I'm new to this hobby, about 3 months of good hunting, mostly tot lots (playground equipped areas). I hunt these areas because they are easy to dig, but they yield mostly pennies. Recently, I have started to hunt grassy areas such as parks, ball fields. We are having a small drought here in NC, and the ground is hard as a rock. Because of this, I have stopped hunting for anything but quarters. What is curious is the other day I spent one hour hunting nothing but quarters, and found twice as much money as I did when I hunted 7 hours the day before hunting everything. So now i'm thinking that only hunting for quarters (and jewelry) is the way to go. Is that what you seasoned vets do? I have also just started to discriminate my detector to find nickels and jewelry. Once I started doing this, I immediately started finding nickels, and am finding girls jewelry in the tot lots. I have to start locating where mom's jewelry is. I have to get out of the tot lots to find mom's jewelry. My game plan is to hunt for quarters only, and jewelry. Any advice guys?
Reaching for another level in coin hunting
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Don
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I'm new too, but I hunt about everything, starting at pulltabs/nickels on up.
z118
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I think that what you have discovered is that tot lots are HEAVILY detected, and the grassy areas around them ususally are not. I've been to a large number of schools and parks where the wood chips yield little, but the grassy areas around them are gold mines.
bugguy
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you can stick to the tot lots if you like but what you will find is tot lot finds . most people who do this hobby and are into it to the point of addiction do some tot lots here and there "my self to pass the time", but where the good finds are would be old feilds ,beaches, cellar holes ,old parks . take some time and do some resaech for your area either on line or at the library you'll thank your self later when you pull out an 1800's coin or something else just as cool
you can stick to the tot lots if you like but what you will find is tot lot finds . most people who do this hobby and are into it to the point of addiction do some tot lots here and there "my self to pass the time", but where the good finds are would be old feilds ,beaches, cellar holes ,old parks . take some time and do some resaech for your area either on line or at the library you'll thank your self later when you pull out an 1800's coin or something else just as cool
wishooter
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Our Community was Razing an Old School to Build Condos for the Elderly.
I watched and Observered the Buildings Progress. Finally I drove by and seen
they started Sidewalk Work. I Painted the Public Right of Way Heavy with the
Sensitivity as High as I Could. I Dug and Probed and Pawed Everything on Three Sides of a City Block. At the End of the Afternoon, I had Two Tokens,
One 1911 Wheatie, One 1887 Indianhead, One 1892 Barber Dime.
My Oldest Finds, Less than a Mile from Home.
Schools and Parks are Fun, Anything is Possible, Anywhere, Anytime. I Asked a Co-worker to Shoot there Old Rent House Property. Turns Out It was a Dancehall Upstairs in the Late 1800's. I Might Not Find Anything of Great Value. But, I Might Find Something that Supports Such Facts in History.
Do Research, Find Maps, Gather Yesterday and Today's Information. Some Ideas Pan Out and Some Turn Out to be Areas Overrun with Progress. You Might Drive by the Day 18" of Top Soil has been Removed Before Demolition.
I watched and Observered the Buildings Progress. Finally I drove by and seen
they started Sidewalk Work. I Painted the Public Right of Way Heavy with the
Sensitivity as High as I Could. I Dug and Probed and Pawed Everything on Three Sides of a City Block. At the End of the Afternoon, I had Two Tokens,
One 1911 Wheatie, One 1887 Indianhead, One 1892 Barber Dime.
My Oldest Finds, Less than a Mile from Home.
Schools and Parks are Fun, Anything is Possible, Anywhere, Anytime. I Asked a Co-worker to Shoot there Old Rent House Property. Turns Out It was a Dancehall Upstairs in the Late 1800's. I Might Not Find Anything of Great Value. But, I Might Find Something that Supports Such Facts in History.
Do Research, Find Maps, Gather Yesterday and Today's Information. Some Ideas Pan Out and Some Turn Out to be Areas Overrun with Progress. You Might Drive by the Day 18" of Top Soil has been Removed Before Demolition.
Orlando Auction
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Wishooter is right
Research is the key. Im new, but not to doing homework and digging in the archeology / paleontology fields. I found more stuff in my yard than in the first park I hunted.
I am finding more and more that;
1. You never know who or when a location has been searched.
2. You never know what may be under the ground at any location.
3. If it beeps and your not %100 certain about target ID, Dig it and and be so.
Ya dig?
Kepp it up, youll strike gold.
HH, Paul
Research is the key. Im new, but not to doing homework and digging in the archeology / paleontology fields. I found more stuff in my yard than in the first park I hunted.
I am finding more and more that;
1. You never know who or when a location has been searched.
2. You never know what may be under the ground at any location.
3. If it beeps and your not %100 certain about target ID, Dig it and and be so.
Ya dig?
Kepp it up, youll strike gold.
HH, Paul
Quarters and jewelry are impossible to put in same category. You won't get much gold if you are discriminating up to quarters. If you like silver and don't want to dig a lot of trash (or dig much at all) then crank up discrimination all the way and silver jewelry, quarters, silver dimes, 50's, dollars, and cans you will dig. I sometimes like to cherry pick an area at first to get a feel for how hunted out the site is, but I always go back and dig up lower signals later.
booker
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True you dont find old coins ( I do find some wheaties) But there is alot of gold and jewerly in the lots and they never dry up
