Nickels To Pulltabs Ratio

[Clad2Silver]

This year rather than dump my pulltabs in the nearest garbage can I decided to save them to see what the ratio of nickels to pulltabs was. I dug 104 nickels, 103 clad and one silver Wartime nickel. Pulltabs totaled twelve.

 

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[Rmeav8r]

Impressive. Are you using primarily the AT Max or AT Pro?

 

[Clad2Silver]

Impressive. Are you using primarily the AT Max or AT Pro?

Of my 59 hunts in 2020, I used the Pro 22 times and the Max 34 times. Three other hunts was done with my Ace400 backup detector.

 

[Noah_D]

Nice! I mostly hunt older sites (taverns/schools/pioneer homesteads) so I only came up with 1 war nickel, 3 buffs, and 9 (other) jeffersons... some of those roadside sites have ridiculous amounts of ptabs and can slaw so I didn't even bother to count.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Good on you. Back when I hunted a town park next to my worksite every lunchbreak I noticed that I found a disproportionate amount of nickels. I figured this was due to prior coin-shooters masking out pull tabs.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Nice! I mostly hunt older sites (taverns/schools/pioneer homesteads) so I only came up with 1 war nickel, 3 buffs, and 9 (other) jeffersons... some of those roadside sites have ridiculous amounts of ptabs and can slaw so I didn't even bother to count.

Thanks Noah.....Yes, those older sites will generally have low pulltab counts.

Good on you. Back when I hunted a town park next to my worksite every lunchbreak I noticed that I found a disproportionate amount of nickels. I figured this was due to prior coin-shooters masking out pull tabs.

Thanks Charlie.....I agree that some guys will notch out the pulltabs and miss the nickels.

 

[rayoh]

You did a great job of figuring out the difference between tabs and nickels. I am more along the 5 tabs for one nickel. The Equinox should help me improve my ratio as it does an outstanding job identifying nickels. A great year for you. I am impressed!

 

[Clad2Silver]

You did a great job of figuring out the difference between tabs and nickels. I am more along the 5 tabs for one nickel. The Equinox should help me improve my ratio as it does an outstanding job identifying nickels. A great year for you. I am impressed!

Thank you.....good luck with your Equinox.

 

[Trezurehunter]

I'd say that is a ratio that's in your favor !

 

[Clad2Silver]

I'd say that is a ratio that's in your favor !

Thanks......I certainly agree and I'm glad it wasn't the other way around