Frodov
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Sounds like a pretty good hand, if you're playing poker. Two Pair? Well I was poking, but not cards. I was poking around the soccer complex..well "A" soccer complex anyway. Not the same one that I've had such good luck at the last few hunts I've been out detecting. I TRIED to go back to that complex (in a nearby town) but somehow or another I kind of forgot that it was Saturday.. DUHHHHH.. <smacking forehead>
Yeah yeah yeah.. I forgot what freakin' day of the week it was. <rolling eyes> I've been working too much and a "day off" is a day off. Unfortunately, Saturday is the PRIMARY day that the soccer complex is in use. *sigh* I had visions of "mowing the lawn" with my detector.. picking up handfulls and handfulls of clad and other goodies. All those visions evaporated when I turned into the complex and saw that the parking lots were full, and the fields were crawling with brightly colored and striped, knee socked, shin-padded kiddies of all ages.. and gaggles of game goers lining every available sideline in their folding camp chairs and "sun-brellas" and coolers.
Oh don't get me wrong, I was very pleased to see so many people! That just means more and more to find... alas.. another time. What to do, what to do? The complex was a bust so I decided to check out a couple of school playgrounds in that town. Hey! It's Saturday<rolling eyes> Nobody's at school on Saturday.
Nope.. nobody there.. except the construction crews and heavy equipment at one school.. and locked gates at the second school. Dang It! I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go? (geared up.. dressed up.. whatever! Knee pads, finds bag, utility belt, sunglasses.. dressed up)
Resigning myself to finding somewhere closer to home I headed back to MY town. On the way I decided that I might check out the soccer complex just a few miles from my house, near where I work. So I made the appropriate route corrections and left turns till I pulled into the park with the soccer complex. Yeah, there were people there too. BUT, there were some playing fields that were not being used. So guess what I did?
I parked my truck, grabbed my stick (detector) and started swingin'. I picked up a few targets before I even got to the playing field, a couple of memorial cents and one quarter. At the actual playing field, freshly mown (not detected.. lawn mower..cut the grass "mown") there were perfect "lanes" laid out for me to follow to keep straight lines as I detected. COOL!
This park is a little newer, at least the soccer complex portion anyway, than the complex in the other town. I was a little disappointed that I was finding so many pull tabs, but hey, they are a given just about anytime you detect anyway. Right? <shrug>
Along with the tabs there were some targets that were somewhat unique to sports fields.. soccer, football, baseball etc. Those would be the screw in part or the "cleat" of athletic shoes (cleats). I found three of them today. Two of the same design and another that was somewhat different.
Two of a kind? I would turn out to have three different "two of a kinds" today. The cleats, then a couple of Queens.... Canadian Pennies. <grin> Queen Elizabeth(s) Later I would get one then a second very happy discoveries. But before that I found some other junk and odds and ends. The foil cover to someones "pair" of contact lenses. (hmmm.. this two of a kind stuff is getting good!)
I found a part of some pendant or necklace that looked like an indian arrowhead.. I found one little ring.. looks like something that would come out of a gumball machine, it's aluminum. <shrug>
I was picking up all kinds of stuff on this soccer field, but it was one of the full sized "regulation" fields, not one of the halfsized fields for half pints. <grin> It being hot and somewhat humid from the rainfall the previous day, I opted to only hunt one half of this field. Or rather, from one end to the centerline (50 yard line?) of the "pitch", and back to the goal line. Even with this abbreviated search pattern I was doing pretty good. Near the center of the field I got a big target reading. Not as exciting at you might think, however, because I'd been getting them a LOT this afternoon. I was excited the first few times, but they all turned out to be "sprinkler heads" for watering the playing field. *sigh* So, when I got this target near the center of the field I almost didn't bother to dig, thinking it was another sprinkler head. But I'm glad I did! Out popped a Kennedy Half! Sweet! Unfortunately it was a 1973 minting.. no silver here. <shrug> Oh well. It's still a HALF! I've only found four of these in a year and a half of detecting, and one of those was last week at the OTHER soccer complex. <grin> Well, as you've probably already guessed, it would not be the only one found today either! JFK.. John F. Kennedy.. "Jack". I found a SECOND HALF about a half hour later.. I had a "pair" of "Jacks" !!! <grinning>
A very good day indeed, even if I had to search somewhere other than where I had planned on hunting.
I might not have found as much clad this time out, but I only searched half of one field and it probably hasn't been used as much as the soccer complex fields that I have been hunting recently. No matter, I was pleased, and I'll definitely be checking out the other half of this field along with all the other pitches (playing fields) here at this complex that is closer to my house. Here's all the clad from today's hunt.. including the two Canadian cents, and the one lone Wheat penny that I found today too.
