F-5 finds cache of toys

[jimmyk]

Hi, all:

Yesterday I went to our local park to hunt our two "beach" volleyball pits. Both have a sand court. Figured I'd find some clad coins, which I did. I got a signal that read zinc penny and depth reading of four inches. I dug down five inches without finding a coin, and pushed the sand back into the hole. I figured it was a pop can deep. But the siganl read so good, I decided to make sure, so I dug deepre and popped out a toy car. Pushed the sand back into the hole again, but still had a signal. I dug deeper and got another toy car. Still had a good signal. Dug another car, and another car and kept digging into the same six inch wide hole and pulled out nine toys from the same hole, ranging in depth from six to nine inches. Some poor kid buried his toys and couldn't find them again. Comes under the heading "You Never Know What You Will Find". I'm really liking my F-5. I did find about a dollars worth of clad coins. It was a fun hour of hunting.

Thanks for looking and keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[Cal_Cobra]

That's funny (those hotwheels sounds so good too!).

I find a lot of toys when hitting tot lots and beaches. My daughter is 19, and all my nieces and nephews are adult age, so I typically leave them there so some "lucky" kid will hopefully stumble on them and enjoy them.

 

[dahut]

Our friends across the pond call them "dinkies." I like to find them and have amassed a collection over 15 years of detecting. I found another last weekend at the high school, in the sand pit at the end of the high jump run. Seems that pit, being kind of an anomaly on the athletic field, is a magnet for all sorts of people. Detect one if can... most detectorists dont think to do so, plenty of activity occurs around them and lots of non-athletic people are drawn to them.

That's a winning combination.