Tesoro Vaquero Searching For Gold :tesoro::usaflag:

[tabman]

I didn't feel like going to the ole home site or to the woods to look for some silver coins today. Instead, I wanted to look for some gold jewelry. I went to a 50ish school that has a large adjoining neighborhood park and some old soccer fields that are not used much anymore. I've hunting this place before with my Golden

 

[kaolinwasher]

Tab, you dig like a gopher on steroids, from the looks of it yes 200 targets, look at all those old tabs, I hope to emulate your settings some day that Gold was worth it nice find the V sure does make a smooth sound on Gold I did note that today. maybe we can do a contest using that pile . win the gold thing you found , if we guess how many targets you dug .

 

[Matt_SC]

Nice find Tabman. Just out of curiosity, Where does it disc out at?

 

[tabman]

Nice find Tabman. Just out of curiosity, Where does it disc out at?

Between pull tab and zinc penny. I could have found that damn pendant without having to dig all those pull tabs.

However, there's a whole lot of man size gold wedding bands that fall in the pull tab range. I'm digging!

If it hadn't got dark on me, I would have been circling where I found the pendant in the all metal mode looking for the broke necklace.

tabman

 

[HateTabs]

That's some dedication to dig pull tabs for 5 1/2 hrs. Good job tabman!

 

[BarberBill]

Nice find, worth the effort.
BB

 

[deliveryboy]

Very nice and I cant believe how many good finds I have found on my way to the car lol

 

[hatpin]

Hope you find the chain soon. Did you mark the spot?

 

[JMC]

Nice! In my neck of the woods it's nails. These has got to be a scrap iron market for rusty nails. I've yet to find any gold but I keep the discrimination set at pull tab to cut down the noise. These are a couple of less occupied areas I want to check hopefully next month and will be able to run this new Compadre wide open.

 

[mudpuppy]

Awesome! I tell ya...if a fellow seriously wants to find gold...that junk plate bears studying..good post, it gave a lot of info about the site and why you hunted it accordingly...thanks for helping us all out Tab.
Mud

 

[tabman]

Nice! In my neck of the woods it's nails. These has got to be a scrap iron market for rusty nails. I've yet to find any gold but I keep the discrimination set at pull tab to cut down the noise. These are a couple of less occupied areas I want to check hopefully next month and will be able to run this new Compadre wide open.

If you're searching for gold rings, the maximum discrimination setting should be no higher than to the point where a Gatorade foil cap just discriminates out.

The majority of gold rings that I've tested fell in the discrimination range between a Gatorade foil cap and a beaver tail pull tab.

For gold necklaces a lower discrimination setting is required. Yes there are some very tiny gold rings that fall below where a Gatorade foil cap discriminates out, but I'm not chasing them unless I'm detecting in a wood chip tot lot. They're not worth the effort otherwise. Same goes for gold chain necklaces unless I'm detecting in a fairly trash free location and there's a good chance of one being lost there.

This 'f' in foil and 'i' in iron discrimination settings you hear about is very confusing and misleading, because the calibration settings vary from detector to detector.

tabman

 

[Pap]

Very nice find! I don't recall what the ratio is of junk to jewelry, pretty high from what I remember, but persistence is the only way I know of to find jewelry.
Pap

 

[REVIER]

Tesoro + mellow sound = Gold...I love that equation and have seen it in action a few times myself.

CongratZ!

 

[dirt doctor]

.... and for your Olympian effort you earned the gold !! Awesome tabman , very inspiring .

 

[mudpuppy]

Well, Pap, if its dirt gold a guy is after, one would be well advised to follow Tabman, Deliveryboy, Revier, and Plidns methods of inland gold jewelry hunting...theres a few others I cant remember right now, but these guys get it done consistently, and better yet, they share in their posts the secrets to it if a fellow takes time to study their posts and absorb the info... Whats that medallion Tab? 14k?
Mud

 

[tabman]

Whew! The target count is finished. 123 tabs, 65 pieces of can slaw, 41 screw caps etc.,41 coins and one pendant for grand total of 279 targets found and retrieved.

Now that I know what's out there, I'm going to set up my Golden