JimmyCT
Well-known member
Went to a well pounded park and went off the beaten path to find these goodies. For 25 years I walked passed the Barber quarter and wheat cents. This is a lesson learned and hope all that read it learn from it as well. You know how many of us get in "comfort zones" and start pounding the same areas over and over and over again? Don't get me wrong if a spot is producing by all means beat the area! However, for me, (and for years) I have spent many hours (3,4,5,6 hours in each hunt) (even in a small sq ft areas of the same picnic groves and gathering areas to find a wheat penny...............these areas are coin anemic lol. The lesson I want all of you readers to take away from this post is this: don't think for a second there couldn't be old coins in the woods of your favorite park. They are there, and I can say I have proof. Back in the day, people roamed all over the parks just like people of today do. Finds have become extremely thin by being "microwaved" with so many detector frequencies at my local parks that it was time for me to "Shake" things up. Shaking it up by going off grid into the woods. My hope was in thinking that other detectorists would avoid places like this because they found it to be too much work to climb hills, to avoid the skeeters and other bugs, to avoid sweating like a hog, and to avoid exhausting themselves so they can hunt longer. Well, my thoughts may have been correct as I made some nice discoveries this past year with the AT Pro all in the woods of my local parks. I can tell you I sweated my brains out and exercised and exhausted my body walking up and down craters and other hills like never before. The payoff has been sweet in the sense of great finds and I am thankful that I took the risk as it opened up more hunting grounds for me.
Where did I find the coins? approximately five feet in off the edge of a small field that I detected for years. There wasn't much ground cover so it was pretty easy scanning.
I was in pro mode with 5 bars of sensitivity, ground balanced 10 points below what it GB'd at. In this particular hunt it auto ground balanced at 92. I then manually dropped it to 82. Iron audio ON. I love the iron audio on this machine!! I absolutely love the 5x8 coil and I feel it gets very good depth. With this coil it is very maneuverable and a great lightweight setup to zip through the woods.
I found the pistol in the woods on the side of a 1930's "makeshift" ski hill.
Thanks for looking and maybe on your next hunt, you will go off the beaten path too!
Where did I find the coins? approximately five feet in off the edge of a small field that I detected for years. There wasn't much ground cover so it was pretty easy scanning.
I was in pro mode with 5 bars of sensitivity, ground balanced 10 points below what it GB'd at. In this particular hunt it auto ground balanced at 92. I then manually dropped it to 82. Iron audio ON. I love the iron audio on this machine!! I absolutely love the 5x8 coil and I feel it gets very good depth. With this coil it is very maneuverable and a great lightweight setup to zip through the woods.
I found the pistol in the woods on the side of a 1930's "makeshift" ski hill.
Thanks for looking and maybe on your next hunt, you will go off the beaten path too!
couples......I won't go into further details!! that occasionally leave coin spills. Woods have been gathering places for centuries and also soldiers have used them during battle for protection etc;. Even though you find plenty of junk especially pull tabs from beer cans left by the drunks that usually hang around those spots.....I love to detect off the beaten paths and particularly around the bases of trees and have found some great items including a nice gold ring 4 years ago, old coins and all kinds of interesting items!
Let us know if you and Bruce get in a hunt...