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Would you dig a 12-29, or do you discriminate that out?

Larry (IL)

Larry (IL)

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I did yesterday because it sounded a little different than a trash target. 1966, 10 grams of 10K :thumbup:

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He!! yea I would....I get lots of sinkers at 12-29 and have a use for them.... it one turns out to be gold, yea for me.....but in this case, Yea for you.....beautiful ring...

Cliff
 
Excellent find. Heck ya I dig those numbers all the time. That's right in the 3c silver ball park
 
Nice Larry! I suppose honestly for me it would depend where I was and how thorough I was feeling, a park or or newer yard possibly, a field, or older home/area definitely
 
Ditto what Gary said!:) That is a beauty! :clapping:
 
You and I are playing in the same ballpark Gary, I normally pass on the 12-20's but not always. This was in an older yard that wasn't producing much in older coins or can slaw for that matter, it just sounded like it was something I should dig.... and glad I did. I call it instinctive digging, you sometimes get that gut feeling on a target you normally pass on :shrug: I have even passed over a target that I didn't think was anything worth digging but I get that feeling to go back to it. Some of my better finds have been that way over the years. They don't always pay off but I have had enough of them to trust my instincts.
 
Larry (IL) said:
You and I are playing in the same ballpark Gary, I normally pass on the 12-20's but not always. This was in an older yard that wasn't producing much in older coins or can slaw for that matter, it just sounded like it was something I should dig.... and glad I did. I call it instinctive digging, you sometimes get that gut feeling on a target you normally pass on :shrug: I have even passed over a target that I didn't think was anything worth digging but I get that feeling to go back to it. Some of my better finds have been that way over the years. They don't always pay off but I have had enough of them to trust my instincts.
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You know what you just reminded me of this thread of mine from last year. Both you and I had good reminders to go with the gut feelings sometimes...
The wow that almost wasn't.... An eagle belt plate
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?86,1946914,1947018,quote=1
 
I believe a lot of this has a lot to do with how well you know your detector and with the Minelabs this is even more important as they can tell you more about a target than most I have used anyway. Normally many including myself would walk away from this number as it is a trash reading, but once you have experience and know your detector you can tell it just sounds a little different and you will dig it. My Minelab Sovereign was good for this once I got to know it well as any signals that sounded different or read different then the meter reading was one to dig and was rewarded with some nice finds and one of my best gold rings I ever found.
Now with the CTX 3030 I am still in the stage of digging a lot of trash, but really need to use it and understand it much more that I do to dig some of the odd numbers like 12-29.

Nice find Larry and hope you may be able to find the owner as it would make his or her day.


Rick
 
Very nice ring Larry ...it all depends on the location if im not getting to many good signals i dig those numbers and i also will dig some nickel signals to
 
"I'd dig anything that < sounded good >

Ignore the ID numbers: they can lie when targets are beyond 6 - 8 inches"

Good Hunting

Des D
 
One thing Im noticing on the 3030 is that a gold ring tends to VDI on numbers without any jumping. I tested about 70 gold rings at various distances from the 11 inch coil and so far I have found very little drift like I do on pull tabs up to about 8-9 inches. Pull tabs on the same testing are giving me more drift and uncertain target vdi at the deeper numbers from 5 on down. I noticed this the other day while searching a fresh water beach. Im not experienced enough on my 3030 to know if this is the case for sure but I paid more attention to vdi numbers that stayed on there spot and did not get jumpy at depth after finding a few nice pieces. .

Any one else notice this? or is it just me? I don't see any mention of it in the beach books im reading.
 
I think that is generally true, it depends on a couple of other factors that I have found on other brands of detectors but I have not done the same test on the CTX. One is if the ring is just a band or if it has one or more stones mounted and the other is the orientation in the ground. Simple band rings lock on real good but if there is more to the ring to scatter the return signal, you will notice the numbers jump around some. If a ring is lying sideways in the ground, again another solid signal but being vertical changes things again especially if there is a mount for stones and it is facing up.
 
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