Kinda Weird, Detecting a Middle School

[Dancer]

This school has a soft ball field, tennis & Basketball courts. Been hunting it on weekends when I can. Here's what's a little off. This school is in an area that has a number of hunters, also a club. For this reason I never hunted before this year. Well surprisingly I started hitting lots of clad. Yesterday, came up with clad #295. Out of which only about 5-8 were fresh drops. All the rest were nice and deep. Between 4" & 7". Now for this area that's deep. So someone got to be hunting it , but leaving the deep stuff. Yesterday got the only piece of jewelry. A nice Stirling flat linked , 20" necklace. Which was just under the sod.

 

[kt]

The older schools in my area have been picked over as well. Plenty of clad left, but not a silver to be found. I think some guys must have rolled in and cherry picked the silver back in the 80's.

 

[GeorgeinSC]

In my area there is a city park (tennis courts) that at one time was a ball field. Next door was a national guard armory. Both now are owned by the city. First pass over that park all I found was clad and one 42 Washington quarter. The Armory only gave up clad and a few wheats. Later working of those two areas produced quite a number of silver coins. Both will still give up he occasional coin that is down 9 or ten inches. I was told by more than one person that those two area had been completely hunted out. Had one guy tell me "You are wasting your time as I dug every coin out of those two areas 16 silver coins say that he was wrong. It might be that I needed to get rid of the clad to hear those weaker silver signals.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

A lot of hardcore hunters bristle at the thought of digging clad. They will either purposefully skip places that are prolific with nuisance clad. Or they will purposefully pass all shallow signals, looking only for deeper potentially older coins in turf.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Yes, it's possible that some parks or schools got hammered hard back in the late '70s to early '80s "silver rush". And that since then (which has been 30 yrs. afterall !) it has become a blanket of clad.

I can think of parks we used to routinely get silver out of "back in the day". But heaven help the poor soul who goes there now to try to get any more

 

[slingshot]

This school has a soft ball field, tennis & Basketball courts. Been hunting it on weekends when I can. Here's what's a little off. This school is in an area that has a number of hunters, also a club. For this reason I never hunted before this year. Well surprisingly I started hitting lots of clad. Yesterday, came up with clad #295. Out of which only about 5-8 were fresh drops. All the rest were nice and deep. Between 4" & 7". Now for this area that's deep. So someone got to be hunting it , but leaving the deep stuff. Yesterday got the only piece of jewelry. A nice Stirling flat linked , 20" necklace. Which was just under the sod.

Were you using the AT Pro?

 

[Dancer]

This school has a soft ball field, tennis & Basketball courts. Been hunting it on weekends when I can. Here's what's a little off. This school is in an area that has a number of hunters, also a club. For this reason I never hunted before this year. Well surprisingly I started hitting lots of clad. Yesterday, came up with clad #295. Out of which only about 5-8 were fresh drops. All the rest were nice and deep. Between 4" & 7". Now for this area that's deep. So someone got to be hunting it , but leaving the deep stuff. Yesterday got the only piece of jewelry. A nice Stirling flat linked , 20" necklace. Which was just under the sod.

Were you using the AT Pro?

At Pro 90% of the area. Went back over in some places with the Infinium. Pulse Induction. Infinium snagged the necklace, musta missed with the Pro going threw there.

 

[still looking 52]

A lot of hunters here in WV just cherry pick the areas they hunt, I mean they don't even take plugs or dig at all, if they can't hit it their screw driver they just move on. Nothing wrong with this type of hunting, a lot of people enjoy it and that's great but I like trying to get those faint signals that are 5" to 7" down.

 

[Dancer]

A lot of hunters here in WV just cherry pick the areas they hunt, I mean they don't even take plugs or dig at all, if they can't hit it their screw driver they just move on. Nothing wrong with this type of hunting, a lot of people enjoy it and that's great but I like trying to get those faint signals that are 5" to 7" down.

I agree, I like it when I rescue one from the deep.