Parks Are A Different Beast Than Beaches

[Sirius]

24 minutes ago, JCR said:

The LG35 is a great coil and can be used in a Park setting effectively running Pitch tone, just not in the thick trash. Keep getting out there & posting.

Maybe your scoop has a decent warranty.

apparently no warrenty, should not have skimped out on paying premiums and should have done research on good scoops. CKG seems to work well for some people so that might be my next purchase when the current scoop kicks the bucket.

[Sirius]

It would be helpful to run some tests to hear for the differences between gold rings and beaver tails. That being said, no luck on finding gold rings on the beach yet, so I don't really have a sample to work with!

[Digalicious]

31 minutes ago, Sirius said:

Nickels are in the gold range 20ish to 25 so it would keep in a good amount of gold but also beaver tails seem to be in the same area. I'll need to check again.

Well, you have to decide if you want to cherry pick only the coin signals OR go for gold as well. As you know, if you want gold, then you'll have to dig massive amounts of foil, pulltabs, and aluminum bottle caps.

[Sirius]

3 minutes ago, Digalicious said:

Well, you have to decide if you want to cherry pick only the coin signals OR go for gold as well. As you know, if you want gold, then you'll have to dig massive amounts of foil, pulltabs, and bottle caps.

tbh the gold might have to come from the beach for the most part; somehow less trash at the beach than trashy parks. I'm not much of a park detector anyhow but it would be nice to learn when high tides prevent me from going to beaches.

[Sirius]

They do say that if you want gold, you gotta dig up the pull tabs/ beaver tails and nickels. If there's no avoiding that then i'd just have to shift my main focus! Don't have to necessarily dig up every target, just those pull tabs/pennies. Probably more pull tabs than anything since it's closer to the gold range.

[Sirius]

Took to a nearby park for 3 hours today, and learned about listening to the beeps of my machine. It was quite the enlightening experience because being able to hear the difference between a coin and a rusty bottle cap is monumental. Coins are sharp and won't tone break when swung over multiple times, whereas bottle caps will tone break when swung over along with producing a not so sharp sound. The target ID helps with identifying what it could be 45-46 tend to be memorial pennies, while 50+ are either quarters, silver or (Lead)? Beaver tails/pull tabs are within the gold and nickel range and have to be dug up if you wanna find gold. I also dig low tones too but those 15-16 tend to be foil. I'll definitely need to put more time into it, but so far so good! Also yeah I need to check high traffic areas, more drops there.

[Sirius]

Followed the same pattern for a the original park I hunted at, much better coin to trash ratio but still alot of trash as expected! I didn't cut out any targets as i wanted to hear it all and train my ears to the sounds of trash and treasure. Treasure is pretty rare, and i have still yet to compare sounds with what little gold I found on the beach and stuff I find at parks.
An interesting bit I discovered is that modern day pull tabs tend to make a high pitched sound like coins, but they double tap. That is you'll hear the initial beep but then a fainter but still high beep comes right after when you swing over multiple times. I'm guessing it's because of the pull tab holes that prompts the machine to make these noises. 

[Bootscrape]

Do yourself a favour and watch some videos of Paystreak with the Legend in his parks.

No discrimination for him, he’s purley a tone hunter. Calls targets before he digs ‘em.

I have learnt a lot just from watching him at work.... especially his target recovery and leaving the ground pristine.

This is one of his latest with the LG24.

 

[DSMITH]

On 2/13/2023 at 3:27 PM, Sirius said:

Followed the same pattern for a the original park I hunted at, much better coin to trash ratio but still alot of trash as expected! I didn't cut out any targets as i wanted to hear it all and train my ears to the sounds of trash and treasure. Treasure is pretty rare, and i have still yet to compare sounds with what little gold I found on the beach and stuff I find at parks.
An interesting bit I discovered is that modern day pull tabs tend to make a high pitched sound like coins, but they double tap. That is you'll hear the initial beep but then a fainter but still high beep comes right after when you swing over multiple times. I'm guessing it's because of the pull tab holes that prompts the machine to make these noises. 

Here is a good coin program for the Legend 1.09 version, by Scott Luppro on YouTube known as Mental Metal Detecting, I have been using his coin program in my Legend that is updated to 1.10 Beta test version 2

but beware you will miss gold jewelry and some other targets if you set this up with this, this is a coin program, I did tweak it a little so as to not miss some gold rings, but not much it is a vary good coin program

 

https://mentalmetaldetecting.com/nokta-makro-legend-coin-program-setup/