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Goodness gracious great balls of foil

Larbear2

Larbear2

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I made a return trip to Cladfest High School in Somewhere, Idaho. This has been a great location for lots of clad and a few rings (1 gold and 2 silver so far). Always seem to find a few of these crumpled up balls of foil, the concession stand must wrap the hot dogs and burgers in foil. Some people can’t seem to find the garbage can and just crumple up the foil and throw it on the ground. That’s OK, the area around the concession has given up lots of clad the last couple of years. One of those foil signals may someday turn out to be a gold target !

Kind of funny, I drove by that high school several times before deciding to finally start searching it. It just looked too new to have many targets to find. But it has been great for clad and a few rings. I guess you never know until you start searching.

Todays finds, $7.75 clad, one 925 ring, one tungsten? ring (actually fits me).
 

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Good pile of clad there. Nice finds on the rings. That one looks like a nice little chunk. HH Jim Tn
 
I don’t dig them all, sometimes there are just too many and I won’t be able to hunt as long as I want because I get too tired from digging so many. Also, I hunt most locations over and over, so the ones I skip over I can get another time.

There can be some good targets come up in the zinc range, so hopefully we aren’t missing out on some good targets.
 
I was digging cent/zinc readings the other day with my Omega and recovered a 4.7 gram 14k ring, 2nd time I have done that of late and the other time was with my F 75. Having said that, I don't always recover zinc cent readings. Particularly, those that are shallow. And know I am possibly passing up a gold piece, I find a fair amount of nickels on many sites and know that many detectorists pass up nickel readings, too, as they are in the pull tab range. If one likes finding gold jewelry and doesn't dig cent and nickel readings, one is going to miss out on some nice gold.........and silver. I've dug small silver items also in the cent range.

Anyone that does it, though, probably knows they could be passing up something good. Perhaps just playing the odds? HH jim tn
 
I’ve dug deeper silver dimes that come in and wobble on the zinc/copper break point. 77-80 ID on omega or t2. My last experience was a 1948 Washington at 7” with a 1944 nickel right next to it. 79-81 ID.
 
jim tn said:
This sure is a fun, great and interesting hobby. HH jim tn
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Yes it is and it is a hobby that can pay you back. The clad accumulates over time, then cash it in.

I have had a quarter nickel (or quarter and two nickels) coin spill come in as a zinc signal on the F70.
 
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