This Is For The Newcomers, A Full Day Of Hunting

[fowlercharles]

Hi Dave, and welcome back.! You said it well and will find that with your love of history , combined with the desire to "find some good places to hunt" that the "research" you will do, will in itself become a rewarding hobby. Having a digging buddy with like mindedness would also be nice. Good Luck and HH, Charlie

 

[MarkCZ]

Thanks for all the replies to this thread It just reflects some truths about this hobby, its not what it seems to a lot of people that are not already into the hobby. Yes, there is a few times in this WHOLE world where somebody will stumble across a really GREAT find of wealth, but that's really the GREAT EXCEPTION and nothing even remotely close to reality.

And just to note I went back to that same park but a different area for a pretty long evening hunt to search for just coins, I did dig less trash, a few more coins and a pretty neat button of some sort?
But, again I had hours in this hunt and here is the good stuff that I got.
One Clad Quarter,
Three Clad Dimes,
Seven Copper Pennies, (One was a 1942 Wheat cent)
One Interesting button.

So that's a whole 0.63 Cents (it probably cost a $1.50 in gas to just get there) (Plus a couple of thousand dollars in equipment)

Mark

 

[fongu]

I never found much but some clad until I started water hunting and my luck improved. Except for last week and I only found 5 pennies in 2 hours and 7 pennies in 4 hours and a ring. I think it's gold plated and not much value. But, it was the first time I'd been able to detect in quite a while and I enjoyed getting out in the outdoors.

 

[MarkCZ]

I was back at the park yesterday with my two brothers, I was there from about 8:30am until about 4:30pm, my brothers got there about 11:00am.
Me and my older brother worked a 10'X10' square taking out the trash trying to see if some lower level silver would turn up, my middle brother wondered around the park coin-shooting different spots.
All day, here is our take,
Me & Ron found,
One Clad Dime,
One Silver Dime,

I found one Zinc penny before they showed up.

My middle brother found some coins but I'm not sure the exact order of what he found, but he was under a dollar total.

So, in total the three of us (oh, it was near 90 degrees too) was less than a dollar in face value, throw in the melt value of the Mercury dime and we hit close to $3.00
On days like this I believe we could have sold the aluminum tabs and other aluminum for scrap value and came out ahead.

Detectors used that day,
Coinstrike with a Sun-Ray CS-5 coil
Fisher 1270 with a 5"x10" concentric coil
Tesoro Tejon with a 5.75" concentric coil
and a lower range Bounty Hunter with the little 4" coil

Detectors in tow but didn't use, another Tejon and my Omega with the 11" DD coil

Sometimes I feel like a "Underground Sanitation Engineer" researching garbology.

Mark

 

[WV62]

But all in all we had a good day and as always learned a little. We detected, we dug, and we cracked a few jokes. At one point some guy came up and ask if we were doing any good and rather than give him the details of how many pull tabs we found I side my other brother (middle brother) and pointed had found a few pennies, well the guy went right on down and bummed 3 cents off of him.

Older brother Ron

 

[HaroldILL.]

Way to go with a truthful post on detecting. We have all these newbee yuppies hunting Chicago Parks on another forum bragging about 3-400 silver coins they find in a year! What a bunch of crap as myself and friends of mine who have been detecting those same parks for over 20 years don't even pull 35 a year tops. It is amazing how people have to make up ghost stories so they can be the big man of the forum!

 

[team sidewinder]

Being a newbie myself I love this thread. How true it is. Starting out I find just enough coins ( most all clad ) to keep me going in hopes of the BIG find someday. I have so many coins on my bucket list to find still but have at least been able to cross some off so far. As mentioned this isn't a race it is a marathon and only those who stick with it will prevail. I am sure I will kick the bucket before I get all the coins checked off MY bucket list.

 

[happycamper08]

I tell all of my friends that are interested in detecting that if digging trash most of the time will bother you than you better choose a different hobby.

 

[WV62]

Well my brother MarkCZ had and I had another fun day in the park, we were trying to work out of a 10 x 10 grid box or at least mine was a 10x10 and his was a 10x8. We found an old home site and was working that area. Well I thought I had the lead when I found a penny, so for a few minutes I had the edge. We changed locations and that is when Mark ran away with it, seems he had clad dime, clad quarter, one regular penny and then he iced the cake with a wheat penny.

My total for the day was 2 cents.

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

Well my brother MarkCZ had and I had another fun day in the park, we were trying to work out of a 10 x 10 grid box or at least mine was a 10x10 and his was a 10x8. We found an old home site and was working that area. Well I thought I had the lead when I found a penny, so for a few minutes I had the edge. We changed locations and that is when Mark ran away with it, seems he had clad dime, clad quarter, one regular penny and then he iced the cake with a wheat penny.

My total for the day was 2 cents.

Ron in WV

Well, I sort of cheated.
We were hunting in roped off boxes, side by side. We started off at around 9:00am and we knocked off about 3:00pm.

Brother Ron was using a beep and dig Fisher 1270 trying to run high disc and pull out some older deeper or silver coins and I was switching between my Coinstrike and my Omega. After a long time he hit a copper penny. There was still plenty of time left so I didn't feel skunked at first.
During this hunt when one got done with their box we would hope boxes trying to see if one detector may have been doing something better, or if one of us just missed something, neither of us found anything in the others box and I never found anything by hunting my box with one detector and then going back over it with the other detector.

Here is how I cheated.
When we set up the boxes and work them out we would just flip ends with them. Then we just relocated them to a different spot but in the same general area and worked that.
That area turned up the first copper penny.
Then, we moved across the park to a completely different area and set up with the same idea, I'm going to say by now its nearing 1:30pm. With Ron using the beep and dig I could cover my box a lot quicker and so I had some extra time before he got his done, earlier I would help him dig some of his, but it was getting late and I hadn't found anything and so when I got my box done I just started wondering around trying to fine something to bring home. So in a little bit I found a wheat penny, to which I let him know I had to found something so I wasn't going home totally skunked LoL.

So, after Ron finished up his last box we decided to clean up the boxes and just wonder and hunt our way back to the car.
We knocked off at around 3:00pm.
Ron, ended up finding another penny for his second for the day.
I covered more ground wondering with my Omega and its 11" DD coil then Ron could. So at the end of the day I found,
One Clad Quarter,
Two Clad Dimes,
One Wheat Penny,
Three copper Pennies.

Mark

 

[sweepdog]

i told my friend who asked. a lot of guys are retired because it takes a lot of time to find anything. also, the best coin that you will ever find you could probably find on ebay for about 3 dollars.

 

[Jahn11]

Excellent post, sometimes I wonder why I bother , but then once your outside and swinging away and that first beep pops up and you start to dig then your imagination starts to take off.
That is what is all about , if I find something good (doubt it) great ! I will keep searching always ......





Probably 12.00 in clad no silver anything no jewelry eh!

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