November finds with ATP

[Normsel]

I found $87.05 in clad and $2.54 in pennies since the 1st of Nov. It's too cold to hunt anymore this week. Was hoping to find $100 for Nov.

I also found some trinkets and a few rings. I may have posted one or two rings previously but I know 6 of them are from Nov for sure.

For some reason my pics of the clad won't up load

 

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[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Killer finds for one Month!...Hope you can get a break in the weather soon

 

[christo000]

Ya definetly almost 100 ya thats a good month, nice job

 

[SoCalBeachScanner]

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Great finds guy ... maybe you can make up the difference to reach $100 with ground finds in parking lots from people rushing to get out of the cold.

Go for it and hit your target!!

 

[Rookster]

These look like old parks and play grounds you are hunting. Old play sets probably are the most overlooked. Do you agree? Great finds.

 

[Normsel]

Well I hunted a little bit of everyplace. I hunted mostly parks, some old and some new. I didn't find much in tot lots nor in parks with old swings sets. I found more in open areas of the parks. One park established in 1918 I found one wheat penny and in a new park less than 10 yrs old I found a gold ring and over $6 in clad. What's surprising this week I found over $10 at a soccer field. I had never found more than maybe $3 at the most at soccer fields in the past so for the most part I over look them. It may have been because I am that much better with my ATP. Since I started to manually ground balance my ATP I have found a lot more and with really strong signals.

I hunt several public places that I don't admit because the competition in detecting is getting pretty intense. Everyone wants to know where you go and if you tell someone sure as heck you will see someone hunting the same place soon. I know a cpl of guys that been detecting for years and unless you hit the same park as them at the same time they will never tell you where they go or even suggest a place. Especially in the past 6 months I have probably run into no less than 5 guys new to detecting and they like me when I 1st started always hit the local parks that been hunted well. One thing about a popular park is they constantly regenerate.

I been actively hunting for about 2 yrs and before that maybe 10 yrs with my old Radio Shack detector but only maybe a cpl times a year with that one.

I been wanting a new detector more for the challenge of learning a new one with more bells and whistles. But I do so well with my ATP it's hard to even consider anything else. I was down to the point of clicking the order button on one last weekend but held off because I wanted to do more research. I am pretty convinced on what i want but other than the ability of finding anything over 6" I don't see where anyone has found more than me per hunt. I had a $13, $9 and several $7 days this month of course I had one day of 30 cents and another of $1. Considering I hunted 14 days averaged $6+ everyday I went out.

Right now I am struggling with the idea of spending $1500+ for a new detector when this one does so well. I hunted with a guy that has a CTX3030 and yes he did better than me on signals over 6" but on anything 6" and under i did as well. We even plotted areas and both went over the same areas and marked our finds. I never found anything he didn't but the only thing he found that I didn't was a cpl coins at 8" or more. I did like the gps feature but for $2400 that would mean I would have to average $6 per day for over a year. I have paid for my ATP in about 5 months of hunting. If there was a detector out there that was 100% right on every signal we'd all have one. I am not a relic hunter and go mostly for coins and jewelry. As much as anything i go for exercise. I am 69 yrs old but love doing it as much as I can.

 

[RobRieman]

Your doing great Normsel! But give yourself that $1500 Christmas present while your still young and healthy enough to get out and swing. You will always be second guessing yourself without giving it a try. And if I think I know what your looking at you will be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Zodiacdiverdave]

Well done, that's a very impressive tally.
Check your picture properties, if they are too large they may take too long to load up and it bumps you out.
I use Microsoft picture manager to re-size the image and it loads up fast.
ZDD

 

[Normsel]

I went out yesterday and today because the weather was nice and I got $4.99 yesterday and $7.96 today. For a grand total for the month of Nov of $102.55. I was shooting for $100 in Nov and i made it on the last day of the month

 

[christo000]

I went out yesterday and today because the weather was nice and I got $4.99 yesterday and $7.96 today. For a grand total for the month of Nov of $102.55. I was shooting for $100 in Nov and i made it on the last day of the month

Nice job

 

[Bart@Big Boys Hobbies]

Nice finds Normsel!

 

[Trackerman]

Good finds gotta love the At pro its one fine machine. Garrett out did themselves on this one. My favorite machine by far. Happy hunting.