A couple hours at a old basketball court

[coin pirate]

Went ring hunting, only modern clad so far, plenty of area left to hunt. Barely scratched it.
looks like tabs, beaver tails, a key, part of an air chuck, piece of fence, hiney cap, and 35 stinkin lincolns, 6 dimes, 2 nickels, and 11 quarters...$3.80

I've got a lot more pennies to dig to screen that area out, who knows, maybe then I'll find the good stuff.

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I call this beach hunting on land because of the percentage of jewelry possible you might find.
Trash filled, sure, the older the court the more junk you have to deal with but way worth the effort....eventually.
Not all hold silver and gold jewelry but many do.
This is the only place that I would ever consider digging it all...literally, because of masking, (and all those coins can do their share of that, too), but over time and many, many hunts from several different directions.
I have done well around these, lots of silver, about a dozen pieces of gold and more...a few gold rings came in at foil, too, so keep an eye out.
Love these things.
I cherry pick at first, over time I keep digging layer after layer....just some of the targets recovered from around courts.

Rock on, have patience, eventually get a sniper coil which is perfect for sites like this.

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[coin pirate]

Actually, not as trashy as I thought it would be, mostly tab thru zinc signals resulting in pennies from heaven(actually hell) had a signal every 6" or so, after a while I Disc to eliminate all but silver, but that was near the end. Plenty of signals left, and enough untouched area to keep me busy for weeks to come.
The one thing I'm not happy about is the stock coil, really has no depth penetration no matter how I set it up, has to be a strong signal larger item even to get me near a 6" depth, most everything 2-4". So, before I go to any sniper coils, I want to get a decent DD larger coil for depth. The factory coil actually seems pretty good about unmasking hidden signals, It will forefront the strong garbage signals but still lets you know there's a secret near by with the VDI. also, I've got to buckle down and use the headphones, the sound just isn't all that apparent on clad/silver signals when using 2-4 sound versus mono. I just hate anything covering my hearing, maybe try around my neck, I 2 sets, the larger factory fisher headphones and the smaller Garrett ACE ones.

Might give that site a break this morning and head over to a fishing spot that gathers a lot of people every year, and be prepared for lead signals galore.
the one thing I've noticed, there really isn't anyone detecting anywhere around here for miles, so everywhere I go, I can tell it hasn't be hit, so it should be just a matter of time to hit a good discovery, it's been a while.