Got permission to hunt a field where they have an annual Carnival, Thought it looked promising, did ok, still a little disappointed, but that was just from one pass down the middle up and back using my Teknetics Delta4000 with 13" Ultimate Coil. Final count 38 Memorials, 4 Dimes and 1 Quater. oldest coin was a 1960, but I have several from 1960-1965 so I think silver is going to show soon! Keep Swinging and HH
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4 May Field Hunt
- Thread starter tango71
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Hmmmm...You should find out how long carnivals have been held there, and how deep your deepest coin was...I suspect its not old dirt, or not an old carnival site, just a guess based upon your post and pics...and I also think some local coil swinger hits it early morning after the carnival...you should have found a big stinky pile of modern clad and jewelry if nobody ever hit this place in the past 10 yrs or so, and you should have found a pile of tokens some of the carnival games use laying all over the place...you have a top notch rig, and It looks like it told you the place was swept clean except for a few straggers...you should have had 20 bucks in Q's easily.
I hit some carnivals here super early, they tear down at night, some of the vendors trucks arnt even off site yet...and usually as I'm leaving at sun-up, 3 or 4 other old guys are pulling up and firing up coil...of course theres nothing left for them but a few stragglers I may have missed ...most old guys that hunt silver have hit old silver bearing carnival grounds so hard for the past 30 years, that theres nothing but fresh clad and perhaps fresh jewelry...some sites are so picked clean that I'm wondering if some of the carneys sweep it with detectors nightly as well? You can imagine they would know when somebody riding their tilt-a-whirl had a big chain fly off..you know dang well some of those rides really dump the pockets!.
Those finds are telling you something mate..
Mud
I hit some carnivals here super early, they tear down at night, some of the vendors trucks arnt even off site yet...and usually as I'm leaving at sun-up, 3 or 4 other old guys are pulling up and firing up coil...of course theres nothing left for them but a few stragglers I may have missed ...most old guys that hunt silver have hit old silver bearing carnival grounds so hard for the past 30 years, that theres nothing but fresh clad and perhaps fresh jewelry...some sites are so picked clean that I'm wondering if some of the carneys sweep it with detectors nightly as well? You can imagine they would know when somebody riding their tilt-a-whirl had a big chain fly off..you know dang well some of those rides really dump the pockets!.
Those finds are telling you something mate..
Mud
Talking with the owner of the fields son, no one has ever had permission to detect there before, I had jokingly mentioned the idea of the Carnies detecting also,they have been doing them since the mid 80's in that area that I know of, I have not gotten the information of what was located there before, and I didnt ask, the whole hind sight thing! most coins are only 2-4 inches down and the soil is a dirt sand mix, most coins were 60-80's era with a few coins found very shallow surface to 1 inch, Also the weeds and grass was very high (8"-10") there so it was hard to get the coil close to the ground, They did just mow it yesterday, so I will be hitting it again tonight, as I said that was just one pass down the very middle of the field that is about two acres in size, so finding 43 coins in a 3-4 foot wide path 200 yards long wasnt too bad I thought. I parked in the red circle on the picture and walked the red line to a pole and back to my truck, I did not hunt the rest of the field.