Poptabs and Bottle Caps

[poptab]

Had a few questions about poptabs and bottle caps.

I have the patience to dig a lot of junk but...

When you get a good hard signal and it reads bottle cap can it be something else? (and what might that be).

When I get in the foil/ring/nickel/poptab range I circle around the target to make sure it's solid at all angles.

If it's junk it tends to break up somewhere in that circle. Will good targets do this as well?

Thanks

 

[Hillbilly Bob]

YES: it could be some thing else. Small gold rings and earrings come in at that range. If you quit digging pull tabs.......... you could be missing out on a small gold item..................... and allot of exercise!!....

 

[Larry (IL)]

Like Bob said in another post, the time it takes to go around and check a target, you can kneel down and pop the target out, assuming you are in good health. Most rings, bracelets necklaces, except the wedding band will sound somewhat "junky" in the ground, depending how it is orientated in the ground and whether it is segmented or not.

To find it all, you have to dig it all.

 

[Rob (IL)]

The MXT discrimination and sensitivity is such that many bottle caps (the crimped steel ones) can ID as a good quarter or dime signal when your sweeps are centered over them. I usually get a lower confidence bar on the caps then I do on the quarters.

When I am hunting with my MXT in an area where these bottle caps are plentiful, the easiest way to identify them before digging them, is to take another pass over them in discriminate mode, but this time do it with the edge of the coil, not centered on the target. "Rimming" the target this way will let the MXT show them up as a ferrous target.

Another thing to try is to swing a little faster across the Target Area.... Bottle caps and Tin Foil start to break up and go away. On a legitimate-desirable target like a coin/ring, they don't break up or disappear but remain repeatable. Rob

 

[BarberBill]

Also helps sometime to give a few very short swings (more like wobbles) once you've gotten the target centered and pinpointed. Often the ID locks more solidly and reliably with that little trick.
BB

 

[TNHunter]

You just have to dig. I use sister to MXT the M6 and nickels have VDI 18-20. Pulltabs also are 20. I have noticed the zlincolns that have been in ground a while have been ringing up as screwcaps lately.
Paul