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Elton

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LOL .......... took the F-70 to a very small local park.. I wasn't expecting Silver, but did at least expect some new money..NOPE Nada
Not a penny.......... just some foil, and junk pieces of rusty metal........... Checked the 70 in test garden when I got home..It worked perfect..So it wasn't the machine.
 
Just bad timing for you Elton. I thought I saw you arriving just as I was leaving,,,looks like I got it all :)
 
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Elton, my clad places are drying up also. I have seen more people detecting this summer than ever. I have taken to digging zinc cents even though they come out of the ground half rotten. I guess we could start digging tab signals with the hope of finding some gold, but I usually can last about a half hour or 25 tabs. Good luck finding some new spots.
 
That is a bummer but happening all too often. I have only been in this hobby for a few years and have seen a saddening swing in how things are. I have pretty much given up regular coin shooting and consider any of those finds happy incidentals. In order so stay active and happy with the hobby I have picked up relic hunting and invested the money in detectors and coils that will go deeper than the average machine to find the stuff others missed or allow me to hunt the trash and iron infested places others won't. I still enjoy the hobby but I miss having an old coffee can of others peoples lost change to spend at the end of a season.
 
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Your not alone, bud. The ground here is bone dry, all the way down to china! So another forum member and I have been hitting the woods when we can. We have researched this one place over and over and have scouted the area many times. This place held some promise as it had been closed and abandoned since the 60's. We were thinking that aside from pennies, any other change lost here would have been silver. Finally we found the spot. Old swings, a few picnic tables, remnants of an old concession stand, the pool, the works! Mark the spot on my GPS and we head home.

The day finally comes when we meet up to swing and act like fools from all the silver we are finding, and nothing. Nada, zip, zilch... I am utterly confused! Either a local has been swinging in this area for many years cleaning the place out, or there is too many years of leaves and sticks piling up covering old rusty plumbing and what not. Plenty of pull tabs though. I easily dug 30 beaver tails. Not a single coin to be found and every "good" signal would quickly diminish to a junk signal with a few passes of the coil. :confused:

I wanted to come home and box up my machine till the spring when the ground here will be moist enough to dig again. :surrender:

diggindad
 
It happens to the everyone , don't let it get your dobber down. Looking for new spots can be fun to. Not to long ago my brother and myself went out on a all day hunt and between the both of us we found 5 pennies.
 
Well I went back to the little park this evening... Tried again..Still no coins.............. Guess sprchng really did clean it out.. LOL

Hard to believe there isn't a single penny in the whole place... Nada... I'm done with it....:laugh:
 
Try the NW corner Elton , I was getting tired of carrying all those quarters around and got pretty sloppy over there.
The evolution to a cashless society won't remove all the clad from the parks but it sure makes recharging them slower. There are also many people sitting at home in front of their computers instead of relaxing in the outdoors and losing stuff for us to fond like there used to be. The trashy spots we used to avoid have become the ones with the biggest potential for good finds today. I have found the best results come from digging those "screwy" signals either side of the zincoln range.
 
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Elton said:
LOL .......... took the F-70 to a very small local park.. I wasn't expecting Silver, but did at least expect some new money..NOPE Nada
Not a penny.......... just some foil, and junk pieces of rusty metal........... Checked the 70 in test garden when I got home..It worked perfect..So it wasn't the machine.
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have you thought about moving? like to another state...
 
horikindaguy said:
Elton said:
LOL .......... took the F-70 to a very small local park.. I wasn't expecting Silver, but did at least expect some new money..NOPE Nada
Not a penny.......... just some foil, and junk pieces of rusty metal........... Checked the 70 in test garden when I got home..It worked perfect..So it wasn't the machine.
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have you thought about moving? like to another state...
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Oh Yea....... every winter when the snow starts piling up..........:rofl:.and that isn't BS....
 
Elton please don't move up here. Nah, come on up and I will be happy to show you where I hunt. But remember I live in a big city and if you think I am hunting in virgin territory you got it wrong. Every park/school/fields/beach I hit has been hit many, many times in the past by many different kinds of detectors. I don't hit the tot lots anymore. One of those lots would give me almost 100 coins every week. Now if I get 5 coins out of it. I tried going at different times in the morning, different days, even rainy days. No matter, always poor results.
Elton I have bent up coins that I have found and keep them in the car and test the detector some times before I start swinging. When I have a feeling maybe the F70 isn't working? Like this morning I could not get a signal. It was like it was turned on and it was. I had moved every thing in the trunk and the F70 must of gotten turned on and it was on all night. Batteries dead, that is the second time I have done that. It sure does eat up batteries when left on over night.:rofl:
Trust the F70 it works......Z
 
yep the good old days are just a memory and for me its either adapt or sell my gear I have chosen to adapt I am now for 90% of my detecting an urban gold hunter and like I have read here not everyone is cut out for hr upon hr of tab and slaw digging, it is a change in mindset and a belief that all that aluminium crap is hiding the gold and it is its out there.

but days and days can pass with no result but when it does come out all the pain disappears :biggrin:

so loving detecting is why I dig crap all day the other option is sell my gear and find another hobby and I am not willing to do that, so gold hunting is the frontier the new style of detecting.

it really for me is about switching of my emotions and going to work :bouncy: sure beats sitting in an office all day !

AJ
 
AJ you could try knitting. A lot less painful unless you poke your eye or finger with the needle like I do. You can also drink until you can't knit anymore.That is the best part of knitting, the drinking....Z
 
Z I could do a reality show how to knit while drunk that would be fun well interesting for the viewers at least :sleepy:

my hands aren't made for knitting :biggrin: but a good idea thanks !

AJ
 
Ha, Elton! Your buddy sprchng must have been hunting an old fairgrounds I was on a few days ago. I walked off after 1 1/2 hours with zero coins. Got 7 cents and a fair token the next outing, though. Just goes to show nothing is ever hunted out. :rofl: HH jim tn
 
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