TOT - LOT HUNTING - You Can Learn A Lot :detecting:

[dahut]

[size=large]Tot Lot Hunting and YOU[/size]

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[dahut]

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[jasper12]

Very nice piece David.I enjoyed reading it.Looks just like the stuff I found today...I was in a tot-lot today for about 3 hrs & only covered about half of it.It's a pretty big lot.Today it yielded 50 Lincolns."I got tired of digging them"& about $4.00 clad.Also a Silver St Christopher about the size of a dime.Actually a little smaller but it is silver.I believe I'll return tomorrow......
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[khouse]

Hunting is hunting to me. I find if you turn the Ace 250 down to 1 bar of sens on the stock coil you can get next to the supports. Then as I get away from the supports I bump it up. It seems like detectors really like tot lots for some reason. I mean with the sensitivity at low levels they easily will go 6 to 8 inches deep. Usually too deep into the mat of dirt. I can usually pay for my batteries for a month with tot lot clad on a few hunts. My last gold ring was in a tot lot. It was way back in January 2008. But I wasn't able to detect any of my favorite fresh water beaches this year because of flooding. So my gold take is way down. It sounds like you hunt similar to the way I do.

 

[dahut]

Hunting is hunting to me. I find if you turn the Ace 250 down to 1 bar of sens on the stock coil you can get next to the supports. Then as I get away from the supports I bump it up. It seems like detectors really like tot lots for some reason. I mean with the sensitivity at low levels they easily will go 6 to 8 inches deep. Usually too deep into the mat of dirt. I can usually pay for my batteries for a month with tot lot clad on a few hunts. My last gold ring was in a tot lot. It was way back in January 2008. But I wasn't able to detect any of my favorite fresh water beaches this year because of flooding. So my gold take is way down. It sounds like you hunt similar to the way I do.

Yeah, the Ace 250 is a good tot-lot detector, too. It has a fast response, one of my requisites.
I think detectors "like tot lots," as you put it, because there is no mineralization. Sand and wood chips are just devoid of any of these troubles. Get the SNES just right to the thickness of the fill material and you are detecting nearly mineral free...

 

[BarberBill]

Tot lots are just plain fun and easy digging usually. I hunt them often and am surprised at how quickly they become reseeded so to speak. Great places to start a newbie as well.
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