A 45 Min hunt with the Pro SE Coil, Then escorted out . . .

[49r Relics]

Started the 4th off with an early morning hunt to a school where I have been hunting for 15 years and have pulled a pocket full of silver, IH's, Buffalo's, etc over the years. It's the first place I go when I want to test a new coil or detector. It is "hunted out", by me. I hit it hard over the recent years with the Sovereign GT. So I attach the new SE Pro coil and start swinging right away, first target of the day, a 1943-D Mercury, followed quickly by a 1944 Wheatback. Helped the wife with her new ACE 250 a little, headed back over to my little silver mine and dug a 1948-S Rosie. Just as things are looking like it's going to be a great day, I look over to see a female security guard attempting to lock us into the school ground . . . yes I said "Into". We ran over before she could do so and she informs me that starting this year, all schools in our city are off limits to the public because of vandalism and that I was trespassing, and if we didn't leave she would call the police and take our detectors away. She obviously did not understand our state law, section 602 of the California Penal Code and was exhibiting a serious attitude. it's ashamed but we had to leave and now I will never be able to return again. I grew up in this town, went to all of the schools and worked as a police officer in my hometown for 4 years before jumping ship to the fire department. Our town has become so overrun with crime that we can't even enjoy our schools anymore, they are all apparently locked down for good now. Starting about 2 years ago we had a huge inflow of the criminal element and now we are starting to see graffiti everywhere. I guess it was bound to happen. There are some areas in our previously peaceful little town where you can't metal detect because they will rob you and take your metal detector, that's no joke.

Anyways, she kind of ruined the day for us. As for the coil, I am very impressed, ran the SENS at 25 with no problems whatsoever. All 3 coins were very deep and the wheatback was an iffy signal. Also I have found 2 of those little finger squeeze pin backs at depth. This coil really hears the small stuff. Tommorrow I will take the new 12" Sunray out for a spin.

Way to start the day off!!

Pictured here with a few of the wife's finds.

HH, Mark

 

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[time4me]

Hey BeachBumm,

Sorry to hear about you being locked out of your local school. That's really sad. Nice finds though, in a school that you've hunted to death in the past.

Hey, I live in Marin County, and I'd love to get out with someone else local to the Bay Area to do some detecting. Send me a note and let me know where you are located and where you like to go detecting.

From your forum name, do you like to do any beach / shallow water detecting? I enjoy both.

Jim

 

[silverfreak]

Nice digs buddy. We are losing more and more sites each year

 

[Slipperyjack47]

Nice finds Beachbumm, and I am sorry to hear of your plight. I too was recently kicked off a local horse arena that has produced tons of silver for me as people have been breaking into camping trailers left there. I was the one who got the bad end of the stick as I was told by an angry member to stay off the place and never come back. He was so mad that he even tried to demand half of the money I had already found! I told him he was welcome to all of it and I proceeded to hand him a handful of pulltabs and nails LOL. Its a shame that the criminal element has reached into everyones life in one way or the other. I guess I too would have been angry at being robbed but I don't think I would have took it out on an innocent person and especially one who had already went to the trouble of asking permission to be there. I hope this is not a sign of things to come!

HH
Slipperyjack47

 

[allen]

that stinks about the loss of your detecting place, but you did get some nice finds...

 

[Detectingfreak]

Very nice job! The new SE coil seems to work great! At least what I have heard. I am trying to still figure out my SE with the normal coil on it. At least you got silver out of the school before they shut it down! Good luck with the rest of your hunts! Very nice silver!!

 

[treasurefiend]

That sux big time!!! In my town the grade school and the high school were built around 1910, I would love to hunt in there, but they too have tall chainlink fences surrounding them. I don't condone it, but pretty soon the only way we are gonna be able to hunt is "night hawking".

 

[crazyjarhead]

Sorry to hear that..... Society in general is eroding away

 

[top pop top]

Hey beachbumm,
Sorry to hear about the loss of your local school. It is getting harder and harder to find places to metal detect around us.