Rodog
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Hi all. About a week ago the wife and I headed out to Port Huron, MI about 35 minutes from our house to enjoy a little MD'ing and catch some of that fresh Lake Huron air. The wife doesn't hunt but always brings along a good book. So we get off of I-94E and on to the 69E that heads into town via older neighborhoods and low and behold near the end of the street there are two lots empty from buildings being torn down and one guy metal detecting. I always find it exciting to meet up with other detectorists in Michigan as I hardly see very many on my short excursions. Anyways, we stop and I approach this gentleman, had to walk around him and approach from the front as not to startle him. He was wearing headphones of course. So I ask him if he's having any luck and he reluctantly says theirs allot of trash. As the conversation goes on I let him know that I have three of my detectors in the car and was heading to one of the parks and beaches. Realizing that I was also a TH'er and no threat to his occupation on the lots he reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a handfull of coins and trade tokens of which one was a standing or walking liberty quarter. I congratulated him and since it was late in the afternoon decided that we should be on our way. First to the park and low and behold another TH'er. Met a young man who has only been in the hobby for 2 months and says he has already found over $50.00 in clad. I was excited for him and tried to pass on some good advice that I had learned over the years.
On the way home near dark I decided to drive by the previous lots to find no one there. With just a little bit of light left I broke out the old Compass XP Pro Plus and proceeded to hunt going over the covered holes to see if any thing was left. After about 35 minutes I found 3 wheat pennies and a trade token. Not bad for hunting behind someone for a couple of minutes. I figured he probably had his discrimination turned up real high to cherry pick out all of the silver.
So now a week later, yesterday, the wife and I go up there again, this time with the intent of hitting those two lots. As soon as I got out of the car I was astonished. There had to be 100 or more holes left uncovered. Needless to say I was quite pissed. To make matters worse, The garbage that came out of most of the holes were left next to the holes. Determined to not let this ruin my day, I got the old Compass out and began to hunt picking up allot of the trash left by others while uttering obscenities to myself. The wife went for a little walk checking out the architecture of some of the older period homes. Upon her return I could barely hear her voice under the Grey Ghost headphones and took them off. She pointed out that the guy from last week was across the street in the other lot. We kinda made eye contact and I waved only to get no reply. He looked like i just pissed in his Wheaties. (pun intended.) Watching him for a few moments he seamed to be wondering and waving his detector all over the place trying to cover the whole lot. I guess he figured he was going to get it all. Before it was all over I had pulled out 5 more wheat pennies, 1 clad dime, two arcade tokens and a Canadian Elizabeth II dollar. My wife who was reading in the car for the rest of the time said that the other guy was the one not filling in his holes.
When I was new to this hobby in 1980 the first thing that I was taught was to fill in your holes, even if your in the middle of nowhere, and I have always adhered to it. The other guy not filling his holes had allot of experience I found through our short initial conversation. He had no excuse. So to all old and knew don't be to lazy to fill in your holes because it only takes one complaint or one accident to ruin it for the next outing for you or someone else. Also if you plan a hunt and find that someone has hunted before you, remember to persist' slowly walking forward overlapping your sweeps and swinging your coil no more than the inner diameter of your inner receive coil to get what the other guys missed. In addition slow your sweep speed down to no more than two times the diameter of your overall coil size per second. Believe me this will always pay off in the so called hunted out areas. Hope some of you found this helpful and interesting.
Rodog
On the way home near dark I decided to drive by the previous lots to find no one there. With just a little bit of light left I broke out the old Compass XP Pro Plus and proceeded to hunt going over the covered holes to see if any thing was left. After about 35 minutes I found 3 wheat pennies and a trade token. Not bad for hunting behind someone for a couple of minutes. I figured he probably had his discrimination turned up real high to cherry pick out all of the silver.
So now a week later, yesterday, the wife and I go up there again, this time with the intent of hitting those two lots. As soon as I got out of the car I was astonished. There had to be 100 or more holes left uncovered. Needless to say I was quite pissed. To make matters worse, The garbage that came out of most of the holes were left next to the holes. Determined to not let this ruin my day, I got the old Compass out and began to hunt picking up allot of the trash left by others while uttering obscenities to myself. The wife went for a little walk checking out the architecture of some of the older period homes. Upon her return I could barely hear her voice under the Grey Ghost headphones and took them off. She pointed out that the guy from last week was across the street in the other lot. We kinda made eye contact and I waved only to get no reply. He looked like i just pissed in his Wheaties. (pun intended.) Watching him for a few moments he seamed to be wondering and waving his detector all over the place trying to cover the whole lot. I guess he figured he was going to get it all. Before it was all over I had pulled out 5 more wheat pennies, 1 clad dime, two arcade tokens and a Canadian Elizabeth II dollar. My wife who was reading in the car for the rest of the time said that the other guy was the one not filling in his holes.
When I was new to this hobby in 1980 the first thing that I was taught was to fill in your holes, even if your in the middle of nowhere, and I have always adhered to it. The other guy not filling his holes had allot of experience I found through our short initial conversation. He had no excuse. So to all old and knew don't be to lazy to fill in your holes because it only takes one complaint or one accident to ruin it for the next outing for you or someone else. Also if you plan a hunt and find that someone has hunted before you, remember to persist' slowly walking forward overlapping your sweeps and swinging your coil no more than the inner diameter of your inner receive coil to get what the other guys missed. In addition slow your sweep speed down to no more than two times the diameter of your overall coil size per second. Believe me this will always pay off in the so called hunted out areas. Hope some of you found this helpful and interesting.
Rodog
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Most people would not mind but they think that you are gonna trash there grounds. I have also found pieces of cannonball that someone has dug but just left it on the ground. I was happy to clean those up. 
