I dug every solid pulltab / gold/ 5 cent signal I got today.... And Got an arsenal of pull tabs, cans, and foil. Honestly I guess I'll pass up digging up that gold ring , if the ratio is 300 pieces of trash to 1 ring. Maybe if I get a pro pointer , and can save myself time with each dig , I'll dig them more . Luckily I'm more interested in the relics which signal quite differently.
Jimmi, well as I read your title and post, I just "knew" that others would answer your post/question with "
dig pulltabs till your arms fall off, lest you miss a gold ring or gold coin". Or "
here's a gold ring I found at tab range" and so forth. And sure enough, those admonitions soon followed.
But no, as you yourself have discovered, the advice of "lower your disc. and dig foil and tabs till your arms fall off" is HARDLY the recipe for fun and gold rings. Heck, even your concellation price of raising the disc. and settling on "relics" will also cause others to bristle. Afterall, some relics (that might be quite nice) *could possibly* also read in the pulltab range! Doh!
Let's cut to the chase: It's already a GIVEN that gold rings and smaller gold coins read in the low (tab, nickel, foil, etc...) range. So to give a newbie that as a supposed "recipe" for finding "gold rings and smaller gold coins" is hardly the recipe for success at finding said-objects. Because as you have deduced, you can dig 1000 tab signals in the average junky blighted park, and guess what you'll find?? TABS (and assorted can slaw, foil wads, beaver tails, blah blah blah). Sure, the 1001 signal *might* be a gold ring, but is that your idea of fun? You'll get kicked out of the park before you EVER find a gold ring (or gold coin or whatever). I can think of parks and blighted zones where this is pure folly!
So no, the admonition to always keep your disc. low, is only HALF THE RECIPE. The much BIGGER part of the "recipe" is WHERE you hunt. If you hunt places where gold rings (or gold coins, or whatever) are more likely to occur/be, then .... doh ... your ratios won't be quite as punishing. For example: swimming beaches (especially in wading waters) will be FAR AND AWAY much better for gold rings, than blighted junky inner city parks (especially ratty zones around BBQ pits and garbage cans). Or an old stage stop in the middle of the desert or ghost town that no one's stepped foot on since 1870 is going to make your "heart stop" when you get that perfect "pulltab" signal. Or the beach after storm erosion, where mother nature has pulled out all the light stuff (goodbye pulltabs, foil, etc..) you'll be "holding your breath" at each pulltab or foil signal.
If you have no swimming beach (or "perfect" relicky sites), there are even various turf zones that are better than other turf zones. For example soccer (or any athletics that require frolicking motions) are going to be better than turf where people picnic/eat. Because when people picnic/eat, you can bet there's going to be foil and tabs. But where people do athletics and typically AREN'T eating and BBQ'ing, is less trash. Other types if inland zones are better too (if you're not not near the ocean or inland lake swimming lakes) is sand volley-ball pits & and sand wrestle pits.
