Beach hunters, do you hit the parks too?

[signal]

I live in South Florida, not far from the beach, so I often hunt the beach. I like the beach because of many reasons including:

1. You can find very valuable items, gold chains, diamond rings, etc.

2. It's a rare day I come home empty handed.

3. Digging is easy

4. The scenery is GREAT

5. The exercise is GREAT.

I also love to be able to take a break, hit a restaurant and have a cold one, and then get back to it.

You don't get this with parks. Instead, recovery is very difficult at older parks. They are full of trash, worse than the beach. My hands get black with dirt (I don't wear gloves).

That said, I still find myself hitting parks. Ideally I look for old parks, big trees. I find the difficult trashy situations help my detecting and recovery skills. I usually leave parks disappointed, and I always find myself thinking about the beach .

I am wondering if most of you beach bums give parks a thought at all or are just die hard beach hunters.

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[mnruxpin]

personally I dont like the excal on land, its the only machine I have right now. most excal guys wont go on land, it doesnt pinpoint well and you would make a mess. So just he beach for me

 

[Boatlode]

Um, no.

 

[lost items recovery]

Me too. Beach only. When I can get there! Work, work, work.

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[redcobra8u]

If I get really bored, I'll take the AT Pro to the local schools or parks. My area is not too old and the ground is very hard so I usually kill an hour or two and call it. I prefer the beach.

 

[lookindown]

I hunt sports fields, old home sites, sidewalk tear outs and parks...Im two hours from the beach...the beach is my favorite.

 

[shawninNY]

You Florida guys are lucky to be able to hit the beaches after dusk, New York laws suck! And a conflicting federal law too! A lot of long islands South shore lies in Fire Island National seashore so it's all off limits for us, but a lot of the treasure coast is national seashore and you're allowed ! I would love to get that straitened out,

 

[ron lord]

So you think we are lucky, well try this not far from where I live a man went out hunting at night and two guy kill him just for his detector. I don't go out any more with out a Gun or some other type of protection.

 

[DewGuru]

Depends on the park ... Well used parks can provide just as much gold as the beach.

 

[hubcap76]

I hit parks as much as the beach, as well as misc medians, residential homes, highly trafficked businesses medians and grass, really anywhere I can. But parks have treated me very well, it can be overwhelming at a park just as the beach, best thing is to pick a section and work it rinse and repeat. Currently we have some serious issues with parks and rec permitting detecting in the parks, need support to rectify this issue. Mostly with local registered voters as well as any person or persons whom would for go visiting due to the inability to detect public parks.

 

[shawninNY]

Ron , what beach was that That someone was killed for a metal detector? Was it a minelab?

 

[bigscoop]

Before I moved to Florida from Indiana I traveled a lot and hunted all over the place. I enjoyed it a lot. However, once you move to the coast this is where history pretty much started so anything and everything is possible. The history is so vast and expansive why go anywhere else when it's all right here? In the summer it's pretty much modern jewelry, etc. But after a storm or during the winter, well, history can come to life in your scoop at any moment. It's just difficult to pull yourself away once you're here and you begin to realize what's possibly right under your feet.

 

[DnD]

Florida grass is an intertwined, sprawling entanglement of fiberous greenery that often requires more of a hack saw than a digger. As you pull up a plug, fire ants and scorpions attack you while red, brown, and black widow spiders scramble in all directions. If you are near shrubs or a forest reserve.....keep an eye out for wild boar, black bears and a vast variety of poisonous snakes. Ahhh, yeah, it seems everything in Florida is trying to eat us! Meanwhile, hunting the surf only requires us to watch out for sharks, rays, eels, gators, jellys, and riptides which want to drown us and then eat us too.

Kind of makes me wonder how the conquistidors survived all this natural nonsense? lol So, yeah, I hit the parks...but during the cold, cold winter months where the temps dip into the 40s. ha ha ha

 

[ctbob]

During the winter I hunt wet sand and knee deep water because that's about all that is available to me. But summer I like to mix it up with about half my time in the dry sand, and occasionally a park for a change of pace. I just like detecting, period.

 

[Trent67]

I live in south Florida as well and sometimes I will hit the parks but I am always drawn to the sand volleyball courts if they have them, lol. I believe that the beach hunting spoils us!

 

[claire]

I love the the LI beaches. I could never move away from the shore. I will occasionally try my hand at a park or a school, but the digging is much harder on my back and quite frankly, people seem less accepting of md hunters on land around here.

 

[Boatlode]

Florida grass is an intertwined, sprawling entanglement of fiberous greenery that often requires more of a hack saw than a digger. As you pull up a plug, fire ants and scorpions attack you while red, brown, and black widow spiders scramble in all directions. If you are near shrubs or a forest reserve.....keep an eye out for wild boar, black bears and a vast variety of poisonous snakes. Ahhh, yeah, it seems everything in Florida is trying to eat us! Meanwhile, hunting the surf only requires us to watch out for sharks, rays, eels, gators, jellys, and riptides which want to drown us and then eat us too.

Kind of makes me wonder how the conquistidors survived all this natural nonsense.

You forgot to mention the most vicious, spawn of satan, flesh eating critters that infest every environment found in Florida (except possibly offshore reefs deeper than 20 feet, but I haven't counted them out yet either): chiggers. The word itself makes me itch.

 

[SoCalBeachScanner]

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I have dug a few parks and maybe at some point I will again. I did some cherry picking for silver coins and found some, but I came to realize the reward is not worth the effort here in SoCal. Silver is pretty cheap in the realm of things. Maybe if I lived in a historic area, my thinking might be different digging parks and places of interests.

I've tried a few sports fields looking for gold. But you just can't cherry pick for gold, but you can eliminate some metals. I dug a lot of holes for a couple of junk rings. Again, the getting on your knees crap, poking into the ground, getting dirty, coming up with crap out of the hole, is not worth the effort to me.

You just can't beat the beach sand when you can make many easy clean scoops in the time it takes to dig one dirty hole in hard soil.

 

[signal]

I have not encountered some of the pests mentioned. I have seen "NoSeeUm's" on hutchinson island, worst ever………., other than that, no black widows, scorpions, alligators, or anything I really have to worry about. I am born and raised in south florida, never been stung by a jelly, never even seen a coral snake. I have seen plenty of cottonmouths, but generally those aren't in areas I would be detecting.

 

[Boatlode]

I have not encountered some of the pests mentioned. I have seen "NoSeeUm's" on hutchinson island, worst ever………., other than that, no black widows, scorpions, alligators, or anything I really have to worry about. I am born and raised in south florida, never been stung by a jelly, never even seen a coral snake. I have seen plenty of cottonmouths, but generally those aren't in areas I would be detecting.

Can I stand next to you? Maybe some of your aura will rub off on me.