Ed Steinhoff
Active member
Had a couple of hours for a quick hunt today, so I thought I would start by finishing a small corner of a school tot lot that I had hunted about ten days ago. It has little to no activity in it this time of year so I figured to clean it up before school starts again. I usually hit this chip lot about three times a year. It is a large chip lot at a new school built two years ago. The f70 was still set the same as the last hunt here with disc 20 sens 45, speed dp and tones 4h, threshold -1. First thing upon entering the chip lot was to set the gb then I had to walk across the lot to the unhunted portion on the back side. As I stepped forward I automatically began swinging the coil and banged a penny signal in six steps! Wow, I said to myself, how did I miss that? A little more searching of the immediate area revealed two more pennies, all at the end of the swings where I had started my search of 10 days earlier. Now I had to really think about what was happening. Previously I had hunted from north to south, had I been that sloppy? So I began to re-search the old area only going at right angles, east to west this time. On the previous hunt I had been quite pleased with 104 coins and assorted tot-lot junk bling. This time after a careful two hours on the opposite grid I came home with 56 coins (all clad), a nice silver and turquoise ring and 1942 S silver war nickel! (my first) Lesson is-- don't think you are ever so good as to find it all, always grid in two or three directions, no place is ever completely hunted out, and this is the greatest hobby in the world! The satisfaction of going back and discovering my own mistakes and being able to improve on my own performance was priceless!
HH Ed in co.
HH Ed in co.
