Solid find. At 32 on Manti I think a lot of hunters would have passed thinking "just another pull tab".
Spot on Lawrence. I love those target ID # only types of hunters, along with the "cherry-pickers" because they leave some great targets for us beep & dig, dig-it-all hunters. IMHO, that's one of the downsides of relying strictly on target ID #'s. I've been an audio only guy since 69', so I used tones & size of target, as my "target ID". Of course, nothings foolproof, not even target ID #'s, so many variables like mineralization that can fool us. But after many years learning the detector, listening to tones and size of targets, one can get pretty proficient at guessing the probability of what a target might be. It's really gratifying to get a signal, then think "sounds like a quarter", then dig up a quarter. same with a nickel or zincoln. But unless a signal is "trashy", i.e., very broken/scratchy or breaks up when scanning at various angles, it gets dug.
I know lots of beach hunters also like to "cherry pick", only targeting gold or silver signals/numbers. And some of them may not want to be bothered by finding coins. But in my case, I started out in this crazy hobby as a coinshooter/land hunter, so I love finding coins. And for us audio-only guys, I learned a long time ago that pull tabs & some bottle caps can sound the same as nickels and/or some small gold rings/bling. But if we set discrimination or notch to block out pull-tabs, good chance we're also going to discrim out nickels & gold. That's why I keep my discrim & notch knobs on my Sov set at 0. I only use the discrim mode on my Sov to get variable pitch tones and auto iron rejection. With my Sov's variable pitch tones, some tabs would give me mid-level tones, similar to nickels & some gold, but some pull-tabs, especially if they had a beaver tail attached, also gave me higher pitched tones that sounded like higher conductivity coins/clad/silver, so only way to know for sure is to dig it all.
