Garrett AT PRO . Digging Super Deep Big Silver ! Live dig's:detecting:

[silversurfer1111]

this video is 1 day before I get kicked out of the park by the cops


this spot was the best silver spot ever .I know there is more silver in the ground .I only went over half of this awesome spot ...One day I will go back !.. ......maybe tomorrow ..

4 silver the day I took the video ..3 of them BIG silver's !. 2 silver before I got kicked out .video coming soon ... so take a look at my video and see the awesome big Deep silver's I saved from the ground .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_6tas_9G60

...the cop said my coin were cool ..but I still had to leave

 

[Steve O]

Walking Liberty's, my favorite coin as far as design. Your silver ratio is 2 to 1 pertaining to the silver verses the wheat's...very very good.

Getting kicked out of the park may be due to a couple things...1- detecting actually, not permitted.....2- someone called because of the shovel and large plugs. Even though you do a beautiful job replacing the plug, some people take offence to people digging/disturbing where they walk and play. 3- Some look at us as thieves. 4- Some are jealous that you are finding stuff and have a bug up, you know where.

When the authorities are called, they have to diffuse the situation....the easiest way is to ask you to leave.

Great day for you and thanks for the video!

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Dude .. love your finds and such, but you need to quit digging craters like that. That is entirely unnecessary. No wonder they threw you out .. it might pay to work on those pinpointing skills before you go back there.

 

[benzoflex]

Dude .. love your finds and such, but you need to quit digging craters like that. That is entirely unnecessary. No wonder they threw you out .. it might pay to work on those pinpointing skills before you go back there.

That would be my thought as well.
A smaller hole and pinpointing...
Very good finds though!

 

[Rainyday101]

If you dug a crater like that in the parks I hunt in would be thrown out and fined. Learn to dig correctly before you ruin anymore hunting spots for the rest of us. That is exactly why prime parks are off limits.

 

[bootyhoundpa]

wow, you really did well and terrible all at the same time.... great finds, unfortunately next time it will be great FINES ! I dig holes like that in the cornfields but not in a park..... you really screwed yourself and others out of a great place to hunt.... perhaps if you were using a small hand digger you would not have attracted attention to yourself... in my area when they pass new rules for the parks they apply to all parks township wide - meaning they don't just ban activity from one park..... digging deep holes is always a little questionable in a park but using a shovel to dig 15 inch round 12 inch deep craters is just begging for trouble.... sorry if you don't like hearing this but it needs to be said....

 

[MarkCZ]

Love the finds!
But your relic hunting style of recovery is better left for open woods, or farms, not coin shooting in a park.

Really great finds though!

Mark

 

[WV62]

Agree you will get all the parks closed to metal detecting digging like that. Hope nobody watching the video thinks this is the correct way to recover a coin in a park.

Ron in WV

 

[goodmore]

Here is the deal. Your plugs are actually the best way to keep the grass from turning brown. You cut it three sided. You used a cloth to contain the dirt. And you took care putting everything back in and stomping it down. And in fact bigger is better when it comes to not drying out. Also those professional lawn mowers will not lift it back out. Or animals. Yes I have had animals dig my plugs back out. But people will perceive the opposite. They will just look at the size of your plug. You did it correctly. But nobody wants to see holes that size. So you can't win in the plug debate. Nice finds. Get permission from the proper people and then you don't need to worry about police patrol.

 

[WV62]

You may be right about bigger plugs are better, and permission or not if you take a shovel to a public park and start digging 24" plugs, you will get enough attention that somebody will report you. After a few reports somebody will get tired hearing about those metal detecting guys digging up the park. So they take a vote and up comes the signs no metal detecting allowed.

A shovel and 24" plugs draws attention, I hunt in a public park with a small hand digger and I find silver from time to time and nobody pays any attention to me.

Ron in WV

 

[JimmyCT]

nice silver. The other situation? well others already commented on it so I need no need to reiterate.

