Question About Diggin' Up Nickels

I don't dig many nickels either, but by choice. Pull tabs, gold, and nickels all fall closely under the same VDI readings per my machine. I'm not a dig everything kind of guy, so by passing up these kind of signals, I'm missing nickels. And gold.

I have dug my share of pull tabs and it's not fun.

Yep, the last reply is right. If you are in a good spot you might turn down the discriminate and dig some aluminum pull tabs, bottle caps and nickels, (and perhaps lead and gold) all of which come close together in the middle of the spectrum. Turn the discriminate way down and ferrous (iron nails) appear. In a great spot, it is worth removing all the less likely signals to hear small, 'iffy yet very good signals from slick silver dimes deep down that you are walking past, masked by surface junk. If you have a grid system overlap swings more and when you think everywhere has been covered, turn 90 degrees and rewalk the grid at right angles, minus all that annoying surface junk you dug last time, to get the deep silver targets. Good Luck!

Maybe one day they'll have a detector that will tell you 100% exactly what your hitting on. gold, silver, copper, clad, aluminum, etc. the deluxe model will also verbally say the metal being hit through your headphones.

I think thats what it was, sel_69l. I was in the "All metal" setting

I find a lot of nickels, I think most of my found coins are nickels. But here is what I do different, I will dig the pull tag signals because that is where you find the rings. I've found a few rings too, nothing to speak of really, but I have found a lot of nickels. I think that range gets discriminated out by most everyone. I have an area where I will work and try to keep the pull tags cleaned out because it where people sit for parties and games in the park. Some day I hope to find some better rings. A man can hope.

....Basically....you have to dig a lot of junk to find the gold especially the smaller gold rings and gold coins....most of the smaller gold rings will read in the area from foil through screw caps....with the price of gold today I believe that it is worth digging pull tabs and other junk all day to find that gold!...some people think that the gold coins will read high but this is Not true....except for the $20.00 gold piece all of the lower gold coins read lower than coins. If you are digging a lot of nickels I think that your chance percentage of finding gold really goes up! I would dig those pull tabs and foil too. Not really popular to say this but most of the gold is hiding and read like junk...and most people do Not like digging the junk!.....I have over 40 years of metal detecting and I know from first hand experience that if you dig no junk then you are leaving a lot of goodies in the ground!