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Found a nice silver ring but i still have a question

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staloch

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I was out for the second time with my Tiger Shark trying out a new spot. I dug about 40 pulltabs and 1 dime and 1 silver ring. This swimming hole was popular back in the 1880s and it is quite large. I have my discrimination set at 3.5 so should i be digging all those pulltabs or should i turn up my discrimination a little more.
Thanks for any feedback
 
To be honest, if you have a feeling the swimming area has never been hunted or hardly hunted at all I would use the least descrimination I could possible use and still be able to detect gold (try it in your backyard or in a "test plot.")

If you descriminate out pull tabs, you won't find gold.

Just my opinion - sounds like you have a heck of a nice spot to detect.
 
I'm not sure I understand that advice. There is no "least amount of discrimination possible while still finding gold". The more discrimination you use, the less gold you find...simple ad that.

If he's discriminating out everything below pull tabs, then he won't be finding any ladies diamond solitares which have very LITTLE gold and very BIG diamonds. But he'll probably find the larger ladies rings and medium to large men's rings. If he discriminates out pull tabs, he will only be finding the largest pimp rings and maybe class rings but will be missing MOST of the good stuff.

Beach hunters should use NO discrimination. Unless they don't want gold. Best advice for that hunt spot is to use no disc, hunt the crap out of it, clean it up, and enjoy the gold you find along with the 5,000 pull tabs, beaver tails, and can scraps. Personally, I don't want to work that hard for it. I don't enjoy hunting trashy spots like that, but you do what you have to to get the gold.
 
but my wording wasn't very accurate.

I was really trying to suggest that using the least amount of descrimination possible (none) will allow you to find the most gold - there's always a give and take though, so I figured if he tested a gold ring with the detector and played around with the descrimination settings he could try to figure out what setting would work best for him. You're right though, any descrimination will start affecting what he can recover - it's all a matter of what he's looking for and what he's willing to sacrifice.

I think you said, much more clearly, what I was trying to say and did a bad job of it :)
 
Call me and tell me where your spot is and I will come over and dig a of those pesky pull tabs out for you :clapping:
 
I figured that was what you meant...just wanted to make sure he got the bottom line message...don't discriminate out anything at the beach. Now having said that, I don't always DIG everything. But that's where the beauty of the Excal comes in...I don't have to if it doesn't sound good. :)
 
Yes, Grasshopper...BEAVER TAILS! :lol:

Google is my friend...

http://home.insightbb.com/~johnhetti/coinstrike/tabs.htm

http://www.jjdetectors.com/Glossary.html#b

http://www.detecting.com/activities/terminology.cmdl
 
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