treasureID
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2012
- Messages
- 453
Bottle caps are taking the fun out of metal detecting in a still promising local park I'd like to search more. I'm talking bottle caps everywhere. Basically, you can't swing the detector without the thing beeping -- and that's the problem, they make the same "bell" sounding beep coins do. I can't possibly dig all of these things... I can't really go by the fact the little indicator bounces around... because I've noticed even with coins it often bounces around. The one thing I've noticed, when the detector rings on a bottle cap, the indicator usually hovers around the two notches under the penny (I've noticed this is where zincolns are as well,) not the bottle cap (for what it's worth... I've noticed pieces of can or smashed cans hit as dimes, and pull tabs usually hit as nickels.) I'm thinking to simply get rid of those two notches and save a custom setting... I think that'll elimiate a lot of the bottle caps... Has anyone else noticed that? I realize I'll still be digging up bottle caps, but does anyone have any real tips other than "dig everything!" How those bottle caps just end up EVERYWHERE is beyond me... haha.