First gold of 2011

[Southwind]

The weather got nice enough for most of the snow to melt so I hit a few of my favorite school playgrounds looking for my first gold for 2011. I first went to a grade school that has given up over 100 rings, my favorite ring place, and it didn't let me down. The AT PRO hit on a solid 42 to 46 and out popped a small 10k(417) ring with stone. I few swings latter and I pulled a 10k gold pendent.

I headed over to another grade school, that has been good for gold, and pull a very small 10k Black Hills gold pendent. This is a good mark for the AT PRO because this is very small and was in the main area we always hunt.

 

[khouse]

Great job! The Pro likes gold.

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Nice !!

 

[Teddybear]

WOW.....Awesome.......

 

[RLOH]

n/t

 

[HotTexas]

Very good, very nice

 

[Uncle Willy]

n/t

 

[tvanwho]

How do you account for karat gold at a grade school and so much of it? I would think it would be mostly costume jewelry? Whereabouts in the school yard would this have been? Maybe I can try my luck in the local school yards? I once found an Italian Gold chain about 14 inches long in a local grade school playground in the bark chips but 2 kids were following me and the one kid grabbed it out of my hands and claimed he lost it.Funny thing is ,he and his buddy knew right where to look for the karat stamp markings? What was I to do, get in a fight with 2 kids to get my chain back? I let it go and vowed to not detect with kids hot on my trail ,but dunno quite how to avoid that..

-Tom V.

 

[Southwind]

How do you account for karat gold at a grade school and so much of it? I would think it would be mostly costume jewelry?

Tom, I think a lot of the gold I find comes from teens that hang out in these tot lots after dark. I've also ran into kids playing at these tot lots that all seem to be wearing some nice bling. I had ignored our tot lots up until about 3 years ago. Once I started hitting them I was simply astounded at the amount of gold I was finding. In the general Park/playground the odds for gold was roughly 1 in 10-15 pieces of jewelry, but in the tot lots it's goes up to roughly 1 in 3. I have 22 tot lots in a city of about 30,000 people and out of those 22 tot lots 5 are consistent producers worth hitting every weekend.

Sunnyside school is an old school that dates back to 1926 and has a old baseball field in back. This has been an amazing ring producer. Far more than any other school we hunt. I've found as many as 6 in one hunt, and 3 pieces of gold in less than 10 minutes. Strangely enough the school is located in a poorer part of town. In fact, my worse producing tot lots/schools are in the rick part of town with the very worst(never found a single piece of gold) is on snob hill.

 

[metalhead]

Nice hunt!Congrats on the gold!WTG!
Yeah, some of our best finds have come out of the tot lots!
One of my favorite spots to concentrate on is the swing sets on the "momma line". That's where mommas stand to push their kids on the swing. Another good spot is at the bottom of slides 'cause mommas catch their kids coming down. They are watchin' their kids like a hawk and don't realize that their bling bling has fallin' off until they get home later. Oh yeah, around merry-go-rounds is a good place to look also. Even several feet away from the merry-go-round 'cause those rings and blings'll get swung out ten or more feet sometimes.
We love hunting playgrounds!Happy Hunting!

 

[oldranger]

Great way to start the year for sure!!!!!!

COngrats

Ron

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