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WORLDS LIGHTES RING

THAT CAME IN AT 12-05 - 12-10

cant tell you how many times i said pull-tap and kept walking !! like digger says you never know untill you dig

as a norm i dont dig any 12-10 and under most times JUNK!!!! like beaver-tail 12-12(just the tail) and under on my ctx.
 
Cant top that but I would have dug it......most of time for me....my ctx registers pull tabs at 12-15 and/or they bounce around a lot. As you know, many good things come in those numbers area.
 
Minelab,

I have to agree with Jamesbond on this one. Every gold ring I have found has hit 12/9 down to 12/04.
I have a slew of gold, silver, and sterling rings here I did tests on. My detector at 12/15 has been 100%
pull tabs. However, my Shriner's ring, my high school and my wife's high school ring both hit (hers 12/24
mine 12/29). Honestly I rarely get a 12/04 to 09, beyond that, 12/10 thru 12/14 is usually a nickel. Buddy
you may be missing some small gold rings or gold bands at those lower numbers. I would have believed
what you have up there hitting where you say it did would have been a gold plated ring due to the thickness
of the band. The tests I did on this collection of rings my wife has and the ones I found is that when it has a
very thin band it is going to hit 12/04 to 12/06. A nice relatively thick ladies diamond wedding band usually
comes up at 12/06 to 12/12. From that point, with the ones I had on hand to test, the thicker mens bands hit
at 12/21 up to like 12/24. The graduation rings and college rings from 12/28 to 12/29. That was just a very
long and detailed test I did. The results I got with them in the ground at 4" usually brought the conductive
number down by about 2 to 4 digits.

ABSOLUTELY ALMOST ALL 12/5 12/6'S ARE BEAVER TAILS THOUGH, but I digem. Pull tabs almost always
12/15. Hope this helps. HH Glenn
 
I think I have a silver ring that weights that close it came in at 12.15. the reason why was the band was broke which lowered the reading with it closed it read 12.41. if you close the ring I'm sure your reading will go up. See what it reads with the band closed. Great save on the ring ..sube
 
well i am running low on good targets so i will be digging some of them targets to see if i can pull a good won out. i like to save them 4 last any way. cant tell you how many pulltab

i have dug before i find a gold / good target . lots of times i am superised at some of the things that come out thinking it was JUNK. with me i go 4 the higher VDI first and save the

low VDIs 4 last. this works good 4 me as i have places that i can return to. any time !! but we all have our own way of doing things but the end results is all the same
 
I dig anything that has a 12 for the Co number and I usually set my Fe at 27 . I've dug 7" nickles at 24-12. I'm sure the dirt has lots to do with the Fe number so I blow it off alot and just ignore it. I have a dozen or so gold rings from hunting in the dirt and all between 13-13 and 11-03 with 12 -08 and 12 -06 gettng the most play. One at 12-16 that was a very wide but thin ring with Arabic symbols. I've dug silver rings that were thin but intact down to 12-31. You should look at all solid tones with tight tracing seriously ....in my dirt 15s & 18s, are tabs and 11's are usually the tails but if it sounds really good I dig it anyway. Those giant tabs and can slaw chunks run inthe 20's and they're the really tough :thumbdown:ones.
 
Tell me if I am missing something. I do not dig anything at all at 12/15....Extremely little is dug by me from 12/16 to 12/28 UNLESS I get a
bright red target with no scatter around it. I dig everything from 12/10-12/14 and only if it holds at one number. If it jumps from 12/11 to
12/14 and back and forth with a little scatter around it I keep walking. But, if I get a repeatable hit between 12/10 and 12/14 I dig and it is
usually a nickel but occassionally it will be the tail (beaver tail) of a pop top depending on how it is laying in the dirt below. I use this same
scenario from 12/02-12/09;;;solid repeatable tight with no scatter. Not too many will hit like this in that area. Of course, 12/29 and above
repeatable hits with a good target display regardless of how large the red is, (many deep coins will not fill the target for me) I dig. What do
I need to change?
 
