Pinpointing and target depth!

Lowbatts

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Out at the dried up ponds today. Lots of large holes open, c'mon now, we know they'll be covered by the rains this fall but that didn't stop a couple folks from looking at me in a menacing way. Oh yeah, and taking pictures of me digging. They stopped after noticing the difference in what I was doing and what had been left behind by someone else. I get a target, pinpoint it and determine it's depth using my Pro Pointer to see if I even need to dig a hole or simply scrape the dried mud which was the case for the silvers I got today next to the holes you left!

Example one shows the target, a round tab, which was only about a half inch deep, but the hole was a little over a foot across and about 6 inches deep. Example two shows the square pull tab, again near the top of the dirt excavated at a hole about the same size, but spread even further. These are large noticeable holes!

Please learn to pinpoint accurately and only dig the ground necessary for recovery! And lastly, don't leave that junk there because next time these conditions exist, you will simply be doing the same thing again with the same ridiculous results.

Don't mean to sound petty but if I saw you doing this, I'd gladly help out in learning to use your machine's pinpointing capabilities and your own digging techniques and if you had a problem with that, it's off to coma land with you. You know, I WANT to hunt there again. So do others and hey, I'll be seeing ya out there tomorrow! That makes two of us who know where, when and why.
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Last Sunday I met up with a newbie. He showed where he and his son were finding the clad during the week. Well it didn't take a whole lot of looking to find the holes.
It looked like a mine field.
So I explained about how this type of digging can ruin it for everyone. I showed him and told him how to do it right.
 

thats a shame tim, i see huge holes in my neck of the woods too, in local parks. just a matter of time before we'll be hunting on private property only if it continues. chaps my a$$ to see junk tossed around tree bases too.
 

I found someone's mess in my Park today they took the time to fill in the hole but put the grass in sideways sticking up looked real bad. You know what they say it's take a thousand perfect holes to get a gold star one bad one and they take it all away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Too bad people have such a lack of respect for proper digging. I have a feeling the folks getting sloppy are not from over there and probably don't plan to go back therefor don't spend the extra time to do it right.

Where are your finds Tim?
 

It's nice to have pinpoint capabilities , with that being said it's even better to have a little patience and responsibility. Some people just get out there with they're all metal cheap md's , get a hit and just go nuts digging and run to the next dig.. It ruins everything for the hobbyist that respects the land and people's property, gives us a bad name... It's easier but I've always been told that if you cut corners you set yourself up for failure everytime... Hope some newbies read this... Make a 360 plug and put it back in!!!!
 

Even I have a small lack of patience I guess :) I like my 360 plug as somtimes I need to separate the plug from the hole, due to much trash in some areas I hunt in, especially those tgts that ate more than 4" deep. Workin with a hand spade as my expensive italian made digging gear broke sigh.
 

U shaped plug here. Can't imagine why a 360 is nessesary and I've dug in the trashiest parks known to man. I suppose if you are in a wild area with long grass and it is out of the way a 360 is ok... each location has its do's and dont's.
 

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