$7.02 is still more than the gas I used getting to and from my day's hunt. A Bonus! <smile> I hope the rest of you are having good luck as well.
As always.. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
Yeah yeah yeah.. I forgot what freakin' day of the week it was. <rolling eyes> I've been working too much and a "day off" is a day off. Unfortunately, Saturday is the PRIMARY day that the soccer complex is in use. *sigh* I had visions of "mowing the lawn" with my detector.. picking up handfulls and handfulls of clad and other goodies. All those visions evaporated when I turned into the complex and saw that the parking lots were full, and the fields were crawling with brightly colored and striped, knee socked, shin-padded kiddies of all ages.. and gaggles of game goers lining every available sideline in their folding camp chairs and "sun-brellas" and coolers.
Oh don't get me wrong, I was very pleased to see so many people! That just means more and more to find... alas.. another time. What to do, what to do? The complex was a bust so I decided to check out a couple of school playgrounds in that town. Hey! It's Saturday<rolling eyes> Nobody's at school on Saturday.
Nope.. nobody there.. except the construction crews and heavy equipment at one school.. and locked gates at the second school. Dang It! I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go? (geared up.. dressed up.. whatever! Knee pads, finds bag, utility belt, sunglasses.. dressed up)
Resigning myself to finding somewhere closer to home I headed back to MY town. On the way I decided that I might check out the soccer complex just a few miles from my house, near where I work. So I made the appropriate route corrections and left turns till I pulled into the park with the soccer complex. Yeah, there were people there too. BUT, there were some playing fields that were not being used. So guess what I did?
I parked my truck, grabbed my stick (detector) and started swingin'. I picked up a few targets before I even got to the playing field, a couple of memorial cents and one quarter. At the actual playing field, freshly mown (not detected.. lawn mower..cut the grass "mown") there were perfect "lanes" laid out for me to follow to keep straight lines as I detected. COOL!
This park is a little newer, at least the soccer complex portion anyway, than the complex in the other town. I was a little disappointed that I was finding so many pull tabs, but hey, they are a given just about anytime you detect anyway. Right? <shrug>
Along with the tabs there were some targets that were somewhat unique to sports fields.. soccer, football, baseball etc. Those would be the screw in part or the "cleat" of athletic shoes (cleats). I found three of them today. Two of the same design and another that was somewhat different.
Two of a kind? I would turn out to have three different "two of a kinds" today. The cleats, then a couple of Queens.... Canadian Pennies. <grin> Queen Elizabeth(s) Later I would get one then a second very happy discoveries. But before that I found some other junk and odds and ends. The foil cover to someones "pair" of contact lenses. (hmmm.. this two of a kind stuff is getting good!)
I found a part of some pendant or necklace that looked like an indian arrowhead.. I found one little ring.. looks like something that would come out of a gumball machine, it's aluminum. <shrug>
I was picking up all kinds of stuff on this soccer field, but it was one of the full sized "regulation" fields, not one of the halfsized fields for half pints. <grin> It being hot and somewhat humid from the rainfall the previous day, I opted to only hunt one half of this field. Or rather, from one end to the centerline (50 yard line?) of the "pitch", and back to the goal line. Even with this abbreviated search pattern I was doing pretty good. Near the center of the field I got a big target reading. Not as exciting at you might think, however, because I'd been getting them a LOT this afternoon. I was excited the first few times, but they all turned out to be "sprinkler heads" for watering the playing field. *sigh* So, when I got this target near the center of the field I almost didn't bother to dig, thinking it was another sprinkler head. But I'm glad I did! Out popped a Kennedy Half! Sweet! Unfortunately it was a 1973 minting.. no silver here. <shrug> Oh well. It's still a HALF! I've only found four of these in a year and a half of detecting, and one of those was last week at the OTHER soccer complex. <grin> Well, as you've probably already guessed, it would not be the only one found today either! JFK.. John F. Kennedy.. "Jack". I found a SECOND HALF about a half hour later.. I had a "pair" of "Jacks" !!! <grinning>
A very good day indeed, even if I had to search somewhere other than where I had planned on hunting.
I might not have found as much clad this time out, but I only searched half of one field and it probably hasn't been used as much as the soccer complex fields that I have been hunting recently. No matter, I was pleased, and I'll definitely be checking out the other half of this field along with all the other pitches (playing fields) here at this complex that is closer to my house. Here's all the clad from today's hunt.. including the two Canadian cents, and the one lone Wheat penny that I found today too.
$7.02 is still more than the gas I used getting to and from my day's hunt. A Bonus! <smile> I hope the rest of you are having good luck as well.
As always.. Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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