This is what a 3 hour cherry picking for low tones only with the CTX with the 6" coil looks like... the silver toe rings and the silver necklace and pendent all rang in at low tones too. I got the quarter because it was in the same hole as the 14k ring and both sounded off.
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3 hour cherry pick with the CTX...
- Thread starter h.m.scoop
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Very interesting. Ok, I'll be the "devil's advocate" and go first: What do you say to the persons who tell you that there are occasional monster-sized men's gold rings (college class rings, etc...) that can read up high enough as to be up near/at penny TID range ? By your cherry picking to avoid high tones, you *might* have missed something like that. Or how about a $20 gold piece: It reads up at about IH range of TID.
I've had this debate with fellow md'rs before, for when targets get SO thick after storm erosion, that I debate passing all copper penny & up signals
I've had this debate with fellow md'rs before, for when targets get SO thick after storm erosion, that I debate passing all copper penny & up signals
OldBeechnut
Well-known member
Very good hunt and congrads on all the Gold and Silver!
How about a 103gr 14k gold, high tone on the cz21 8 inch coil.. hard to believe but I have it on video...I'm a Cherry Picker but after seeing the video I dig it all and with some surprises.
Tom_in_CA said:Very interesting. Ok, I'll be the "devil's advocate" and go first: What do you say to the persons who tell you that there are occasional monster-sized men's gold rings (college class rings, etc...) that can read up high enough as to be up near/at penny TID range ? By your cherry picking to avoid high tones, you *might* have missed something like that. Or how about a $20 gold piece: It reads up at about IH range of TID.
I've had this debate with fellow md'rs before, for when targets get SO thick after storm erosion, that I debate passing all copper penny & up signals
How about a 103gr 14k gold, high tone on the cz21 8 inch coil.. hard to believe but I have it on video...I'm a Cherry Picker but after seeing the video I dig it all and with some surprises.
Old beechnut, question for you: In all honesty, what ratio of gold rings do you think read up that high? Because I have gotten some chucky men's fat gold bands that read up in the zinc range. But to get one that reads up in the copper penny range, is going to be rare indeed. Therefore it's all in the Las Vegas odds. If you have 1000 copper penny signals on the beach, odds are that every one of them are going to be a copper penny. Sure there is the rare exception, but if you have only enough time, to dig only enough signals, and you WON'T have enough time to strip mine all the signals out, then you will get more gold rings, when it's all said and done, by passing copper penny - and - up signals.
This is only applicable when there are so many signals to choose from that you can't exhaust them all before the tide chases you out.
This is only applicable when there are so many signals to choose from that you can't exhaust them all before the tide chases you out.
Grilled Scallops
New member
Alright I came here to say to the OP that wow that is one insane cherry pick and I wish I had spots that would cherry pick like that....but then OBN drops this little tid bit and now of course I think he should post the link to the video
I do not cherry pick at all sites, just the ones that are littered with fishing weights. I will still get the really small lead weights but in some beaches that are littered with fishing weights and before I got the CTX I was using my Excaliburs and I would be pulling up 5 pounds of fishing weights and trash and my founds pouch would fill up so fast that I would have to get out of the water and dump everything out in the trash then go back in the water. With the CTX it allows you to cherry pick which I love about this machine. There is one beach that I hunt once in a while that is so trashy and littered with thousands of pull tabs, aluminum pieces of trash and bottle caps that I cherry pick for high tones only., yes I know that there is probably gold mixed in with all that trash but the bottom line is that I cherry pick when I can and when I feel that it is appropriate and at the end of the hunt I feel great about the finds that I have found and never worry about the things that I MIGHT have missed and at the end of the hunt I had fun and was excited about all my keepers.
dewcon4414
Well-known member
Im not a real fan of screen watching or cherry picking either..... a lot of the gold rings i get on the Xcal at least sound in the high range. But then i can put in 8 hours and not find that much stuff digging everything. There are places that cherry picking is a good start........ then maybe a pattern search before digging more targets. Seems to have worked for you. I just wished one time i was the guy who put in just 3 hours on a hunt lol.
Dew
Dew
There was a particular beach in my area awhile back, that got beat up and eroded out with storms/waves. All the light stuff (tabs, foil, caps AND EVEN ZINC PENNIES [d/t they are lighter coins]) got washed out ! Not many old silver coins though. And to the extent some silver coins were there, they were salt-water black "toast". Hence old coins nor clad was our objective. Naturally we were all wanting gold rings (who wouldn't?")
