Round Tabs In Dry Sand?!

[Critterhunter]

I hunt lake Erie and what shocks me more than anything is the amount of round tabs I found up on the beach. I'm talking in sand that waves would never reach and wash round tabs up onto. Finding all these round tabs tells me other dry sand hunters haven't done a very good job of ring hunting. Just wondering if anybody else is finding round tabs in dry beach sand. You have to figure these things have been sitting around for, what...20 years?

 

[GunnarMN]

critt I live in the land of 10.000 lakes and i cant get to a beach but that is a sure sighn you have some lazy hunters I do find them in the park and place i hunt in town when i can get thear start picking them and you will find rings you are blessed to be able to hunt lake mishigan WOW

 

[ZOFCHAK]

My guess is that the sand on Lake Erie probably moving around a lot more that it would seem, and with it the light aluminum tabs as well. I know I've seen stacks of ice about 10 feet high stacked well onto the shores of Erie in the Winter, that has the potential to bury/expose a lot of old pull tabs

 

[Birdseed]

Critter

Tasmania is no exception, I find heaps of ring tabs, and more interestingly, the old aluminium ring pulls used on steel beverage cans still turn up with monotonous regularity.
These detachable pulls were discontinued in the 70s but every one ever produced is still out there ready to blast my ears as the Sov passes over it.. The early types were succeeded by the type with the larger oval finger hole which came with the invention of the all aluminium can. I find that these are often almost completely corroded away, so the composition of the aluminium alloy must be different and more prone to attack by the elements.
Ring pulls are a curse to the detectorist, but at least on a very clean site they confirm that my detector is still operating!!!!
See pics. The orange background shot is the newer type.

Peter

 

[Rob in (Ca)]

I find them all the time at my local park, but never at my beach?.......I hate them because they ID, the same as a womens heavy set diamond rind ....you just gota dig them

 

[w6pea]

Could it be that people that are out there detecting find them and just throw them down and leave them there where they found them.

 

[Critterhunter]

Yes, I've seen guys dig holes on the beach and leave the trash right next to the hole. I've only ran into maybe 4 or 5 beach hunters this past year and just about all of them were leaving their trash behind, not filling holes, or hunting with such high discrimination that only coins will be recovered. Round tabs are all over our local parks. I'm just shocked they are all over the beaches where people should be digging everything in the hopes of a gold ring.

 

[itsaawgood]

I have foundd quite a few of them in knee deep or shallower water in Lake Michigan this summer....but none onshore.

 

[Suncoast Kid]

I do a lot of water hunting at the beach, and have hit and dug 's over a foot deep with my Pulse, and some almost as deep with my Excal. Some old timers say they can tell the difference between a gold ring and a pulltab. I sure wish I had that gift, as they sound just like a ring to me, enough to where I will dig it. I've gotten used to it and figure that if I'm finding the tabs, I will also find the rings. HH

 

[BeachBat]

I've got two area's of beach which are covered with them - its almost like a carpet of the damn things............ I think everyone just ignores this area as the rest of the beach (miles and miles of sand) is quite prolific. I keep saying to myself that come winter time I will clean it out - although last winter I just didn't have the time. Usually I will scan across once on the way back to car just to test myself with the tones.......pulled a silver ring out last weekend whilst doing that and there will certainly be some good stuff in that area as its the entrance to the beach...

There is certainly an element (growing) of detectorists who have the illogical approach of not picking up litter - usually they walk at a very fast pace swinging wildly, find a target, kick some sand, see junk and walk on...... I have had some nice finds by pocketing that bit of junk and scanning that area again.

But if you are finding them scattered far and wide across the beach then others must be disc'ing them out......... plenty do without realizing what they could be missing.... potentially there loss and your gain......