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Where Have You Found Your Most Rings? (Besides The Beach)

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Critterhunter

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Figured it would be interesting to hear where others have had their best luck in finding rings excluding in the water at the beach or on the dry sand there. For me I'd have to say it's been yards. The trash to ring ratio seems very good in yards since most folk aren't prone to tossing pulltabs and other junk into their own yard. What has been dropped is mostly by accident and not thrown there by somebody who doesn't care. I remember I think my best day was pulling like 4 or 5 rings from the yard at my brother's house. I don't think any were gold but one or two I think were silver. Been years so I don't remember exactly. Just remember saying "Wow, that's a lot of rings in one day and with very little trash."

So were's the spot you prefer....Playgrounds. Sports Fields. Volley Ball Courts. Walking Trails. Horse Shoe Pits. School Yards...Anywhere where you can say you had your best day, or most rings dug in a day, or most rings dug over time with not as much trash for example. I'd like to hear your stories...
 
In the order of location where I've found the most quality rings ...Soccer fields....Parks....Sidewalk to Curb
 
When you say Soccer fields would that be out on the playing field or along the sidelines? I've never had much luck out in the playing field. Most of the stuff I have found has been along the sidelines.

Harvdog
 
Schools otal. I have never found a ring anywhere but on a school grounds. Includes all grounds, Beale.
 
I have found rings in, Tot Lots (playgrounds), sports fields, parks that are used a lot and peoples yards. (In that order) Beaches have to be #1 but I don't live by many beaches.
 
Hey Tom. I've found most of my silver and all of my gold rings at schools. Tot lots #1 and fields 2nd. The school field I'm on right now is my best area to date as I've pulled 2 rings out in 2 hunts. ( silver and gold )
HH
Scott
 
I find rings on a regular basis in parks, schools, and athletic fields. I am very good at it. I'll share a secret or two.

First secret....understand why you find what you find where you found it.

A good inland jewelry hunter starts out a clad hunter. Why? Because clad tells you the story of activity in the area. Clad tells you when folks pull their keys out of their pockets as they approach the parking lots. Clad coin spills tell you where people are sitting and laying around and what type of areas are the most popular. What parks are the most popular, what parks are not. Clad hunting also puts a number of accidental rings in your possession so that you can start trending their loss characteristics. Trending only requires two things.

1st.. Ask yourself this question, "Why was this lost where I found it?" Remember, the object is to understand why you find what you find where you found it.
2nd.. Look for and hunt locations that mimic those same conditions. If there is nothing there, then ask yourself a new question, "what makes this location different from the other locations?" If you do find something, validate your reasoning by asking the 1st question again. Remember, the object is to understand why you find what you find where you find it so that you can find the same type stuff again.

2nd secret....you have to cover a lot of ground.

This isn't old coin hunting where you spend hours in a 10 foot square area trying to paint every inch of the ground with a brush the size of a quarter, twice. Jewelry hunting requires that you cover as much ground as possible in the time you have to hunt it. That means that your machine has to be able to talk to you and tell you whats in the ground without you having to stop and examine every signal. You need to hear it. You need tone id. You need to hear what your coil passes over and be able to call it's conductive range without having to stop and spend a lot of time over a it or look at a meter or thumb a disc dial. When you hear a target you need to be able to call it on the fly. Iron, alum zinc, high coin.

3rd secret...you play the odds.

You don't dig every signal. You focus. If you trend a location type to girls small gold, you focus on recovering those type of signals. If you trend a area to mens jewelry, you focus on recovering that range of targets. Those people who say you got to dig it all to find gold are the accidental ring finders. You want to be a on purpose ring finder, and you find rings on purpose because you trend and focus and cover the ground where they are most likely to be found.

Good luck,
HH
Mike
 
Interesting Mike-----And what is your favorite detector for accomplishing these three things you mentioned?-------Del
 
Great post Mike............:thumbup:
 
Del,
Any machine that has tone id that you are comfortable hunting with will do the job.

As for me personally I've gotten used to running a combo: one detector for trending and one detector for focused hunting.

For trending, it has always been about the coil, either a Cleansweep or a Bigfoot coil. These 18"x4" coils excel at this activity as they have good response characteristics and can cover a LOT of ground in a short period of time. Since only Tesoro and Whites offer this size of coil, my trending units have always been limited to these two makes. Tesoro only has one tone id unit that works for trending and that is the Golden MicroMax. A Golden uMax with a Cleansweep coil is my all time favorite unit for trend hunts. The Cleansweep coil is also in ready supply.

The Bigfoot coil works good too, but they are now in scarce supply as Jim isn't able to supply them. A Bigfoot coil on a XLT or DFX make good trending units but I think a multi-tone Prizm and a Bigfoot coil would do better. I was going to test one out but I couldn't find a prizm bigfoot coil at the time. Still think about it though as Prizm 5 or 6T would make a good trending unit if the coil could be obtained. Right now I trend with a V3/Bigfoot combo. Still undecided about it and I'm still suffering from the sticker shock. I wrestle with the price tag every day. But the programable tones give me a few more options.....

