park hunters, do you want gold rings?

[old lobo]

Yes, I know, at the beach you scoop everything that isn't iron. Well, the park isn't the beach. A person has to pinpoint, get down on their knees and cut a plug, dig more dirt out of the hole, pinpoint and hopefully get the coin or ring, put the dirt back in the hole, put the plug back where it was, and tamp it down, for each signal. It takes a lot more time and effort for each signal than at the beach. You younger people with jobs and families don't have the time to dig every signal, and us old people that aren't in the shape we used to be, just can't get up and down as easily as we used to.

The answer to this situation is to dig the numbers that have the most potential to find most of the gold rings. Notice I said most, not all. I have 11 gold rings, 7 women's and 4 men's.3 of the women's rings were exceptions. 1 read 14, 1 read16, and 1 read 23. The other 4 women's rings and 1 of the men's thin rings read between 9 and 12. All 3 of the men's wedding bands read 28, 29, and 31. I also checked a handful of can tabs and the majority read 15 to 16, some 17 to 20, and fewer read 29 to 30. Going by this, if you dig the 9 to 12 signals for women's rings, and the 28 to 31 signals for men's rings, you should find about 75% of the rings, and because very few of those can tabs read up in the men's wedding band range, you shouldn't have to dig a ton of can tabs to find men's rings.

The purpose of this post is to give you food for thought and to get you started. I'm just one person, so the rest of you with a number of rings, please check yours and let the rest of us know where the majority of your men's and women's rings read, that's how we all learn.

 

[KinTN]

Good Post; thanks!

3 to 6 is another sweet spot for womens rings.
on the down side, 9 to12 seems to be where the foil hides.

 

[kscowgirl]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Goldstrike]

Great advice O.L.!! You've helped a lot to identify the likely gold numbers for many. It takes a lot of determination to dig all those likely numbers/targets just to find a pull tab or a screwcap but if you don't give up and persist, eventually you'll find the gold rings but only IF you have determination.
Each pull tab or screwcap I find, I think to myself I'm getting closer to that gold ring that's hiding in the ground! It almost seems like a numbers game and there is skill involved in matching the numbers with the sounds and vice versa.
I lean heavily on what I'm hearing in my headphones and use what is displaying on the l.e.d. as a secondary verification. I would say about 80-90% I rely on sounds to tell me what's under the coil.
I would agree with KinTN that the # 9 is 95% of the time foil and although I don't mask that number out, I rarely dig 9's. The same with 40.......it's virtually always a junk number. I still cannot figure out why 39 is silver almost 100% of the time but the number right next to it...#40 is junk? I posted that question a long time ago but no one seemed to know why!!!

 

[old lobo]

Two of those women's gold rings I found read 9, two read 10, and 1 read 11, so a person takes their chances not digging those numbers, and the three men's rings read 28, 29, and 31.

For you new people, let me explain that gold rings can read anywhere from just out of the iron range all the way up to zinc penny, so if you want to find all the gold (and platinum) rings, you do have to dig everything. The reason for the numbers I gave above is because many people because of family, jobs, age, or physical condition, just don't have the time or stamina to dig everything, so the readings I gave above will allow them to at least have a chance to find many of them.

It will also save you time and effort if you pay attention to who is doing what in the park. Around basketball courts the men put their belongings next to the court while their playing, mostly men play soccer and baseball around here, so in all those areas concentrate on the men's rings signals, the women with their children, sit around the surrounding area watching their husbands or boyfriends play these activities, and sit around next to the playground watching their children play, and there you look for the women's rings. Yes, there are exceptions, especially with soccer, a man gives his wife his ring to hold while he is playing, a father taking his child to the playground, etc., but that goes back to digging everything, which is a good thing if you have the time and energy, this post is to give the people that don't, to at least have a chance to find many of them.

 

[kschae4]

Great info, O.L. on the gold rings. GS, I'm hearing ya about tid 40,which is always shards of aluminum in my case. As I recall,only Croakersmoker in So Jersey has on occasion, pulled up silver there. I'll continue to dig it, may be it'll turn out to be promising one of these days.