Pull tabs, Nickels, & Gold

[Dancer]

Nothing is written in stone, but someone who might be starting out should be aware that these 3 targets are pretty darn close on most machines. So than a hunter who finds a pull tab area and begins to root out some nickels, well better start paying real attention and get into the "zone" possible gold. What I'm saying is if your finding nickels mixed with tabs that's a good place to hunt out. Especially if there's beaver tail tabs in the area. Some machines can pick threw the tabs better than others, but there's those iffy signals they all must get. So I'm going to lay this observation down. Maybe the best areas to hunt will have these characteristics. Water, fresh or salt, suntan lotion, mixed with alcohol, probably the more the better. Not a brilliant deduction, the more alcohol the more tabs = better chance of Treasure. There are hunters who live within striking distance of some excellent hunting sites, but the best hunters know how to squeeze a site darn near dry. Those are the guys when they post, pay attention. There's plenty of other areas to hunt, but hunt thoroughly. Never despair, once during a long dry spell while hunting a little park. I eyedballed a diamond 14k ring sitting on top of fresh bark mulch. It all counts.

 

[jackintexas]

My friend the pull tab. About all the gold rings would be gone if it were not for the pull tabs hiding them.I call myself a jewelry hunter. I love pull tabs......Jack

 

[Grilled Scallops]

I've had a slight change of heart regarding nickels and pull tabs and how they relate to finding gold. Yes, they all ring up pretty much the same on pretty much every detector, therefore if you're finding nickels and pull tabs you can be certain that IF there is gold, your competition missed it (otherwise they would have cleaned the pull tabs and nickels out). But that's a big IF. I have found spots where there are hundreds of tabs, literally hundreds. Dug em all, not one gold ring. The fact is, there are spots that have tabs and won't have gold. Tabs do not imply the existence of gold, they only imply that your competition is not hunting gold, therefore your own gold chances are increased but still never guaranteed. The sad truth is, you may be working a spot with tabs that never even had a chance of gold in the first place. I woke up to this fact after detecting a dried lake bed. In a 50 x 50 square foot area I dug hundreds of tabs in around 3.5 hours. Literally non stop tabs. I was right on the money spot too, I remember a decade ago it was the spot where EVERYONE swam on the weekends. Well, I got nothing. Not even a nickel. All those tabs and I got skunked so bad. Then I went to the beach and got two gold rings within a week of each other, one was my heaviest ring yet. I didn't dig any tabs getting those rings (I did get bottle caps). It was then I understood that if I wanted gold, I had to hunt a spot that had gold in the first place. It so often happens that spots with gold and spots with tabs coincide. But sometimes you get a spot that just has gold, and sometimes you get a spot that just has tabs. To consistently get gold, hunt spots that have produced gold in the past and are such that the gold will be replenished (water, not land).

 

[Dancer]

I've had a slight change of heart regarding nickels and pull tabs and how they relate to finding gold. Yes, they all ring up pretty much the same on pretty much every detector, therefore if you're finding nickels and pull tabs you can be certain that IF there is gold, your competition missed it (otherwise they would have cleaned the pull tabs and nickels out). But that's a big IF. I have found spots where there are hundreds of tabs, literally hundreds. Dug em all, not one gold ring. The fact is, there are spots that have tabs and won't have gold. Tabs do not imply the existence of gold, they only imply that your competition is not hunting gold, therefore your own gold chances are increased but still never guaranteed. The sad truth is, you may be working a spot with tabs that never even had a chance of gold in the first place. I woke up to this fact after detecting a dried lake bed. In a 50 x 50 square foot area I dug hundreds of tabs in around 3.5 hours. Literally non stop tabs. I was right on the money spot too, I remember a decade ago it was the spot where EVERYONE swam on the weekends. Well, I got nothing. Not even a nickel. All those tabs and I got skunked so bad. Then I went to the beach and got two gold rings within a week of each other, one was my heaviest ring yet. I didn't dig any tabs getting those rings (I did get bottle caps). It was then I understood that if I wanted gold, I had to hunt a spot that had gold in the first place. It so often happens that spots with gold and spots with tabs coincide. But sometimes you get a spot that just has gold, and sometimes you get a spot that just has tabs. To consistently get gold, hunt spots that have produced gold in the past and are such that the gold will be replenished (water, not land).

And you pretty much nailed it there Scall. Been to some country party sites,polluted with tabs, and not much else. In between my wading , I sorta have to dirt hunt. So I hunt the more affluent ball fields in my hunting radius. Now it can't be compared with great in season water hunting, but thar is Gold in them thar fields.
Scallops, that tab lake bed you hunted. Man it had all the right conditions, what a downer. On the other hand bet you snagged a ring or so in some unlikely places.

 

[slingshot]

All I have to say is that my usual spots are a joy to hunt since I started quite some time ago to remove all metal. I did it a day at a time!

 

[david bull]

I dug this ring(14k,7grams) hunting relics in a field that I know has been hunted by others!