Always pays to know where people have previously hunted...

[Roscue2]

I went on a hunt today for about three hours at some local parks and only found $1.26. I gotta tell ya, I expected there to be a lot of money under those swing sets because I've never seen anyone else with a metal detector in those parks. Well, after a frustrating day of detecting I went home and called my Dad from my house. I told him how I did and where I had hunted. After telling what I had found and where I had hunted he told me that he had hunted those parks by himself about a year ago. Next time I go on hunt without him I need to ask him which parks he has hunted. Or I could just not hunt without him anymore.

Finds for the day:
1952 wheatie
toy truck
clad

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

It can help to know if a place has just been hunted, but knowing can work against you as well. I comes down to whether you are cherry picking surface coins and the skill of the operator that has hunted before you. I did an early morning beach hunt on a Sydney beach last Christmas and picked up $24. After talking to a life guard during the hunt, I found out that the beach was hit pretty hard by quite a number of detectorist the previous afternoon. I also pulled up a further $29 out of the park behind the beach. All I can say is, that the detectorists must have been pretty sloppy
If I could only read parking signs at sparrow twit, then I could have saved myself from an $89 parking ticket.
Mick Evans.

 

[RickIowa2009]

Keep trying!

 

[Roscue2]

Thought I should mention that I usually just clean the coins by hand. Doesn't make them look nice, just gets the dirt off of them. Very boring job.