Favorite places to hunt

[kickback]

I don't have near the experience that most of you have on this forum have.In my limited experience,hunting by swings in parks and schools are my favorite,most productive spots.Not necessarily just under the swing but out in the grass where someone would jump off and land.These places have been full of dimes.Next would be jungle gyms,bike racks and around trees.I find more nickels around older trees here than any other place.Two old schools,burned down in the 60's,have been my best places for old silver coins.Also yards of old homes/homesites.My least productive spots have been around park benches and old,old country schools(the one room variety).We don't have bark around our newer playground equipment,usually pea gravel.This isn't usually very good.The local detectorists head there first because the digging is easy.I almost forgot,concession stands at ballfields have been great for finding quarters.

 

[Old Katz]

>>>>>>.My least productive spots have been around park benches and old,old country schools(the one room variety).<<<<
That surprises me! I would have thought old country schools would yield something! Maybe if your used to parks and sports fields, your used to finding alot of clad and other things. You have to be patient when relic hunting. You may find something or you may not. ALSO keep in mind other people may have detected there before you and probably did. I bet there is something there but you just have to go deeper?
Katz-)

 

[Paul(NWO)]

found my first silver, 1950 Rosie there. Old chicken coops, they haven't invented a better burgular alarm than a chicken. Fence posts can have a bank under them. Dug wells were a place to hide valuables, Up under bridges. Lovers would hide there not to be seen. Along walls around yards. Fruit cellars. Dirtd basements, floors under rough hewn floors. Any place thast could be seen from the kitchen window. The trash pit. Not all that is valuable is gold or silver I haven't hunted all these but are tips from great hunters.
HH

 

[Uncle Willy]

Don't forget the outhouse pit.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Also in the days of old country schools ( and I attended a couple ) people didn't have any money to lose. Nickels, dimes, and quarters then were like 5-10-20 dollar bills today and people carried their coins in a coin purse and if they dropped one they looked for it. People back then earned a dollar a day or less. One has to put things into perspective when hunting old sites. When I was a kid my Ma would give me a quarter and that quarter would pay my way into the movies and buy me a popcorn, candy bar, and a coke. What does that cost today?

Bill

 

[bob1350]

I always wanted to hunt old school house, just cause of those stories when we were growing up of money and other items hid in the wall or buried
outside in the yards, here the onlys ones around are protected by the state
Bob