Punched a Bunch..:thumbup:

[mudpuppy]

Up early and on the Forum, but got sort of a late start hunting, 7ish, grass was wet, and my cheap shoes soak it up and get my socks wet, so I went and hit my local easy chip totlot milk run to warm up...theres this one kid, who drops dollar coins at one particular place, and underneath one particular totlot feature...(horizontal bars).....I've been cleaning up after him for 4 yrs now...once he dropped FOUR of them! Today was no dissapointment. I bet I've got 20 dollar coins out of this totlot in the past 4 yrs...I will be sad when he graduates!

Got 116 coins for 7.48, plus 4 empty cans, lets see, out of 5 stops? two of which were swept clean... home by 10am...running the 70 in my usual lite settings and had a good time...I really banged the heck out of the Nickles and Pennies today...Tip of the day.. even though school is out, those kids and even adults gravitate to the totters and might just lose more during the summer than during the school year, since they tend to stay there longer and are wearing the right kind of clothes that benefit us...

Happy Fathers day for you Fathers out there!
Mud.

 

[JimmyCT]

Wow mud that is a nice morning hunt! I wish my tot lots held that much coinage. I am lucky if I walk out of a "tot" with a buck in my pocket. You think after all this time the kid would learn where his dollar coins are disappearing to? For your benefit, I hope he doesn't lol - Jim

 

[pine3874]

Nice haul there on the clad. You must not have any competition because in all of the totlots I go to I'm lucking to find $0.50 and that's even if I go at 9pm or 5am.

 

[Trailduster]

Maybe there is a creepy old man who admires you from a distance and leaves them dollars there for a cheap thrill as you pick them up.

 

[tabman]

Mud that's a lot of digging in such short period of time.

tabman

 

[USMA67]

Yeah, that's about a coin every minute or so. Wish I could find a spot like that.

 

[metalfun]

You done well as usual.I'm gonna be just like you when I grow up.

 

[mudpuppy]

Thanks guys! I have developed this Milk run see? Took me a few years...Maybe a dozen totters in various nearby schoolyards... I keep my eyes on whats going on in the area and pounce as quick as possible to discourage anybody that may try to hunt it in between times...if you have a good looking active totlot, but cant find a thing, somebody is doing a run of their own...so you try to figure out WHEN...you can leave a penny or pulltab under the swings, or at the base of a slide, and that becomes your "tell"...then you claim jump ahead of them, and keep at it until they give up on it thinking theres nothing there anymore....granted some of these are in very rough neighborhoods, so a guy hits hard and fast early am and gets out fast too....theres NO WAY you can stick around any longer than 20 minutes, 10 being about the limit of safety.....and somedays you cant even stop at all if it just dont feel right..
Once you get a route established and time it all right, its super easy and fast hunting since you know all the primary drop zones..
Mud.

 

[kaolinwasher]

What a haul , you must be hunting an earea where some drinking is going on ,

 

[Trailduster]

Mud. I know how you feel.

I did a city park last summer. Wide open park and my jeep was to far to run to if needed.

Looking over my shoulder quite a bit as the "career welfare" cases moseyed on past me going from one hood tot he other.

Kept thinking to myself I was glad my lesche looks like a Rambo knife from a distance to the untrained eye.

A few slouchers got to close for comfort. High stress level indeed. Not really worth it. But curiousity go that itch burning wondering what could be burried around those old monuments, marble water fountains, and large tree's. In the end. Zilch, a lot of stress and sweat.