Morning Hunt at Stewart Park

[sparkster]

Got out this morning early to hunt a park that I have hunted at least 50 times maybe more.

Stewart Park is the main park in town. It is not a large park, maybe 3 acres.

Our city has concerts in the park during the summer months. This Month it has been
Three Dog Night, Kansas and the Commodores. Nice concerts. Each one draws about
2000 people.

Yesterday evening was just beautiful. About 70 degrees. Needless to say a lot of people
showed up for the concert.

I started hunting about 6:00 this morning with my AT Pro in Pro mode, 35 on the discriminate, using
Iron audio when I suspect a bottle cap. It really works well.

Didn't find much. So I decided to slow my swing speed way down to about 3 seconds a sweep.
I also started digging everything with a repeatable tone. My finds really started to pick up. I dug
1 new dollar, 32 quarters, 21 dimes, 8 nickles, and 69 Penny's. One Brass Hinge, 1 costume charm,
and a costume flag pin. $12.09 in clad. That is a big day for this ole boy.

Slowing that sweep speed really made a difference. Most of my finds were not surface finds.
I found one quarter at about 7 inches standing straight up, a nickle at about 6 inches. Only about
a dollar of the clad was surface finds.

This just goes to show you, you never get it all. There is no such thing as HUNTED OUT. Don't
ever believe that. You just need to change your approach. I would be willing to bet I could go back
to that park this evening and find more little treasures even though I gave it a pretty good go this
morning. I have yet to grid the concert seating area.

Happy hunting and just be patient. I have not found a gold ring in months, so just keep the faith and
keep swinging, it will happen.

 

[Muddyshoes]

Congrats on a great finds! It's true, every day people "seed" parks and grassy/sandy areas with new loot to be found...

- Muddyshoes

 

[sparkster]

Muddy shoes, how come you aren't workin. Only us retired dudes are suppose to have time to e-mail during the middle of the day.
I spent 38 years working for that luxury you know.

I got to believe my finds were all do to the swing speed. I was digging things I left behind the last 49 trips to the park.

Where you located. I'm 25 miles west of Palm Springs, CA in a little town called Beaumont,CA. Not so little now. When I moved here
after retirement it was 9600. Now it is almost 50,000.

Not a lot of places to hunt. There are only 3 or 4 parks and everyone and their brother is hittin them.

I just bought an I-Pad II. Now I carry it with me to surrounding cities and use Google earth to find areas
to hunt. If you have a home computer you can do the same thing.

Have a great day.

 

[Blackie]

[size=x-large]Slow down[/size]!!! [size=x-large]YOU MOVE TOO FAST!![/size]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvlW4bEjB5A

 

[John-Edmonton]

n/t

 

[Muddyshoes]

Muddy shoes, how come you aren't workin. Only us retired dudes are suppose to have time to e-mail during the middle of the day.
I spent 38 years working for that luxury you know.

Have a great day.

My father worked almost 60 years with the idea of being able to travel and do things when he retired. Unfortunately, he became ill and passed on before being able to realize that dream. It taught us kids to take as much advantage of the things we want to do while we have our health, because you never know when it could all be taken away from you.

I'm self-employed..not as successful as I could be, but I try to take time to do the things I want to do when I can

- Muddyshoes

 

[ralph]

Thats a very good hunt by most anybodies standards. Thanks for the tip on sweep speed.