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Pending compadre hunt at skate park , tips?

cladcanada

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I have noticed that a lot of young people frequent a local skate park ,it's located near a ball field and two middle schools. There is a lot of grassy areas surrounding the concrete . I would think this would be a perfect area for lots of clad??? I had the chance before the most recent freeze up to do a quick run through of park ,well I have never seen so many targets so I kept increasing the disc to full . I could be wrong but I never seen this many targets at full disc,could keep me busy for a very long time

So my question is has anyone hunted any skate parks and was it worth all the trash? I dont think it's all coin signals

This will be a good test for the compadre I,m sure
 
Go for it. There will be a lot of trash because teenagers are teenagers, but they also tend to not care much for change.:thumbup:
 
Yes,, Go and hit it. Remember, Just take your time. That park will not go any place.. Just hunt a little place at a time. Say a 20 Ft by 20 Ft... Dig it all. I am sure that a place like that will have some good jewelry in it. If you get tired of digging so mush junk, Just stop and go some place else.. You can always go back any time and hunt your next spot.. But keep at it... KEN
 
Thanks I will chip away at it as soon as it gets above 0'

:thumbup:
 
ken ward said:
Yes,, Go and hit it. Remember, Just take your time. That park will not go any place.. Just hunt a little place at a time. Say a 20 Ft by 20 Ft... Dig it all. I am sure that a place like that will have some good jewelry in it. If you get tired of digging so mush junk, Just stop and go some place else.. You can always go back any time and hunt your next spot.. But keep at it... KEN

Very good advice. Taking on small areas isn't so overwhelming and becomes a challenge to see how many targets you can recover from the selected small area.

Remember, the trashier the better.

tabman
 
Should I start at max disc or just digem all?
 
cladcanada said:
Should I start at max disc or just digem all?

At at a new site I always dig the first dozen or so targets using low discrimination to see what I'm up against. Always keep your discrimination set as low as you can tolerate.

tabman
 
I did that first and was getting solid hits every few inches in spots . Looking forward to going back and taking more time . Time there will be limited cause it gets busy with skaters all most dawn to dusk , even this morning at -1'. There were kids there


Hopefully with bad pockets :)
 
Am I wrong in thinking that State Parks are off limits to metal detecting?

Mark
 
Skate park not state park


For skateboards
 
cladcanada said:
Skate park not state park


For skateboards
Boy did I miss that or what?
But on by behalf were I live the term "Skate Park" or one of those doesn't exist, so my little pee-brain jumped to State Park. LoL!

Years ago they did put a real nice Skate Board track/course at one end of our city park, but some kid got hurt a few weeks after its opening and they shut it down, then a couple years later they tore it out. Its been gone now for probably ten years or longer.
The same thing happened when they first opened our city park, it had a really nice lake (large pond) then there was a child drowning and they drained it, closed it and never opened it again, that was in the mid 20's.

To me it wasn't the Skateboard track or the pond to blame, stuff happens, people get killed in automobiles and planes all the time, but they never stopped making either of those.

Sorry for my blunder.

Mark
 
Hey my auto correct changed it as well a few times

And yes the skate parks look like a good place to crack your head open.........kids???
 
The shady side of trees in the area, the edge of the concrete where it meets the grass, and anywhere else they would be rolling around.

You are probably also going to find 100,000,000 Pull tabs.

Shaun
 
In any case if it were me I would cherry pick as much of the park for coins 1st. If coins are your thing. Then take your time going over it again looking for the other goodies many don't have the patients for such as gold rings, etc.. The reason being is if another TH'r sees you working the area, or has a buddy he knows that likes to detect, someone else will soon be hunting that area also.

It's happen to me more then once!:rage: As an example I started detecting a nice clean public site that showed promise and held lots of clad but later, during my next visit a day or two later, it looked like wild hogs had hit the place. :yikes:

HH
 
I've hunted a few skate parks in my area and the first place I always hit is the edge of the concrete near the skate ramps. Just like a basketball cort the outer edge of the black top always brought me plenty of coins and at times a few rings. That's one nice thing with the compadre is that you can get nice and close to the edge at low disc . I run mine around the O on the iron setting and it seems to work very well for me on the coins and small items. best of luck.
 
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