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I would like to ask the folks that post some of these nice ring collections a question.:please:....I envy your finds but digging pull tabs right and left seems to drain my fun meter way too quickly.....and I need some words of wisdom.:unsure:....... Here's the question........ What would you say your ratio of pull tabs dug to rings found would be ? I think mine is half a truck load of pull tabs and zero rings .........Thanks . Bill
 
I think it mainly depends on where you hunt/dig, on the beach in the dry maybe more than 1000:1 but in the wet sand less, in the water after a storm that decreases dramatically as only the heavier objects are left, but its still higher than i would like :ranting: unfortunately
 
Like Kered said, the place your digging has alot to do with the ratio. If you're digging around the picnic tables in a park it might be 3 pickup trucks full before you see any jewelry. You might do better around the kids playground as kids like to lose things. Swimming beaches are the best, especially in the water.
I don't thing that many people swim with a drink in their hand so that helps the odds plus the cold water shrinks your fingers so the rings come off easier.
Plus when you drop jewelry in the water it is sometimes VERY HARD to find it with just your hands and/or feet!
Neal
 
I have to chuckle when I see someone post that the sure-fire way to get gold rings, is to drop the disc. down and dig all the tabs and foil. Then the poor newbie goes out to the urban blighted junky park, digs pulltabs and foil till his arms fall off, wondering: "where's all the rings?"

Yes gold rings come in down in the foil, tab, and can-slaw range. However, that is not the only strategy for getting gold rings. As the others have stated, it's also WHERE you are hunting, that can greatly affect the ratios and odds. I can think of blighted parks, where a person would easily dig 1000 pieces of aluminum junk, before ever digging a piece of gold (I've actually measured/counted it out, when I had the opportunity to hit an old park which had been scraped to make way for artificial turf, so we "dug all", and kept careful track of the ratios). And I can think of other environments where that ratio wouldn't be as punishing. For example sand volleyball pits and sand wrestling pits (like for PT fields at army bases), where the very nature of the sport is thrashing about, frolicking your arms, etc.. And swimming beaches of course, where people lather up with slippery suntan lotion, frolick in cool waters which shrink fingers, etc... And even swimming beaches can vary, because some may be "upscale", while others can be party-hangouts where college kids drink beer and throw cans in bonfires all the time (creating molten can nuggets). On the wet salt beach, this problem can be solved when mother nature takes out all the light stuff after storm erosion, leaving absolutely zero tabs, and strictly heavier items. Certain turf can be better than others too, depending on how upscale the neighborhood, whether it's sports usage verses picnic/eating usage (picnicking/eating tends to introduce more tabs and foil, verses sports alone), etc... etc... etc....
 
Tom_in_CA said:
I have to chuckle when I see someone post that the sure-fire way to get gold rings, is to drop the disc. down and dig all the tabs and foil. Then the poor newbie goes out to the urban blighted junky park, digs pulltabs and foil till his arms fall off, wondering: "where's all the rings?"

Yes, that about sums it up for me Tom .....:rage:
Thanks for the bits of wisdom guys .... I'm starting to feel better about my ratio already......:thumbup: Now I'm thinking that I should only have about three or four more wheel barrow loads of tabs to dig until I find a ring .....:clapping:
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I used to go to my favorite local park with a mission - dig 100 pulltabs in the heavily used but insanely trashy picnic area before hitting other spots for coins. This picnic area was in use for a century but a lot of it was bare dirt and sparse grass, so the retrieval would be relatively quick. It would take about 20-30 minutes to pop out 100 pulltabs, foil, and other junk each trip. I found some old nickels and a nice coin or 2 hiding under a pulltab, but I never found a gold ring this way for the thousands of pulltabs I dug using this method. In fact I found only 2 gold rings in trashy areas by eyeballing something gold sticking out of the ground on a nickel hit. This may be because in a heavily used area with sparse grass, lost items were refound easier than in less used more open areas. I often dig up surface nickel and pulltab signals when I'm hunting in "non-trashy", less used areas and have been rewarded a few times with a gold ring. I haven't found any in the past few years this way, but I think my luck with this comes in waves. I have heard of other local hunters who target newer parks, playgrounds, and athletic fields out in the newer suburbs and have pretty good luck with the gold to trash ratio.... only because pulltabs have not been used since the '80's and the new square tabs aren't near as numerous, so these spots don't have high "trash to treasure" ratios like older sites. As others have stated, beach hunting can be very productive, if the conditions are right. I remember 1 evening hunting the wet sand after a storm for 2 hours where there were no signals except for a coin or 2 then 5 "trash" targets in a line about 50 feet long all produced gold. I went back to same stretch of sand 2 days later and found a ton of aluminum scrap in the same exact spot, but no more gold. It definitely is a question of being in the right place at the right time. Some strange places have produced gold rings for other hunters I have talked to. A hunter in a town in a northern state used to hunt to median strips around grocery store parking lots and a corner of the local town square where all the snow during the winter was bulldozed into piles. in the spring after the snow melted, he'd find some nice items including jewelry that people lost in the snow while getting in and out of their cars. Another guy I talked to would dig the muck out of storm drain traps in front of busy stores and other high traffic areas, spread it out in his yard and find coins and jewelry that had washed into the sewer opening. I guess you have to get creative where you hunt for gold. Sorry for rambling on! Take care and HH, Mike.
 
Thanks Mike :please:...... I'm getting a real education ....... Love this forum... :clapping:
Crazy as it may sound, I was encouraged when I saw a post by RayMo showing his finds and including a picture of the box of junk he had dug to get those finds....:detecting:
 
To any casual visitor the finds on this forum and any other for that mater don't give a true impresion and tend to make one think that detecting could be a get rich quick hobby, until they buy a detector and start finding all that trash that not many post, :lol: a quick down to earth again

To get this

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You need to dig lots of this first

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Thanks kered ....as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words .:clapping:..... I'll never fear pull tabs and can slaw again....:smoke:
 
some of that trash is picked up from the surface as i walk, saves me having to dig it next visit
 
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