MOST NICKELS

hit around 12-13 12-14 for the new ones. for me any thing 12-10 and under 90% of the time =JUNK so i dont dig most times unless it sounds sweet.

and yes allot of pull-tab run 12-12 - 12-30 but some gold rings do fall in that range to. so all depends on how much JUNK you want to dig ! myself i save

them 4 last wen i run out of good targets. you guys that find good targets under 12-10 are hunting some good areas but by me you will dig 200 JUNK

targets before you find a good one
 
I have recently learned that a few minor settings or mode changes can greatly affect your targets VDI's. I think it is bad advice to give blanket statements like 12-15's are always bad. That may be the case with your current settings, but with a few simple changes, 12-XX becomes a range where desirable targets fall in again. My advice, for what it's worth; test various targets using your current settings rather than not dig certain targets ID's based on someone else's settings and results. JJ
 
I THINK WE WERE HAVEING A GENERAL

over view and not to say one thing about 12-15 or 12-30 just compairing notes !! and were as no two detectors are the same

not to say no 2 hunts are the same the end!
 
JJ said:
I have recently learned that a few minor settings or mode changes can greatly affect your targets VDI's. I think it is bad advice to give blanket statements like 12-15's are always bad. That may be the case with your current settings, but with a few simple changes, 12-XX becomes a range where desirable targets fall in again. My advice, for what it's worth; test various targets using your current settings rather than not dig certain targets ID's based on someone else's settings and results. JJ
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JJ that's great advice. I don't dig 12/15's. However, the only war nickel I have ever found hit at 12/15 and had the look on the screen and the sound that I just couldn't
walk away from without digging it. That's when I started digging every 12/15 I came across. I got a s load of pull tabs and never found anything else in over 680 recorded targets. I got lucky once. If there is something we are all missing at 12/15 in our set up, please tell us as this kind of information is what "fellow" hunters use this forum for. To
help each other. What adjustment do I need to make that will change the pull tabs from 12/15 and make the 12/15 a worth while dig? I am serious. What are we doing
wrong with our settings that you know about that can keep us from digging pull tabs at 12/15?
 
Glenn, sorry for your s#@t luck digging pulltabs at 12-15. I can't tell you that I avoid pulltabs at that number, but I will tell you that using ferrous-coin in my ground conditions, I dig many nickels at depth that bounce between 12-14 to 12-15, and my last 10k ring was 12-15 to 12-16. I dig my fair share of pulltabs as well but I would be without quite a few of my better finds if I skipped them completely. Hope that helps Glenn. TC, JJ
 
JUST SAVE THEM PESTY PULL-TAB 4 LAST

i can under stand , all about them 12-15 and up. i have dug to many to count looking 4 gold rings. but every so often them 12-15 and up come up

with that yellow gold !!! 4 me its 12-10 and below that gives me more junk then good were as every body but me digs some good things in that area

them old parks were i hunt has alote of junk foil broken /bent over beaver tails sm. can slaw that gives me garbage. so wen you run out of good targets

start looking in them 12-05 and up. if you want to get tech. any were on the 12 line + you can find garbage !! REALY
 
Hey Bob, check this out . Found Saturday morning ... .5g 10k diamond ring found at 6"next to a 12-15 pull tab and while using a 17" coil ! The little gold ring was reading a solid 12-03 and could easily be heard with the pull tab . Unreal !
 
WO !!

NICE FIND E-TRACKER IF THAT WAS ME GETTING THAT 12-03 I WILL HAVE FOIL !! OR THE ROUND MILK FOIL LID !!

BUT REAL COOL BUT NOW I HAVE NO CHOISE BUT TO DIG THEM AS I AM OUT OF GOOD SIGNELS. THATS HOW

I FOUND THAT SM. RING
 
Depending on where I am, after finding several foils at the low 12's, I usually just keep on going.
Where there are rare hits in the low 12's, I dig. Some places/event locations have a load of foil and
to dig them all would turn me against metal detecting as much as I love it. Sometimes you have to
go back in time in your mind, think of what people were doing and what they were using with food
products etc to make a good decision to dig or not. For example, I went to a new place this past
Friday and I was constantly hitting numbers in the 12/37 thru 12/43. I found 1 dime and 11 pennies
after 2 hours. Those hits were pull tabs of the earliest kind. Steel. The only way you could have
bent them was with a hammer or set of grip pliers. On the same hunt, I found my second civil war
bullet about 2" down right beside a basketball court. The sand clay that was put on the court to make
it pack down hard for bouncing the basketball I later found out from a man who lived right beside it
came from an area believed to be in the vacinity of one of General Francis Marion's trails. It's
every man's choice to dig or not but sometimes good common sense has to take over. I for one
love to hear that low 12 sound, considering the circumstances.
 
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