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mega trash and my 2nd gold ring

dfmike

dfmike

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I had a few hours to kill after work last week and out comes a small gold ring on my 3rd target dig ! I went back today and this time, nothing except for a few clad coins. 3 hours of digging mainly pull tabs and nothing to show for it. Today was possibly my most unproductive day since I got my F19. It happens.

I wanted to take a photo of all the trash that I dug (and it's not all shown) just to make the point that if someone wants to find gold, they will end up spending time digging lots and lots of targets and the majority of them will be junk. I'm convinced that a lot of people who detect ignore pull tabs on purpose and I don't necessarily blame them. Pulling everything out of modern trashy areas except iron takes a lot of patience and energy. I could see many holes around the ring that I found that were made by other metal detectors that probably didn't even "see" the target because of discrimination set high or digging only the high tones. Just the sheer amount of pull tabs I find tell me that many don't even bother to dig the lower to mid conductors.
 
Congrats on another gold ring!
HH
Mike
 
Just think how much easier it would be to find good targets if only those pull tabs stayed attached like they do now, I'm one of those guys who doesn't have the patience to pull all that junk to get the gold rings.
Congratulations on your 2nd gold ring.
 
still looking 52 said:
Just think how much easier it would be to find good targets if only those pull tabs stayed attached like they do now, I'm one of those guys who doesn't have the patience to pull all that junk to get the gold rings.
Congratulations on your 2nd gold ring.
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Thanks. I wasn't even aware of the newer pull tabs.

I sometimes run out of patience. I take off and search places that I know are cleaner or only dig the high conductor tones or numbers and that means eliminating pull tabs altogether.
 
Every pull tab I see in your picture was "permanently" attached to a can. Not sure what Still Looking 52 was saying about present day tabs staying attached. They stay attached until someone bends it back and forth until it comes off.
 
All the can beverages now are made so when you open them the " tab" stays attached to the can so it doesn't get thrown on the ground but back in the day before 1975 when you opened the can the tab came loose from the can and that's why people would just toss them on the ground. So if you the old cans would have been made like the new cans we wouldn't have all those pull tabs tossed on the ground.
 
Nice job on the ring! was this a beach hunt or land hunt?

Tom
 
Thanks . It was a beach hunt.
 
The newer tabs don't stay on the cans where I live. I find hundreds that are pried off the cans. Very irritating
 
Corpus Christi, Tx. The newer tabs are all over the beaches, in the water and all over the parks. Why do they pry them off? Who knows?
 
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