Another Hunt With My AT Pro -- Nothing To Brag About. . .

pryan67 said:

Sounds like a successful hunt to me...found some coins, had fun, took advantage of the nice weather....

HAve you checked out the schoolyards, sports fields, etc?

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GroundSweeper said:

Looks like 8/10 of my hunts! Crazy as it is I still like getting out!

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Pennyfinder said:

School yards and sports fields is where I go most of the time. But if she's going to be hogging them no point in going! One of the school yards I go to (and went to yesterday) I only found maybe a total of one dime and a few pennies if that! Chances are she's been there.

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Pennyfinder said:

BUT I DID GET OUT (paying for it today -- OUCH)!

I wasn't hurting yesterday and it was a nice breezy 61 degrees and partly cloudy. Weatherman said scattered showers expected, didn't have any while I was out -- THANKFULLY!

I tot lot hunted yesterday! Pickin's is slim in one spot -- and I know why. A woman came up to me and said, "I come here too, I metal detect a lot too. I have an AT Pro too! I've been here a lot in the last two weeks!" Just dandy. Ain't hanging out there no more!

Not many places around here for me to go. The old homes here have been hit numerous times by two OTHER detectorists who have permission from the city to detect places no one else is allowed to. All that is left for me is homes that nobody is interested in detecting anyway (modern homes built in the last 15-20 years) that definitely don't have "old goodies" in the ground -- definitely no old coins. And with this new woman around -- there goes the rest of the tot lots and school grounds.

I noticed yesterday when I was detecting in the one spot there were numerous small places you could tell the woodchips were disturbed. I thought it was from squirrels in the area -- yeah right a giant one!

Oh well. I guess I'll keep to the unwanted home lots -- never a lack of modern change there! I can always use that for gas or a cold drink (depending on how much I find)!

Here's the take from yesterday -- a grand total of .83 from three locations! WOW! Hardly worth getting out -- used more gas than that. Only thing I accomplished was getting exercise and gathering trash!

Thanks for looking! GL & HH!

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George (MN) said:

Does your town have no parks, or is detecting there forbidden?

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OleSarge said:

Regardless of your hobby, may it be fishing, hunting, boating, caving, bicycling, or whatever, there will always be someone nudging your elbow and crowding your space.
I too hunt with a AT Pro and there are days I go out and come back home muddy, tired and skunked, and the car says I've spent $25.00 in gas and $5.00 on lunch.
But, there are days I go out and I do find a couple of dollars in clad and I've found a few nice older coin along with lots of bling jewelry.
The real reward though is getting outside, meeting people, even women with AT Pro's, who share the interest in the hobby and big eyed kids who may be the people scarfing all my good metal detecting targets tomorrow.
The absolute worse thing I think I could do, in regards to the metal detecting hobby, is hang my hat on someone else's rack and let their sensational luck and awesome ability to find Spanish Gold coins in their own front yard ruin my outlook on my own hunts.

And that outlook is: If, at the end of the day I've found one penny...that makes me at least one penny richer than the person who lost it.


AT PRO/GPP-AT/Fiskars Diggers

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