Went out to a nearby local park that supposedly has been well hunted out. This is what I found in about an hour with the 11". These clads were pretty much found just in the area shown in the photo. The more I use and learn this machine, the more impressed I am with it. (Now all I need to get up to speed with is the 17 coil!) And I credit a lot of my increasing skill with it to all the smart and dedicated people that I've learned from on this website. And make no mistake about it, I still have a helluva lot to learn. Findmall is one of the best sites on the web, IMO.
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One hour in a "hunted out" local park
- Thread starter Lensman
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MINELABBOB
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THEY TOLD YOU THAT
to keep you out. !!!!!!!!!!! dont you just love it
to keep you out. !!!!!!!!!!! dont you just love it
MINELABBOB
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I LOVE HUNTED OUT PARKS!!
BOB
BOB
Well done on getting up to speed with your CTX !!
indy durtdigger
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MINELABBOB said:
I had a local law enforcement officer that is also a "fellow" dirt fisher not only give me the old "me and my buddies have hunted a park out" that he saw me in, he one upped it with an outright lie. He told me that the town and county parks departments in my locality had passed ordinances forbidding detecting that took effect this year. It took me two months to finally find someone in our community that knew anything about such things and come to find out it was a total and blatant lie. That was a pretty D-Bag play on his part and I find it just a little infuriating to think that he has most likely arrested people for doing the same thing he did to me.
MINELABBOB
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WHAT SOME PEOPLE
will do, but what can you do. there are so many places if you ask /or look that i dont even let it get to me any more.
here were i live people are so worryed that you will get hurt and sue that it makes me laugh.like i have nothing better to do than
sue. it is a shame at what is going on in the world and , the way some people think?? you can go to 1 town and thay will let you detect and
go to another and they wont. we know there is no hunted out parks just slim pickings.
bob
will do, but what can you do. there are so many places if you ask /or look that i dont even let it get to me any more.
here were i live people are so worryed that you will get hurt and sue that it makes me laugh.like i have nothing better to do than
sue. it is a shame at what is going on in the world and , the way some people think?? you can go to 1 town and thay will let you detect and
go to another and they wont. we know there is no hunted out parks just slim pickings.
bob
indy durtdigger
Active member
MINELABBOB said:
So very true. I have been quite content using the CTX to pluck out the Mercury dimes he and his buddies couldn't reach with their detectors.
Here in the People's Republic of Frisco 
, metal detecting in city parks is still legal, amazingly enough. But I have had NIMBYs call the cops on me several times for detecting, even though I'm fastidious about filling in my holes and making the areas I dig in look as good or better than they were before I dug them. The cops here have always been cool about it, once they check in and find that it's legal. One time, a couple of them watched me dig out a quarter in Washington Square Park and were asking me all kinds of questions about the CTX, and saying they might be interested in getting into this wonderful hobby. It's always prudent to keep our community relationships good with the law. 
, metal detecting in city parks is still legal, amazingly enough. But I have had NIMBYs call the cops on me several times for detecting, even though I'm fastidious about filling in my holes and making the areas I dig in look as good or better than they were before I dug them. The cops here have always been cool about it, once they check in and find that it's legal. One time, a couple of them watched me dig out a quarter in Washington Square Park and were asking me all kinds of questions about the CTX, and saying they might be interested in getting into this wonderful hobby. It's always prudent to keep our community relationships good with the law. MINELABBOB
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YES 100% got to stay on the good side of everybody !!!!!!!!!!!
Lensman, are you talking about Washington square park in San Francisco , CA ? I'm 2 hrs. south of you then 
I've done a lot of SF park hunting over the years, and pulled hundreds of silvers from those parks. But when it comes to "hunted out" slogan, don't make the mistake of thinking that , since you can find easy clad, that, therefore it's not "hunted out". Or that the prior hunters "missed those", etc.... Because the more hard-core turf hunters pass all shallow signals (clad). And hone in, instead, on deeper silver/wheaties whispers.
Thus yes, I have no doubt the parks there are riddled with clad, zinc, etc.... Some of the guys I hunt with up there may end a several-hour hunt with only 8 coins, for example. But 5 or 6 out of the 8 will be old (silver, wheaties, or whatever). Contrast to if a person wanted to spend that several hours digging all the loud bongs, then sure: He could end up with 50+ clad coins easy. But I much prefer old coins, over clad anyday. Ie.: I'd rather find 1 silver dime, than 10 new ones. Example: A buddy of mine dug 25 silver coins, and about 70-ish wheaties, from a single park there in a single day. When I asked "how much clad did you find?", he had probably less than 10 clad (deeper clad dimes that had fooled him).
You may be thinking that you can dig both shallow & deep, and therefore have the "best of both worlds", right ? Ah but it never works out that way. By stopping for all the clad, your ears become subconsciously tuned to the loud bongs, and you thus spend your day digging all the loud easy clad.
I've done a lot of SF park hunting over the years, and pulled hundreds of silvers from those parks. But when it comes to "hunted out" slogan, don't make the mistake of thinking that , since you can find easy clad, that, therefore it's not "hunted out". Or that the prior hunters "missed those", etc.... Because the more hard-core turf hunters pass all shallow signals (clad). And hone in, instead, on deeper silver/wheaties whispers.
Thus yes, I have no doubt the parks there are riddled with clad, zinc, etc.... Some of the guys I hunt with up there may end a several-hour hunt with only 8 coins, for example. But 5 or 6 out of the 8 will be old (silver, wheaties, or whatever). Contrast to if a person wanted to spend that several hours digging all the loud bongs, then sure: He could end up with 50+ clad coins easy. But I much prefer old coins, over clad anyday. Ie.: I'd rather find 1 silver dime, than 10 new ones. Example: A buddy of mine dug 25 silver coins, and about 70-ish wheaties, from a single park there in a single day. When I asked "how much clad did you find?", he had probably less than 10 clad (deeper clad dimes that had fooled him).
You may be thinking that you can dig both shallow & deep, and therefore have the "best of both worlds", right ? Ah but it never works out that way. By stopping for all the clad, your ears become subconsciously tuned to the loud bongs, and you thus spend your day digging all the loud easy clad.
MINELABBOB
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SO DO WE ALL!!!!!!!!!
indy durtdigger
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Visited the "hunted" out park just yards from my house this morning. I do believe those twin 1942 Mercury dimes make ten out of just one area this year.
Edit. Ive gotta change my pic settings, re post in a bit.
Edit. Ive gotta change my pic settings, re post in a bit.
MINELABBOB
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THAT MATCHBOX
would look good in my collection!!!!!!!!!
bob
would look good in my collection!!!!!!!!!
bob