| How To Coin Shoot in a Park With a Metal | | | | under swings, slides, jungle gyms and similar play |
| Detector. | | | | ground equipment. Basketball courts, Volleyball |
| This article will present a basic system for hunting | | | | courts are very good. This is were the sand |
| for coins in a public park. | | | | scoop comes in handy. Don't forget any |
| One of the first things you should do is to check | | | | concession stands at the parks. |
| with your city, county parks and recreation | | | | Before you map out your search, sit down and |
| department to see if you are allowed to use a | | | | look over the search area. Visualize you doing |
| metal detector in their parks. If so they may | | | | what a person would be doing at the site. Lets |
| require a permit. Most permits are free. They | | | | use a volleyball court with sand base. The first |
| usually are good for a year. | | | | area you want to search is around the fringe of |
| Items you want to take to the park are; | | | | the court in the grass. People will sit along the |
| * Metal detector with at least a 6" coil | | | | edge to watch the amateurs play. When you get |
| *Flathead Screw driver or other digging | | | | a hit, use your flat nose screw driver to push |
| instrument. | | | | down to the item and rock it back and forth. This |
| *String or rope to line out your search area. | | | | will generally move the coin or item to the |
| *Sand Scoop for sand play box, volleyball court or | | | | surface. |
| any other play area with sand. | | | | The next area of the court is in the sand. You |
| *Water for drinking. Maybe some snacks. | | | | can lay out some cord to do a grid search so you |
| If you have lived in the area for a long time you | | | | don't overlook any section of the court. When |
| have an advantage in locating some good older | | | | you get a hit, use your sand scoop. We have |
| parks in your city. | | | | found coins, jewelry, rings in many sand courts. |
| Sit down and think about how certain location | | | | Kids seam to have a lot of loose change these |
| were 20, 30, 40 years ago. Maybe you went to a | | | | days, far cry from my days, when fifty cents let |
| local school some 25 years ago. That would be a | | | | me in the movies, two hot dogs and a coke. |
| good place to start. | | | | Check under the swing sets, you can locate some |
| Later on I am going to tell you how we found | | | | nice change there. |
| gold in a city park, worth over $300. | | | | Coin Shooting is fun. Takes patients and control |
| I like coin shooting parks early in the morning. Not | | | | but sometimes it pays big. |
| so many lookie lookers. Some of the best places | | | | Found over $300 worth of Gold in a city park. |
| to coin shoot at schools and parks are around and | | | | |