Again! I hunt hard and again found 11 cents. 3rd time!

[Digdoggy]

11. Ok I'm not into playing with numbers. Don't think about any superstitions or any such hoo ha. But no kidding. I've hunted 2 different parks and now the ole school ballfield side lines. For the 3rd time ( not in a row) but in a couple months, I've found only- one clad dime and one copper Lincoln in each of the three sites on a 1.5 to 2 hr hunt. That's still coincidence at best.
The other day I hit the old discontinued ball field from the school built in the 70's very hard. All around the edges in fact I did wander a serpentine pattern through the center as its just a general purpose field now not really in use. Notta. Oh, 11 cents. Its my fate, my story. And yes I'm slowing down more and more. Not going out even on cooler days. In fact I don't think I would be in this hobby had I known two yrs ago what I know now. Its kinda sad but fact. Here in CT it must have been pounded severely in the 70's and 80's. And now I'm hearing about more and more people hopping on the band wagon. The first couple weeks with my 705 I've hit clad with pocket spills and even dollar coins. ( 3 -1979 SBA) because I was in my own condo property on a well used path the leads to liqour stores of coarse. Then for some reason nobody whalopped the heck out of a tennis court not far away and I've hit decent clad there. Probably because its masked with dozens and dozens of tennis ball can lids the ring out exactly like dimes. And I can't seem to get the to warble or change. Sharp sound. Very dime like but I've gotten to ID the because theyre too perfect. 38, 40... allways. Dimes drop a couple times to 36, 34. So I've cleaned out that little tiny spot. At least I know how to find 11 cents.

The disgruntled, fed up,.......Dog

 

[BillF]

Dog,
I have the same thing here. I spent over 2 hours in a park that was built in 1902. 1 cent, that's it. I go to another park built in 1892 and find nothing, Nada,zip,zilch.
The one old park I did start finding a few old coins I was asked to leave because the park manager is afraid I will hit the sprinkler system, with a screwdriver no less.
I will never stop doing this hobby, been in it way too long, but I need to think out of the box or grow a set and start knocking on doors.
Good luck

 

[mapper65]

I know that you guys are just temporarily frustrated but like I once told a friend that was thinking about getting into detecting, "if you keep watching detecting videos and think what you see if going to happen all of the time, you may want to hold off on ordering a detector. We're like gamblers, we only tell you about the good stuff that we find and not the hours and hours leading up to finding the good stuff'.

This guy is one of those people that won't do anything unless he can be successful 100% of the time even if cheating is required to make him feel successful. This is definitely not the hobby for someone that's wired that way.

In my family we look at it as the thrill of the hunt, what the possibility could be and also getting some exercise. With the four of us in our family and another friend, it seems like when one of us is not doing so well one of the others usually is. A few years ago my Mom had a couple of really nice ring finds, last year my brother found a pocket spill or maybe someone cache of silver half dollars and within two weeks found another silver half and a Morgan dollar. Then our Mom finds a two cent piece and a 1745 King George all while I was just squeaking by with an indian or a merc or two every now and then. Keep in mind that for the most part at least two or three of us were detecting the same spot at the same time, all with 705's or an Etrac.

I had a small handful of silvers last year but this year it seems like my turn. A big 14k gold ring early in the year, tow silver rings, a large cent and some other silvers. You just never know what's out there and if you can find the excitement in what could be out there and not dwell on what you are not finding, the good finds will turn up before you know it.

We've found that when you are in a slump, you are about to hit it big and when you hit it big, you're about to be in a slump. Definitely can't be proven technically but seems to be what happens.

Hang in there guys!

 

[BillF]

My issue is just with our local parks. Hours and hours produce nothing. I can always hit the schools, very rarely do I find anything of age but kids drop amazing things and never fail to find stuff in the playgrounds.
Most of my free time is spent looking for oldhouse tear downs or moves, seems to be the only time I find old coins nowadays.

