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CO - 47
- Thread starter Monkeys Uncle
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Monkeys Uncle
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As ya'll know, among the problems of chasing gold is gall-darn "pull tabs/beaver tails". Read on a MD site (don't remember which one) where someone was so curious about the 'ratio' of pull tabs to gold rings the he/she kept a record of 'hits' vs 'misses' and their findings were something like 1100:1. If real...and being a dry land detector, I'm tooooooo old (and ornery) to do that much digging. I will always dig nickel values and keep my fingers crossed...hoping for gold, but ok with an occasional 5 cent payday. Yesterday, dug a FE 14/12 CO signal and got a small, mower-damaged clasp/pin. Felt heavy enough to be Au...but it's 'plated' at best with major crimp into a "V" configuration. Suspect it's pretty old as school was built in 1911 and design is kind of ornate.
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