Strategy question

[dizzy]

Greetings,
I've been enjoying and learning from your posts here for over a year and have decide to make an occasional contribution...I sometimes go months without the opportunity to hunt. These rings represent my last 5 hunts (min of 4 hrs each). One 925, one 10k, and two 14k. They were all found in waist deep water. Now for the strategic question...When good tones are few, there appear to be three choices: 1 - leave; 2 - dig all the tones - resulting in working a small area due to work load; and 3 - dig only good tones and cover a larger area. I would like to know what you find most successful and when/why you chose to employ these techniques. Thanks...Diz

 

[normdiver]

Dig all tones, clean out the area, you would hate to leave a nice ring beside trash cause you didnt dig it. Even with this x-cal I did crappy signals sometimes just to see whats there. Good luck

 

[landman]

Great question. You could do all 3 and life will continue but I would probably since time and gas is money, hunt all the good signals especially in the hard to reach places and on the borders of the area. Also this is a good time to whip out a pulse and slowly go over the best ground slowly and listen for the deep faint signals. I did this once as described and walked away with a gold ring and 2 buffalo nickels.

 

[dizzy]

I think my first picture attempt had too big of a file...the 10k is not shown, but here's take two. I've been thinking about scooping good tones only thus covering a large area, then returning to what I thinks should be the best area and digging everything. The alternative would be to just concentrate on what I believe should be the best area. How often have you found treasure under junk? I'm using an x-cal...Diz

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Nice finds BTW!