What am I doing wrong ?

[just7699]

I recieved an Ace 250 last christmas as a retirement gift. I have been out coin detecting approx. three times a week, every week, since the weather broke. ( march). For some reason, all I find is clad. I have yet to find a silver coin. My total finds are, approx. 50 lincoln pennies, 10 clad quarters, 7 clad dimes, and 40 million tabs, cans, caps and other garbage. Am I looking in all the wrong places? Or am I doing something wrong? Im located in s.w. Penna. There is a lot of history in this area, but I cant seem to find any of it ! H E L P !

 

[PullTabPete]

I recieved an Ace 250 last christmas as a retirement gift. I have been out coin detecting approx. three times a week, every week, since the weather broke. ( march). For some reason, all I find is clad. I have yet to find a silver coin. My total finds are, approx. 50 lincoln pennies, 10 clad quarters, 7 clad dimes, and 40 million tabs, cans, caps and other garbage. Am I looking in all the wrong places? Or am I doing something wrong? Im located in s.w. Penna. There is a lot of history in this area, but I cant seem to find any of it ! H E L P !

I'd say what you are doing wrong is not just enjoying the hobby. Seriously a lot of good ideas posted here and I am sure the silver will come. For the record I have about as much clad as you and no silver coins yet, but I have a had great time learning and now am fighting the urge to drop some more cash to get a nice land machine in the fall(probably an e-trac).

Enjoy and happy hunting.

Pete

 

[PullTabPete]

Terry you are giving away all our secrets to those that haven't bought all the books we had to research. Amazon.com: Treasure Hunter's Manual #7 (9780915920099): Karl Von Mueller: Books
Treasures will mean more to them that earn the knowledge.

Thanks for the link Sandman - I will check it out.

 

[TerryC]

Terry Soloman pretty much covered it all. EXCEPT... change (67) piles of scraped soil at construction sites to.... (67) the area the scraped soil CAME FROM. Because they scraped the top away, you are about 5 inches closer to the old stuff that was not registering before the scrape! TTC

 

[kayden]

With all the Pa. posters/Metal detectors in here you would think that there is nothing left to find in this fine state!