You Know It Don't Come Easy

[Coilfisher]

Got out Saturday to the oldest ball park I could think of still existed in my area that was in a reasonable driving distance.
The old photos I could find place it to be I would say a late 1890ish park to perhaps very early 1920's.
So, I thought this would be a great place to try looking for the deepies this machine is supposed to find.

Firstly, I can say...though I have hunted in trash before, this place was a nightmare.
The only thing standing was the ball stop cage behind homeplate. Nothing else remained.
It reaked of that "old flavor" we all like to find.
However, it has been pounded to death...like all the old places.
The old fencing parts appearently littered the earth beneath.
My first mistake I believe was NOT running in a high trash pattern.
And, as I am new to the machine I did not even come to think of this.
I did run in TTF for quite a bit, but the barrage of sounds was overwhelming and I was moving at a snail's pace.
I DUG so much iron. Iron nails and parts falsing as good target SOUND, but the FE number was below 27.
Another mistake I made.

IN any case I squeaked out a wheat, the face of an old kid's ring (really wish that was intact--I think it looked neat), and a '45 Merc.
A good 3 hour hunt. It don't come easy in the public places, but was a lot of fun!

~CF

 

[banditicey]

Congrats on the Merc

I know how you feel in that trash But you gave it a decent try!

Sometimes you can hunt for three hours and not even get a Wheat let alone a Merc

Well Done

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Glad you got the silver !!!!

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Go back and try it again with the trash set to high, with ground on difficult and fast on and see if finds increase.

 

[mudpuppy]

n/t

 

[niterider_58]

Nice finds

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Looks like you did well to me!

 

[Sailorman]

I have spots like this I hunt. You just have to consider it a challenge! The settings mentioned above will help a lot. Going slow on the swing helps as well. The last big help would be a small coil. It really opened up some heavily pounded trashy areas for me!

 

[Coilfisher]

I have spots like this I hunt. You just have to consider it a challenge! The settings mentioned above will help a lot. Going slow on the swing helps as well. The last big help would be a small coil. It really opened up some heavily pounded trashy areas for me!

Well, thanks all for the kind words.

I really don't want to switch off coils on this machine. I have another machine with a small coil for tight places that I like to leave on.
Though, I heard the unit does do very well with the smaller SEF; my whole experiment/purpose of buying the Etrac was to try and pull
the deeper silvers others have left behind (and is legend for).
And, I do agree with you however on that. I really didn't expect it to be trashy which is why I did forgo the small swing set area that lay in the front before the old entrance.
I hunted that real briefly last year and was digging trash like I never saw. Cut myself on can slaw all over.

So, it was not what I was going for initially.
Going to try and get out some more this week on some more cleanly areas --time permitting.