The first day or so, we ended up with 250 or more coins each. Essentially as fast as you could dig. And perhaps 1 to 2 gold rings each. Hence about 100 to 1 ratio on gold rings versus coins. And when I got home from that first night, and put all the targets out on the table to count, out of the 250-ish coins, clearly 80 or so were copper pennies. Wohhooo. Another 80 or so were copper dimes. Wooohoo. And then quarters, nickels, fishing sinkers, car keys, etc.....
The next day I wised up and start passing copper pennies and up. But accepted zinc penny (since there WERE no zinc pennies there) and downwards. An occasional dime or penny would still read in, because it was thinner on account of beach-tumble effect. But for the most part, the coin counts dropped dramatically, as I was passing most all copper pennies and quarters. And the nickel count went up from a previous count of 25 or 30-ish, to 80 to 100-ish ! And instead of ~ 2 gold rings, now the counts were 5 to 7 gold rings. EVEN THE BIG MEN'S GOLD RINGS were not missed, since we had edited in zinc.
This was a case where it was going to be simply impossible to strip-mine every signal out. Within 5 days it was sanding back in, and at no time, in any of the day's tide cycles, could you ever exhaust the signals. Nor even find the end of the pocket's length on the beach! And by the 6th day, it had sanded back in. And will probably remain so for the next 20 or 30 yrs. before it's ever that low/eroded there again.
So in that case, you can see that it is in fact very wise to cherry pick, to "up your odds" at gold ring. That is, unless, you are turned on by modern copper clad pennies and dimes and quarters.
The first day or so, we ended up with 250 or more coins each. Essentially as fast as you could dig. And perhaps 1 to 2 gold rings each. Hence about 100 to 1 ratio on gold rings versus coins. And when I got home from that first night, and put all the targets out on the table to count, out of the 250-ish coins, clearly 80 or so were copper pennies. Wohhooo. Another 80 or so were copper dimes. Wooohoo. And then quarters, nickels, fishing sinkers, car keys, etc.....
The next day I wised up and start passing copper pennies and up. But accepted zinc penny (since there WERE no zinc pennies there) and downwards. An occasional dime or penny would still read in, because it was thinner on account of beach-tumble effect. But for the most part, the coin counts dropped dramatically, as I was passing most all copper pennies and quarters. And the nickel count went up from a previous count of 25 or 30-ish, to 80 to 100-ish ! And instead of ~ 2 gold rings, now the counts were 5 to 7 gold rings. EVEN THE BIG MEN'S GOLD RINGS were not missed, since we had edited in zinc.
This was a case where it was going to be simply impossible to strip-mine every signal out. Within 5 days it was sanding back in, and at no time, in any of the day's tide cycles, could you ever exhaust the signals. Nor even find the end of the pocket's length on the beach! And by the 6th day, it had sanded back in. And will probably remain so for the next 20 or 30 yrs. before it's ever that low/eroded there again.
So in that case, you can see that it is in fact very wise to cherry pick, to "up your odds" at gold ring. That is, unless, you are turned on by modern copper clad pennies and dimes and quarters.
bootyhoundpa
Well-known member
Great results hms...looks like fresh water finds...im not familiar with the ctx but there's no sense in having that screen and not putting some strategy behind it and it obviously works for you. i was working a saltwater beach last week with my excal when this guys with a ctx starts working in same area as me... he spent so much time pinpointing and analyzing and held his coil so far off the sand i truly didnt think he knew what he was doing and it was rare to see him dig... after talking to him i soon realized his hunting strategy was far superior to mine as he left with a large 14k band and i left with some 2 dollars in change...i mean the guy wasnt even waisting time on quarters. ...as far as high tone rings go i have found 2... 1st gold ring i ever found read out exactly in the zinc penny,indian penny range and it was fattt... one i found at the beach one time read out in the copper penny,dime range ...it was marked 14k but i thought it couldnt be ...jeweler acid tested 14k... but like you say sometimes you just gotta go with probability and not worry about the flukes.... congrats on some cool finds....
dewcon4414
Well-known member
Hows that go...... even a blind squirrel will find a nut. Three things to remember........1 you cant find it if its not there, 2 you cant find it if you dont get your coil over it and 3 you cant find it if you dont realize you just went over it. BH..... sounds like you want a new detector. Never buy a new detector because someone found gold and you didnt....... next time you might find two behind him lol.
Dew
Dew
Hardrock65
New member
Wow that's a nice haul! When are you opening up a jewelry store?
HH
HH
DetectorCdunk
New member
Top notch cherry picking right there. Nice finds
I also have a CTX I do cherry pick at some locations.I hope that new comers or other people reading this post don't think that if you have a CTX this will happen to them when ever they set up a cherry picking program.Ot hasen't happened to me or a lot of other CTX owners. Nice finds.
Jim
Jim