Finally ran into another detectorist (?) or should I say someone with a detector! It was in a school yard that butts up next to a public park. It looked like he was using a Minelab with the biggest coil I’ve ever seen…maybe 15 or 16 inches. He was hunting in a sporadic pattern. For lack of a better word I’ll say “willy nilly”…in no particular style. Let’s say he wasn’t happy to see me. I asked, “What kind of coil are you using?” He replied, “None of your F@#$KNG business!” Okay! I said, “well I see 9 big holes…you cover them NOW or I’ll use my cell phone to call the police and have you evicted.” He said, “So, you’re one of THOSE jerks!” I just pulled out me cell phone and he went and covered up the holes. I moved across the field and hunted the other side…not bad. He left after 20 minutes. Guess he got tired of covering up the holes. I went over to where he was and hunted my usual pattern…low and slow along a grid and found the tons of stuff he missed: 14 clad pennies, 3 copper pennies, 11 dimes, 9 quarters, 8 nickels, 1 teacher’s whistle (cleaned the mud out and it worked perfectly…too cool!) and…a EURO!!! I was going to put this in the NEWBIE section to follow good technique or how my ACE 250 beat a Minelab but even though he had a great machine, he had bad technique with the wrong coil for the job. Plus, he probably didn’t know what he was doing (besides digging holes). Incidently, on the detector, both the whistle and the EURO read between the penny mark and the dime mark. I would have guessed it was a clad penny and was PLEASANTLY surprised!
