I got permission to hunt a yard in the neighborhood. The guy was heading to work and told me to close the gate when I was done. So I hunted for about 5 hours. I found the first ring not long after I began. It was 6 inches in the ground. It rang in clear as a bell. After that I started to dig up the pull tabs that were on the surface down to 2 inches. As I was digging a few I started to hear a flat sounding tone. I dug up 2 more tabs. The last tone was the ring at depth. So I dug 10 inches down and got the other ring. I also dug up a mercury dime. Not bad for one day. Both rings are stamped 14k and the diamonds have been checked and are real.
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I BET YOU NEVER FOUND 2 OF THESE IN ONE YARD
- Thread starter DDOU812
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Critterhunter
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NICE! Makes me want to do some ring hunting today, which I think I will. What VDI # did both rings read at, and did they give you a "certain" different kind of sound than regular trash? Like being smooth, "round" sounding, warm, and just in general a quality sound to them? Last ring I dug was just plated. It was in a yard too and rang in as a tab #. I left the target but later in my mind as I hunted I kept thinking there was just something "different" in the "quality" sound that tab # gave me. Went back and dug it up and sure enough it was a ring.
10" on one of the rings?! Great. What size coil and did it still give a good strong response? You must have low mineral soil because it's rare around here to dig a coin at 10" let alone a ring. Not impossible, though. I dug two 11" coins with my GT. Not all my sites are very mineralized. Just some.
10" on one of the rings?! Great. What size coil and did it still give a good strong response? You must have low mineral soil because it's rare around here to dig a coin at 10" let alone a ring. Not impossible, though. I dug two 11" coins with my GT. Not all my sites are very mineralized. Just some.
The first ring rang up 130 on a 180 meter. The second one rang up a solid 141 @ 10 inches. It was flat sounding, but rubbery and clear sounding. A month ago I had 400 bucks to spend on a detector. I got a used Elite on this forum. I have found alot of things and have had this detector for 3 weeks now. I'll post my other finds later tonight. Gotta go hunt. One more thing, When I chandes my sweep speed and size of the swing, the tone sounded consistant and soft. Changing the sweep speed you can hear how the sound is rubbery and soft. At 10 inches deep, the sound carried like a deep silver tone.
The machine I use is an Elite with the stock 10 inch coil. The gold hit strong even at depth.I hunt in hard clay\top soil.
The machine I use is an Elite with the stock 10 inch coil. The gold hit strong even at depth.I hunt in hard clay\top soil.
deepdiger60
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Great find 
pull tab reading that,s why you dig them all . cant beat 2 engagement rings Jim
pull tab reading that,s why you dig them all . cant beat 2 engagement rings JimCritterhunter
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deepdiger60 said:Great find
Actually, 130 and 141 are well below pull tab range. 141 is right at the bottom of the most common nickle numbers, those being around 143 to 146 (you must use noise band 2 on a GT to match the old Sovereign charts or it will change nickles a bit), although some old nickles can read down to like 136 or so (from memory). We scanned in a ton of random old and new tabs found over time and they range roughly from about 148 to 169. That's the vast majority of them. There's a few odd rare ones in my area that can go as high as 173, but they are so rare that I didn't include them in the tab graph percentage chart I put together and posted a while back (see the "Splitting Hairs On Rings" thread where we scanned the VDI in of over 100 gold rings from a random test pool).
A smooth 141 I would have dug just because it could be a lower reading older nickle like a V or something, but of course hoping for a gold ring. Rarely lately have I been digging any stuff below that, but looks like I've got to dig those solid lower numbers too and start doing some serious ring hunting.
