indy durtdigger said:
This summer I added ring hunting my regimen. So far I have dig hundreds of ring pulls, beaver tails, square tabs, and a surprising amount of nickels that weren't hitting anywhere near what they "should" have. My question is what ID number ranges are the most common? I started out digging anything 25 and up but the park I am hitting has never been hit by a ring hunter so the sheer number of targets it overwhelming. Thus I had to change my strategy and dig nickel signals and higher. What might I be missing by not digging the targets in the twenties?
You would be missing smaller yellow gold rings and even larger white gold rings because alloys to make it white like nickel will lower the conductivity.
Nickel area gold is a pretty common find for me so far, a few were dead on nickels but most are a bit higher or lower than my common nickel 32-33.
Foil is a close second, looking for gold I rarely disc higher than 22 because I have found a few at 23 and especially 24.
The 14k plumb ring was tiny and came in as a 23-24 on my F70 and I have found a few more small ones at similar numbers.
The next two are almost identical in design with real diamonds but the white gold is 2 sizes bigger than the yellow gold and came in at 24 vs the yellow gold 32 smaller ring.
Below that is a lot of the other gold I have found, dug a few more since I put that pic together, and notice the amounts in each section.
Most of those numbers are for the F2 but my F70 is close and maybe only one number higher on most of them.
Also chains in both silver and gold can easily come in at a kinds of foil numbers.
There is only thing I can tell you that might help and keep in mind weird things happen out there so you really don't know what you are swinging over till you dig it.
That one thing is most foil I have dug is usually pretty jumpy and won't be exactly the same numbers from 90 degrees either.
Not all but most.
All the gold I have dug have not been jumpy, have been exactly the same numbers from 90 degrees most of the time or just one number off on a few that weren't.
These were all at 5" or less in depth...the deep stuff can well act different and don't forget about masking problems which might affect signals, too.