Folks, Why I detect pulltabs....lol....

[bill from lachine]

Folks,

Started detecting about 20 years ago just as an excuse to get out of the house for exercise and to destress from a pretty hectic work environment....doing mostly coin shooting in local green spaces in my town.

I did have some success but at least 2 guys that I'm aware of started about 10 years before me and did a pretty good job at the obvious sites....that said I was getting mostly clad a bit of modern silver and a few large cents but no great success.

As the finds kept getting thinned out I had to keep dropping the discrimination lower and lower to manage enough targets to keep me busy.....dug way more junk than before but did manage a few keepers for my efforts.....some of the gold rings the missus has stashed and there's some more men's rings somewhere or other that I forget where I put them....

It's out there you just have to get your coil over the keepers.....keep the faith.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Agony and Death on a Gold Rush Steamer: The Disastrous Sinking of the Side-Wheeler Yankee Blade - Grab it through Amazon!

[sonofadigger]

WOW those are nice i definitley need to dig more pulltab signals

 

[bill from lachine]

sonofadigger,

Well what gave me the bug to lower the discrimination is that I follow beach, relic and green space detectorists finds....
I get bored easily....lol and decided to take the same approach as them....they tend to pretty much dig anything from foil on up....whereas a lot of green space hunters coin shoot and leave the mid/low range targets behind.

That's where most of the gold, old buttons and relics if your sites have a bit of age ring up as....it's worth a shot.

Regards + HH

Bill

WOW those are nice i definitley need to dig more pulltab signals

 

[Bum Luck]

Damn, I hate pull tabs ....................

 

[Infowarrior]

Those are some sweet rings!!

What machine are you swinging?

Im going to have to start digging more crap signals... I have been trying to dig more, but I get lazy sometimes... lol

 

[Stormrider51]

This thread makes a good point. I started detecting with a BFO detector. I made a lot of good finds with that thing including a delicate gold chain with locket and a dozen or so rings. That's in addition to the coins. I dug every target simply because there was no other option and yep, I brought home a bunch of trash. As technology progressed I tried to keep up, buying newer and ever more expensive detectors. Sure enough, I brought home less trash but it finally dawned on me that I wasn't finding rings anymore. Maybe someday they will come out with a machine that will reliably discriminate out trash and show us only the good stuff but until then your best bet is to set the discrimination low and accept that you are going to haul home lots of pull tabs. I console myself with the fact that pull tabs are aluminum so I throw them into the box with the aluminum cans and sell them all to the recycler.

Storm

 

[bill from lachine]

Infowarrior,

My everyday machine is a Tesoro DeLeon....single tone....it has a screen which I tend to ignore most of the time and pretty much dig all the repeatable signals....even the scratchy or broken ones....most of them are trash as you'd expect....but a few keepers pop up for your troubles.

Regards + HH

Bill

Those are some sweet rings!!

What machine are you swinging?

Im going to have to start digging more crap signals... I have been trying to dig more, but I get lazy sometimes... lol

 

[bill from lachine]

Stormrider1951

Yeah.....I had another reality check about 10 years ago......on one of the Canadian forums a young fellow had picked up a Garrett Groundhawg Deepseeker analog machine for something like $25.00 at a garage sale....it didn't have a manual with it so this guy basically just turned it on and dug everything that beeped from iron on up....lol.

After 3 months he posted up some pictures of his finds hitting inner city parks in Montreal that I'm sure were cherry picked by other detectorists before him.

He had something like $350 in clad...silver coins....gold and silver jewelry, old buttons, relics, etc.....I managed to track down the manual online to help him out....he said no thanks I'm doing pretty good without it.....lol.

Regards + HH

Bill

This thread makes a good point. I started detecting with a BFO detector. I made a lot of good finds with that thing including a delicate gold chain with locket and a dozen or so rings. That's in addition to the coins. I dug every target simply because there was no other option and yep, I brought home a bunch of trash. As technology progressed I tried to keep up, buying newer and ever more expensive detectors. Sure enough, I brought home less trash but it finally dawned on me that I wasn't finding rings anymore. Maybe someday they will come out with a machine that will reliably discriminate out trash and show us only the good stuff but until then your best bet is to set the discrimination low and accept that you are going to haul home lots of pull tabs. I console myself with the fact that pull tabs are aluminum so I throw them into the box with the aluminum cans and sell them all to the recycler.

Storm