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Pillar of the Community
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Spent several hours today cleaning a local elementary school. Not much left there me thinks. we will have to give it a year or two to reseed.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice afternoon out, any silver in there? What was your oldest find today?
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
5953 Posts |
Don't find a lot of silver most of the schools have only been around a couple of years.
Did find a beat up silver 3 cent in Utah once...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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How many kids go to these schools you hunt? It takes me 4 or 5 trips of 3+ hours each to find that much stuff and all the schools I hunt are at least 65 years or older. And as far as I know, I am the only one hunting them.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The average School size in the Houston are is about 700 children which I think is almost twice the state average. If you don't find much its almost certain the schools are being hunted by others.
On a non hunted school we will average around $10 in clad and reseed time is about a year. on schools that are searched on a fairly regular basis then one or two dollars is the norm. There are areas of town we just don't bother with as there are too many people hunting.
Remember I hunt with my wife. Both our Garrett's have excellent pin-pointers. From target to pouch is usually around 30 seconds. In grass I use a screw driver and just flip the coin out no digging needed and does not leave a hole to be filled.
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Do you get any grief for hunting on the school property? I know it's public property, but if a cop or concerned citizen drives by, do they hassle you? Especially if they see you digging?
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United States
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I live in a small town outside Houston and I travel world wide so I am in the police station pretty much on a monthly basis getting background checks for work visas. All the local police know me by sight and even if they might think I am crazy I am generally regarded as harmless. I have been approached by Houston Police but on the whole they are polite and I have no problem moving on if that's what they want. If my wife was not with me I would have a lot more problems Me thinks as I tend to look like a vagrant.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I should have never sold my metal dectector, I did right before moving to Houston, never really found much with it (Whites Coinmaster 5000D) it was state of the art when I got it. I lived in Colorado and had dreams of finding gold nuggets, not to be though, only found bottle caps, pull tabs and old metal scraps in the ghost mining camps I tried my searches at.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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