Hello all, introduced myself a few days ago, new to the hobby. As expected the snow that fell a couple days after we bought our machines has melted. So today we spent the afternoon at one of the parks in town and learned to use our Garrett and White's detectors. Both detectors performed very well, we had lots of fun. We started out hitting targets right away. We went to the athletic fields and started on the areas where people sit to watch. Hit 5 targets right away, all foil and pull tabs. Then finally we hit our first coin, it was actually the White's that found the first coin. It read as a penny on the screen and that's exactly what it was. Then gradually we found coin after coin, all modern clad, but that's really what we expected from this site. We hope to find some gold out here as well, it's became obvious that lots of coins have been lost on the playing fields. Hopefully they lost more than that. Anyway, we actually ended up with more coins than trash. $2.17 in modern clad, and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. There are several parks in town I hope to provide older coins,our town is over 130 years old, so the older parks should be fun.BTW.....that's 8 quarters, 12 pennies, and a nickle, in about 2 1/2 hours.
Dave
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Originally Posted by del
on a very good start to your metal detecting career. When I started I only did schools and parks. After a year and a half I had managed over $750 in change which more than paid for my detector at the time. I then started to look for the old stuff so I hit some farm fields and the oldies started to pop. 
