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Pull tabs???

unearth

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Ok folks, I'm in a bit of a quandary...I went out today for a 3 hr park hunt with my ctx. I know that gold, pull tabs and nickels all fall into the same range, but, when are enough pull tabs enough? I must have dug 100 plus pull tabs this afternoon! I finally quit digging all the 12-15 through 12-20 signals. When do you stop digging those numbers, or do you? I have found only one gold "anything" in this range, 12-15 through 12-20, and what seems like several thousand pull tabs in 7 years of detecting. So I'm thinking about discriminating these numbers out. What are your thoughts about this?
 
Dig a small number every time you go to that site. You show up and dig 10 to 15 of those signals and stop. Next time 10 to 15 more. Eventually you will get them all. You don't need to dig them all on one hunt. This is easy to do at parks because you can keep going back there. It is also good for the plugs. It gives the grass time to heal. The challenge is properties where you have a limited time to hunt. Like construction sites. Then I dig lower than nickel signals. I want the bling. Most women's rings fall in the foil range.
 
Its kinda like the antique hunter at the flea market, if the first thing you look at when hunting is the number than your the same as the antique hunter picking up the vase and looking for writing on ther bottom to see what it is. My point is if you don't know what your picking up by what you see looks, weight, feel then your taken your chance on what it says on the bottom. Its the same as looking at the numbers on the CTX or any other detector, each has its own advantages.The number is just one portion of the hunt. it should be the third part of the observation, the first being the sound and then the roundness/shape/size then if you must look at the numbers of the CTX ok. But the other features should have already sold you on a good target. This will only be true if you have not set your very own tones in the CTX, in a combined tone setting. These artifical setting take away the CTX''s ability to seperate targets via Tone! They group up like numbered targets to sound the same there by taking away in my opinion the best feature Minelab detector have, sound/tones! A nickle,gold ring and pull tab/pop top have little in common on the 50 tone sound features of the CTX 3030, other than the TDI numbers they may fall within! Meter numbers/displays can never be used as a good soarce of target info on there very own. Hope this helps.
BCNJ
 
I hear you there buddy, I follow Goodmore's and BC's advice when it comes to pulltab signals in the dirt...I stab shallow targets with a screwdriver, so it requires little effort to investigate those signals...the bummer being I have found girls gold class rings and my wedding ring sounds exactly like a tab too..When I was first into this sport, I ran into and old guy out detecting and he told me to "dig 1000 tabs and dig 1000 pennys" so I dutifully went out to accomplish that...What I learned is a very fast retrieval method on shallow targets, and a situational awareness of the targets location....like "whats this pulltab doing out here all by itself in the middle of the football field?" Rings like my wedding ring for instance are very hard to stab compared to stabbing a tab, so if I dont hit the target in the first few attempts, I slow way down and try to feel it in the grass roots. I'd say if you can get good and fast at shallow tab signal retrieval, you should up your odds that someday that tab will be gold...its just a matter of maximizing coil to ground time and that means how many targets can you get in an outing. Still, I sure hate why some people seem compelled to tear off that tab and toss it!
Mud
 
I have to be in the mood to dig tabs. Detecting should be fun and a tension reliever for me and some days digging a lot of tabs just ain't fun. A lot depends on location too, like trashy parks.............. no way I'm digging tabs but beach hunting....... YES, I dig them all.
 
My thoughts and frustrations are EXACTLY the same as yours. I've dug over 100 of pull tabs at the beaches so far and even passed over this signal too because of frustration. After digging so many tabs your mind automatically asumes the next signal will produce a pull tab. I don't know what to do about this either but I bet the next person who reply will tell us both to keep digging because it only takes one the 101th dig which may turn out to be that gold ring. :)
 
do what makes you fell good,,,, no law agaist passing on them,,let your inner voice tell you when to dig. Also I will look at WHERE the target is,,,, 3 feet from a garbage can,,,,pass,,,,, next to a 5 foot old oak tree DIG !!! Remember this also,,,, if you clear out the tabs,,, you may find good targets under them,,,, so keep a positive attitude and have fun !!!
 
It's like pull tabs aren't WORTH anything! Please. I'm thinking of cornering the market.
 
Let's see, I dug a 12-03 and it was a 10K girls class ring, a 12-30 in the water was a 11 gram 14K mens wedding band, a 12-26 was a gold 'cocktail' ring, yesterday a 12-07 one direction and a 12-13 another was a nice old 10K signet ring, so, I agree with the fellows that say the tone is the most important. I have dug a wad of 12-09's and they are almost always the beaver tail off a pull tab, but I still dig them, at least most of them. I tend to 'cherry pick' the high tones to get the coins first then go across my previous path and dig the 'iffy' stuff.
 
I thought you might enjoy this when you are a little down on digging tabs. These are a few of my jewelry finds.

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Well I got to say I dont like those damn :pulltab: but 12/13 - 12-15 I have got 6 gold rings and have got gold at 12/39 - 12/32 and down to 12/02 though 12/09. :twodetecting::minelab::cheers:
 
Hey Gary,

I am so tired of digging those tabs too. I have only been looking for silver coins lately, but every once in a while I will dig a low tone just because. Of course, it's a tab, but that is part of the hunt. Always in the back of your mind is, Well this is the one. Happy Thanksgiving all.

Rod
 
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