Don need no stinking plugs

[Rusted Nail]

Well I was concerned about my butchering of the plugs retrieving coins and decided I would go out and discriminate out foil,tabs,nickels and search the top of the ground ,did amazingly well, Moved the grass around with my foot and came up with 7 clad quarters in 2 hours at camp grounds near by. Between sloppy campers and drop happy swimmers at the near by lake it looks like my future in metal detecting won't be so grim

 

[Woodland Detectors]

You discriminated!



Nice finds my friend

 

[Sandman]

Try using a screw driver for a probe on those shallow coins and pop them out.
You will do less damage to the grass if the ground is soft.

 

[Rusted Nail]

Thanks, I was digging so much trash and there is plenty of it that I figure I'll work on the shallow stuff first then get serious about the deeper stuff at an older site. But I'm liking my new Whites Coinmaster and getting better at what to dig . Digging up the sand I have no problem 8). I'm sort of amazed at how hard mother nature is on coins that are in the ground, Missed silver on two of the quarters by a year , the rest were very late issues and very tarnished, if I keep up at this rate I'm going to need a tumbler .

 

[Tom_in_CA]

rusted-nail, there are just some sites that are simply not worth it to "strip-mine", as you have deduced. You would end up with 1000s of tabs, foil wads, can shrapnel, etc... for each piece of gold In those cases, you're simply better off to find a better hunting ratio environment (ie.: swimming beaches), if gold jewelry is your goal. There are plenty of turfed urban parks where I strictly go for silver/copper. And in some cases, if those turfed urban junky parks aren't that old, and I'm just goofing off, I have, on occasion, just gone for the quarters. At one particular flea-market turfed lawn (that only dated to the late 1960s), I dug over 100 quarters in a little over an hour.

For those with a relic mindset who *bristle* at the thought of passing anything except iron, the sure-cure for them is to take them to a blighted junky inner-city park, and turn them loose. They will either start cherry picking a little (based on depth, or TIDs, etc...) or they will "leave for greener grounds" in a heart-beat.

 

[Rusted Nail]

I'm starting to figure things out and plan on taking my time at this park as there are not many other places near by , and don't want to be digging up the country side. But I think this place will keep me busy for some time.

That video is right on and used that method on last outing with success, helps to have depth ID on MD'r to id how deep to start.