Did those two rings lock onto one VDI #, or say only vairy by a digit as you swept from different angles? Most gold rings we scanned in would either lock onto one or two VDI #s. Only a handful of odd ones with fine webbing and holes in them changed by 3 digits or more depending on how we sweeped them, and they also had a sick warbly sound to them.
deepdiger60
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Depends on what 180 meter is being used to me a broken tab or pull tab is the same thing 132 to 157. JimCritterhunter said:deepdiger60 said:Great find
Actually, 130 and 141 are well below pull tab range. 141 is right at the bottom of the most common nickle numbers, those being around 143 to 146 (you must use noise band 2 on a GT to match the old Sovereign charts or it will change nickles a bit), although some old nickles can read down to like 136 or so (from memory). We scanned in a ton of random old and new tabs found over time and they range roughly from about 148 to 169. That's the vast majority of them. There's a few odd rare ones in my area that can go as high as 173, but they are so rare that I didn't include them in the tab graph percentage chart I put together and posted a while back (see the "Splitting Hairs On Rings" thread where we scanned the VDI in of over 100 gold rings from a random test pool).
A smooth 141 I would have dug just because it could be a lower reading older nickle like a V or something, but of course hoping for a gold ring. Rarely lately have I been digging any stuff below that, but looks like I've got to dig those solid lower numbers too and start doing some serious ring hunting.
Did those two rings lock onto one VDI #, or say only vairy by a digit as you swept from different angles? Most gold rings we scanned in would either lock onto one or two VDI #s. Only a handful of odd ones with fine webbing and holes in them changed by 3 digits or more depending on how we sweeped them, and they also had a sick warbly sound to them.
I just got back from telling the guy who gave me permission to hunt. I showed him the rings and he was amazed. He is letting me keep them as well. When I hit the 2 with the detector the numbers on the meter locked onto 2 numbers and as I changed my sweep speed they locked onto one number
Critterhunter
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So two numbers at the most? Confirms what we saw when we scanned in over 100 gold rings and recorded the VDI #s. Only a handful of them bounced by 3 or more digits and they had odd holes or fine webbing in them like spider webbing that caused it. Pretty much anything round, such as a coin or a ring or a button, should probably lock into one or maybe two VDI #s no matter which way you sweep over them. You've got to wiggle at it thought to see that, as a slow lazy sweep can make the ID wander around. When you do the Sovereign wiggle it should tell you what's up. One or two digits if I'm ring hunting I'm digging it. 3 or more I tend to pass as that always tends to be oddly shaped junk. Of course this isn't set in stone. A ring or a coin on edge or something could probably vary by 3 or more digits depending on which way you're sweeping.
Again, 10" on a thin gold ring like that is amazing. You must have some good soil!
Again, 10" on a thin gold ring like that is amazing. You must have some good soil!
DD,nice wow,I would play the lotto.Thanks for sharing.HH Ron
Critterhunter
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I don't know. I've made most of my ring finds in yards. If you think about it there are probably two reasons for that. First being usually there is less trash as people don't tend to throw tabs, foil, and other junk in their own yard...So there is a higher ring-to-trash ratio. Second would be that if you think about it people probably spend way more time in their yards doing activities such as yard work or throwing a ball around or something, then they'd do at a park over the years.
This thread has motivated me. Today after I get off here I plan to hit an empty lot zoned commericial just around the corner from me. I knew this house they tore down several months back was one of the oldest in the area, well over 100 years old. Two friends gridded it extensively with their flagship Minelabs and got several indians, a seated dime, a standing liberty quarter, and a few mercs and rosies. They didn't dig all the signals though, just classic coin signals, so I'm hoping for a gold ring or the odd coin that reads lower on the scale (hey, maybe even a gold coin as the site is old enough for that). Not to mention they might have missed a few silver coins too. My one friend said he wasn't digging anything but good coin signals and past on a several iffy ones.
This thread has motivated me. Today after I get off here I plan to hit an empty lot zoned commericial just around the corner from me. I knew this house they tore down several months back was one of the oldest in the area, well over 100 years old. Two friends gridded it extensively with their flagship Minelabs and got several indians, a seated dime, a standing liberty quarter, and a few mercs and rosies. They didn't dig all the signals though, just classic coin signals, so I'm hoping for a gold ring or the odd coin that reads lower on the scale (hey, maybe even a gold coin as the site is old enough for that). Not to mention they might have missed a few silver coins too. My one friend said he wasn't digging anything but good coin signals and past on a several iffy ones.