Today's trash ... wonder if it bodes well?

[Plugcutter]

Here's trash from about a four-hour session (mostly) with my Tejon in our city park. I like Tabman's method of showing it on a five-gallon-bucket lid - I have no shortage of those and it gives me a place to dump my bag without making too much of a mess in my car.

The finds aren't really worth posting - just a couple quarters, a nickel, and maybe a dozen or so pennies, all modern clad. Also one earring that looks like if it has any gold in/on it at all, it's got to be a thin plating.

What I'm hoping and wondering about is this... this park has been around officially since just before 1900. I know it at least gets hunted after festivals and the like by what I take to be clad-hunters, based on what an old fellah told me this morning. He said the place looked like an army of gophers hit it! But I'm thinking that if these old beavertails and pulltabs are around in such abundance (and at least one nickel ), that ought to mean that the clad-hunters were just that, clad hunters only, and didn't bother going for the low conductors, thereby skipping any gold jewelry.

Is that logic valid?

I'll keep hunting anyway, of course; just curious.

Oh, and by the way ... if I'm ever made dictator, I'm going make dropping on the ground those aluminum wire castoffs that are left over during construction of chain-link fences, punishable by ... well, something really nasty. Every dadgummed fence I get close to has 'em all over the place. Argh!

 

[amberjack]

if you have your disc down low and are pulling those tabs out and its a sports type ground you will hit some gold at some point, lot of people hate tabs and rightly so they are a pain, but they are a gold hunters best friend they keep all that yellow locked up for the real detectorists who are willing to go the extra tab or should I say extra 1000's of tabs

keep digging with disc low in the right spots gold will come out

AJ

 

[Kapok]

Oh, and by the way ... if I'm ever made dictator, I'm going make dropping on the ground those aluminum wire castoffs that are left over during construction of chain-link fences, punishable by ... well, something really nasty. Every dadgummed fence I get close to has 'em all over the place. Argh!

No kidding--I hate those things. They sound off really good, don't they? I once hunted a tennis court fence that was littered with them, plus those aluminum tops to tennis ball cans. I can't tell you have many I dug. Right in the middle of them I pulled a Walking Liberty half. Sweet!

 

[Plugcutter]

Thanks - that's the hope, that countless pulltabs = gold jewelry!

 

[amberjack]

spot is key no 2 ways, I like this theory if I find a silver ring in a park , silver is easier to find yes rings do not discriminate gold or silver they fall off and I think gold even more so as its smoother and heavier so will come off easier but then more silver rings are worn than gold.

so if there is a silver ring or 4 in a park start digging those tabs you may go home goldless more times than you might like but when it comes out and smiles at you for me its more relief than joy but then there is always the by catch that comes from low disc digging so

really its just about being out there and having a bit of air and moving what's not to like playing in mother earth.

and Tesoro's seem to do well at finding gold too

AJ

 

[Plugcutter]

No kidding--I hate those things. They sound off really good, don't they? I once hunted a tennis court fence that was littered with them, plus those aluminum tops to tennis ball cans. I can't tell you have many I dug. Right in the middle of them I pulled a Walking Liberty half. Sweet!

Yes, they DO sound off with that big-round-silver sound, dadgummit! Especially when they're a loop, instead of a long, straight piece. But a Walking Liberty half-dollar? Wow! I'm still excited about that 1964 quarter I found recently; I can barely imagine finding something like that. But, I guess I MUST be able to imagine it or I wouldn't keep digging these darned pulltabs and aluminum fence-wire scraps, come to think of it.

Just like the beavertails and modern pulltabs, I'm trying to think of the fence wire as "camoflage for the Good Stuff" that makes the lazier detectorists swing their coils elsewhere.

 

[CZconnoisseur]

I recently hit some soccer fields with my Vaquero looking specifically for jewelry. If you're finding even costume jewelry, you are on the right track. I dig almost everything above iron, lots of foil, etc...but that one target out of 100s will be something to make digging all the trash worth it.

Scored a 925 gold plated necklace just under the grass earlier this year with the Vaq - it discriminated out halfway between "iron" and "nickel"...just as countless pieces of foil did minutes before....

 

[hatpin]

yep , looks like a typical days hunt . I keep telling myself that this beep might be gold . I find a piece about every ten years .