Thu, 11 June 2009 . Have you found your first gold ring yet? No? What? You don't dig pulltabs? That's why you're leaving those rings for me. Pulltabs are the ringfinder's best friend! Here's why.. A discussion of how to find gold rings by digging pulltabs, without losing your sanity. Also - Have you found more dimes, or nickels? You don't know? Tips on keeping a coin logbook. I sell a book I've written called The Metal Detecting Manual. Available nowhere else but here: http://treasuremanual.com. Comments[4] |
Hi Dan, good pod cast. This is the 1st one I have had a chance to comment on.
Outfields of baseball diamonds are a great place to look for gold rings. Lefties loose rings when throwing a ball into home plate. Nickles also come in the pulltab range. Pulltabs can mostly be determined by Xing off the target. You will get a different signal in each direction but not always. When I hit baseball & soccer fields, I always look strictly for pulltab & nickle signals. Most of my gold rings found on land were by this method.
Outfields of baseball diamonds are a great place to look for gold rings. Lefties loose rings when throwing a ball into home plate. Nickles also come in the pulltab range. Pulltabs can mostly be determined by Xing off the target. You will get a different signal in each direction but not always. When I hit baseball & soccer fields, I always look strictly for pulltab & nickle signals. Most of my gold rings found on land were by this method.
posted by: Ross Soderberg on Thu, 6/11 01:31 PM EDT
I actually started keeping track of plugged pull tabs and nickels (which can also ring up in the same range as gold rings on the Ace 250).
So far:
Pull tabs: 220 (124 being 70's style)
Nickels: 65
Gold Rings: 0
The good news is I did find a 10K ring in a tot lot this year, but in those I find very few pull tabs so it is no big deal digging everything. I think I only dug up 30 pull tabs in tot lots, and I already hit a good 10 lots (where I find more gold then I ever do plugging!).
I also keep track of the clad I turn in as the free coin counter at my bank gives you the totals.
13% quarters
19% dimes
11% nickels
57% cents.
The only reason the quarter percentage is good is because a school near me gave up a whopping 316 of them so far.
Well, although we are blessed by late Spring rains I am stopping plugging until fall so those gold rings will have to wait until then :0)
So far:
Pull tabs: 220 (124 being 70's style)
Nickels: 65
Gold Rings: 0
The good news is I did find a 10K ring in a tot lot this year, but in those I find very few pull tabs so it is no big deal digging everything. I think I only dug up 30 pull tabs in tot lots, and I already hit a good 10 lots (where I find more gold then I ever do plugging!).
I also keep track of the clad I turn in as the free coin counter at my bank gives you the totals.
13% quarters
19% dimes
11% nickels
57% cents.
The only reason the quarter percentage is good is because a school near me gave up a whopping 316 of them so far.
Well, although we are blessed by late Spring rains I am stopping plugging until fall so those gold rings will have to wait until then :0)
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