Old reliable "creep & sweep" technique nets about 40 coins = about three bucks or so..

[Uncle Willy]

Didn't feel too frisky yesterday but needed to get some exercise and do some beeping so went to a favorite park. Didn't feel up to wandering all over like I usually do so picked a spot in the shade behind the bleachers at the Little League ball field and mentally gridded off a patch about five feet by thirty feet and employed the "creep & sweep" method. I probably missed a few and I did leave a few that I couldn't pry out of the rock hard ground in certain spots. This proves once again how many coins get left behind using the time honored walk and scan routine and how many are actually laying there under our feet.. Haven't used this method in some time and forgot how productive it can be.


Bill

 

[Woodchuck]

Thats pretty good!

 

[oldranger]

Good job uncle

good to see ya gettin out

HH
Ron

Rangers lead The Way

 

[Da Yooper]

Very nice job , I see you and I use the same techniques , creep & sweep and bird doggin which is wandering all over the place.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Nice bunch of loot you got Bill. Hunting in the shade is sometimes the only option, other then not going out at all.

 

[metalhead]

Good clad haul!Always good to get out and do some swingin'!Happy Hunting!

 

[fongu]

Nice pile of clad. Not sure what the creep & sweep technique is ,tho.

 

[Fishrgal]

Yeah, what is the "creep and sweep"?

 

[Uncle Willy]

You mentally grid an area you want to hunt, something you can cover in one north to south pass, say an area four feet wide and twenty feet long. Then you stand in one spot and scan every inch of real estate in front of you more than once, or even out to the side depending on how far you want to swing. You scan out as far as you can reach then when you're comfortable that you have covered all that area you move forward to the point where you reached the farthest, then you stop, stand still, and scan the next patch of real estate in front of you out as far as you can reach, then do it again until you have covered the full length of the patch you gridded out., then turn around and do the same thing going back over it in the opposite direction. Then you scan it diagonally. You may not get every item there but you won't miss very much, and in some areas you will be amazed at what is laying there that is always missed by standard scanning procedures..

I hunted a patch last summer on the edge of a ball field that was about eight feet by eight feet. I hunted it north to south, south to north, and diagonally, and wound up with close to $2.50 out of that one little patch of real estate. It takes patience so if you're short of that it might not work out so well.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah that day was a hot one and I wasn't felling too spiffy anyway and that shade was nice. I got in-laws that fell in today from Arizona. They think it's cool here.

Bill