Agree!!!
Park experts: what would you do at this park?
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Agree!!!
BottleCapKing
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When I go to a park, I always look for the biggest, oldest tree and start there. Trees provide shade. People sit in the shade. In Arizona, shade is really important.
602punch
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A solid hour of nothing but pull tabs at that basketball court. No thanks. I'm all for pulling every target but I don't think you guys realize the amount of trash and carelessness in big cities like this. I almost took a video because it was so sad. I hunted one half of one side of the court in 50 minutes. I pulled close to 30+ pull tabs and about 4 zincolns. I know I'm still learning my F2 but man. That was heartbreaking and waaaaaaay to much work. I have more fun just coin and jewelry hunting at less trashy, well maintained parks. This one is literally in the armpit of Phoenix and the amount of disrespectful people is just mind boggling. Soooooo much litter.
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sparkfly88
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The way I look at it, your pulling the older style pulltabs, meaning, they are still there and haven't been dug.
I'd keep on trucking
I'd keep on trucking
602punch
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Hmmm... if the pull tabs are the modern type, then you may want to discriminate them out for now and concentrate on deeper signals above zinc penny. If you are getting beaver tails keep at it, that means older layer of finds that may hold some coins/jewelry.
Did you hit the dirt patch on the SW corner by the pool?
Did you hit the dirt patch on the SW corner by the pool?
602punch
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I did the west part of the basketball court. Only half of the court though and got pretty discouraged pretty quickly with all the junk.
I did head down to the SW part of the park though per another users suggestion and did some of the dirt their where it was once grass. Got two hits, both zincolns. Moved to the southern most part of the park and tried to hit that "walking path" between the houses. Got a really smooth nickel and dime, was hoping for silver but it was clad. It was dark by that time so had to head home.
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I did head down to the SW part of the park though per another users suggestion and did some of the dirt their where it was once grass. Got two hits, both zincolns. Moved to the southern most part of the park and tried to hit that "walking path" between the houses. Got a really smooth nickel and dime, was hoping for silver but it was clad. It was dark by that time so had to head home.
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Jamflicker
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I have found a handful of older coins in the Phoenix area and they were in the 5-6 inch range at the park I hunted. Pass over the surface targets and listen for the deeper ones. Sometimes you have to either clean out a layer of trash or go really slow and listen to the deeper target between the trash to find the deeper targets. That park looks pretty well established on the 1958 map and looks like it could have been built in the 40's. There has to be old coins there.
602punch
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It's on the plat map from the city in 1932 so I know it was around then.
I'm still new to mding. Only been at this since July. Just upgraded from a BHIV to a F2 so guess I just gotta get some practice in to learn what a deep signal means.
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mosteve
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Basesall dugouts,bleachers, then tot lot area with L-shape grass is my guess
DIGGER27
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I hunt courts and parks that are 10X's trashier than how you describe this one.
A whole side of a court and it only took you 50 minutes?
You went way to fast and missed a ton, but not everyone has the patience to do these right.
Digging in these trashy environments is not for you, just aim for the less trashy sites that will let you have more fun.
OleSarge
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Being from Phoenix myself, I would expect the park to be either hard packed sand or irrigated turf. The hard packed sand isn't nearly as likely to have deep targets as the areas with grass and irrigation. I like the area immediately downwind on both sides of the baseball field back stop. People sit down in these areas to watch home plate and drop stuff from their pockets. Also, the areas on the ball diamond just beyond the bases. Players have to remove their gloves to throw balls caught in the outfield. Rings are removed from sweaty hands with the gloves and bracelets are thrown with the ball. Also, at the end of every inning the teams pull their gloves off to leave the field, and at the end of the game the same thing happens but the winners may toss their gloves into the air....with their luscious gold still inside.
Regardless of where you check, go over the same area from a couple of different directions to catch targets from different angles. And, I'd dig all targets and take all junk finds with me. Eventually you will have removed the false targets and can do a better scan of good targets without digging so much junk.
Caressing Mother Earth in such a way she willingly gives up her treasures.
AT Pro/Garrett Pro Pointer/Fiskars Digger/Bounty Hunter Outback and HF Handheld Pointer Lots of bling, one silver ring, bunches of trash and tons of hash, No gold yet (and that's too bad) but life is good with loads of clad.
Regardless of where you check, go over the same area from a couple of different directions to catch targets from different angles. And, I'd dig all targets and take all junk finds with me. Eventually you will have removed the false targets and can do a better scan of good targets without digging so much junk.
Caressing Mother Earth in such a way she willingly gives up her treasures.
AT Pro/Garrett Pro Pointer/Fiskars Digger/Bounty Hunter Outback and HF Handheld Pointer Lots of bling, one silver ring, bunches of trash and tons of hash, No gold yet (and that's too bad) but life is good with loads of clad.
Malibu
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If there is a metal detecting club in Phoenix then I'd guess the park has been hit a bunch. However, based on all the trash you're digging maybe not hit so much. Persistence, perseverance, patience. Hang in there.
Jason in Enid
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There essentially no difference from the old park to the new except a little less grass area.
There is no "secret" to this, you are going to have a hard time pulling anything old from here.
1 - it's one of the oldest parks in town. This has been known since detecting started
2 - it doesn't have a lot of walking area, so what open spaces there are will have been hunted by everyone.
Of course it's still possible to pull an oldie from there, but it's going to be a rare find today.
There is no "secret" to this, you are going to have a hard time pulling anything old from here.
1 - it's one of the oldest parks in town. This has been known since detecting started
2 - it doesn't have a lot of walking area, so what open spaces there are will have been hunted by everyone.
Of course it's still possible to pull an oldie from there, but it's going to be a rare find today.
