Welcome!
» Log In
» Create A New Profile
THE 100th PULL TAB
Posted by Cal_cobra
This forum is currently read only. You can not log in or make any changes. This is a temporary situation.
|
THE 100th PULL TAB February 20, 2010 07:22AM |
Did a little recon work this afternoon to check out a new hunting spot that only dates to the 30's-40's but I thought it had great potential for silver coins as well as jewelry due to it's purpose.
I spent a couple of hours checking it out, and at one point a park ranger came over to me. I though oh oh, I'm probably getting booted. He asked me if I had my detecting permit, and I showed it to him. Not only was he fine with me being there, but he turned out to be really nice guy and a fountain of great information telling me about the history of the park, places that have been changed, and about all kinds of old spots that haven't been used in decades, but are still accessible to the public. Wow that's a first!
So I continued detecting the site and did find a few 1940's wheats, tons of clad and then came a super nice sounding signal, albeit an odd TID. Heck I dig lots of junk though, if it sounds good, I go for it, and sometimes it pays off. Well this was one of those times! One thing that irritates me about the F75 LTD in boost mode is it's propensity to make pulltabs sound so darn good. One thing that I LOVE about the F75 LTD boost mode is it's propensity to make GOLD sound so darn good.
About five inches down I pulled out a trio of interconnected rings. By this time it was dark and all I could see was the gleam of gold and silver, I could tell they weren't junkers, but I couldn't see them well enough to look for marks (heck I can't see well enough to see marks in the middle of the day half the time).
When I got home I louped them and oddly there's no marks on the yellow gold rings, but the silver ring is marked .925. I did an acid test on the gold rings and both tested good for 14K. Odd the lowly silver ring would be marked, but not the gold rings????
Without further adieu:
Thanks for looking & HH,
Brian
I spent a couple of hours checking it out, and at one point a park ranger came over to me. I though oh oh, I'm probably getting booted. He asked me if I had my detecting permit, and I showed it to him. Not only was he fine with me being there, but he turned out to be really nice guy and a fountain of great information telling me about the history of the park, places that have been changed, and about all kinds of old spots that haven't been used in decades, but are still accessible to the public. Wow that's a first!
So I continued detecting the site and did find a few 1940's wheats, tons of clad and then came a super nice sounding signal, albeit an odd TID. Heck I dig lots of junk though, if it sounds good, I go for it, and sometimes it pays off. Well this was one of those times! One thing that irritates me about the F75 LTD in boost mode is it's propensity to make pulltabs sound so darn good. One thing that I LOVE about the F75 LTD boost mode is it's propensity to make GOLD sound so darn good.
About five inches down I pulled out a trio of interconnected rings. By this time it was dark and all I could see was the gleam of gold and silver, I could tell they weren't junkers, but I couldn't see them well enough to look for marks (heck I can't see well enough to see marks in the middle of the day half the time).
When I got home I louped them and oddly there's no marks on the yellow gold rings, but the silver ring is marked .925. I did an acid test on the gold rings and both tested good for 14K. Odd the lowly silver ring would be marked, but not the gold rings????
Without further adieu:
Thanks for looking & HH,
Brian