Tips for a old park

[Howard Snell]

Sunday I'm going to a old park nearby. (my mother isn't back from Florida yet) The park is huuge it's been there for 200 hundred years. I went there tonight for 45 min on a survey run and dug up 2 coins and pull tabs. No shortage of targets. On Sunday I plan on doing a 12 hour shift with the trusty pro. I think there might be some good stuff there based on allot of carnival ride droppings but also allot of old silvers.

Any ideas on how best to attack it?

Right now I'm planning to dig all 40-60 VDI targets and anything 80-90

 

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[size=large]don't forget food and water.

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[John-Edmonton]

Try doing spot checks around the perimeter. If there's and woods, work them. Wine open spaces tend to give up some interesting targets.

Good luck 12 hours of hunting should get you some nice finds.

 

[JOE in MD]

I would look for hill slopes where people would sit and watch others. and like John said, hit the woods if there are any.

 

[Howard Snell]

Yeah there are woods there I'm thinking this park will take me about 10 trips to really give me an idea of what's really there

 

[GoGoGopher]

If there are any fences, and you have the 4.5 super sniper coil...USE IT and scan the fence lines on BOTH sides...I have found quite a few jewelry finds along the fences...

HH,

 

[Howard Snell]

Yeah no fences I did notice on my survey run that some vegetation clovers and such were three inches off the ground it's easy to see how someone can loose jewelry in that

 

[Pastor bob]

Don't pass up those VID's that jump from 70-80. I have found several silvers that fell into those numbers.

 

[Hank68]

Good luck!

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Big trees that people can hide from the rain under tend to give up goodies. Also trees with low limbs kids can play on. Found my first fishscale that way.

 

[Howard Snell]

Just got back with the following results many pull tabs, lots of tin foil, and lots of double a batteries, and two quarters. I plan a revisit and maybe a possible change in strategy.

 

[INVASCdigger]

Just got back with the following results many pull tabs, lots of tin foil, and lots of double a batteries, and two quarters. I plan a revisit and maybe a possible change in strategy.

I'm not sure which mode you're using, but I'd use Pro Zero, set the sensitivity as high as you can and still be stable, set Iron disc to about 35, ground balance in auto, then manually lower the GB number by about 10 digits (example...if auto GB is 80, lower to 70 for more sensitivity and depth). The pro mode will give you the ability to hear if the target is deep...the deep ones will whisper. You'll have a lot of trash to put up with, but the AT Pro separates targets very well, so you should be able to hear the good stuff between the bad.