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Last Sunday the newspaper had a short story of a neighborhood that had an annual picnic at one of the parks. There were kids activities, also crafts for sale and snacks and drinks for sale to raise money for the neighborhood watch group. Monday morning I went and detected a smal portion of the...

Got out yesterday and this morning for some park hunting. Beautiful weather !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had a heart thumper when I brought up this ID'ed at 68/69 on my F5---and I hoped it was a silver ring. Saw the color and I started to get excited.. It's a gold plated--silver ( 925) earing. ...

In 2 totlot areas in 2 1/2 hours the F5 rounds up the coins........................ Even got a wheat penny in a totlot.......ya just never know what the kids are gonna lose........ :grin: [attach=1]

Took my F5 out to 3 park areas to see what I could dig up. At the 1st park I only got about $3 in clad, and only $2 in clad at the 2nd park. they say the 3rd time is the charm---- It WAS !!!!!! I dug 3 wheats, a 37 Merc and on an iron grunt signal that when I walked all around it-- I got a high...

Went to an old park area NOT on the maps and in the old totlot retrived almost $9 in dirty clad, and the heart shaped jewelry item. I then went to an empty lot in an area from the 1930's and searched for about 45 minutes. I got more dirty clad a spent bullet and 2 nice coins.....a Barber dime...

It was in the low to mid 80's this morning so I got out to 2 schoolyard areas ( since they were closed--Labor Day) and tried my best to find some gold jewelry......... Didn't get any gold----only junk jewelry and a more clad to clog up the local coinstar machine :tongue:.......

As most of you that live in the south central states-- it has been unusually HOT this summer. In August--all but 1 day was 100 degrees or more in the Houston area..one day it got up to 109 !!!! And that is the thermometer readings not any heat indexes. So when the tropical storm got into the...

I loaned some of my collection of post cards, actual letters from the camp to home, photos of soldiers at camp, some relic items and coins found in the camp area to a small museum for their annual Camp Logan/Houston Riot of 1917 exhibit. Shown in the 10 Riker display cases, my items takes up...

Since it is summer and the weather here is already hot and humid, I won't be doing much detecting so I got my electric guitar out of the closet and put some new strings on it. Been practicing and hope I'm slowly getting a little better. :) At least I'll have something else to do besides be in...

I signed up to a website that helps people that have lost items, contact metal detectorists that want to help find the items--for free-----no charge to the owner of the lost keepsake. There is no cost to sign up, no cost to get leads for lost items and the website doesn't ask for donations...

Got out to 2 park areas this morning in high 70's weather. It didn't take long after the sun came up for it to get HOT and HUMID............they said the high would be 96 with a heat index of 103............. I think it was that hot at 10AM instead of the afternoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! crying01...

..... just sucking up coins right and left................. Yesterday at a club hunt I thought I would do good getting 7 or 8 silver coins......got more----- and a few clad halfs. :happydance01: :happydance01: This morning I went to 2 parks and at the 2nd park totlot with 2 slides, I got a coin...

At the schoolyard where kids lose loads of clad coins, the F5 scored a 5 inch deep .925 lawnmower ring ( I straightened it a little bit) a silver dime, some foil pieces, a handfull of pulltabs, and in clad----31 quarters, 42 dimes, 10 nickels, and 21 pennys. 8) 8) ( added $12.66 to my clad...

Took the Fisher F5 out to a park area to search for coins. And I did find some.................... In the totlot I dug 2 JFK halfs, from under the plastic tire swing and 2 Mexican dollar coins. The Mexican $5 coin ( too bad it wasn't a USA $5 coin :-\) was off to the side a little bit. I dig...

Taking the F5 out to city parks grass areas and totlots and getting loads of clad coins. Saturday I dug; 23 Q, 33 D, 8 N and 11 P and a IH and Merc.......$9.56 in clad. thumbsup01 This morning went to a park that I haven't been to and while swinging the coil over the grass, I kept getting...

Went back to the clad factory schoolyard---- and indeed got some clad to wind up April with. The Fisher F5 does like finding dimes and quarters. :yes: :yes: The school was built in 1926 and is still in use. With todays economy I can't believe kids lose so much change at this school. :dontknow...

:omg: :omg: For those who have a subscripton to Western & Eastern Treasures magazine---check out my story in the June issue. If you don't sub......see if you can get a copy. 8) 8)

I have been using the F5 at all the totlots and then searching the grass areas afterwards, in parks that I have hunted and hunted and hunted. :thinkingabout: The F5 has gotten more than a few clad coins in spots that were very close to metal poles, and the IDX didn't detect them, when I had...

In the last week I have been taking the F5 out to different park areas and digging up some clad. I haven't dug any older coins with it yet...but hoping I will soon. :grin: This morning in a school park area I got a half dollar signal and the numbers and the VDI stayed the same, as I scanned the...

Monday at the gun club site I also dug up this piece of metal and almost threw it away........ :dontknow: I looked close and it had writing on it so I kept it and cleaned it a little when I got back home. It is part of the front ID headplate of a pre-war ( WW1) Columbia Bicycle. They had a...