Dances With Doves Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 12 minutes ago, Tiftaaft said: I find that very interesting DwD.. so I assume the 6 times with the Explorer was to search turf and high conductors (silver). The SE Pro was my main machine until the Equinox came out. Honestly, I learned how to detect with the Explorer, even though I owned an Etrac and CTX before it. I outlined a pounded park I am targeting this year in another thread... and while I have my E600 and E800 lined up and ready... my Explorer is also fully charged and standing in the starting lineup for my hunts there.... batting "clean-up". 😉 ~Tim When I use my explorer in the turf 95% of the times i am going for coins. I dig low hits when i am at the beach or in the shallows. I have got a few gold rings with it in the shallows and on the dry sand. Only about 5 gold in the turf and 2 of them sounded like Indians in all those years.I was a silver snob in my early years. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_in_CA Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Dances With Doves said: When I use my explorer in the turf 95% of the times i am going for coins. I dig low hits when i am at the beach or in the shallows. When it comes to urban turfed parks, I agree with you. That is NOT the place to "be a hero" and angle for gold rings, IMHO. Maybe nicer cleaner athletic turfed fields (that are devoid of picnicking and eating, and are strictly for athletic frolicking motions). I've had this debate with other md'rs before, who are AGHAST that anyone would ever reject tabs or foil. They'll say : " But you might miss a gold ring ?? !! ". And when you turn them loose, and watch them "be a hero" and strip-mine junky turf, they quickly tire of turf hunting. Or ... at the end of the day, you show them your 10 oldies (wheaties & silver), they can't understand why they only have a single oldie, and you have 10. They seem to think they can have the "best of both worlds". But it never works out that way. Instead, they get sick & tired of digging 100 to 200 aluminum junk items , for the off-chance at the lone-gold-ring there. And feeling like a fool in nice-manicured turf for so-many-holes. I keep telling those folks: "If gold rings are your agenda/goal, then WHY THE HECK are you torturing yourself at blighted inner city BBQ pits and manicured turf ? Why not just simply go to where the demographics and ratios are better ? Namely : Swim beaches. Or at least, turf that's strictly athletic. Or P.T. courses, sand volley-ball courts, etc... Then sure : Strip-mine away. For ghost-townsy relicky sites, sure, I enter relic-dig-all mindset. But on inner-city turf, I opt for cherry-pick mode. And .... sure, kiss nickels goodbye. It's just for deep silver then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiftaaft Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Tom_in_CA said: I keep telling those folks: "If gold rings are your agenda/goal, then WHY THE HECK are you torturing yourself at blighted inner city BBQ pits and manicured turf ? Why not just simply go to where the demographics and ratios are better ? Namely : Swim beaches. Or at least, turf that's strictly athletic. Or P.T. courses, sand volley-ball courts, etc... Then sure : Strip-mine away. Couldn't agree more Tom (not that my approval is needed. Haha..) my gold ring finds have all been on or around athletic areas... soccer fields, edge of a basketball court, one next to a walking path, and a thin child's ring in the bark chips of a tot lot. I hope 2020 brings more opportunity for beach hunting, and maybe more gold in my pocket (or returned if I can ID it). Park hunting is all about the old deep coins for me, and the Explorer has been a great machine for that, as well as the E800 in my honest opinion. If I happen upon a gold ring while digging Indian cent or nickel signals... I will be thrilled, but a bit of an accident. ~Tim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dances With Doves Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 In certain spots i would dig low nickel or gold coin hits if they were deep and sounded a certain way with the Explorer.With my x-terra i would dig all sorts of targets and it got me the most turf gold by far including many chains where there was frolicking like Tom described. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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