Update to my "getting discouraged" thread...

[Jenni_Lee]

*UPDATE*
I made it out yesterday to another park. I scoured the entire play area to only find bottle caps and gum wrappers. I headed for a big beautiful tree over in the grass and ding-ding-ding... a whopping quarter!
And then you'll never guess what I found next?!?!?! A bright , black and orange SNAKE! NOOOOOO THANK YOU!!!!!! I ran like mad and I haven't been back since. I think I'll leave that park for the other detectors in town!

 

[Peyton Manning]

good on ya for not killing it

 

[Jenni_Lee]

good on ya for not killing it

oh no... i ran. lol

 

[Peyton Manning]

next time take a pic before you run ( I like snakes)

 

[smokeythecat]

Yes, take a picture. I ran across a sidewinder rattler in the desert once, I jumped, it jumped. I walked around it, bent REAL CLOSE and got his picture. He didn't mind. Probably thought the big ugly monster was going to kill and eat him!

 

[Jenni_Lee]

next time take a pic before you run ( I like snakes)

will do.... just for you jeff

 

[Peyton Manning]

atta girl

 

[Jenni_Lee]

Yes, take a picture. I ran across a sidewinder rattler in the desert once, I jumped, it jumped. I walked around it, bent REAL CLOSE and got his picture. He didn't mind. Probably thought the big ugly monster was going to kill and eat him!

hahaha. I've lived up here for a few years. That was the first snake i've seen in my town. If i head out west, they have rattle snakes but i've yet to see one.

 

[4x4x4]

....Snake ? ...What setting did you use ?

 

[CASPER-2]

I wanted to quit after my first year - my second year I detected my own yard and was able to take my time and learn my machine
house was built in late 30s and had lots of goodies along with foil wrappers and soda caps and nails
I stuck with it - look at me now
just a sample of my finds
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/members/29748-albums.html
if you enjoy it - try and stick with it
good luck

 

[No gold in NY]

*UPDATE*
I made it out yesterday to another park. I scoured the entire play area to only find bottle caps and gum wrappers. I headed for a big beautiful tree over in the grass and ding-ding-ding... a whopping quarter!
And then you'll never guess what I found next?!?!?! A bright , black and orange SNAKE! NOOOOOO THANK YOU!!!!!! I ran like mad and I haven't been back since. I think I'll leave that park for the other detectors in town!

Now you have proved there is nothing wrong with you or your machine. You just have to be where the loot is.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

You're doing fine.
Most of us didn't find piles of coins the first several times out detecting.
And the very important part, if we want to find goodies we have to get the coil over places people have been and lost those goodies.

Good job with the snake...i would have ran too.

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[dts52]

Thanks for not killing the snake. Good karma for you. Be patient, your finds will come. Remember that most of the great finds you see posted on the site only come after hours, hours and hours of research and hunting. There is always a rare and lucky find, as in: "I was swinging for only ten minutes and found this great ______ "(fill in the blank). For the rest of us, our recoveries are hard earned.
HH
dts

 

[Loco-Digger]

The more you swing the coil, the more you find. What keeps many of us going is just knowing that the next plug might be "THE PLUG" that contains a keeper. Finding a snake in the area you are hunting is cool. I was hunting an old home site that is now a part of the county metro parks. The snake I found was still sluggish due to the early morning temperature and I was elated to locate him before he located me. Most parks in my area will produce about $1.50 per hour.
Virgin sites have produced $6 to $8 per hour since I only dig quarter or higher signals for a few hunts before I begin to hunt for the smaller coin denominations. I have been lucky to find 2 of those sites that have produced over $500 in coins, mostly clad. After I cherry pick a high producing site for a few hunts I then grid it and dig all good targets. I do dig trash signals when I get to a new site so I know what I am dealing.

Glad to hear you are still on the hunt, good luck and happy hunting.

Below is a pic of all the clad I dug my 1st 8 months in the hobby.

 

[scruggs]

Nice score on the quarter! Remember...when your hunting out in the wild you will run up on animals, mammals and reptiles, your in their domain. Good luck and be careful!

 

[worldtalker]

When you score your first GOLD you'll forget all about it girl!

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[digging440yrs]

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[b3y0nd3r]

How about a vid of your machine and how you set it up? Perhaps there is something not set properly. Right now, you are digging everything and that is great! You will learn your machine faster.

Learning what not to dig is MORE important than what to dig. It will save you time in the far future. For now, you have to work.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Were he like this one?

Completely harmless corn snake.

I think Washington is much like New York. The only dangerous snake you might come across is a rattlesnake, and the chances are very slim of ever seeing one. If you do - don't forget you have a four foot push pole (the detector) and can just keep the coil between you as a shield until you move past them and away. No worries, no harm to either of you, everybody wins.


Twice this summer I have come across these guys: fishing spiders.

Although I know they are "relatively" harmless (no worse than a mishandled wasp) they do usually get my attention.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

Good job Charlie P, you scared her away with that spider LOL