Alright, alright, all right!
Gonna be a big silver year for both of us.
War between the states..Alabama vs. Ohio 2017.
Alabama silver....7
Ohio silver..........5
Ohio gold......1
Bama gold.....0
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congrats on the silver ring! I pass up a lot of zincoln signals on my F70....guess I need to start digging them
I am sure bruinvikes won't mind if I interrupt his thread for a second...a teachable moment here.
Let me tell you a bit about zinc....
They are a hassle, so many zincolns out there it can be a drag digging them and can mess with your mind if you are avoiding them...those what if's....but this only happens if you actually know what you could possibly be missing.
I used to dig every one but that has slowed down a bit the last couple years.
Still dig a lot and definitely some very solid ones, the loud ones for sure, but still can't stop the what if's from happening if I don't bother because I do know of many things that come in at zinc that are way better than just a stinking zincoln.
Regarding coins zincoln signals can be Indians, in the relic realm I have dug some three ringers there too.
Some helpful pictures....
There are a lot of other cool things that come in at all kinds of levels of zinc.
Not worth much but still a nice surprise and better than junk.
Then there are the better zinc targets.l besides those IH's and bullets.
This is a pretty rare merchants token, pretty much a Chuckie Cheese token in the ground, a little lower into true zincoln range out of the ground.
Precious metals, bruinvikes knows and so do many others about this.
Small silver rings for sure, earrings too especially because they might not be full circles or other shapes and act like broken rings so they come in lower.
Here are just a few of my silver targets that came in at zinc numbers...
This was a weird one.
In normal ring shape this one is a logical high dime into almost quarter signal because it is so thick.
When I found it that wasn't the case, it was crushed in the middle into a figure eight shape...just like two big links in a huge chain.
This was way lower because of that and a dead on 61 zincoln signal.
Chains are always weird, many of my silver ones come in at foil nickel and tabs, a small one even in iron, but this very thick one shocked me.
A perfect classic 61 zinc cent signal on the F2 when I hit the clasp, but it was way better.
Now gold.
It can come in anywhere up and down the scale but for me most of the time between 24 foil on the F70 and up the line into tabs at all numbers.
5 times I got into the zinc area.
Low zinc always for me, all kinds of gold can come in even higher.
If you want to avoid digging zinc if you get a solid signal in the lower zinc range, like for me these were all between 48-52...dig them.
Most of the time this is bigger can slaw but sometimes it is not.
All 10k.
This one was huge, almost 18 grams...
A few more...
Like I said zinc is a hassle for most of us out there but in this hobby for those of us without X Ray vision what isn't?
Sometimes a zincoln isn't a zincoln and a leap of faith can pay off big time.