Critterhunter
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Since Ron wants more stories about actual hunts here's my contributation...
Me and my two Etrac friends hit another section of an old park we've been covering the last month or so. This section didn't have very good ground, as it was hard packed clay. I told them that we probably shouldn't expect any deep silver signals in this area, and that what was left in terms of silver was probably ones on edge or masked by iron or other trash. You have to adjust your strategy based on the soil. Is it good loamy soil that could have deep coins in it, or is it hard clay that wouldn't have allowed stuff to sink?
Anyway, two of us got skunked. My one friend did manage a buffalo and a wheat. Not only that, but he comes over with a big smile on his face and hands me the top half of a gold ring that had been cut exactly in half by a lawn mower. No stones on the top half, but it had a nice big head on it. Probably about $40 or $50 in gold at least. I said that must have read pretty low for you? He said, yea...it read lower than a nickle I think. So I asked him what possesed him to dig that signal and he said it was deeper than anything we've been popping in this clay. He said it looked to be about 5" on his meter so he decided to dig it and see what it was.
That's a handy tip for people who are gold ring hunting. After you dig a few pulltabs you can judge how deep say the old round ones are and then only dig the "junk" signals that sound deeper than that. Often round tabs go about 5 to 6" deep at some of my better soil sites, so I'll start digging any "pull tab" signals that sound deeper. Have to admit I haven't used that strategy much lately, as I've been in one of those moods to only shoot for deep iffy coin signals and such.
Me and my two Etrac friends hit another section of an old park we've been covering the last month or so. This section didn't have very good ground, as it was hard packed clay. I told them that we probably shouldn't expect any deep silver signals in this area, and that what was left in terms of silver was probably ones on edge or masked by iron or other trash. You have to adjust your strategy based on the soil. Is it good loamy soil that could have deep coins in it, or is it hard clay that wouldn't have allowed stuff to sink?
Anyway, two of us got skunked. My one friend did manage a buffalo and a wheat. Not only that, but he comes over with a big smile on his face and hands me the top half of a gold ring that had been cut exactly in half by a lawn mower. No stones on the top half, but it had a nice big head on it. Probably about $40 or $50 in gold at least. I said that must have read pretty low for you? He said, yea...it read lower than a nickle I think. So I asked him what possesed him to dig that signal and he said it was deeper than anything we've been popping in this clay. He said it looked to be about 5" on his meter so he decided to dig it and see what it was.
That's a handy tip for people who are gold ring hunting. After you dig a few pulltabs you can judge how deep say the old round ones are and then only dig the "junk" signals that sound deeper than that. Often round tabs go about 5 to 6" deep at some of my better soil sites, so I'll start digging any "pull tab" signals that sound deeper. Have to admit I haven't used that strategy much lately, as I've been in one of those moods to only shoot for deep iffy coin signals and such.
