Diga
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Hi everyone.
I normally hunt for gold rings in the water, but a few months ago, I wrote a post about hunting for gold rings in city parks. Despite really giving it a good go, I gave it up, because for me, the amount of foil and tabs I had to dig, wasn't worth my time, effort, and especially my failing knees.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the oldest park in my city, that has been extensively used for sports, festivals, fairs, etc, since the late 1800's. The park is 2 city blocks square, but has since been taken over by addicts. I desperately wanted to hunt it, but of course, was concerned about my safety. I ended up putting on a yellow and red city workers vest, and hunted it for about 2 hours on a Sunday. Despite there being about 100 addicts in the small park, they didn't bother or try to harass me at all. According to the park security that I spoke with, it was because of the vest. Anyway, it turns out that this park is watered every night, so the plug digging is easy. But, the most appealing aspect, is this park, by far, has way more gold than any other park I’ve hunted, and even more gold than any in water swim site I’ve hunted. I hunted it again last Sunday for about 3 hours, and was just as successful with the bling. Why is there so much bling in this park? Well, these addicts are well known for break and enters and theft. Since they spend most of their time in this park, I’m guessing that’s the source.
The problem is, I still have to dig a lot foil and tabs, and my knees are really starting to feel it. As such, I need to make every retrieval count. So, it got me thinking about notching out small to mid sized foil, the upper coin range, and even possibly notching out 1 or 2 bins for the tabs. Granted, I will lose some gold rings with this notching, but I’m also suspecting that the massive amount of time I’ll save by not digging those signals, means more time swinging and digging the much better gold ring signal range.
What do you all think of that kind of notching for this particular site, and to save my knees?
I normally hunt for gold rings in the water, but a few months ago, I wrote a post about hunting for gold rings in city parks. Despite really giving it a good go, I gave it up, because for me, the amount of foil and tabs I had to dig, wasn't worth my time, effort, and especially my failing knees.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about the oldest park in my city, that has been extensively used for sports, festivals, fairs, etc, since the late 1800's. The park is 2 city blocks square, but has since been taken over by addicts. I desperately wanted to hunt it, but of course, was concerned about my safety. I ended up putting on a yellow and red city workers vest, and hunted it for about 2 hours on a Sunday. Despite there being about 100 addicts in the small park, they didn't bother or try to harass me at all. According to the park security that I spoke with, it was because of the vest. Anyway, it turns out that this park is watered every night, so the plug digging is easy. But, the most appealing aspect, is this park, by far, has way more gold than any other park I’ve hunted, and even more gold than any in water swim site I’ve hunted. I hunted it again last Sunday for about 3 hours, and was just as successful with the bling. Why is there so much bling in this park? Well, these addicts are well known for break and enters and theft. Since they spend most of their time in this park, I’m guessing that’s the source.
The problem is, I still have to dig a lot foil and tabs, and my knees are really starting to feel it. As such, I need to make every retrieval count. So, it got me thinking about notching out small to mid sized foil, the upper coin range, and even possibly notching out 1 or 2 bins for the tabs. Granted, I will lose some gold rings with this notching, but I’m also suspecting that the massive amount of time I’ll save by not digging those signals, means more time swinging and digging the much better gold ring signal range.
What do you all think of that kind of notching for this particular site, and to save my knees?
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