Simpsonslammer
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Just curious what everyone does when they get a zink penny signal (for those machines that can id them). Some days I get tired of digging crusty pennys. I know sometimes indian heads can have the same id
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Zink penny signals..dig um or leave um ?
- Thread starter Simpsonslammer
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diggerdick
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Dig it all
If your in an old area that has the possibility of Indians you might want to dig them depending on how much time you have? If your in a newer area and your digging a lot of Zinc's you can pass them up depending on how much time you have. My discrimination ties directly to the time I have to hunt. The less time I have the more discrimination I have.
I went ring hunting only tonight for 2 hours. I wasn't so lucky. Foil and tabs. This is an area I have hunted with a lot of discrimination. I always start out cherry picking sites. Then I reduce the disc each time I go over the same area. I was down to digging all signals now.
REVIER
Well-known member
I have been digging zinc since the day I started.
Money is money and it adds up.
If you don'T feel like digging all zinc signals, at least dig the lower ones because that is where big gold can be hiding.
Regular zinc penny signals can be all kinds of great targets like this rare and old 1/2 dollar size token, or even silver thick chains.
Money is money and it adds up.
If you don'T feel like digging all zinc signals, at least dig the lower ones because that is where big gold can be hiding.
Regular zinc penny signals can be all kinds of great targets like this rare and old 1/2 dollar size token, or even silver thick chains.
GeorgeinSC
Well-known member
I usually start out digging zincs. If I have been out for a number of hours and am getting tired I get selective in what I dig. Yesterday I hit a park that was so trashy that I put on a small coil and still had trash on every swing. I gave up digging zincs and concentrated on better targets.
Depends on where you're hunting. If I'm hunting park turf, then sure, I pass surface zinc. Actually, I pass any signals at all that are not at least 6" deep, for that matter. Because if you're in park turf where the oldies start at 6" or more (or whatever for your particular park), then ...... why fool around with clad? And if the answer is: "because you might miss a gold ring", (ie.: if gold is your target find), then what-the-heck are you doing hunting junky turfed parks trying to be a hero and get gold to begin with? I can think of some parks that the ratio would easily be 1000 to 1 (you'd get disgusted before ever finding gold, or get kicked out of the park, etc...). So if gold is your desired goal, why not just simply go to swimming beaches? Thus for park turf, I'm angling for the old coins, deep silver and copper, etc...
If I'm in a beach hunt situation, or a relicky site (ghost towns, old-town urban tearouts, etc...), then sure, I dig zinc signals (all signals, as a matter of fact).
If I'm in a beach hunt situation, or a relicky site (ghost towns, old-town urban tearouts, etc...), then sure, I dig zinc signals (all signals, as a matter of fact).
BarberBill
New member
Several years ago I read on one of the forums that small gold jewelry often reads as zinc penny. I had been skipping over zincs as so many are really cruddy, but decided to dig them again. The 2nd zinc indication I dug turned out to be a small, black hills gold, ring. I wonder how many other pieces I missed? As is repeated often on the forums, the only way to be truly sure is to retieve the target.
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I was getting very few signals, normally at the beach, I will ignore the zincs signals on the CZ but I was getting very few so decided to dig the one I got in the wet sand, it turned out to be a man's big/heavy 14k gold band, I was very surprised, I was expecting a penny. Dig it all.........HH
BarberBill
New member
It seems that about the time your patience is failing and you're tired of digging it all, a goodie shows up making the effort worthwhile.
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...I went over to a old corner house from the 1880's in a town close by, knocked on the door and talked to the older gentleman that lived there. He said the yard had been hunted several times by some guys with some expensive detectors. He gave me the go ahead to hunt, but he said that I would "probably not find anything". So I started finding shallow zinc pennies right away, I just chuckled to myself and kept on digging them, after digging about 20 of the zincs, I dug up the prettiest 1883 Indian Head, same sounding signal as the zincs and read the same on my IDX Pro meter. I then went on to find a mercury dime under one of the zincs. I dig them zincs.
bootyhoundpa
Well-known member
had permission to hunt an early 1800s stone home on a semi busy corner lot in town... was using my whites 5900... was searching near the street when i got a signal that read straight up in the middle of the meter exactly where a zinc or indian head would read..... i expected it to be a piece of foil or can slaw because the yard was trashier the closer you got to the street ,but i figured there was an outside shot of it being an indian head penny ...i was wrong it was the largest 14k mans ring i have ever found and only like the 2nd or 3rd piece of gold i had ever found in my life at that point of time.... needless to say im glad i dug it.... i try to dig all signals that give a consitant steady signal ..... but i must admit after so many i get lazy at times and cherry pick around them...... depends where im hunting....
REVIER
Well-known member
Tom_in_CA said:
I hunt parks, mostly, some very trashy and especially around the areas I like to hunt like basket ball and volleyball courts, and picnic pavilions.
I never get disgusted, also never have been kicked out of any, so I guess I am a hero because I have found 14 gold rings so far, a few with diamonds, a gold necklace and a gold bracelet.
I don't regret digging any trash or zinc target I have ever dug to get these items and other cool stuff...not one...or hunting the trashy sites I do to find them, either.
No swimming beaches around me so you do what you gotta do...and I also dig all zinc signals, too.
MNCoinhunter
Active member
I hate zinc pennies !!!
But I rarely pass them up anymore ...
But I rarely pass them up anymore ...
REVIER said:
Granted, if a person goes to a blighted inner-city park, and digs enough aluminum, sure , they'll eventually find a gold ring. When they scraped Garfield Square in SF (an 1880's park in a blighted area) to make way for artificial turf, in 2006, we could treat it in "relic mindset" (since it was all dozed up, we could "dig all" in our search for old coins). And I saved every single target from weeks-such-hunt, for after-study. And sure-enough, I got some gold items (2 or 3 rings, a piece of a gold watch, a charm, etc...). But my aluminum count was STAGGERING (no problem with you're digging in loose dirt, in your search for old coins). I mean, for someone to have thought they'd have gone there when it was still a turfed park, in their quest for gold jewelry, would have been folly indeed. Perhaps your parks aren't as blighted.
And you say there's "no swimming beach around you" ? I don't mean ocean facing beaches. Even lake beaches have swimming areas (at certain lakes anyhow). I know of no state that has "no swimming beaches". And if you're in an area with litterally "no water", then other such sand locations will like-wise have better jewelry ratios: sand volleyball courts, sand wrestle pits. and certain forms of turf even. For example: sports venues (soccer, etc...) vs eating venues (picnic and BBQ which ...by nature.... = aluminum).
The cz6 has very broad categories of grouping for TIDs. Like only 6 or 7 quadrants or whatever. So .... granted .... some gold rings will be grouped in the "zinc penny" category on such a machine. But if you'd had a machine with a wider range of TID, there would have been a difference. Perhaps not for corroded zincs (which can be so corroded they read down at tab or whatever), but for regular or slightly corroded, there's differences. But with that said, let me say, that so too could there be *some* gold ring that reads exactly on the same TID as various junk targets of ANY kind. So on the beach, .... sure .... dig zinc. The exception for me would be if I'm hunting after storm erosion, where targets abound (and I simply won't be able to dig them all before the next high tide chases me out), the sure, I'm going to start passing "probable zinc" and favor low conductors, in that case. Believe me, I've been in enough such target-rich zones, where .......... why dig coins AT ALL, when you're going to get 600 targets, and simply get chased out by the tide? Trouble is, such conditions are rare. Only every few years where I'm at, do we see conditions where "you can't dig fast enough" 