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Thanks Guy's..I will have to take your advise and Dig all the pull tab Hits..it will take me awhile but nothing good comes Easy..
I would digress from this advice, based on the description of the site you give. There are some sites where it DOESN'T pay to "be a hero" and try to rescue a gold ring from a 1000's+ to 1 ratio. If you're
that bent on finding gold rings, why oh why oh why are you in a location like this, to begin with? Your time would be better spent on simply going to areas where gold rings are more condusive and ratios aren't like that. Namely: swimming beaches and sports fields.
Because anytime you have an eating/drinking (picnicking for example) venue,
by the very nature of those activities, is primed to introduce aluminum and tabs. Because where people drink sodas and at fairs, read: tabs. Where they eat, read: foil (wrapper for the food).
Let me give you an example: there was a rodeo grounds bleachers, blt in the 1920s, where .... for 70+ yrs, spectators has thrown their debri down through the slats, to the under-belly below. And after each event, the cleanup crews would rake out all the debri from this hard-pan surface. It was litterally an OCEAN of pulltabs by the 1990s. Then the city tore down these immense grandstands to make way to build new ones. We got in there during the demolition phase, and there was simply no way we were going to be "heros" and try to get nickels and gold rings. We had to crank our discrimination, and go for the silver (lest we never progress out of a 1000 sq. ft. area). We got hundreds of silver coins (and wheaties and clad) by doing this. If we had tried to "dig all", we'd have never have had the time to get all that silver. And sure, we might have "missed a gold ring". But as I say, if gold rings were our goal, then why oh why would we be hunting a place like that? I can simply go to the beach which is 20 min. away, and have much better odds.
So there IS some places where you DO need to be a little ... uh ... selective.
Oh, and by the way: I got a $5 gold piece from the 1890s during that rodeo grandstands demolition, despite having tabs & square tabs disc'd out. The reason is: A $5 gold reads a hair-higher than square tabs (even the beefier fatter types). I was using a Whites Eagle SLII at the time. And I had found that the beefier thicker tabs read about 46-47-ish. So I had disc'd out everything from 47 and down. A $5 gold, on the other hand, reads 48-ish
Other machines, with broad categories, would not have been able to do this. They would lump a $5 and a square tab in the same quadrant.
The same logic would hold true for some gold rings: If you knock out just the round tabs, you will get gold rings that read above and below that spot on your TID>
