Salad Anyone?

[GotSilver?]

Dug enough pull tabs today to make a pretty nice pull tab salad!!! Dang. I'm listening to you guys who keep saying you gotta dig pull tabs to get the good stuff though!! I'm sure it will pay off and be good advice!! Do you guys dig em even when you're "sure" they're tabs? I mean when it's a bouncy signal and tone 51-72-47-79-53 and bouncy sound and even a low tone with Iron On....but you still get the intermittent 72-79 inside of the broken pattern - seems like that is always a pull tab. Is it? Or is it sometimes a masked "good" target? Just wondering if I should pass up these "sure thing" pull tabs? Let me know your experienced thoughts please all. Thank you!!!

 

[fongu]

I dug so many pull tabs today in the 53 DVI range I almost didn't dig my best find, a 14K ring. It was also 53, but it had that tone that told me I might want to dig just one more time.

 

[GotSilver?]

Got it!!! Loud and clear...in more ways than one. Great advice! Thank you....

 

[sqwaby]

"it's a bouncy signal and tone 51-72-47-79-53 " My experience with the rings I've dug was they had a fairly stable I.D. Like any good target, the Numbers only changed from say a 26-28 or a 34-36. I don't get a big # spread like you posted. If you want to eliminate some tabs I would pass on the erratic targets that jump all over the place. Yes, you might actually be passing up something good especially if it is collocated, but the odds are way in your favor that it is trash. The exception might be if I'm near the swimming pool or at a site which has a high probability of a lost ring or jewelry, then I might be in a dig it all mode. Mike Hillis has some good posts on the subject of gold/rings, most of it is about hunting with the F5, but there is lots of info applicable to hunting gold/rings with any machine.