Can you Over -do a Large area?

[JoeB_OH]

Hello everyone, I've heard that you cant. -? I think I may have Fished- out a park? - Is that even possible.? I go to a large public Park in Cleveland, been having a good summer there ! All of a sudden, seems "Dried" up? Ever experience this?

 

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[Loco-Digger]

You may have pulled all that your detectors are capable of. How much discrimination do you normally use? What size coil are you swinging? Have you hunted every square foot in multiple directions? Do you have a brisk or slow sweep?

 

[Johnnoh]

Yes - it's called diminishing returns. Find another spot with more targets.

 

[flgliderpilot]

Yeah.. well unless you find a sudden interest in shreds of aluminum. I dug just about everything from a local park, I found one really cool 60's memorial token, and then a bunch of clad. Now nothing but confetti. I searched the entire field slowly and carefully. Time to move on!

 

[MrMikeJackie]

Go back with a different detector, any detector. You'll find plenty more.

 

[luvsdux]

As it's often stated, "no area is completely hunted out". But, that doesn't mean that the desirable targets won't become fewer and farther between IMHO>
luvsdux

 

[basque-man]

Change the machine if ya can. We made the change a few years back and doubled our totals going back over places we turned into "Beirut" with all the dig holes. Even today I'm finding things I should have found before......at least that's what I tell myself. Good luck.

 

[JoeB_OH]

I was thinking the same thing! Thanks!

 

[JoeB_OH]

Hey, Loco, I use an 8 " Coil, I have grid searched a good portion, but the park is very large. I've been trying other areas of it lately. I think I need a change of scenery? - Plenty of time & places to go this summer!

 

[WhiteTornado]

If it's an active area like a park, maybe you need to give it a while to "reseed" with new drops from people using that area. Versus inactive areas where activity used to take place but no longer does (abandoned home sites, fields once used for festivals or sports but no longer are, etc). Maybe try again once schools start again in the fall. Happy hunting

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Humorously, when some folks go to dispel the notion that "no place is ever worked out", they will often cite a supposed "worked out park" that they went to and found more goodies! The notion being that: "therefore, no place is ever worked out!". But this defies logic. The fact that they could go there and find more goodies, BY DEFINITION, means that that parked WASN'T "worked out". Doh!

I can think of some spots where they are truly "worked out". Sure, maybe not junky inner city urban blighted parks (where you can not claim such a thing till you've "strip-mined" every conductive signal). But I can think of one country picnic site, that dated from the 1880s to the 1920s. There had never been any structure there, so it didn't have iron to contend with. And it pre-dated the junk (aluminum) era, so we could "dig all". The only junk to contend with was shotgun butts, some bullet shells, etc... After removing 150-ish coins (seateds, barbers, and early mercs/wheaties), over the course of a few months, it got to the point where we could search for an hour, without single beep. Depth and masking had nothing to do with the equation, since even the oldest of the coins was only 4" deep in this dry chaparral terrain.

Or as Johnnoh & luvsdux say: there are places that are certainly no longer worth anyone's time.

 

[mrwilburino]

They're all "fished out" in Cleveland.

 

[JoeB_OH]

- NOT Exactly!

 

[Bayard]

There's probably more to find there. Go back:

1. After a heavy rain or just after the snow has melted;
2. Using a much smaller coil than you normally do;
3. Using a much larger coil than you normally do.

The small coil will find masked targets and the big coil will find deeper targets.

 

[JoeB_OH]

Im still getting some good finds- searching other areas of the park, using different gridding patterns. & Yes, Rain would help, ground is very dry.