 

[MarkCZ]

Tree transplant size holes be them better or not, ALWAYS draws bad attention. Even the parks public visitors gasp at the huge holes, if the park has a nice residential section the people that live around it will not take kindly to the sight and will likely call in a complaint to local police.
Now, you can be right about the large digs and less damage, but you have to many people local people to explain the why to your approach and to try will just add to their frustration.

Large digs in local public places just draws to much bad attention!
Yep! its easier and being easier some want to defend that style of target recovery. But! the tools that are being used for these extremely large digs are sold as RELIC tools! not public park coin shooter tools.
Bigger holes are better, then we could rent a Bob-Cat with a backhoe attachment. The bigger the equipment used and the bigger the digs in these public places is adding to the more of them being closed to metal detecting.

So, you can be right in your thinking, But still wrong in doing it.

Mark

 

[Rainyday101]

If you walk into a public park with a detector and a shovel you are already wrong. Even before you dig the shovel with the detector gives people the wrong impression, that being some yahoo is gonna dig the place up becasue he has a shovel. To be quite frank that is excactly what you did. Yeah, you filled it in nicely but you draw everyones attention and most people think the worst when they see you making those big excavations. No doubt after that crater the police will chase everyone out. First you need to learn to pinpoint. My u-shaped plugs are only 3-4 inches wide. I use a small garden trowel that doesn't attract attention. I set the dirt on a drop cloth and use a pinpointer to make quick work of the recovery. The people and park employess that have watched me are impressed so I never get bothered in my favorite parks. If they saw a crater like you dug that would be the end of detecting in my favorite parks. Take the time to learn proper technique, but in the mean time stay out of the parks I hunt in!

 

[goodmore]

I feel if you walk into a park with a detector you are wrong. I have not hunted a public park in a very long time. I don't care to explain my digging to anyone so I avoid the situation. The hobby has changed. More people are doing it. TV shows are exploiting it. And none of it is good in my opinion when it comes to park hunting. Schools are off limits for security reasons. Nope. I hunt private property or the beach.

 

[MarkCZ]

Now!
I do like the shovel your using! (What exactly is it?)
And I like how your digging the targets, so what's going on here is just some advice to help protect the hobby. They are places that you might get to hunt that you can't dig at all! I can Pop coins out of the ground @6" without digging a plug at all.
Parks gets small plugs, open woods, private property with permission, or plowed fields gets LARGE digs.

Different places sometimes needs a different type of recovery.

Mark

 

[sweepdog]

do like i do and stick to cemeteries. just rebury the bones.

 

[marcomo]

Excellent finds, silversurfer, but bad form.

Actually, your technique is fine. It's your common sense that needs improving.

"Supersizing" your recoveries in a public area with craters and a big shovel instead of a hand tool is just asking for trouble.

 

[MarkCZ]

Excellent finds, silversurfer, but bad form.

Actually, your technique is fine. It's your common sense that needs improving.

"Supersizing" your recoveries in a public area with craters and a big shovel instead of a hand tool is just asking for trouble.

Well, that's kind of bashing, If I didn't know better I might go out with the idea of a small shovel for digging targets, I mean it is a good idea! and it is. But I know as good as it is at recovering targets, I've been around the hobby long enough to know that yep! its a good way to recover targets, but public areas like Parks is a bad place for that kind of digging.

So, its possible that he just got off with a bad start and didn't realize the wrong in what he was doing?

We've kicked him around over what we feel he done wrong, how about a little help before we run him completely off, if he's not gone already.
In the below it mentions "Hunting Knife" very few folks use hunting knifes anymore, most of us has went the way of soil knifes, or other garden like hand tools.

Mark

 

[MarkCZ]

For lawns, parks, and ball fields, here is my digging tools and my finds pouch all together.

I got my soil knife from Amazon,
The pouch from Fleabay,
My Wife got me the Pro-pointer as a birthday gift,
And the probe has been with me detecting sense 1981. (my brother use a slightly dulled wood handled ice-pick and I don't recommend trying to take it from him either, don't let his friendly little Badger Avatar fool you LoL ).

Mark

 

[WV62]

My best digger to date, notice the V notch in end I sharpened it and it made a big difference both in digging and cutting small roots.

Ron in in WV