nuggethunter13
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When I first got my 705 I did, as I am sure you all did, I tried to think of places that people would lose coins. As I passed our local softball complex one evening and seeing the large number of cars there, I imagined the following. Guy gets off work, goes to the softball complex for game. Takes off pants and changes into uniform in parking lot. All his coins fall on the ground as do the rings he had to take off to play. So I went to the complex and tried my new machine. I got a few coins but mostly bottle caps and pull-tabs.
In the last six months, I have progressed in learning the correct settings for my machine and decided to try last week to hunt the lot again. I spent two hours twice, total of 240 minutes. As you can see from my pictures, with my settings dialed in and my experience hunting by ear, I rocked the place. 226 coins in the four hours two bonus rings. One having the pretty hallmark of 925. I ache from squatting to dig so much. All of these coins were less than an inch deep but all hidden by the 1 inch rock used to cover the parking lot. Most were recovered just locating them in the rocks with my Pro Pointer. Most are damaged badly from the rocks being crushed into them by the cars.
I have hunted only a very small portion of the lot to date. What I have learned in the four hours about the lot that I would like to pass on is this. About 90% of the coins came from the areas marked on my picture as black lines. I found that I would find lots of coins in a row then next pass in the opposite direction I would barely find anything. In looking at the lot trying to figure out why, I see that when it is full of cars parked orderly the areas where I hit most of the coins was where the doors of the cars line up when parked in the lot. If you only have a short time to hunt a parking lot I suggest you don
In the last six months, I have progressed in learning the correct settings for my machine and decided to try last week to hunt the lot again. I spent two hours twice, total of 240 minutes. As you can see from my pictures, with my settings dialed in and my experience hunting by ear, I rocked the place. 226 coins in the four hours two bonus rings. One having the pretty hallmark of 925. I ache from squatting to dig so much. All of these coins were less than an inch deep but all hidden by the 1 inch rock used to cover the parking lot. Most were recovered just locating them in the rocks with my Pro Pointer. Most are damaged badly from the rocks being crushed into them by the cars.
I have hunted only a very small portion of the lot to date. What I have learned in the four hours about the lot that I would like to pass on is this. About 90% of the coins came from the areas marked on my picture as black lines. I found that I would find lots of coins in a row then next pass in the opposite direction I would barely find anything. In looking at the lot trying to figure out why, I see that when it is full of cars parked orderly the areas where I hit most of the coins was where the doors of the cars line up when parked in the lot. If you only have a short time to hunt a parking lot I suggest you don