 

[Digdoggy]

Yep, Map I know your right but when I'm frustrated I turn right here, you guys. You know what it feels like so I'll share
the " Good the Bad and the Ugly". I don't hold back and at times I've been told I talk too much. Well what's this forum for anyway I figure. You wouldn't believe how I've actually encouraged others and I've allways found we need to start thinking outside the box.Yes I've written that in other posts. My usual that's worked with an occasional cool find. Is walking right through the parks and into woods alongside because its usually town property. There I follow old stone walls/field dividers. So far I've done this quite a few times and only dug 2 really good finds. A 64 kennedy half and a colonial brass flat button. I'm still sorta nubish being in my 2cd yr.
I think this small state has been hunted hard. The signs are there. I know guys in the couple forums I've been on that live right in my town and I can point in any direction all around me and think of a name in these detecting forums. That's just 2 forums and can you imagine the number of actual diggers there is just in my little Connecticut. I don't blame people for trying to have some fun. I think a lot of noobs are in it for "GOLD" . Thinking its big bucks pretty often. I need to keep doing this hobby for health. The exorcise is great. As for places to hunt. I just can not knock on doors.. I'm going to try looking up old friends. I was away from here 30 yrs and lived in Florida. I have not attempted to call on anyone I knew. And I even know people in real estate sales. Or used to be. And a dozen cousins left. Time to do some visiting.
Need old coin......neeed silver fix. I'm going back to bedroom to hold my 1964 half and my 37 merc and two sweet IH's. Don't ya just lub those little indian head pennies. Daddy left me a little bag of old coins he loved when he died in 68. I Loved old coins ever since and its the driving reason for getting into this hobby.
Dog

 

[7centsworth]

Parks is were you have to dig those real faint and iffy signals.

 

[jabbo]

Dig, I've been detecting in NJ since the mid 70's. My big problem thru all those years is finding new places to go to. But somehow I can't explain I see a new place and give it a try. About 4 years ago I was sitting in my car in a park, looking the park over and for no reason I decided to try a small patch of woods that was directly behind my car, it was in the park at the edge. I found an IH penny, that shocked me. Then I found another one, and another. Also a silver three cent piece and a seated dime. Now I'm really shocked. Then the next day I go there again and find a standing liberty quarter (no date), more IH pennies and a shield nickel. All total I found seventeen 1800's coins in that tiny patch of woods. Till this day I can't figure out why they were there but they were. I went back several more times and found no more coins, but the briar bushes are numerous and I know more old coins are there under them. Across the road from that patch of woods is an old corn field that the park bought. I gave it a try and found a silver 3 cent piece (no other silver) and about seven King George pennies from the 1700's. Later I found a NJ colonial penny there and a 1700's Irish penny but no silver coins. A few weeks ago my new X-Terra found my first ever silver Bust coin, a 1820 dime in really worn condition in the sand bars at the river. Been trying to find a silver bust coin for about 40 years, the X-Terra found it, just 2 months after I bought the X-Terra. I was using a shovel in the sand bars so I don't know how deep it was, but I'm sure it was not laying flat. Also in the sand bars near where the dime was found I dug two King Georges, a 1745 half penny and a 1751 penny. If I was using my CoinStrike I wouldn't have dug the dime and the KG pennies in the sand bars because it doesn't ID deeper coins as well as the X-Terra does. The CoinStrike did find me a lot of 1700's coins in obscure places but I know I walked right over some that I would have dug if I had the X-Terra. Right now the only place I can think of is the sand bars at the river, might go back there when the tide is low. Jabbo

 

[jabbo]

Today I went in the woods not far from the river, just outside the city of New Brunswick, where Rutgers University is. The city was crawling with Rev War troops. After about one hour I got a solid coin signal. At only 2 inches deep I found a penny, an 1880 IH with no pitting at all. Just that one penny and a tiny flat button today but it made the search worth while. I've been in these woods a few times about 3 years ago and found several musket balls, flat buttons, and a very old pen knife. Those things might have been lost by Rev War troops, the troops were all around in this area and directly on the other side of the road there was a small skirmish but now houses are there. Probably, I'll hit these woods again when the tall weeds die out in Dec. because right now the weeds are about knee high.