, how deep the stuff is, area interference. I can cut through the chase and get the coins out in short order and go back later with more time and sift through what's left for gold. (Sounds good in theory anyway)

Mark

 

[WV62]

Just a thought it may be time to get out your pull tab puller after you pull the first ring you can change its name to a ring puller.

Brother Ron

 

[SkiWhiz]

Just a thought it may be time to get out your pull tab puller after you pull the first ring you can change its name to a ring puller.

Brother Ron

And rings it can find (the Tejon that is), I have already found a couple with mine and other very small pieces of jewelry. It is surprising such a power house is so good on rings & jewelry.

 

[WV62]

Just a thought it may be time to get out your pull tab puller after you pull the first ring you can change its name to a ring puller.

Brother Ron

And rings it can find (the Tejon that is), I have already found a couple with mine and other very small pieces of jewelry. It is surprising such a power house is so good on rings & jewelry.

Man I am impressed, you have only had that Tejon a few days.

Keep it up,

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

And rings it can find (the Tejon that is), I have already found a couple with mine and other very small pieces of jewelry. It is surprising such a power house is so good on rings & jewelry.

Well this sounds a bit like one of my stories,
I bought a used Fisher ID Edge,
The VERY first thing I found with it was a V-Nickel @ about 8" and I might add that was the first V-Nickel I had ever found! (Now the rest of the story)

When I un-boxed the detector there was something else rattling around in the box, on farther inspection it turned out to be a V-Nickel?? (it was 8" to the bottom of the box)
I couldn't figure out how in the world it got in the box, so I contacted the former owner and ask about it, he said he didn't know anything about it, or how it got in the box??
I packaged it up and sent it back to him (the nickel) and he said it was indeed his and he told me where he had found it, but he still didn't know how it got in the box??

So, now "SkiWhiz" tell the truth. the guy lost his rings packing the detector, right? and being the good person that you are you already mailed them back to him I'm sure. LoL!

Mark

 

[SkiWhiz]

And rings it can find (the Tejon that is), I have already found a couple with mine and other very small pieces of jewelry. It is surprising such a power house is so good on rings & jewelry.

Well this sounds a bit like one of my stories,
I bought a used Fisher ID Edge,
The VERY first thing I found with it was a V-Nickel @ about 8" and I might add that was the first V-Nickel I had ever found! (Now the rest of the story)

When I un-boxed the detector there was something else rattling around in the box, on farther inspection it turned out to be a V-Nickel?? (it was 8" to the bottom of the box)
I couldn't figure out how in the world it got in the box, so I contacted the former owner and ask about it, he said he didn't know anything about it, or how it got in the box??
I packaged it up and sent it back to him (the nickel) and he said it was indeed his and he told me where he had found it, but he still didn't know how it got in the box??

So, now "SkiWhiz" tell the truth. the guy lost his rings packing the detector, right? and being the good person that you are you already mailed them back to him I'm sure. LoL!

Mark

Ah man you are onto me Mark, lol. I have really found some rings and a number of pieces of jewelry with the Tejon already, nothing valuable but I love finding it anyways. I forgot to tell you that I found a $100.00 bill in the bottom of the box of the detector I bought from you, don't look for it back, I spent it thinking it was an early Christmas present .