June total's at the lake

[pulltaber]

Here is my total's for June water hunting with my old stingray ,four - three hours hunts. No gold but a little sterling ring a neat religious metal and some junk chain's. I do not think people are wearing gold like they use to,but they are wearing a lot of stainless tungsten and silver.

1 -Susan B Anthony
3 – Quarters
4 –  Nickels
7- Dimes
10 - Pennies
1 – undefined coin
1 - Sterling ring

 

[kaolinwasher]

same hear , people are poor , they seem to only have junk on them at least our coins are still not made of steel , Nice ring

 

[JimGilmore]

True , want to find rel gold find out where the rich go to swim.
Oh wait they own their own islands these days....

 

[pulltaber]

Maybe things will pick up in July,I will have a week off after the 4th, I will be the lake ever day.
I have not ever seen the Lords prayer in spanish before maybe it's a sign

 

[mudpuppy]

Good work on those chains there...If gold was there, you woulda got it from looking at your finds....I've not yet found gold this entire year! At least now YOU have a prayer!
Mud

 

[ken ward]

If you are finding them hair pins, you will get a gold chain if it is their. I have not hit the water yet this year. I don't know what I am waiting for.... We will find some gold. I feel it in my bones... KEN Ind.

 

[Monte]

I have been busy with other things this month to get in much detecting time, but I have worked in some where I often get gold and silver jewelry ... with less than exciting results. You are correct that I don't see as many people wearing gold, or silver, jewelry as much as I did all through the '80s and early '90s. Back then, in larger-size cities like Portland, Oregon metro area, I would see a lot of people wearing a lot of gold jewelry, especially in places where they were active. Around beaches, but especially at the soccer and other sports fields. Back then I could hunt those big grassy areas and had a good chance at recovering gold and silver jewelry, especially gold.

Most of the people wearing a lot of that jewelry were Asians or Hispanics, and the more active sports areas they frequented seemed to produce well, as in more good jewelry more often. By the latter '90s and since then, finds from those types of activity sites have decreased, and I also haven't seen them wearing as much gold jewelry in public, day-to-day activities, either.

I don't live by an active coastal beach, and those grassy sports areas have declined in losses, plus my health has restricted my abilities and duration to hunt them. However, I have had great success in the past two decades getting a lot of gold and silver jewelry from woodchip and sand-filled playgrounds. That was mainly when I lived in the Portland metro area, or even for a while back in Utah in the populated areas in and north of Salt Lake City. Places where there are a lot of people who spent a lot of active time playing on equipment.

Until the last two years, for two decades I averaged about 12 gold rings a year from such playgrounds, and other gold & silver jewelry like pendants and chains. With some injuries and surgeries this past five years I couldn't get out hunting as often, but still kept up my 'average' on gold rings, until I moved from the big town to the little place I'm at now two years ago September. When I travel to more populated cities I have done okay but not great in the last few years because they don't seem to get activity like they used to.

Fewer people playing or using the parks [size=small](and inactive kids are getting fatter, it appears)[/size], plus many have kind of dumbed-down their playgrounds from bigger, taller swing sets that teens and adults would use to short swings with baby/toddler seats, and fun gym-type equipment and big slides to all the ugly-looking colorful plastic equipment that looks like it belongs at a day-care, not a big park or even a school. My gold jewelry count was at 3 for the year until I hit a school playground on Tuesday.

I worked it for half an hour two weeks ago on a Saturday before school was out, then I made a quick visit on Tuesday. This is from a town of about ±1800 people [size=small](3X the size of where I live)[/size] but those two visits resulted in an inexpensive 14K kids ring on Tuesday, and my average percentage of penny ratio in my coin take, and I counted 12-Quarters, 18-Dimes, 14-Nickels and 53-Pennies. Used my Silver Sabre µMAX w/6" Concentric coil.

I have been recovering about 5-7 silver rings for every gold ring over the past 4-7 years I would guess, so would like to see more gold jewelry being worn to better the percentages.

Monte

 

[amberjack]

yeah me too everyone needs to wear more gold woman at a shop I visit has 2 gold rings on each finger bracelets chains but she doesn't look to active but it's still out there !!

have to take hope detecting or I may as well not go having said that I expect nothing and if I do find some its a huge surprise

most people wont snipe my tabs so its still out there !!

I have been slowly cleaning out a local soccer field 2 side by side of every target not much iron there built in 1982 so I set disc below iron on most Tesoros and dig everything I mean I have pulled a couple of thousand targets out of this place and I know it was a an undetected park, its been a real eye opener in many ways and has netted many spendable coins, I started with high disc and pulled everything I could then went to below iron, one of the main things standing out is how many higher disc coins I missed with high disc.

I am very meticulous about pulling the high disc coins out with high disc and just to see what I have missed is a bit of a eye opener in that for what ever reason the machine hasn't picked them up, like a coin in the middle of a tab 6" triangle, or a coin in the hole with a tab, or a coin that should come in above tab not hitting till iron.

sure there are many factors in play ground moisture, swing speed, coil selection, how hard am I listening etc... we all know that stuff.

but like I told the grounds keeper who was a nice guy you will have the cleanest park in town when I am finished and I am way past half way, netted 2 gold bands so far and a few silver rings and a silver bracelet.

so if I just love detecting because I love detecting and not overly concerned about what I find it seems I do pretty good and am outside getting some sun and air and if I find something nice its a bonus really, but having said that its only around the corner, if I travel I do try and detect a bit smarter as in time verses reward, but close to home I am in no hurry

so for this kind of park clean out cant beat tesoros no screen watching up down out and keep moving.

AJ