I was just curious....

[Aaron]

I have been pounding an old park area that has produced alot of good stuff with various machines over a long time, so one day I decided to grid a area off 3ft x 3ft and put the V3i in prospect mode and see what could I find. There is sooo much trash in this one area, its unbelievable...its very common to find 3 pulltabs in one hole and at 6" and deeper! After I dug all the really rusted bottle caps I can better understand what all the nulling is from with the my V3 & Etrac. Im going to try my LTD w/a 5" coil next. Theres got to be some gold there somewhere!

 

[Rob (IL)]

Some places really can't be hunted. In parks, if they are well tended digging the number of holes needed to dig everything would make the park look like a prairie dog village. That's where discrimination comes in. Yes there are many targets that are going to be masked by junk. That's why beach hunting is nice, dig everything and in a few days no one knows you where there.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Surprising whats being masked....basically an area is roped off to cover a full swing and first pass is in all metal to clean out a lot of the junk, lots of work and of course have to be careful where this is done as it requires a lot of digging..Several years ago saw a fellow doing this with a beep and dig unit and had a nice gold wedding band and buffalo nickle to show for it and was done on the edge of a park near the woods where excessive digging was not a problem. Who know this area may have been a major used area of the park way back when...ingenuity is indeed rampant among many of our fellow detectorists...and again whatever works....