Anyone in the Philadelphia area hunting this weekend?

[ronfin]

I'm up for a new spot. Anyone heading out to hunt?

 

[mcb613]

Got a new spot??? I'm in Northern , DE/ Somethign good, I'll be there. THX

 

[ronfin]

Have a few parks in mind, although, the one I've been searching is so big I should just focus on it for the next year or so. It will take a long time to cover all the spots people have been on there. Headed to Wissinoming Park in the AM.

 

[lawsonland]

Hi,
Me and Dglantz are going to Wissinoming Park in the afternoon. If your still there we'll stop and say Hi. I tried a park over by Torresdale & Magee on friday, the ground was terrible, just a constant null. Had to run in ferrous with no discrimination. Found some clad and 1 wheat

 

[ronfin]

Cool. I'll be there around noon. Pulled a 1942 silver quarter and a 1941 silver Mercury dime out of that park this afternoon. It was a late hunt for me but ended-up being very productive.

 

[kurtallen]

That park is part of Fairmount Park system. It is illegal to detect in Fairmont Park, be careful.

 

[leojack]

can anyone shed any lite on this legality point.Is it possible for a little wiggle room for the conscientious detectorist?.....thanks jack from penna

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Depends on how the law was written

 

[ronfin]

That park is part of Fairmount Park system. It is illegal to detect in Fairmont Park, be careful.

Wrong. Wissinoming Park is NOT a part of the Fairmont Park system. I did my homework before I started hunting there. Do yours before you post. Thanks.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

As Ronfin's info shows, the quickness of people to assume that various places are "off-limits", is not always founded. Unfortunately, the "no's" that sometimes get bandied about on forums (as in "it's illegal to detect at such & such place") can get started innocently enough d/t someone asked some clerk somewhere, and got an opinion (ie.: a "no"). When in fact, perhaps there's no real rule or prohibition saying this. Ie.: simply because some deskbound clerk imagined geeks with shovels or whatever, so they chose the easy answer to your "pressing question". So the dejected md'r slinks away from the clerk, and passes the info around to others. And then those who've detected for years there with no problems, are left scratching their heads saying "since when?...."

 

[ronfin]

Exactly Tom. People just post things off the cuff without doing any background on them first. They either assume they know, or read some bad info somewhere themselves and passed it along, again because they failed to research it themselves. I don't mid being a little harsh to stop bad info dead in its tracks. Wissinoming Park is one of the few city parks still not under the Fairmont Park "system". People have been detecting there for years, and are currently still detecting there daily like myself. Considering how much trash I've removed from that park I should send the city a bill for all the clean-up. lol

 

[kurtallen]

I stand corrected. I was always under the assumption that ALL parks were part of the Fairmont park system, and never thought to check that information. You have my apology. Perhaps we will meet in Wissinoming one of these days.

 

[ronfin]

I'll post a list for ya. There are a lot of good parks we can hunt in here in Philly. The best part is, is that these are run by Recreation Departments too swamped with other problems to care about Metal Detectors. My good friend runs one of these parks. He could care less as long as we fill our holes and don't make the park look like Iraq.

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

You guys are lucky in Philly. All of the parks run by the Parks and Recreation where I live in Virginia are off limits.

 

[kurtallen]

I would appreciate that list. I'm going to Wissinoming today, if I find silver I'll let you know. I dig with a small shovel, all the dirt goes on a large cloth, then back into the hole, no worries there.

 

[ronfin]

I might see ya up there. I'm off today and heading to a few sidewalk strips I saw during work the other day. They still have the old granite style curbs, which means they're old, really really OLD. Hopefully untouched. This weather is too good not to get out and hunt.

 

[lawsonland]

How did your hunt go? I will be around this weekend

 

[ronfin]

My hunt went great. I stayed late, and glad I did. Early on I was only finding clad, but then I found a silver Irish claddagh ring, and then a 1941 Merc.

 

[kurtallen]

Only found 2 clad dimes. But I met Ronfin on my way out of the park. We had a nice discussion on where to hunt the next time I visited Wissinoming.