Have You Been Tricked By The Trash?

[bigscoop]

Happens more often you might think. A good short read:
https://manaloneblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/have-you-been-tricked-by-the-trash/

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Who hasn't, I've dug plenty of half dollar signals to be fooled by some piece of trash.

 

[GB1]

i dug a lot of silver signals and it was cans

 

[bigscoop]

I think you guys got the wrong idea from that article. Everyone gets fooled by trash, however, what that article is explaining is how good finds are being discarded in favor of chasing trash. Maybe read it again with that in mind....happens way more often then many think.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Sorry, didn't read it, just went with the premise of the post title.

 

[digger460]

A good reminder. Probably have done that more time's then I want to admit.

 

[OBN]

Most places here trash is rare (unless you hunt close to shore), a great rule for me is to X and Circle areas where there is a good chance of multiple good targets. And I have found several gold rings because I thought I had got the original target. When I'm finished with a area it feels like a mine field.

 

[bigscoop]

Most places here trash is rare (unless you hunt close to shore), a great rule for me is to X and Circle areas where there is a good chance of multiple good targets. And I have found several gold rings because I thought I had got the original target. When I'm finished with a area it feels like a mine field.

I know that feeling.... About a week ago I got a gold ring and two pulltabs in one scoop.....it was sort of a - moment.

 

[bigscoop]

By the way, you've educated and inspired me and I'm getting much better so next year I'm going for 100 and I think I can make it?

 

[OBN]

By the way, you've educated and inspired me and I'm getting much better so next year I'm going for 100 and I think I can make it?

Yes, the right locations can be the big payoff!
Thanks You!
I get inspired by others, I can be lazying around.......... I start seeing gold posted.... I start planning the next day out. I have to be careful I don't get to excited, then I can't sleep.

 

[ScubaDetector]

That is the main reason I love detecting bullet beach. Bullet beach is a very popular boaters hang out on lake St Clair. Some waders detect it but many of the WW1 practice 30-06 and 45 bullets fall through their scoops. They then leave them. You would not believe how many gold rings I have found by removing bullets and still getting a signal only to find gold. Sure I get hundreds of bullets out of that area. But as a diver I can pick them up and keep detecting. It will be a sad day when all the bullets are gone and the waders will then find the gold I can.

A good article. Just like the waders I know that dig trash and toss it back. WHY does anyone who scoops want to find the same target more than once? I don't understand some detectorists at all. I can see not chasing a bullet, however I can also see why I find a lot more gold than waders do in that area.

Last batch of bullets and last gold ring from the area

 

[Xraywolf]

I remember bullet beach - Thing that got me about it wasn't the bullets but the nasty grey muck, defies sifting and a bit smelly.

I often use a tow along floating sand sifter to avoid just the type of scenario in the article.
I dump my scoop in that and keep looking for the target, if it is a multiple then the 1st one will be in my sifter. I'm surprised more guys don't use them , easy and cheap to make and once you got it clipped on you hardly know its there until you need it.

 

[ZR2guy]

This is why I ALWAYS double check the hole, the plug and/or what I have removed from the hole with a pinpointer or the detector. This is especially important when getting a good high-low signal. I would rather be thorough than fast.

 

[junkhunt]

Not me, Never.

 

[CASPER-2]

I know others that were tricked out of goodies because of trash - one instance was a few yrs ago I hooked up with small group of land hunters
from TNET - we met at some huge farm fields that go back to colonial times - we picked one field where some "tree coins" had been found in the past
we parked at the edge of the road - a spot where they and other hunters had parked many times before - along with many other kids partying and hikers and dog walkers had too. You could see squashed plastic bottles and cans and other trash along the road side. We hunted for like 3 hrs and decided to head back to our vehicles and take a lunch break. We came from all directions and the others had shut their machines down and were walking the last 50 yrds...while I kept on swinging. I was about 20 ft from my jeep and I could see the trash sticking out of the dirt in the broken corn stalks. I getting blasts to the riught ...blasts to the left. Then I got a blast but it was not the same sound as the can ones - it was reading as a silver dollar instead of half dollar which
is what most of the can parts were. The other four guys were laughing and asking what I thought I was going to dig. Told them "I got a silver dollar reading"
They laughed and all said "you got a can". I had been using my machine for around 20 yrs and knew it might be junk but did not believe it was a can. I told them "you guys probably never hit this close to the road cause of all the junk?" - a few said they tried but just too much trash and don't remember any good.
I said "this dirt is just as old as that dirt over there and there could be goodies masked by the trash" - they all kind of agreed. "I see your point..' The soil was packed because of all the vehicles that drove over it. I started to dig - target was down around a foot. One guy walks over and says to the others with a wink "I want to watch he dig a silver dollar" I pried up a big clump out of the hole and I could see a bent piece of silvery metal sticking out - it's a spoon and its tarnished and it's marked sterling!. It ended up weighing in at close to what a silver dollar would - reason for it reading as a silver dollar. They all almost shat.
They would not have believed it if the guy looking over my shoulder had not seen it come out of the clump. At the time silver was around $25 and ounce - so I told them they had al passed over a $25 ticket all those times they had been there before.
Have had similar experiences before in trashy spots.

 

[cooper1841]

I remember bullet beach - Thing that got me about it wasn't the bullets but the nasty grey muck, defies sifting and a bit smelly.

I often use a tow along floating sand sifter to avoid just the type of scenario in the article.
I dump my scoop in that and keep looking for the target, if it is a multiple then the 1st one will be in my sifter. I'm surprised more guys don't use them , easy and cheap to make and once you got it clipped on you hardly know its there until you need it.

I see a guy wadding at our beaches with a set up like that, and he does well. Hunts all year, while us land lovers are researching

 

[ScubaDetector]

I see a guy wadding at our beaches with a set up like that, and he does well. Hunts all year, while us land lovers are researching

You are in Michigan and someone hunts beaches all year? I have never seen a beach not frozen over here. Where is he finding salt water?

 

[cooper1841]

You are in Michigan and someone hunts beaches all year? I have never seen a beach not frozen over here. Where is he finding salt water?

Well Scuba, He said all year, I'm sure he meant well past swimming season, until it freezes up.

 

[MarshallMetalDetecting]

Guess I will be making frequent stops at a park I found. It's like the place pull tags go after they are pulled from the can. Like pull tab heaven. There are hundreds of these signals. I skipped over so many there. LOL Now I want to go hunting again

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