Old Parks..What We Don't Know

[herbajones]

You guys that hunt old parks quite often, do you dig up lots of aluminum twist tops and never tell us... and if not how do you prevent it?? Every time I try a park I dig up so many of them.

 

[treasure sstate]

I dig some wouldn't say a lot. Unavoidable they give the same sound and numbers as a dime, at least on my E-Trac they do.

 

[Elusion]

One easy trick is to lift your coil. If it still beeps past a couple of inches then its more than likely aluminum, if it only beeps close to the ground, likely a coin. Try it out in the field one time, it works.

 

[treasure sstate]

It's that word likely that bothers me!!

 

[digmeahole]

It's that word likely that bothers me!!

Diggers article on the X-Terra 705 still applies to the E-Trac.... Did you ever rear it...More for iron junk but still great to avoid junk. I applied it to my X-Terra and it worked 100% of the time..see link below

http://www.minelab.com/usa/treasure-talk/hunting-by-ear-audio-tones-on-the-x-terra

 

[Tom_in_CA]

When I'm turf-hunting parks, I don't dig anything, unless it's 6" or more anyhow, as I'm only shooting for old coins. Not bothering with clad, so I'm skipping all the shallow stuff. Thus eliminating shallow modern screwcaps.

I have seen parks SEEOOO junky, that it's a veritable carpet of those things. In that case, you may have no choice but to strip-mine them out, "just to see what's underneath". But usually, if a park is *that* junky (blighted ghetto parks), I usually head to greener grounds, in more upscale neighborhoods anyhow.

 

[moonshine]

digmeahole, thanks for the link. that was an interesting article. one of those things that you "feel" but dont really specifically think about. to see it spelled out makes it hit home. how "clean" does the target sound. and the part about the target moving around. im very new but starting to get a feel for this stuff.

 

[Tenspeed]

I have found that if I "wiggle" the coil off the target that a coin breaks clean with no sound, where an aluminum cap will give a mixed tone at the break. This thought came from a buddy who hunts (hunted since he now uses a Safari) with a Fisher Gold Bug. He always talked about the "grunt" as the coil came off the target, which got me to start listening to my E-Trac for something similar.

That doesn't mean that I haven't been digging many of these caps. Usually they will come up 12-40/41, but they also get up into the penny range of 12-43 that I see in our soil here in the Carolina's.

I do usually dig 4" plus to ensure I don't dig these, but occasionally find them that deep.

 

[nge]

I never ever dig 12-41's definitely screw caps! At least in my part of michigan they are...NGE

 

[terrywl]

I look for 12/41 as they are most often a wheat for me. I wonder why there are so many differences. Is it area, individual machines, or what?

 

[sugar]

12.41 is always good in uk so that why i dig it

 

[GimmieThe Loot]

I just got my etrac last week and pulled plenty of screw caps. Of course I was digging everything in order to learn the tones of all items in the ground. With my Ace 250 I would pull 50/50 screwcaps to quarters in old parks. Very frustrating but I didn't want to miss anything.

HH!

 

[nge]

I have forgotten to mention that the parks I hunt are on floodplains, that will explain the depth at which some of these caps are buried. I have seen after some floodings of the rivers (when the water goes back to normal levels) sand deposits of up to 4 foot dunes on the normally dry areas along the waterway. And also have found wheats and silver only 1/2 to 1 inch deep on the opposite side of a bend, where the grass area has been scoured and did the digging for me by removing top soil below the grass roots. So maybe this explains why I find these crappy caps down to 10 inches at times. My wheats usually come in at 12 - 33 to 12- 37, pull tabs 12 - 38...39.........NGE