Here's The #1 True Tested Way To Increase Your Ring Finds.:bouncy:

[John-Edmonton]

Dig those pennies! Yah, I know, they are a waste of time, worth almost nothing . Why bother? Well, most silver and some gold rings read where the penny reads. There is no setting on ANY detector specifically for rings. You got to dig a lot of targets. If you want to cherry pick just the higher or lower conductive targets, go ahead. But you will leave the better finds for people who will go the extra mile and dig all penny signals. And I got paid over $50.00 to do just that in pennies, just so I could find lots of rings. And you know what? It really works.

I spent some time after work this week rolling my pennies. I got to 99 rolls so far, and figure I have another 2-3 rolls of those cheap one cent rolls left to make.

 

[silversmith]

You've done well, John. Especially since many of those rings appear to "open loops". Congrads.

 

[BarberBill]

I've found several rings by digging pennies that I might have passed up if I hadn't run into this tip before. In fact, it probably could be carried a bit further in that one should also dig those pesky ZINC pennies that are so often corroded as one ring I hit had read as a zinc penny.
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[Tom_in_CA]

It depends on the type site you are hunting. I can think of sites where 99.99999999% of everything that reads "penny"......... will be .........." a penny"! doh! If you look at people over the last 25 yrs. (since TID was invented on the first Teknetics) that have done odds-charts, of where gold rings tend to fall, verses other targets, you will really begin to see the practical implication of your post. For example: If you had the ability to go into any jewelry store, and bench test all their gold rings, and log their coordinates into a computer. Then take a bunch of USA coins, & various re-curring pulltabs, etc..., and log their coordinates into a computer. Then do the computer-odds to see what's the better TID/cross-hairs to dig, you would see that your time would NOT be better-spent digging pennies. Sure, now and then a bigger man's ring *might* read up that high. But it's all in the odds. I mean, SO TOO might you be better off to take a "hit" in black-jack in Las Vegas, when you have 20 in your hand (afterall, the next card *might* be a 1 card, right??)

If you have the time, and type site, that allows you to strip-mine, great. It all depends on the site. I can think of days after beach storm erosion on the beach, where I wish I'd passed pennies. Because I merely got chased out fields of un-told thousands of targets, by the incoming tide. Why the h*ck would I was coins of ANY sort (even old ones that are messed up by salt/tumbling) when I could chase the odd-sounding low conductors, and improve my odds at gold rings? Naturally, those days are rare and far between. But to simply say that someone can dig penny signals and up their odds are rings (I assume you meant gold rings?) does not make sense.

The best bet to getting gold rings at ANY site, is to pick the best possible sites, where rings are more prolific to begin with. Ie.: swimming beaches.

 

[norman maassey]

I don't know how many times I have heard older hunters crying about not finding rings any more saying they're all gone. Then ask them what they are digging, been told just quarters. This is great advise dig the pennies and don't forget the lower foil readings

 

[marcomo]

Well said, John. And you've got a massive haul to show as proof.

You gotta dig those zincs!

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

You might as well be ready to dig all signals above iron but that also as platinum and stainless steel are close to that range.
The most frustrating signals which could be a ring is the bits of can slaw that the lazy people on riding mowers
don't pick up. Which make our job more frustrating.
John your right in that assumption and you have the finds to show for it.

Congrats !!

 

[JOHNMARKHAM]

hey i dig them too..you just never really know for sure, and your right they do add up for something sometime..

 

[thebeatmachine]

John is it good to block out iron too or does that cause some detectors to miss rings as well?

 

[Neil]

for silver rings your right John but when it comes to gold rings I bet you dont have more than one or two at most in that group you have pictured that reads above a zinc. most gold rings fall between foil and zinc, thats the range to look for.
silver is up now in price so even digging right up to quarter would be good if your interested in the silver rings.

 

[Pyledriver]

I still consider myself a 'noob' at this game with only 2 years experience! However, I don't pass on pennies because they're still 1 cent more than I left the house with! Not only that, the places I run into them most are tot-lots, which I like to clean out completely of trash and good stuff. Sure, it's a little disappointing to dig up a penny but I'd rather that than a peice of trash. I'm lucky in that I know the TID on my detector rarely misses on identifying a penny, for that matter it's hot on quarters as well. I've never found a ring that ID'd as a penny, but it wasn't because I didn't dig the signal! I'll take any and all tips that come my way-starting with the best one I ever got-when in doubt DIG IT! Thanks John!

 

[silversmith]

Oh my God, a 3 dollar bill. Better watch my backtrack

 

[Pyledriver]

SS, what is that referring to?

 

[silversmith]

That means my detector sometimes tells me that some things that's supposed to be goodies turn into 3 dollar bills(trash) when I dig them up.

 

[Pyledriver]

Ah, yes, they all have that bad habit! Before I got into detecting I actually thought detectors were able to be set to where no trash would be found, just good stuff..LOL.. After I got my first detector I was very disappointed at the sheer amount of trash everywhere I searched. Still, some otherwise good finds are treated as trash-like pennies so encrusted that you almost can't tell what they are!

 

[Neil]

when I first started I remember thinking that also, never thought there was so much trash in the ground, almost everywhere!

 

[silversmith]

Bet you thought I was kidding about the 3 dollar bills