For focused hunting, the Fisher F5 has beat out all the others I've ever tried for this. It is nearly perfect for inland jewelry hunting. It has the right feature set. It has the sensitivity to hunt chains, the tone id modes really resonate when a positive threshold setting is used, recovery speed is excellent, and it can ground balance spot on. It has the best target id resolution from about the middle of the tab range and up that I've ever used in this frequency range. It has the notch feature needed to really focus. I love it. The 4 tone audio selection has a separate nickel range tone that just jumps right out at me that causes me to stop in my tracks. Anything that bounces into that tone, either from foil or from tab gets recovered. When I'm using the F5, good targets just seem to pop out of the ground. I still dig a fair amount of trash but it isn't enough to wear me down. You that gold hunt know what I mean. I'm not wearing out digging foil or tabs and my good target to trash ratio is better than with any of the other units I've used. I just wish I could get a Cleansweep/Bigfoot type coil for it.

One trend I've found involves a site type that also includes rebar reinforced concrete curbing. The F5's two tone VCO mode is excellent for this type of site as it can hunt right up alongside the curbing. The good targets "zip" in the midst of the rebar grunts and long falsing tones.

If I could only get a cleansweep or bigfoot type coil for the F5 I'd be in detector heaven.

Well, you asked!
:detecting:
Mike
 
That is VERY, VERY INTERESTING, Mike.----Thanks for takeing the time to write it out for all of us.----I'm going to copy it out.---I don't know how many times I read your report on the F5 & Omega--that was really good to.---I ended up getting the Omega--maybe I should have got the F5 :) --------Del
 
Del,
Your Omega will do well. It is more about site reading than detectors. I can do the same thing with any tone id machine made. I just like some better than others. The F5 is special to me because I "click" with it. I feel the F5 was made special just for me and my target type.


HH
Mike
 
Some great advice here... when ya'll say schools? Is it more the elementary schools, the middle schools or High Schools? I ask because I jus can't seem to get onto a High School, hey all seem closed up?

When ya'll say Parks, do you mean the busy/trashy areas (next to benches, under trees, near bbq pits? Or are you away from those areas? Can get frustrating real quick like near the tashy areas. Whew.

When you say Ball parks/fields... like someone already asked, do you mean, sidelines/sides/borders, or do you mean smack on the playing field?

I have found 12 rings and other misc jewelry in the past 2 months... still kind of new to all this and hunt with the Silver uMax... mots of the rings were found at elementary school yard... but am unable to say if any are real... with the exception of the silver ones that were stamped... about 4. So, the elementary school has been fun (reckon thats what it boils down to), but has not produced any verfiable "gold" yet to me.

Great advice Mike, as I hunt only with the Silver uMax (first machine) I sure wish I had the benefit of the tone id etc... mine I just have to learn to "feel" it, ha ha. The rings all hit in a more "rounded" hit... sometimes they hit so hard (especailly the real silver ones) I thought the machine would jump out of my hand... other times, when deeper, felt like a soft rounded hit... and once, with a Gold Plated sapphire ring... I almost walked away... hit the ol double blip... thought trash, but said what the heck... was a gold plated ring, on edge.

Fun hobby.

Thanks folks.
 
Mike....you are the Man, i'm new to this game and love it... tooke me 47 years to find something i love doing ( hobby wise) better late than never.. just read your thread WOW! on purpose i love that...

I bow to greatness , you certainly know your stuff, i on the other hand know diddly squat, just bought an Xterra 70 arrives today really excited had an Ace 150 for 3 weeks since i started the hobby and quickly worked it out that i needed a more pro machine.

i could ask questions all day, but appreciate you've better things to do so i will just ask a couple for now if thats ok.

1) i notice people are saying hit the likes of sports fields Football etc to look for rings, being in the UK surely i wouldnt be allowed to start and work in a sort of public place and detect and start digging holes in football pitches or sidelines? do you just do this, and advice and extra info on this would be great.

2) I have gained permission from a Farmer to work his 90 acres, mostly ploughed land ( not at the moment stubble) he has pasture land as well, and even a field overgrown that used to be a victorian dump site , also has a woodland area loads of hills trees, bushes its like tghe sort of place kids would hand out drink beer and make fires etc , i have no idea about working farmers fields where would i start any advice? been in all but the pasure with the ace and found nothing of any real interest, any advice please?

thats it for now Top feller...have a great day. Peter
 
Thanks for that detailed explanation Mike. Looks like you've spent a lot of time working out a brilliant,sensible strategy for bringing your ring to trash ratio up to enviable levels. Appreciate you sharing your hard work.
HH
Scott
 
dreamsville,
You do not always need to "dig holes". I hunted a softball field yesterday and only cut the grass 2x. I use an eletronic probe then a metal probe then a large flat bladed screwdriver to get under the target and pop it to the surface. There was a good thread on this over in the Garrett forum a few months ago. Had a good discription of the technique. Takes a good bit of practice to get good at. I can get down to about 3 inches after that I make a slit in the sod. Some of these guys that have years behind them can go deeper. I do not use this method when old coin hunting for fear of damaging the coin and the depths involved. The neighboring city will not allow cutting the grass at all you can only pop coins when in the parks.

Just whats working for me today, tomorow I will learn a new trick.
Jeff
 
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