It's often rewarding to get away to some new sites you haven't yet explored because I helps break a person of any bad habits we can fall into when hunting and re-hunting local places. It can get kind of Ho-Hum and then we can get a little lax in what we are doing.
Stoof-tabsallday said:
Lol that's a heck of a trip man. Things at work have to pick up before I can afford a trip just to metal detect.
I meant close to home. But who knows... Maybe
It's not all that much of a trip, if you're planning any vacation or recreational get-away.
We held our 1st & 2nd
'Welcome-to-Hunt Outings' in 2015, then two more last year. They are not a pay-for hunt, just a planned adventure for anyone who would like to come and join a good group of avid detecting enthusiasts. On these four previous Outings we have drawn participants from:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington
Attendance has ranged from 17 to 25 for each outing, and we have at least two planned for 2017. As Gregg mentioned, the first will be meeting in Wells, Nevada. Here are our current plans for
2017's WTHO's:
5th WTHO from May 18, 19, 20 & 21 … This involves the weekend after Mother’s Day and before Memorial Day Weekend. For our
5th WTHO we are again going to base it out of Wells, Nevada. There are some very good ghost town sites close to Wells, and all of them produced some decent coins and even better artifacts on our past Outings.
6th WTHO on June 7, 8, 9 & 10 ... This is going to be held in Eastern Oregon. It will involve at least three Gold Mining era Ghost Town sites. Participants have the option to camp at the center-located townsite, or there are motels and RV Parks in Vale, Oregon, where I live to the south, or in Baker City, Oregon to the north. Either of these would mean a drive to-and-from the ghost towns each day, but that's not too much of an issue. I can do it daily, if I wanted to [size=small]
(and have)[/size], and Oregon Gregg is just another 20-30 minutes extra drive from where he lives.
There's ample fresh air, wonderful scenery, and seldom do we make that journey without seeing Mule Deer and Pronghorn Antelope, upland game birds, and other critters. And everyone will have the opportunity to make some very nice finds of old coins, trade tokens, Chinese Cash Coins, military and other buttons, and all sorts of neat artifacts.
We know that in the last couple of years, on maybe a half-dozen short detecting visits, the three Eastern Oregon sites have produced military buttons, Chinese cash Coins, Indian Head cents, Seated Liberty Dimes and Quarter, Barber Dimes and more. The sites we have hunted in Nevada have produced coins as old as an 1854 Seated Liberty Half-Dime and 1854 Large Cent, plus many more Seated Liberty Half-Dimes, Dimes, Quarters and a Seated Liberty Half, Barber Dimes, Quarters and Halves, Indian Heads, 'V' Nickels, and quite a few Good-For Trade Tokens, Chinese Cash Coins and some keeper artifacts that have exceptional appeal.
You have the right bunch of detectors in the arsenal you list, so try and work in some time to come and join the fun! Oh, and it's not limited to guys only. No way. We have had several female participants on each outing so far, one of them finding one of the older coins, the 1854 Seated Half-Dime, on our
1st WTHO, and others have done okay, too. Just a matter of putting to coil over a target and making the recovery.
It's not just the fresh air and scenery, and hunting old sites to find early-era keepers, but you'll meet a bunch of great people, many of whom are also posters on AHRPS and Findmall Forums. Oh, and I can assure anyone they are guaranteed to see a bunch of Makro Racer and Racer 2's, and Nokta FORS CoRe's and FORS Relics in the hands of many participants!
If you or anyone have any particular questions, shoot me an e-mail.
Monte
