Orwin Park

jeff of pa · May 14, 2008

went out to Drain My recharbles this Morning ,
Took around an Hour.

Decide on Orwin field.

Former Gun Club pigeon shoot Field
Former School Play Ground

now Community Ball fields

Besides the Usual Trash & Bullet shells

I found $1.07 in change

7 Cents
3 nickels
1 dime
3 quarters

5 Wheats
1926 1934 1944 1945 1946

and a Buffalo Nickel. Date is there but I can't read it

MUD(S.W.A.T) · May 14, 2008

Hey Jeff,

Man those old ballfields are killer.

Prolab69 and I have pounded one in our area and its been so productive.

Everytime we think its hunted out. We find something everytime we go. Large Cents, Barber Dimes, IH pennies, V nickles, buffalo nickles, Gold. We found all those things and more and we know people have hit it harder before us too. Hunt that area good!!

Nice finds !

Keep @ it and HH!!

JerV3 · May 14, 2008

Nice finds Jeff,

I would hit those woods surrounding that site. You may have already. If you haven't there gotta be a few oldies in them.

HH Jer

cam9457 · May 14, 2008

Nice Buffalo Jeff, for some reason I have yet to find a nickel at all. Clad is always good for buying batteries and stuff, at least you got out and had fun!

jeff of pa · May 14, 2008

I think Oldest find here so far was a Barber Quarter (Forget Date)
would have to search 6 years of records.
was in the sand in the Ballfield on the right Foreground
at the Back of the Field is a Stone wall that Drops off a good distance.
by guess a former trash dump. DKinPA would know.
I believe this is his former Hometoewn.
I'm sure there are coins down there though.
Far left in the Back, I think was a Dance Hall.

field is usually good for silver & your right.
Never Hunted out

The buffalo for some reason was Breaking up Bad.
I almost left it.

Don't use Alkalines. The Packs are too big the door won't close
without Duct tape so I don't use anything but Recharbles.
Change these days always gets Used though.

(())RandY(()) · May 14, 2008

Nice Finds :thumbsup:

....How long does the rechargable batteries last, ''as In Hours'' ?

jeff of pa · May 14, 2008

Hard to say, maybe 15 Hours
They seem to be getting less each time.

(())RandY(()) · May 14, 2008

jeff of pa said:
Hard to say, maybe 15 Hours
They seem to be getting less each time.

Thanks,I may go with the rechargables..

Cynangyl · May 14, 2008

Glad to see you got to get out...looks like you did pretty good! That buffalo would have made my day!

lonewolfe · May 14, 2008

Good deal Jeff

What detector did you use??

jeff of pa · May 14, 2008

lonewolfe said:
Good deal Jeff

What detector did you use??

Sovereign & WOT

thanks everyone !

Nana40 · May 14, 2008

Nice bunch of finds for only an hour! 8)

Congrats, Jeff!

Nana

Detectingfreak · May 14, 2008

nice job on the old coins! Those buffalo nickels sure don't come out in the best shape!

lonewolfe · May 14, 2008

jeff of pa said:
lonewolfe said:

Good deal Jeff

What detector did you use??

Click to expand...

Sovereign & WOT

thanks everyone !

So the Sovereign GT has a problem with holding alkaline batteries (they're too big and the cover doesn't close)?? (or is yours the older sov.)? If so - have they fixed the problem on the GT model do you know?

I'm still looking for my next new detector and that was/is one of them I've been considering (it's old school like the cz20 and like the machines of the past w/o all the worthless bells/whistles crap) and is why I've been considering it but if it has this problem - it's now moved down the list of possibilities for me.