How much junk are you willing to dig to find gold ????

[kaolinwasher]

I dig all the foils from 45up to the silver range I am well under 1000 tabs per ring and have found 4 gold rings this year and one silver and I am not beach hunting the ring i found this moring gave a perfect tab number on my ORX of a 65 an 18k signet ring

 

[BobOso]

1000 tabs per ring sound pretty close, congrats

 

[Picketwire]

It seems to me that the most successful detectorists are the ones who are willing to dig the most iffy signals.

 

[Cacti]

if we collectively put all our Pull tabs into a pull tab chain we could get into the Guinness book of world records!good luck to all

 

[michael NY]

Great topic I watched a guy on YouTube actually use a clicker to count junk until he dug gold it I looked for the video it’s hurried. Me personally I have passed on a lot of pull tab signals. I’ve tuned in the Etrac to reject certain types a few times in really infested pull tan areas but it’s just not what I want to do all day long sig tabs. My last decent gold find was a 1972 HS ring in woods by a tree with the Etrac to honestely freaking lucky. I have done my work using my machines and dug plenty of nickels. All good stuff dig on and HH

Michael

 

[PhDtector]

Depends on my attitude and mostly on the temperature coupled with the amount of shade I'm under and how hard the ground is.

 

[pulltaboo]

On some hunts I use quarters as an indicator. For example, if a virgin site (yes, they still exist!) has been polluted by pulltabs over many generations, digging every one of them will let me cover maybe 50 square feet per hour… not fun. So if I'm limited on time, I tonebreak or discriminate everything up to a quarter range and look for quarter spills. The rationale is pretty simple: if people are drunk or careless enough to drop a bunch of quarters, there's a very good chance they won't notice (or care) losing some jewelry. Once I find a quarter spill, I change settings to hear the gold range and spiral out, digging all non-ferrous signals until I stop finding clad. On virgin sites, that strategy pretty much guarantees jewelry finds within the first hour. Not always gold, of course, as not all demographics wear it to begin with…