Mystery hunting fields I can't figure out !

[Dancer]

I got 2 main ones that come to mind. Both youth soccer fields. One has a nice consession area. When their having games when I drive by they are packed with people, Young and old. Plus the parking areas. These fields are in nice areas & the trash cans are full. So people are spending money. One big problem Can't hardly break a buck in either of them. Tried different machines threw the yrs. even the Compadre strikes out. Now to top it off places nearby do produce nice amounts of clad and sometimes even a ring. So theres no ele. interfearance, money is being spent, fields are well used and I just can't figure it out. I'm going out to one today, haven't been there in over a yr. Looking at everything it's got to have something in there. Taking a machine for the open areas & the Compadre for the trashy areas. If I break $2 it will be a record. You guys got something like this happening ?

 

[happycamper08]

It could be that someone else is getting there before you.

 

[Hombre]

The older generation carried real money, the new generation carries debit cards

 

[mudpuppy]

Hear you there brother! I have a place like that...found lots of old clad in the dirt from years gone by,...very few fresh drops...big sports complex, had to be 10,000 people there for a 3 day soccer tournament...I was really expecting a massive clad fest and was there early as soon as it was finished...hardly got 5 bucks out of there...I think Hombre is right, nobody beat me to this place, and even if they did its so huge they could not have possibly covered it all...we have a 10cent deposit on cans up here, and I got 42 emptys out of the trash cans one morning in 10 minutes, more money in the emptys than clad on the ground...I drop sens to almost nothing and get under the bleachers and have found some clad there...
Mud

 

[tabman]

It takes lots of years with big crowds to build up a sizable coin and jewelry loss. One big single event doesn't produce much in the way of lost coins and jewelry.

One good thing about fairly new sports fields, without all those beaver tails, you don't have to do a lot of digging to find a gold ring if there's one there.

tabman

 

[kaolinwasher]

Its all spread out , and you can only cover so much ground , I have the same results on the soccer fields, just a tip if you want some quarters find the center of the soccer field and detect that whole round circle thats the spot the coins get flipped I found a hole bunch that way .

 

[Elton]

I noticed that this summer at a barbecue cook off.............

 

[REVIER]

A big change over the last few years is lots of those concession stands at temporary fairs, festivals and even the permanent ones at many sports parks hate making change so just about everything has been rounded off to a dollar.
Less change being made equals less coin drops, or none except for the usual amount dropped by people at any given site.
I have hunted many sites with thousands of people roaming around just the day before and have found very little coins or surface finds and mostly just stuff that was a little deeper and dropped way before.
Jewelry can be around but a ton of it, probably not and finding that stuff is always a crap-shoot, anyway.

There are exceptions, of course.
One time I was hunting an open field in a park where they set up those big blow up movie screens so families can watch them on the weekends in the summer months.
Near the intersection of 2 sidewalks near the front where some churches set up tables and sold refreshments I came across a spot where my Vaq and the large DD coil went off like nothing I have ever heard before.
Within a 3' square area I dug up 16 quarters that I finally just sat on the ground and located and dug just by using my Propointer.
Evidently somebody was selling drinks for 50 cents, making change and accidentally dumped their cash box onto the ground and didn't find all the coins that were dropped because they were hidden by the grass.
That was fun...I would like to hear that kind of signal again sometime.

 

[Rainyday101]

I have been to several parks this summer that the county park employees have told have been well hunted. They must be using crap detectors because I have found over 300 coins at one of these sights and lots at the others. They all key in on the most obvious spots. I have found lots of wheaties and a few silver coins at these areas. I look for the trashy areas with older beaver tail tabs and concentrate on these. My guess is their junk detectors can't handle the trash and they skip these spots.

 

[Idxpro]

I agree with Revier, It's the same around here with the concession stands, everything is rounded to tbe dollar. But i'm good with my 8 year olds school just arou d the corner. I go there maybe 5 days a week with him and detect while he plays with his friends. Lunch is $1.85 which means a nickle and a dime change from a deuce. He's convinced all of his friends to bury the change everyday during recess so his Dad can find them after school...hahahah. ..classic. Every day there is new change to find for big daddy! I bought his whole class pizza lunch two weeks ago for letting metal detect their school and finding their money...hehe.