Popular Post Deft Tones Posted June 29, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2017 Finds first for the TLDR people. As the finds in my current primary patch dwindle in numbers from being worked heavily the past two years, I'm scouting for a new primary patch to begin working. Using the criteria and method outlined in a previous post, I've located a very good location that is certain to hold gold, silver, and more. Today will be my first time boots on the ground at that location and I'll walk the reader through it along with my scouting method. Maybe it will help someone and provide insight or encouragement. Here is the sat. view 5 playgrounds, one skate park, basketball, tennis, two soccer fields, two softball fields, two shelters, one former 1890's to 1950's church location on site. Here are my paths while scouting. Deus in red, V3i in green. So, from the sat. images there are many hot-spots to strike, and I won't try to get them all as this is a long term prospect, and I only desire to determine 3 primary things today. 1. Pressure - hunting pressure from other detectorists. 2. Trash composition and density. 3. Presence - Is there jewelry where I expect it to be. Deus gets the top spot today as it's the ideal scouting unit. Light, fast, great tones to read the trash. From the parking lot I begin and move to the skate park since it's close and can hold silver and junk jewelry along with lots of coins. Foil seems to be the primary trash along the way, and around the skate feature the aluminum kicks in - light can slaw and tabs primarily. I can hear lots and lots of coins, zinc and copper cents mostly, but a healthy quantity of dimes as well. I select a few targets I know are quarters and pennies, then intentionally sample some of the larger better sounding trash before moving on. The primary traffic flow from one side of the park to another is divided by a slight drainage ditch with the easiest pass being on either end... and people naturally take the easiest route, so I do too. Pennies everywhere! Zinc mostly, healthy dose of copper, decent selection of dimes, quite a few quarters...light trash mostly foil and ferrous bits... but I keep on moving through without digging a single target. Not interested today. Moving to the goal at the primary soccer field I work my way over to the nearest corner, then down the sideline to mid-field before cutting over to the center. Then I work my way to the opposite goal before coming around the back net. From there, and because of its close proximity to the goal, I briefly enter the playground before hitting the nearest corner of the soccer field diagonally opposite from the first corner I hit. Quarters everywhere! I decide to spend some time here sampling, cherry picking the best sounds. Within 10 minutes I found the heart pendant necklace. Jewelry confirmed, nice. So I pause, crank up the notch to 93 and take all the quarters before moving on. Erasing the notch I notice an area of the playground is different. Something was removed and not replaced. I suspect one of the super dangerous merry-go-rounds that children today get no experience or joy from used to be there. Clad everywhere....move on. Swing-set looks vintage so I check that and the mostly abandoned softball backstop area nearby. The trash picks up and bottle caps start to appear below the coil. I dug a first (for this park) beavertail ring pull, nice...a sign there might be some silver coins lurking around here. I'm getting hot by now so start thinking of shade and where to find some. It's scarce, so good places to concentrate. I mentally discriminate everything but quarters. Lots of nice signals, lots of trash and rusty caps. So far this is the trashiest area and I'm impressed it's not worse. Out of water and thirsty, I head back to the parking lot where I started, taking any quarters I come across. There are so many coins around it's obvious to me this park has never been heavily worked over by much of anyone in a long time, if ever. This place is a clad mine. Exactly how my current patch started out! I switch out units for the V3i and head towards the nearby secondary soccer field goal. I work one small corner of the goal net taking everything in a 6 foot diameter...clad and tabs mostly. Then I work right down the field towards the only clump of trees between the two fields and casually work the area randomly, still cherry picking signals but expanding the range down below zinc cents a little plus taking all nickel range targets as I find them. Getting tired and hot I'm thinking of wrapping it up so I head out to the sideline and try to find the trash zone where people sit and spectate. There isn't much trash to detect so I decide to just pick a line inside the playing field and take everything not obviously trash out of the ground. As I reached the corner of the field the silver ring shows up. Someone threw the ball into play and lost a ring perhaps. Now we're talking! Satisfied with the mission I walked off and swung over the curb area near the parking lot to get a feel for the trash there, too. With light to moderate trash, tons of clad signals, two pieces of jewelry - I have all the intel I need to know that this park is going to produce a few gold items, eventually. I'm hesitant to give 5 stars so we'll rate it at a 4 plus star park, IMO. Next hunt the tedious process of clad layer removal begins, oh, joy. Thanks for your time. Good hunting. 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Wow, you spent a lot of time relaying this info to us, and I want you to know how much I appreciate your effort. This is exactly the kind of thing that will help me. I started my harem last year with two parks. Both sites were either homestead farms or industrial sites back in the 1800's. While still hunting the parks this year, I've added two schools built in first half of 20th C. Unfortunately one of those turns out to be private, which I should have known/found out before hunting without permission... Surprising what I still don't know after living in this town for 35 years. Please continue the reports. Wish I had someone locally as experienced and throrough as you to show me the ropes. I'd happily take you to my hunting grounds and watch you dig up treasure after treasure that I know I'm passing over, just to soak up the knowledge I would gain from that experience. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Tones Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 Thank you GB Amateur. It always takes more time for these posts than it should because I create and peck them out on a tablet using the touch screen qwerty board, and with the unavailable to anyone Photoshop touch for Android devices.... it's painfully slow. There was more detail I intended to explain when I started, but time curtailed that when I accidentally closed the nearly completed images without saving...Doh! I am happy the effort helps someone. Kind words, Sir. Thank you. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 That is a really great post - thank you for sharing your knowledge with forum members! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Very informative information about your through approach to hunting this area. Thank you for sharing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gillespie Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 Very informative essay. Different ideas can really pay off. Thanks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiftaaft Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 I am eating this up! Great post Deft... thank you. This inspires me to be better about documenting my research and finds. Looking forward to your next post. Tim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnedoe Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Great post deft.... Your a lot more systematic than I am.... I look things over and get a kind of gut feeling for the area and go from there... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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