First Silver

[devilantsva]

Went out for a short hunt today. Adjusted my sweep speed a little and found my first ring. It was about 6 inches deep. It was in a place I had been over many times. So maybe the sweep speed made the difference or maybe I was just holding my mouth right. Still excited just the same.

 

[Tin Fin]

Tried to reply before but the server timed out due to being swamped I think - Nice Find! Cleaned up nice too. Congratulations on finding it and doing such a good job of cleaning it up! Keep the photos coming - it's inspiring; makes me want to be out there with a flashlight, but inspiring none-the-less.

 

[matthias]

Nice Job! HH. Matt

 

[Critterhunter]

Good job. Still waiting on my first silver ring or coin of the year. Got out today and hit a mowed field where I dug a candadian half dime, large cent, indians, and barber dimes in the past. Haven't hit this spot in a long time. There where almost no signals. Not even trash. Somebody must have worked the place over really hard since I've been there last.

 

[GunnarMN]

Ya it is a thrill to find a ring , you must be very happy with that,

 

[Critterhunter]

Got out today and hit a mowed field where I dug a candadian half dime, large cent, indians, and barber dimes in the past. Haven't hit this spot in a long time. There where almost no signals. Not even trash. Somebody must have worked the place over really hard since I've been there last.

This spot is mainly hard packed clay, so there aren't any real deep signals to find there. Anybody with just about any low priced detector could have cleaned this spot out. I just wish it was a deep coin spot, where they would have done me the favor of removing all the shallow trash signals and I could have concentrated on finding the deeper older stuff. Never saw a spot cleaned out like that. All my old parks and such have plenty of old trash in them to hunt through.

 

[Ism]

When I jewelry hunt, any area that I have been will only have deep targets, iron and maybe an occasional piece of foil.
I become a fixture at the local sports field if I find a good one. Never had a complaint. I leave the fields clear of surface trash and treasure.
In no time have I ever gone to a park where I live and felt that others had been there detecting....until this year.

Congrats on the ring, I'm curious about the blob in the first pic.

 

[Critterhunter]

I mostly dig signals less than 4" when ring hunting, and usually hit modern areas for doing that. The way I look at it no sense in digging deep holes looking for rings, so I try to go after the shallower stuff. Mainly I look for signals with good smooth sound and that will lock onto one or two numbers in VDI. Seems like most targets that jump around to three numbers or more are trash that are ununiform in shape. I've also noticed that round pull tab tails will jump around by about three digits.

 

[Critterhunter]

Unless I'm in an area where I know the round or square pull tabs only go so deep. Then I'll dig targets that sound deeper than that. If you "travel in time" deeper than the pull tabs digging those signals you can come up with a potential ring or other good low/mid conductor find, such as tokens and other sorts of things, without digging all those pull tab signals.